In Season 4, the Season Theme revolves around helping out the Iron Wolves. Compared to past themes, this one does not offer any borrowed power as the entire game has been redesigned with new itemization and crafting options, increasing player power substantially across the board. Instead, you can gather reputation similar to the Vampire Bounty Board from Season 2 to unlock rewards that supercharge your leveling journey to 100 with extra items, crafting materials and eventually even a Resplendent Spark to craft an uber unique.

We recommend to follow the seasonal questline until you unlock the reputation system, check which rewards suit you most and then follow your regular leveling path. To learn more, check out our full Season 4 guide for more information.

Generally, Firewall Sorcerer follows a very simple rotation:

Sorcerers can choose two skills to put into Enchantment Slots, where they provide powerful passive bonuses. Firewall Sorcerer uses the following Enchantments:

For speedfarming, we use Fireball and Teleport. The former lets us kill groups of weak enemies faster and the latter lets us zoom across the map.

This build doesn't use a lot of Mana due to Firewall's low cost and attack speed.

This is our main source of Mana in the early game. Apart from Firewall all of our skills have a Cooldown and give us some Mana when activated.

This upgrade to our Ultimate Skill simply makes our Firewall free for 8 seconds. We use Inferno in the early game but later on both its functions are covered by Raiment of the Infinite and Mana Per Second respectively.

In the late game with good gear we can get rid of Prodigy’s to play one more Offensive Aspect. To do this we need to stack enough Mana Per Second (rolls on Boots, Helmets, and Chests). Combined with Shimmering Ice Armor and Conjuration Mastery this stat can give us more Mana than we can spend even if we stack Attack Speed.

Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 when they reach level 15!

We need to level up our Glyphs to activate their Additional Bonus with surrounding nodes. For some Glyphs, we max our bonuses by allocating every relevant node in range, while on others we take the minimum required for the Additional Bonus only. Because Glyphs at level 15 increase their radius, we need to prioritize leveling them by completing Nightmare Dungeons. After that, we prioritize leveling our strongest glyphs to level 21.

Note that there are some Glyph position swaps and a few adjustments to surrounding Paragon nodes once they reach level 15. See the first three steps in the Paragon progression above for details. The setup displayed by default is the final version of the build.

For maximum efficiency, follow the order outlined below. First, level your Glyphs to level 15 and then do a second pass to get them all to 21.

When you start diving into the Endgame, you don't have all the tools available to achieve the final build versions. Let us guide you through different progression points to give you a smooth transition from our Leveling Guides to the final build version.

Many of your Skill choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. While we can guarantee, that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the progression might be different for everyone!

Hardcore requires you to build into more defenses. Here are some tips to successfully navigate this build through potentially dangerous situations:

Learn about the important build scaling mechanics and stat weights.

To enable your build to perform optimally, you need to reach certain Stat "Breakpoints". Some examples are reaching 100% to Critically Strike, or 20 Resource per second. Since there are many values of these stats on different pieces of gear, read the checklist below and refer to the recommended Tempered Affixes and Masterwork Crits ↑. Desirable Greater Affixes will always be the top three recommended Affixes.

This build benefits a lot from the following Consumables:

Once a guide is released, many players have questions on why and how we are approaching certain choices. In this section you can find the answers to the questions that have been asked the most.

Learn all you need to know about how to scale this build in the endgame.

The Firewall Sorcerer is a fun and flavorful build, capable of dealing great AoE damage while covering your entire screen in flames. It's very strong early but doesn't scale as well into the late game. Still, it can definitely clear all the endgame content, be it World Bosses or Nightmare Dungeons, it will just take some time.

Written by Northwar
Reviewed by snail