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Incinerate Sorcerer Endgame Guide

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Last Updated:May 2, 2025|Changelog|FAQ

Welcome to the Incinerate Sorcerer Endgame Guide! This build allows you to become a living flamethower with a cone of fire.

Incinerate channels a beam of fire to deal Burning damage to enemies it touches. Frost Nova will make nearby enemies Frozen along with increase your damage against those hit. Flame Shield makes you Immune for a few seconds which is invaluable for avoiding dangerous stacks in Pits along with providing Unstoppable, which will break active crowd control. Ice Armor will provide a large Barrier and a damage increase thanks to Storm Swell. Familiar will provide a damage bonus and Inferno gives a large damage bonus and removes the Mana cost from Pyromancy Skills with Supreme Inferno, use this whenever available to group enemies and deal more damage.

Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop is a large part of your gameplay, requiring you to stack your three different elements to gain a large damage bonus and then rotate two to maintain it. Ice Armor will provide your Frost Skill and Teleport will be your Shock Skill and main rotation with your Pyromancy Skill Incinerate.

Incinerate Sorcerer Endgame Setup
Note

This build guide assumes you have a Level 60 Character and unlocked Torment 1. To get there, level up with one of our Sorcerer Leveling Guides. See how this Build compares against others with our various Build Tier Lists.

Boss Powers

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Season 8 is the Season of Belial's Return. It allows you to tap into Boss Powers obtained from World, Event, and Lair Bosses throughout Sanctuary. The new seasonal mechanic, Apparition Incursions, is available at any difficulty level and gives you the opportunity to unlock a subset of these powers very early on. Various Apparition Monsters appear in these special timed events throughout Sanctuary. Defeating these monsters spawns 1 of 10 Apparition Bosses to hunt you down and defeating them grants you their Boss Power. After defeating the first Boss, continue the event for a chance to fight a second Apparition Boss, after which Belial himself joins the fray.

There are 24 Boss Powers available and the first time you defeat one of these Bosses, you claim their power for yourself. Boss Powers each have Main and Modifier effects to boost your build. 13 are available in all difficulties (from Apparition Incursions and World Bosses), while 11 can only be acquired in Torment 1 difficulty or higher from Lair Bosses and Lilith. You can equip 1 Main Power and 3 Modifiers, and all powers can be upgraded up to Rank 20, increasing the potency of both the Main and Modifier effect. You use Spectral Ash to upgrade these powers, dropped from Apparition Incursions and by defeating any Bosses. Boss Powers also scale with your Paragon Level, growing stronger as you progress.

Best-In-Slot Boss Powers

Main Power

Wandering Death's Chest Beam - This deals damage and increases your damage on enemies hit. This is the best option for Incinerate but requires killing a World Boss to attain it. Be aware of when World Bosses are spawning to check if it's Wandering Death. There is a World Boss timer under the links at the top of this guide and all Maxroll D4 pages.

Modifiers

  • Andariel's Flaming Skull - This provides a strong multiplier but will take time to rank up.
  • Harbinger of Hatred's Volley - This provides a strong multiplier but will take time to rank up.
  • Sinerat's Flames - This provides a good multiplier and is easy to activate without tempers.
Incinerate Sorcerer Endgame Boss Powers

Alternate Boss Powers

  • Flesh Reaper's Disruption - Modifier: This provides a good multiplier but requires Crowd Control Duration utility tempers to activate.
  • Kirma's Sparks - Modifier: This provides Evade Cooldown Reduction for better mobility.

Learn more details about the season theme in our full Season Guide.

Skills & Gameplay

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  • Incinerate is our primary damage skill. This creates a beam of fire and applies burning damage to those it touches, you will need to Channel it for 2 seconds for it's maximum damage and for Overheating.
  • Frost Nova will make nearby enemies Frozen and Vulnerable and increase your damage against them.
  • Teleport is great mobility and it provides Unstoppable to break crowd control if you are caught, the Enchantment version will not provide Unstoppable.
  • Flame Shield makes you Immune for a few seconds, a mechanic to avoid any damage and also provides Unstoppable to break crowd control, you can use this to avoid dangerous stacks from Pit bosses.
  • Ice Armor provides a large Barrier along with damage bonuses from Storm Swell and Mystical Ice Armor, it can also make you Unstoppable with Snowveiled.
  • Familiar will provide a damage bonus when a Fire version is out and activate your Rune combination NaguCeh.
  • Inferno will pull enemies together to group them, remove the Mana cost of your Pyromancy skills and also provide a large damage bonus while active, cast this as often as possible.
Incinerate Sorcerer Endgame Skill Tree

Skill Rotation

  • Cast Ice Armor and Teleport to activate Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop, follow up with Inferno then Familiar to start activating NaguCeh. Frost Nova nearby enemies and immediately start channeling Incinerate.
  • Rotate Incinerate with Teleport to maintain your Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop stacks and quickly traverse the game.
  • Use Ice Armor when available for Unstoppable.
  • Use Inferno and Frost Nova when needed to group enemies and gain bonus damage.
  • Consider saving Flame Shield for dangerous moments to avoid death but it can also be used to quickly summon a Fire Familiar thanks to it's fast animation.

Sorcerer Enchantments

Teleport is our first Enchantment for adding more mobility to your gameplay. This replaces your evade with a shorter range Teleport than doesn't make you Unstoppable.

Firewall is our second Enchantment, it will provide a damage increase as long as enemies are remain in it's area.

Fireball now has an execute to make it more viable. This can be used for Speedfarming or as another Fire Enchantment for Enchantment Master.

Incinerate Sorcerer Endgame Enchantments

Learn more details and how to unlock this system in our full Sorcerer Class Overview.

Paragon & Glyphs

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Important

Carefully check your Paragon Boards to ensure correct board rotation. Glyphs go from a radius of 3 to 4 at level 15 and from 4 to 5 at level 46. Some of them cannot be activated before reaching these thresholds! Progress through The Pit to rank up your Glyphs.

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.

← Use the slider for progression steps →
Incinerate Sorcerer Endgame Paragon
Tip

Some Glyph position swaps, board changes and other pathing adjustments may occur as you unlock your full potential. The setup displayed by default is the final version of the build before spending additional points that do not significantly impact your character's power.

Glyph Leveling Priorities

To Level 15

  1. Torch
  2. Tactician
  3. Pyromaniac
  4. Flamefeeder
  5. Elementalist

To Level 46

  1. Torch
  2. Flamefeeder
  3. Pyromaniac
  4. Elementalist
  5. Tactician

Learn more details about the Paragon System in our in-depth Paragon Boards and Glyphs guide.

Runes

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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 Incinerate Sorcerer Endgame build focuses on the following combos:

Best in Slot

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

  • NaguCeh will provide vulnerable application while you are channeling. You will need to cast Familiar to start summoning the wolves.
  • LithKry will pull enemies to you while you are channeling.

Alternative choices

  • LithWat + XolKry is a good option for maximizing pulling in enemies while channeling.
  • Neo and Igni are good options for Ritual Runes.
  • Vex, Ohm, and Thul can provide more damage.
  • Zec can provide Ultimate Cooldown Reduction.
  • Mot can provide Damage Reduction.
  • Grand Topaz will provide additional damage if you don't have access to Runes.

Learn more about Runes and how they work in our dedicated Runewords Overview and Runewords Tier List.

Mercenaries

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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 is a great choice for casual gameplay thanks to his passive Seeker that reveals enemies and objects, this is a nice quality of life addition and also gives some Mana sustain. Grab Molotov along with Scorched Earth to boost your damage over time. Next you pick Snipe along with Incendiary Bolt to trigger the Scorched Earth as well.
  • Raheir is a great alternative if you don't mind dropping the maphack, Valiance is an amazing defensive tool that will prevent damage from large hits along with give you Unstoppable. Take Ground Slam and grab Raheir's Aegis for extra defense. Next you want Bastion with Inspiration. Valiance is a very powerful mechanic for pushing more difficult content or playing on Hardcore.

Reinforcement: Raheir

  • Raheir will potentially save your character with his reinforcement Bastion. Setting this to trigger on Incinerate can keep you going in difficult encounters.
  • Aldkin can provide additional damage reduction with Field of Languish if you are using Raheir as your Hired, I set it to cast on Incinerate.
Incinerate Sorcerer Endgame Mercenaries

Learn more about Mercenaries and how they work in our dedicated Mercenaries Overview.

Stat Priorities & Item Progression

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To enable the Incinerate Sorcerer build to perform optimally, hunt for these stats on your gear with good rolls and aim to Temper ⚒️ & Masterwork Crit ↑ them accordingly. The green arrow ↑ indicates which affix is most impactful to Masterwork Crit, and it does not indicate how many Masterwork Crits you need on that particular affix. 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

  • Scale Flamefeeder and Torch for Combustion.
  • 2000+ Intelligence
  • 30%+ Cooldown Reduction
  • Armor Capped 1,000
  • Resistance Capped 70%+
  • 3,500+ Life
  • Damage Reduction Sources
Starter
Ancestral
Mythic
Pit Push

Item Progression Goals

Before you dive into the Endgame with the Incinerate 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.

Starter
Ancestral
Mythic

Learn more details and how to farm Legendary Aspects and Uniques in our General Farming Guide.

Build Variants

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This section is designed to guide your Incinerate 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.

Starter
Ancestral
Mythic
Speedfarm
Pit Push

If you are fresh in Torment 1 coming from a leveling guide, this is where you begin. Since only some Aspects can be guaranteed from Dungeon unlocks for the Codex of Power, focus on acquiring the additional aspects via gambling with Murmuring Obols.

Gear & Skills

Starter Incinerate Sorcerer Gear
Starter Incinerate Sorcerer Skills
  • Early on in your progression, focus on Armor & Resistances to survive. Each Torment difficulty adds a penalty of -250 Armor and -25% all Res and it's recommended to keep both capped (1000 Armor, 70+ Res) at all times. As you unlock higher power gear, masterworking levels and more Paragon points, you naturally scale your character into the higher difficulties and can start replacing some of these rolls with offensive or utility stats.

The goal here is to progress through the Torment difficulties as you unlock Ancestrals, Paragon points, all Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and the most important Uniques to pilot this build. Some Legendary Aspects are used temporarily to fill slots that may be replaced with more Unique items later on.

Gear & Skills

Ancestral Incinerate Sorcerer Gear
Ancestral Incinerate Sorcerer Skills
  • As you upgrade your gear to Ancestrals with more masterworking levels and reach higher paragon, you can focus more and more on replacing Armor & Resistance rolls with better stats, but ensure to stay capped at 1000 Armor and 70%+ Resistances for the difficulty you're currently in.
  • Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop will require casting your Ice Armor for your Frost stack at the beginning of combat and then rotating Shock and Fire to maintain it.
  • Raiment of the Infinite pulls enemies near your Teleport location, making it easier to group enemies. Beware of being trapped in the enemies. If you actively move away from the direction enemies are mainly being pulled from then you can avoid the trap.

This is the final version of the build's progression, including all regular Unique items, Mythic Uniques, Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and Masterworking, leaving you with a great all-rounder build for all content in the game. Additional variants use this as a baseline to optimize around certain activities.

Gear & Skills

Mythic Incinerate Sorcerer Gear
Mythic Incinerate Sorcerer Skills
  • Shroud of False Death provides damage and a good amount of defense thanks to it's bonus to Passive Skills.
  • Harlequin Crest provides massive Cooldown Reduction and Damage Reduction.

This Speedfarming variant optimizes the build for easy activities like Helltides, Whispers, Nightmare Dungeons and lower Pit Tiers after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression.

Gear & Skills

Speedfarm Incinerate Sorcerer Gear
Speedfarm Incinerate Sorcerer Skills
  • Raiment of the Infinite can help group enemies faster.
  • Fireball Enchantment can help finish off groups of Elites.
  • CirVex and NeoOhm for damage bonuses.

This setup optimizes the build to push the highest possible Tiers in The Pit after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression.

Gear & Skills

Pit Push Incinerate Sorcerer Gear
Pit Push Incinerate Sorcerer Skills
  • Raiment of the Infinite can help group enemies faster.
  • Firewall and Fireball Enchantments for damage from Enchantment Master.
  • Teleport goes on your bar for Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop and using Raiment of the Infinite.
  • CirVex and NeoOhm for damage bonuses.

FAQ & Mechanics

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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.

Mechanics

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Summary

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The Incinerate Sorcerer has received some buffs to make it a strong Sorcerer Endgame build.

  • Become a living flamethrower but don't forget to maintain your Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop stacks.
  • Stay Unstoppable with Ice Armor thanks to enough Cooldown Reduction and Snowveiled.

Credits

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