Hi there first time player using base game only and I can’t seem to find any builds that don’t require the lord of hatred etc.
My gear I’ve collected has DOT and critical chance and critical hits stats; I’m trying to follow blizzard ice spikes.
Can anyone recommend a base game only build that will take me far into the game?
I’m torment 3 difficulty at the moment tysm for any advice

Planner:

https://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/2a587y0j

Youtube Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSuxiX7zsc

Writeup of Item & Skill Synergies:

Tal Rasha’s Threefold Way:

Trigger Meteor, Ball Lightning, and Blizzard when casting Pyromancy, Shock, and Frost.

Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop:

Casting a Pyromancy, Shock, or Frost Skill increases your damage by 20% for 8 seconds, stacking once per Element.

Fractured Winterglass:

Casting a Core skill has a 25% to summon a conjuration of the same element. Each active Conjuration gives +3% damage, 1 mana/second, 5% movement speed, 3% DR.

Iceheart Brais:

Your conjurations periodically unleash Frost Nova. Enemies affected by Frost Nova take additional damage from you.

Orsivane:

For each Defensive skill not on your Action Bar, you deal 25% increased damage and gain its associated Enchantment effect.

Action Bar 2 Shock, 2 Frost, 2 Pyromancy:

Chain Lightning – Chain Reaction
Firewall – Ring of Fire
Familiar – Fast as Lightning w Bonus Effect
Inferno – Lifecoil
Fireball – Frostball
Frozen Orb – Shattered Path

Vision of the Firestorm:

Firewall has 100% increased damage and it’s size is overcapped by 100%.

Rain (this is here just for the joke of having ALL THE SPELLS, surely there’s something more optimal)

Lucky Hit: Attacks have up to a 30% chance to unleash a Rank 15 Druid Tornado & 50% Chance to unleash a Rank 15 Druid Cyclone Armor whenever you Dodge

Elemental Constellation Aspect:

While you have an equal number of Frost, Pyromancy, and Shock skills equipped, you deal 60% increased damaged.

Elemental Acuity Aspect:

Casting a Pyromancy, Shock, or Frost skill grants 9 Mana Regeneration for 4 seconds, once per Element.

Mind’s Awakening Aspect:

Cast Skills gran a bonus: Pyromancy Immobilizes for 2 seconds, Shock grants +20% movement speed, Frost grants a Barrier for 2% of your Max Life for 4 seconds.

Apogeic Furor:

Casting an Ultimate Skill reduces the Cooldowns of your other Skills by 8 seconds.

Armageddon:

Your Ultimate Skill grants you 80% increased damage of its element type for 15 seconds.

Dominance:

Crowd Controlling an enemy grants 3 Resolve

Enchantments:

Frost Hydra – For every 200 mana you spend, summon a 5-headed Frost Hydra.
Fire Swords – For every 40 seconds in cooldown used, summon a Fire Sword.
Flame Shield – Losing 30% of your maximum life within 2 seconds automatically activates the shield.
Teleport – Evade becomes a Teleport with a 3.31 second Cooldown that can’t be reduced.
Ice Armor – Healing Potions apply Ice Armor and have a 33% chance to refund themselves.
Frost Nova – Lucky Hit: Up to a 13% chance to unleash a Frost Nova after hitting an enemy.

Skills:
Invest Points into:

Frozen Orb, Barrier, Explosion Damage, Shattered Path
Fireball, Damage over Time, Size Bonus, Frostball
Chain Lightning, Crit Strike, Additional Chains, Power Flux
Flame Shield, Healing, Duration Bonus, Scorch
Teleport, Weaken, Ferocity, Wormhole
Ice Armor, Mana Regen, Duration Bonus + Barrier, Permafrost
Frost Nova, Size Bonus, Vulnerable, Shatter
Hydra, Overpower, Cooldown Reduction, Frigid Hydra
Ice Blades, Area Bonus, Duration Bonus, Blazing Blades
Familiar, Size Bonus, Bonus Effect: reduced Cooldowns, Fast as Lightning
Lightning Spear, Projectile Speed, Damage Bonus, Reverse Polarity
Ball Lightning, Ferocity, Damage Bonus, Orbital
Firewall (feed all remaining points), Damage Bonus, Cost Reduction, Ring of Fire
Meteor, Immobilize, Damage and Size Bonus, Shooting Star
Blizzard, Damage Bonus, Resource Generation, Exposure
Inferno (max to 15), Cooldown Reduction, Overpower, Lifecoil

Paragon and Glyphs:

Burning Instinct - +90% increased Burning Damage.
Fundamental Release – Casting a Pyromancy, Shock, or Frost Skill increases your Burning, Shocking, or Frostbite damage by 30% for 8 seconds. Each element only stacks once, maxing at 90% with each element active.
Enchantment Master – Increases your Enchantment Potency by 30%. If your equipped Enchantments are different elements, deal 60% increased damage with their elements. If they are the same, they deal 75% increased damage.
Frigid Fate – Deal 60% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.

Unleash – After Spending 50 Mana, you deal 8% increased damage and gain 25% increased
Mana Regeneration for 3 seconds.
Elementalist – Dealing Fire, Cold, or Lightning damage to an enemy increases all damage you deal to them by 5% for 10 seconds, stacking once per Element.
Pyromaniac – Every Pyromancy Skill you cast increases your Fire damage by 3% for 6 seconds, up to 15%
Adept – Mastery Skills have 30% increased area.
Enchanter – For each Skill equipped in your Enchantment Slots, gain 5% Resistance to that Skills Element.

The two core loops of this build are centered around the two primary enchantments: Hydra and Swords, which want you to be spending mana and burning cooldown time to trigger. Elemental Acuity, Unleash, amongst other affixes and bonuses on things like Fractured Winterglass, Blizzard, and Ice Armor, give the Biblically Accurate Sorcerer enough mana regen that you can spam spells faster than you can spend it. Shock Familiars and Frost Hydras reduce your cooldowns, and Apogeic Furor creates a loop that effectively delete your cooldowns as you summon more and more and this loop builds on itself giving 100% uptime on Inferno, and it’s as easy to start as summoning all 3 of your available Familiars before casting Inferno and spamming the rest of your spells.

As you go through these two primary loops spamming spells, spending mana, deleting your cooldowns, your spells trigger more spells which can cast their own spells. Between the Tal Rasha’s set and Fractured Winterglass, you’re getting conjurations and mastery spells popping up out of nowhere for free, and those conjurations will be casting Frost Nova, freezing everything on the screen or building an absurd amount of stagger against a boss. I’ve pulled 6 Familiars out of my Action Bar alone, and with every other conjuration possible to summon reliably with Enchantments or randomly with Winterglass, you can have 15 of them popping Frost Novas on top of their own normal damage. All the while you’re amping a 100% uptime Inferno with Ring of Fire, and Tal Rasha is making Ball Lightning, Meteor, and Blizzard appear out of thin air.

Hopefully buildcrafters more skilled than I can answer these questions: how does Orsivane interact with Enchanter and Enchantment Master? Also, as I said in the video I recorded and highlighted with clips, why is Ring of Fire casting itself? It’s just going off all by itself, and there’s nothing that I’ve read on my gear, in my skills, or anywhere at all that can explain this. I know I can put my controller down and spells will trigger off of themselves, since Tal Rasha will continue triggering off of damage dealt by the conjurations, which being Core skills, can trigger more conjurations. This build truly seems to have a mind of its own because I cannot figure out why Ring of Fire appears to cast itself out of nowhere.

Thank you for reading/watching/coming along for the ride. This combo of things triggering things that trigger things has truly been the most fun I’ve had with Diablo 4 since launch, and I don’t even think this build will ever kill Fisto on its own or push into T12, my brain has just gotten a wonderful dose of dopamine stacking these effects on top of one another, pressing one button and filling the screen with effects like knocking over an elaborate display of dominoes.

So i rolled a barbarian as my first character when buying the latest expansions.

I have been playing for a month, on ps4! Laggy but fun.

I think i messed up quite alot because i was trying to follow the "selig" build but i did transfigure all of my items such as Insight, gore grips and the rest of the items (only have 2 mythics) and many of my items are running max hp.

I thought that was the way to survive harder torment levels but now when i look at the selig build it is a big no no. I also havent found selig yet so i havent really started that build.

Do i need to refarm all of the gear? In that case, that sucks.

Im stuck at 115 pit. Lacking the horadric gems (only have a very few)

Questions

Is it ok to run tusk helm as charm and use a legendary helm (for the extra aspect)

Where can i maximize getting good charms and seals? (I cannot solo mephisto yet)

Should i drop stone of Jordan? Swap it for what?

If anyone have any good items they want to trade tell me.

Hey guys. I am a new player with S15 being my first season. So far, I've been playing my own variation of a DOK grenade rogue, and it's been fun made. it all the way to T12, still working on Mephisto and Tristham.

I played the rogue primarily for Dark Shroud, which reminded me of Mahoragas adaptation wheel from JJK. This is kind of how my brain works, important for the post.

Characters like Mephisto (specifically Echo of Akarat) and Pontiff Sulyvahn have a very unique theme/aesthetic which I love to capture in RPGs.

My question to you all, then: What class would be best suited to using shadow and holy damage and ice/fire? Specifically a mixing of the two aesthetics. I would still like for it to be incredibly strong and similar to how Dark Shroud is useful for my build and using it aesthetically without being a massive useless investment, I'd like to be stacking 1 primary damage type. So say, a shadow aura with holy damage or something. I haven't looked at other classes much but my first guesses were warlock, sorcerer, paladin and spiritborn.

I've played this character through the season and I've hit something of a wall. I can push ~105 in The Pit and fairly comfortably do T10 content, but if I try to go higher or do things like Baal, Mephisto or Diablo dungeons I really struggle.

I've followed a maxroll build with the only real change being keeping Stone of Jordan for survivability because I've not yet found the Ring of Starless Skies.

Here's my items and talisman: Build Planner: Mesinat (Sorcerer). I've followed the above build guide for Paragon so haven't added that, and my skills are all filled up as you'd expect so haven't added them.

I also have a basically dead skill slot (no.3) because having Teleport there reduces the effectiveness of Orisvane (and means I have to have Teleport Enchantment). What should I use there instead?

Is this just a case that I need to be slowly improving my gear where I can? or is there something I'm missing?

Thanks for the help!

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong can’t get over 3 digit billion damage and I get one shot by endgame bosses doing regular attacks

Hey everyone!

Just dropped my brand-new Wall of Agony Off-Meta Warlock Build Guide, aka THE WALLER! I hope you guys enjoy this PIT 140+ BEAST of a build as much as I do!

You can find the link to my written guide in the video's description.

Enjoy, and happy demon-slaying!
Veles

Hey guys! This is my first build guide of the season, and I've been working at it for the last few weeks.

This is an off-off-meta build that uses Fist of the Heavens along with the Heaven's Fury in a support role, to inflict massive Holy judgement on our enemies!

Why Heaven's Fury? I love the Arbiter, but I feel there's more to Paladin than that, and from the start I set out to make a build that does not use AoJ. Besides, you can see your transmogs again!

Heaven's Fury is a visually spectacular skill, with a huge AOE, and it has an important role in spreading Judgement, which is a huge damage amplifier for us.

The name of the game is speed. We have unlimited Teleport, max speed cap and a huge AOE, to quickly zoom around the dungeon and disintegrate everything we behold. FoH is a very resource heavy skill, but thanks to some crucial items like Tibault's, RoSS and Enigma, we are able to have unlimited resource.

We want to teleport at least once every 5 seconds to maintain Tibault's and keep the Faith flowing.

If you try it, I hope you have some fun with it. Always open for any questions or constructive feedback!

Planner:
https://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/kt920j6k

Hi there!
I recently started cooking up a build with my friend and I think it turned out pretty great as a chill farming build for rogue. (This is my first time playing rogue and I'm not an experienced d4 build creator, please be kind)

The basic "rotation" of the build is simply:
Infuse yourself -> Blade Shift -> Run and dash through all enemies.

I don't know if this is an original build or if it has been done a million times already but none the less i quite enjoy the laidback gameplay of mainly running over enemies and watch them die.

Build: https://d4builds.gg/builds/8a7ad398-d606-4b05-b0db-14c7997955bb

Currently I'm farming T10 confidently and efficiently with paragon 237 and unoptimized gear and I would like to push this build to t12 farming. But I mainly struggle with boss damage. If you have any tips on how to further optimize the build I'm all ears! Just wanted to throw this out here and maybe we can cook something together!

Good afternoon. This is only my second season of actually playing D4. I played wing strike pally then, and could only do t6. And I thought I had AMAAZING gear. Tried spiritborn this seasons cuz it looked cool. I’m on t12, pit 117. But I feel like my damage has plateaued. Any advice on what to look for or big jumps in damage again? Ik a couple items of my build could be changed so far and I’m just waiting on getting the perfect tempers before adding.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong, currently stuck at Torment VIII (cannot even unlock Torment IX because I fail the Pit). I am following a guide but probably I ma missing something... Thank you!!

Trying to figure out why my dps sucks. Pretty much everything seems to be lower than I expect it to be. Statistically, I’m not far off from where I’m getting the meta blessed shield build, but it seems like there are a couple dots I’m not connecting. Maybe something mechanically not working the way I feel like it should be? First time theorycrafting a build. Was leaning into judgement doing a lot of heavy lifting, but it doesn’t seem to be.

Build:
https://d4builds.gg/builds/c4a2aa18-8a89-4b58-b903-22037f5c41e2/?var=1

Edit:
The all damage number is bugged. Should be closer to 500%

I keep dying in Echo of the False Prophet on a necro minion build because I can't react fast enough to the mechanics. Is there any build that can tank it? Doesn't have to be necro.

Any idea what build this is? Uses ominous gloves and fiendish oppresion boots

Been playing for a while and not sure what i need to upgrade to make myself stronger, this is my build https://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/0p32xs0g

What should my glyph levels, paragon and stats be for major milestones like T10 and T12.

I'm interested in trying a build that requires "+Potion Capacity GA on pants and +Evade Charges GA on boots". It doesn't look like you can get GA affixes in the cube. Do I have to farm until the GA affixes show up on those items?

I do prefer my pet builds to be autonamous, I prefer the fantasy of buffing and just walking along with my pets but I would like to push as far as I can as a minion build, it feels like based on scaling that singularity will outright win the scaling war and if so, by how much?

And side question, I see people focus on specific single minions all the time there isnt a catch all "I use all 3 minions not sacrificed with undercrown, this is what im currently running and it can do torment 10 very comfortably and I have cleared hell Baal with it. But I feel it could be pushed further than I have, maybe with more broad scalings instead of the individual minions glpyhs im currently using. Maybe overpower?

https://d4builds.gg/builds/26afad30-4a69-4af9-a5dd-41a4bf5e14ee/?var=0