Patch 1.1.0 Sorcerer Changes - Devouring Blaze Nerf, Fire and Lightning Buffs

Posted 2023/07/18 at 1:38 PM by Tharid

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Diablo 4 Patch 1.1.0 Sorcerer Changes

Skills

damage increased from 24% to 30%, and now benefits from Skill Ranks.
Damage Reduction increased from 20% to 25%.
Damage Reduction increased from 20% to 25%.
Ice Blades cast clean up has been tightened, allowing players to act after its cast sooner.
Fire Bolt initial damage increased from 10% to 18%.
maximum increased Mana Regeneration increased from 25% to 35%.
Core Skill Mana cost reduction increased from 10% to 20%.
Cooldown Reduction increased from 50% to 100%.

Passives

now also affects Mastery Skills instead of just Core Skills.
duration increased from 3 to 9 seconds.
Barrier duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds.
Damage Reduction per second increased from 1/2/3 to 3/6/9.
Damage Reduction increased from 5/10/15% to 7/14/21%.
bonus Critical Strike damage reduced from 10/20/30% to 7/14/21%.
bonus Critical Strike damage to Immobilized reduced from 25/50/75% to 10/20/30%.
Mana Regeneration increased from 10/20/30% to 15/30/45%.

Paragon

Destruction Glyph now affects all damage instead of just Core Skills.

Enchantments

Spark Enchantment chance to form Crackling Energy increased from 10% to 14%.
Frozen Orb Enchantment chance to be cast increased from 20% to 30%.
Incinerate Enchantment cooldown reduced from 18 to 14 seconds.
Hydra Enchantment Mana threshold reduced from 300 to 200.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Efficiency Mana cost reduction increased from 10-20% to 15-25%, and now also affects Mastery Skills.
damage increased from .205-.25 to .35-.4.
damage increased from .15-.2 to .2-.25.
Hydra duration reduction reduced from 30-20% to 20-10%.
Ice Spikes bonus damage to Frozen reduced from 25% to 15%.
Ice Spikes damage increased from .2-.3 to .25-.35.
Ice Spikes damage increased from .25-.35 to .3-.4.
Ice Spikes damage increased from .2-.3 to .25-.35, and Chill increased from 10% to 15%.
chance to apply Vulnerable to Frozen enemies increased from 25-35% to 30-40%.
Life and Mana restore per second increased from 10-20% to 20-30%.
chance for a free cast increased from 5-10% to 7-12%.
chance to spawn an additional Lightning Spear increased from 11-20% to 41-50%.
chance for additional Chain Lightning chains increased from 25-35% to 30-40%.

Items

Gloves of the Illuminator Fireball damage reduction reduced from 65-75% to 55%-65%.
Esu's Heirloom Critical Strike Chance from Movespeed increased from 15-25% to 20-30%.
Esadora's Overflowing Cameo chance to release a lightning nova increased from 10% to 15%.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where the Firebolt Enchantment effect did not contribute to the Combustion key passive.
Fixed an issue where the passive stacks generated by Align the Elements could partially reset in an unexpected way.
Fixed an issue where casting Deep Freeze would prevent the Ice Shard Enchantment effect from triggering.
Fixed an issue where Aspect of Control was applying its damage bonus 3 times for Staggered bosses.
Fixed an issue where the Gravitational Aspect was appearing weaker on two-handed weapons or amulets.
Fixed an issue where the Enchantment effect for Chain Lightning had no visual tracking bonus and could also unexpectedly drop off.
Fixed an issue where Incinerate would immediately cost 30 mana when cast in addition to the consistent channeling mana cost. Incinerate now properly only costs mana as it is being channeled.

Comment by TinglyPianoas a sorc main, this is a good change. Improve build diversity a lotComment by Eloraline97Everyone's making it sound like sorceress is gonna be useless. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see the issue.Comment by mdkventuraGood changes, bring lower skills and builds up --- bring over performing builds down. It encourages build diversity rather than "oh this build isn't worthless, but im still going to do omega meta build"Comment by KerathrasEveryone's making it sound like sorceress is gonna be useless. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see the issue.Comment by bluebird91Everyone's making it sound like sorceress is gonna be useless. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see the issue.Comment by Vendetta8247Everyone's making it sound like sorceress is gonna be useless. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see the issue.Comment by Whatdoyouwantbuild diversity- wishful thinking

mandatory nova in all builds - realityComment by taylormattd

I'm not sure you were doing high Nightmares before the patch but sorc was already weak as hell. Comment by PhoenixfiireYeah, I'm failing to see where anyone is really seeing a lot of good in the sorc come season 1 (or right now for that matter). With the defensive nerfs, and we were already horribly weak there, we're now less than tissue paper. Killing our offensive just makes matters worse. Sure, you might have brought up fire and lightning offensively a little, but defensively surviving is going to be even harder than it already was.

As a sorc/wizard/mage player for all of diablo - it's time for me to find another class - because this state currently is unplayable.

Note: It "might" have been playable if they fixed resistances, and our Int did something defensively - but they havent, so we're just kicking around waiting to be looked at to die :PComment by Vendetta8247

I'm not sure you were doing high Nightmares before the patch but sorc was already weak as hell. Comment by baskevEveryone's making it sound like sorceress is gonna be useless. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see the issue.Comment by ItsversayceYeah, I'm failing to see where anyone is really seeing a lot of good in the sorc come season 1 (or right now for that matter). With the defensive nerfs, and we were already horribly weak there, we're now less than tissue paper. Killing our offensive just makes matters worse. Sure, you might have brought up fire and lightning offensively a little, but defensively surviving is going to be even harder than it already was.

As a sorc/wizard/mage player for all of diablo - it's time for me to find another class - because this state currently is unplayable.Comment by Vendetta8247
when it isn't even a glass cannon.
Comment by RockyyI'm speechless, they nerfed sorc... This dev is just awful.
I didn't expect much, but for sorc to be weaker going into S1? I would never have thought possible, but here we are. **** Diablo 4 man.Comment by TuckletutsSorc is just poorly designed. It has at least 3 of its ability slots taken up with spells that are required, enchantment slots that are the same across all builds, and too heavy of a push towards a single element type. With all the yahoo around the talent trees, it's sad that D3 soc has significantly more build variety. Guess everyone will be Barb/Druid for s1.Comment by FuryXHDSorc just lost a lot of damage from that passive nerf, this will be very visible in the late game. However we do also have the Gem that buffs crit dmg which is there for all classes.
Not sure if that just net neutral or slightly bigger number than now.

The other gem which also has a elemental dmg bonus stacking (Similar to D3), we might see more damage than before?

With that said, with INT being still a trash stat, i am not sure how defensively strong the class is.Comment by deathbymiloRip aspect of control :/

Being squishy af, randomly dying and fighting hard to do decent damage compared to my friends in NM dungeons notwithstanding, it was nice being able to stagger the boss quicker than anyone else and absolutely nuke it during stagger window. I guess aspect of control triple dipping was not intended. Probably won’t ever get to kill the butcher again lmfao. Sigh. Why do the d4 devs hate sorc? :(Comment by NickatnyteEveryone's making it sound like sorceress is gonna be useless. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see the issue.Comment by taylormattd

I'm not sure you were doing high Nightmares before the patch but sorc was already weak as hell.