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Wow, thanks Killoph! Feel free to experiment / deviate from this build a little. The swaps in the alternates section, particularly Moratorium and Leoric's Crown are very promising as well, so there is still some room here to do the same thing in a different way, it's a good start though.

Hmm, I wouldn't call it brainless, since you have to really watch the Triumvirate counter and weave in the signature casts for F&R at times, but once you get a good feel for that without having to look it's pretty close. You also have to position well on occasion for optimal elite kills. One thing that helps though is that there isn't a need to hold down force stand with the signature spell.

Electrocute MH was a little bit easier to play, similar style there with Aether Walker. My Infinite blast redux is also really easy to play if you have numlock / autocasts enabled, but that's an In-Geom / Woh based build, so there's the potential for starvation on long maps without elites, whereas the AW builds can come and go as they please.

Updated Affixes. Now suggest RCR on weapon, though this is not required for the build to function. No longer slot AD on shoulder (prefer life%).

Mentioned Power of the Storm as a good alternate to Arcanot. I didn't feel like Power of the Storm was the better choice for those longer, low density rifts though, and I wanted to get the better option for all rifts.

Placed Shame of Delsere in the cube (replaced Pride's Fall).

This item is better for a few reasons:

• Quicker buildup for triumvirate stacks.
• Easier to cast while moving to keep F&R up.
• More flexible on resource.
• Easier to acquire at season start.

Even with swapping out the Pride's Fall, I still feel that shielding abillities (such as GW , Deflection, Gizzard) are the best means of defense for this build, as they don't require swapping items.

Also now emphasizing the importance of running Powerful gem over Zei's at low paragon. I suggest running with Powerful instead of Zei until your Zei is about level 80 or so.

Powerful is also easier to get going earlier in the season. Do note however that if you're trying to optimize this build to it's best potential, Zei will be better than Powerful in the long run.

Updated build yet again. Now requiring RCR on weapon. 34.8% is a good minimum. You can either roll APoC or RCR on source. I prefer APoC for this particular build.

Swapped out Gizzard in favor of Bane of the Powerful for the higher multiplier. The elite damage reduction from this gem is also nice for defense.

Glad you like it Euzio!

It can get squishy at the lower paragons. Mostly I just use Calamity as a means to CC. That instant stun will often save you.

That siad, going for a defensive gem like Gizzard is in no way a bad choice. Feel free to play around with the build a little too, I really encourage that of all my builds, especially the torment ones. They may be close to what you like, but not exactly what you like.

Grats on the primal too. I still haven't found an unstable scepter on non-season, though to be honest, I haven't been playing that much either. At least my stash and characters are prepped for season 12. =)

EDIT (11/3/2017): Made a few adjustments to recommendations in the alternates section. I've added some alternates that assume dropping sages.

If dropping sages, I heavily prefer going for avarice band, with placing Boon of the Hoarder (dropping Powerful gem and RoRG).

Gloves of worship come to mind as being a good choice here as well, for the longer torment farming sessions.

Goldwrap would also be an excellent choice for the defense, assuming your pickup radius on gear is high enough.

Added the potential to slot LoH on weapon in place of %Dmg, which would provide increased recovery, something I feel the build is lacking at times.

EDIT#2:

To be clear, I think the combination of LoH + Powerful would be best, since this would get you the highest damage, while still giving reduced damage from elites and adequate recovery.

Gizzard is the best alternate option for that third gem slot if your weapon doesn't have LoH. Hoarder is also an option if you intend to drop sages.

Tal6 and tal4 proc on cast, not on hit. My being close is just a coincidence. I think the Zeis is better than powerful. If you're replacing a gem for defense, replace powerful.

Thanks Longers,

The lightning meteor sages is probably more defensive and offers more control with the ranslors, but doesn't have as much AoE, nor does it offer as much damage as the frozen orb does.

I do really love the feeling of pulling in enemies with lightning meteor ranslor, and I love not having to cast a signature to proc F&R.

It mostly comes down to preference, but my preference, given the strengths and weaknesses, is to run frozen orb due to it's increased aoe and damage.

EDIT: (11/17/2017): Updated guide, now recommend Boon of the Hoarder as the 3rd gem. Powerful and Gizzard are still great options.

Edit: (11/18/2017):

Added section for late season alternates. This drops F&R for avarice band and either Karini or SoJ.

EDIT: (11/18/2017):

I was wrong about Karini on this build. It can be a reliable source of DR. Boon of the Hoarder + Avarice is such a strong combo for pickup on orbs also. Very hard to pass up. This is why I've dropped F&R, and I've moved this ring set to the alternates section.

While this swap does move the build more into the T12 range at the start of season (low gear no ancients, etc). The build should still be more than T13 capable, and even T13 group capable as you gear with ancients and get more paragon. Plus you'd be farming T12 at season start anyways, which is a nice bonus.

My main issue with Karini in the past was that if enemies are dying too quickly or out of range, storm armor cannot target them properly.

This issue is easily addressed by edging in on enemies a little more gradually, or if you do jump in to stun with calamity, jump out so storm armor can hit the enemies and proc Karini.

Also swapped GW to Blur.

Revised affixes, including weapon. Now recommending without RCR on weapon, though RCR on weapon would allow you to swap out either Astral Presence or Arcanot for Magic weapon or Power Hungry.

While both are good, I think the higher resource return is better when combined with the high Attack speed of the build.

I realize the video is now out of sync, so I'll update it when I have time.

EDIT: also recommending for groups: Stone of Jordan with AS (Drop avarice) + Bane of the Powerful (drop Hoarder).

EDIT (11/21/2017): Added F&R as alternate (keeping Karini in cube) for damage if dropping sages. The point of the build was to have sages in, but if you just want to be a high damage frost wielding sorc in 4p groups, this is a great method to do that.

Also recommending Illusory boots as the best boot slot replacement.

Minor Edit (12/3/2017): Added FB2 pc as an option for hardcore. Also made notation that goldwrap would work great for hardcore as well (drop sages).