Elemental Constellation Sorcerer Endgame Build Guide

Season 6 is the Season of Hatred Rising. It features the Zakarum Remnants faction which hunts Realmwalkers, massive behemoths that roam outdoor zones and beckon Mephisto's hellspawn. Participate in these zone events and take down the Realmwalkers to spawn a portal to a Seething Realm. There you can acquire Seething Opals, new consumables that stack with Elixirs for a XP buff and the chance to gather extra rewards when defeating enemies. The types of Opals are:

Use these Opals at all times to earn reputation with the Zakarum Remnants faction and unlock further rewards.

Skill Rotation

• Use your Teleport or Evade to group enemies together with Raiment of the Infinite.
• Hold down Ball Lightning and spam Evade to suck in more mobs and to pickup Crackling Energy.
• Keep Ice Armor and Unstable Currents active at all times.
• Use Ice Blades every 2-3 seconds when your Enlightenment is up. Use them as often as possible when it's down.
• Use Flame Shield once at the start of the run to get full stacks of Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop. After that, keep it for emergencies.

Enchantment Slots

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

Use the slider to see the progression steps. At around Paragon 200, leveling slows down significantly and all important Rare clusters, Legendary nodes and Glyph sockets should be unlocked. Afterwards, you can min/max your build with minor tweaks and by picking up additional smaller nodes.

Glyph Leveling Priorities

*If you're still on Fire Bolt version of the build by the time you reach 4th board, use Eliminator or Exploit instead of Unleash (don't level them past 15)

You can have up to two Runewords in your setup, each consisting of one Ritual and one Invocation Rune. Socket them in Two-Handed Weapons if your build calls for them, otherwise place them into your Armor pieces to replace normal gems. The Elemental Constellation Sorcerer focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

• Tam + Wat - used mostly to generate a lot of Offering via Xol. As a nice side effect, we get some damage reduction.
• Xol + Ton - drops 7+ meteorites every second, giving us tons of Elemental Constellation stacks.

Alternative choices

If you haven't unlocked the final setup or found the top runes, you can also benefit from these options:

• Moni - poor man's Tam produces almost as much offering but you have to stutter step awkwardly in-between attacks.
• Teb - similarly a small downgrade to Wat, produces the same amount of offering but the skill itself is less useful than Decrepify.
• If you don't have Xol and Ton you have to go for generic bonuses instead of using Meteorites to generate Elemental Constellation stacks. In that case good options are:
  • Gar - To reach 100% crit more reliably.
  • Ohm - 15% damage bonus.
  • Xal - For extra defense.

Mercenaries are unlocked during the Vessel of Hatred campaign and assist you in battle. There are 4 separate Mercenaries to choose from, each with their own skill trees and abilities. You can have one hired (permanent) mercenary during solo play and a reinforcement who assists you from time to time in certain situations.

Hired: Subo

Subo passively gives us a maphack which is so nice to play with it's hard to use any other merc after trying it once. On top of that he provides some extra damage through Opening Fire.

Reinforcement: Raheir

We choose Bastion with Injured trigger for its massive damage reduction which can save our life in sticky situations.

To enable the Elemental Constellation Sorcerer to perform optimally, hunt for these stats on your gear with good rolls and aim to Temper ⚒️ & Masterwork Crit ↑ them accordingly. Keep in mind that certain stats, such as Armor, Resistances, Extra Size Tempers, Attack Speed and more, have caps that may affect your priorities according to the items and Paragon points available at that moment.

Recommended Endgame Stat Thresholds

Item Progression Goals

Before you dive into the Endgame with the Elemental Constellation Sorcerer, take a look at this overview of the items used in the build. See below for further details about the different progression steps and variants. Some of your Skill Tree choices depend on what Legendary Aspects and Unique items are available to you. Keep in mind that while we can guarantee that everyone has access to the same Codex of Power Aspects, the exact progression is different for everyone.

This section is designed to guide your Elemental Constellation Sorcerer from a fresh level 60 into the very late endgame using the three variants Starter, Ancestral and Mythic. At the final step, you should be fully decked out with a great all-rounder build. From there, follow the other min/max variants if you want to optimize around certain activities such as Pit Pushing, Speedfarming and more.

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.

What can I do to improve survivability?

The build works really well when you decimate everything in seconds, but may get overwhelmed if fights are long against high level monsters. There are several adjustments you can make when you have trouble with more difficult content:

• Check if your Armor & Resists are capped.
• Use defensive consumables.
• Roll Maximum Life instead of offensive stats on as many pieces as possible.
• Kite enemies when they become Unstoppable.
• If all else fails you always have the nuclear option of replacing Raiment of the Infinite with a defensive chest, ideally Tyrael's Might.

What can I do to improve my Mana generation?

This build has 3 major Mana sources: Conjuration Mastery, Lucky Hit Chance to Restore, and Invigorating Conduit. Apart from simply getting better items that give you more of the former two you can slightly improve their efficiency by different means such as:

• Replace Teleport on your skill bar with Lightning Spear to get more stacks.
• Replace Ice Blades weapon tempers with Ball Lightning to proc more lucky hits.
• Take points out of Teleport and invest them into Precision Magic.

Why aren't you using Vox Omnium?

Vox Omnium seems like a good item on paper: it doubles the amount of spells we cast going from 2 (1 base + 1 from Unstable Currents) to 4 with 2 exra Basic spells. On top of it it has a very high Attack Speed roll that goes into second Attack Speed cap which easily compensates all the stats we're missing by not running a normal Staff.

However, missing an Aspect slot on a two-handed weapon makes us lose about 51% damage so we barely come out ahead. On top of that not all our Elemental Constellation stacks are created by the spells we directly cast. Some come from our enchantments, some come from multi-elemental nature of Familiar and a bunch more come from Ton. Overall, Vox Omnium increases our stack generation by about 50% and that is not worth all the damage multipliers we are losing.

Mechanics

Elemental Constellation

• When you cast a Pyromancy, Shock, or Frost skill a matching elemental damage is created. Familiar creates a dagger matching the element of the summon.
• While a dagger is out each matching spell cast adds a stack that increases its damage. Familiar adds a stack to all 3 daggers if they are present.
• Apart from skills cast normally, many free casts and triggers can also spawn daggers and boost their damage.
• Notable interactions that work:
  • All Enchantments that cast their spell
  • Unstable Currents
  • Extra Fire Bolt from Flameweaver (3 stacks for each Fire Bolt projectile that hits a Firewall)
  • Conjuration skills cast by Fractured Winterglass, as well as Frozen Orbs laucnhed by the Conjurations.
  • Meteorites from Ton (each meteorite gives a stack)
  • Extra Basic Skills from Vox Omnium
• Notable interactions that do not work:
  • Extra Fireballexplosions from Gloves of the Illuminator
  • Extra Fireballcasts from Staff of Endless Rage
  • Extra Projectiles on various skills from Weapon tempers
  • Extra Frozen Orb explosions from Frozen Orbit

Elemental Constellation Sorcerer is an extremely powerful but somewhat slow and clumsy build that excels at creating REALLY BIG numbers.

• Group up mobs with Raiment of the Infinite.
• Spam Shock spells, Fire Bolts, Ton Meteorites, whatever to build up Elemental Constellation stacks.
• Watch tiny dagger oneshot everyting :)

Written by Northwar