Diablo 4's open beta kicks off soon, so naturally you're gonna want to break it over your knee as quickly as possible. Luckily, thousands of players already spent last weekend's closed beta figuring out how to do just that. Players only had three days with Diablo 4 over the course of last weekend, and only had access to three of the game's five classes, but YouTube, Reddit and plenty of other places are already awash with clips and tales of borderline broken builds.
The king of them all has got to be the frost Sorcerer. Diablo 4's spell-slinging class has drawn criticism—including from Blizzard itself(opens in new tab)—for being a touch overpowered, and for good reason. Players have already managed to compile all sorts of guides to putting together an ice-wielding magic build that makes mincemeat of the beta's bosses.
Most of the builds revolve around the Sorcerer's Ice Blades ability, and particularly around spawning as many of them as possible at any one time. These frost Sorcerer builds(opens in new tab) from a Reddit user named Truckermouse, for instance, use the Ice Blades passive ability—which spawns an extra blade for every 20 seconds you spend in cooldown—to turn every combat encounter into some kind of nightmarish, icy blender.
When you combine that with a set of maxed-out active Ice Blades skill and the Ice Armor ability, you basically become an unkillable Mr. Freeze. If you don't believe me, here's another Reddit user—named unexpectedreboots(opens in new tab) —using a similar Ice Blades build to annihilate one of the beta's toughest bosses in 20 seconds.
So it's no wonder that Blizzard has explicitly called out the Sorcerer's frost abilities as needing a bit of a nerf. But don't worry, just because ice skills
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