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Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (D4)
Sorcerer Ice Hydra Endgame Build (Season 10)
★ NEW: Season 10 Guide | Season 10 Release Date
┗ Seasonal Content: Chaos Rifts | New Uniques
┗ Seasonal Mechanic: List of Chaos Perks & Chaos Armor
★ Season 10 Best Builds & Best Chaos Perks
★ Check out our Vessel of Hatred expansion guide
This is the Ice Hydra endgame build and guide for Season 10 of Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred (D4). Read on to learn more about the Ice Hydra Sorcerer build as well as its playstyle in the Season of Infernal Chaos!
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Ice Hydra Sorcerer Build
Ice Hydra Build Summary
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 Summary |
 Skills and Passives |
 Chaos Perks |
 Aspects and Affixes |
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 Gems |
 Mercenary |
 Paragon |
 Playstyle |
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This Ice Hydra Sorcerer Endgame build is based on Slaydra at Slaydra (Youtube). The video above includes details on how to gear up to get the build online. You can check Slaydra's Twitch Channel for more Diablo 4 content and ask questions about the build!
| Build Summary | |
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| Ice Hydra Endgame Build |
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| Focus: Endgame, Pit Farming | |
 Excellent Damage and Survivability High Mobility |
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This Ice Hydra Sorcerer endgame build for Season 10 focuses on Hydra along with Ice skills like Ice Shards to clear most enemies in your screen. The build's tanking capabilities are provided by the new Chaos Perks which allow the build to facetank even Uber Boss attacks.
Season 10 Guide (Infernal Chaos)
Ice Hydra Build Skills and Passives
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| Summary |
Skills and Passives |
Chaos Perks |
Aspects and Affixes |
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| Gems |
Mercenary |
Paragon |
Playstyle |
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※ More skills can be seen by scrolling vertically.
| Active Skills | |
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 Basic Skill Tree┗
 Fire Bolt
(1/5) ┗
 Enhanced Fire Bolt
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 Core Skill Tree┗
 Elemental Dominance
(3/3) ┗
 Devastation
(3/3) ┗
 Potent Warding
(2/3) |
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 Defensive Skill Tree┗
Teleport
(1/5) ┗
 Enhanced Teleport
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Shimmering Teleport
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Flame Shield
(1/5) ┗
 Glass Cannon
(3/3) |
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 Conjuration Skill Tree┗
Hydra
(5/5) ┗
 Enhanced Hydra
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Invoked Hydra
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Familiar
(1/5) ┗
 Enhanced Familiar
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Invoked Familiar
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Ice Blades
(1/5) ┗
 Enhanced Ice Blades
┗
Invoked Ice Blades
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 Align the Elements
(1/3) ┗
 Primordial Binding
(3/3) ┗
 Mana Shield
(3/3) |
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 Mastery Skill Tree┗
 Inner Flames
(3/3) ┗
 Devouring Blaze
(3/3) ┗
 Crippling Flames
(1/3) |
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 Ultimate Skill Tree┗
Inferno
(1/5) ┗
 Prime Inferno
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Supreme Inferno
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 Fiery Surge
(1/3) ┗
 Soulfire
(3/3) ┗
 Permafrost
(3/3) ┗
 Icy Touch
(3/3) ┗
 Hoarfrost
(3/3) ┗
 Elemental Synergies
(3/3) ┗
 Evocation
(3/3) |
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 Key Passive |
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Ice Hydra Build Enchantment
| Hydra Enchantment Slots | |
|---|---|
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Hydra
(Level 15) |
Familiar
(Level 30) |
For your first enchantment, choose Hydra to produce more Hydra when you dump your core skills to deal damage. Since you will be spamming Ice Blades, and Hydra, you will be able to trigger this effect consistently.
As for your second enchantment, you will choose Familiar. This allows you to gain more summons when using Spirit Wolves.
Ice Hydra Build Chaos Perks
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Skills and Passives |
Chaos Perks |
Aspects and Affixes |
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| Gems |
Mercenary |
Paragon |
Playstyle |
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| Chaos Perks Setup | |||||
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 Mana Shield Mana Shield You have 99% reduced Maximum Life but any damage you would take is dealt to your Mana before your Life. If you have not taken damage in the last 4 seconds, your Mana Regeneration is increased by 5,000%. You gain 200-400% increased Maximum Mana and each point of Intelligence increases your Maximum Mana by 1. |
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 Advanced Techniques Advanced Techniques Your base Core skill ranks increase their Mana Cost or Cooldown by 10% and further increase their damage by 10-20%. |
 Power Siphon Power Siphon Your Core Skills deal 50-100% increased damage, but also reduce your Maximum Current Resource by 20 for 6 seconds. This reduction stacks but does not refresh. |
 Marred Guard Marred Guard You can no longer be healed above 50% Life. You gain 5-10% Maximum Resistance to All Elements, +20-40% Armor, and 50-100% increased Barrier and Fortify Generation. |
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The Chaos Perks for the Ice Hydra build focus on boosting your Core Skill damage with Advanced Techniques and Power Siphon. This synergizes well with the build which aims to focus on stacking Mana and Intelligence affixes to gain 20,000 Mana.
Mana Shield and Marred Guard are the defensive perks chosen for the build as it also synergizes well with the mana stack of the build. This allows the build to have very low health, but will use the mana pool instead for life; meaning that the build will have about 20,000 life.
Ice Hydra Build Aspects and Affixes
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| Summary |
Skills and Passives |
Chaos Perks |
Aspects and Affixes |
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| Gems |
Mercenary |
Paragon |
Playstyle |
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 Equipment Notes! |
Affixes marked with ★ are ones you should aim to upgrade when Masterworking. Chaos Armor does not have to be used on a specific slot and can be interchangeable with other equipment slots. |
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※ More gear Aspects can be seen by scrolling vertically.
| Gear | Aspect and Affixes |
|---|---|
| Head | Stats: ・Ranks to Ice Shards ・Intelligence ★★★ ・Attack Speed ・Cooldown Reduction |
| Chest (Chaos Armor) |
Stats: ・Intelligence ★★★ ・Attack Speed ・Pyromancy Damage ・Ranks to Primordial Binding |
| Gloves (Chaos Armor) |
Stats: ・Resistance to All Elements ・All Stats ★★★ ・Critical Strike Damage ・Maximum Resource |
| Pants (Chaos Armor) |
Stats: ・Lucky Hit Chance ・Critical Strike Chance ・Attack Speed ★★★ |
| Boots (Chaos Armor) |
Stats: ・Resource Generation and Maximum ★★★ ・Chance for Chain Lightning to Hit Twice ・Damage Reduction ・Ranks to Chain Lightning |
| Amulet | Stats: ・Intelligence ★★★ ・Movement Speed ・Ranks to Primordial Binding Temper: ・Resource - Ultimate Efficiency ┗ Inferno Cooldown Reduction
・Mobility - Natural Motion
┗ Movement Speed |
| Ring | Stats: ・Attack Speed ・Critical Hit Chance ・Lucky Hit Chance ・Ranks to Core Skills★★★ |
| Ring | Stats: ・Intelligence ★★★ ・Attack Speed ・Critical Strike Damage Temper: ・Offensive - Conjuration Finesse ┗ Hydra Damage
・Resource - Ultimate Efficiency ┗ Inferno Cooldown Reduction |
| Weapon (Quarterstaff) |
Stats: ・Intelligence ★★★ ・Maximum Life ・Critical Strike Damage Temper: ・Offensive - Conjuration Finesse ┗ Hydra Damage
・Offensive - Conjuration Augments
┗ Casted Hyrdras have more Heads |
All Chaos Armor in the build is interchangeable with each of their slots. Hail of Verglas is not an available Chaos Armor, so players will have no choice but to use the Helm slot for it.
Ice Hydra Build Gems and Runewords
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| Gems |
Mercenary |
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| Weapon | Armor | Jewelry |
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 Emerald
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 Topaz
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 Skull
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For Gems, it's best to slot in Emerald on your weapon slot for more Critical Strike Damage. Slot in Topaz on the rest of your armor to gain more Intelligence for mana and survivability.
As for your Rings and Amulets, we recommend slotting in Skulls to help you reach the 1000 Armor cap for endgame. If you have already reached the cap, you can slot in Diamonds instead to max out your elemental resistances.
Ice Hydra Build Runewords
| Runeword 1 | Runeword 2 |
|---|---|
 Nagu
 Vex
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 Igni
 Ceh
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Nagu + Vex is used to gain more ranks to skills as you spam and maintain your Hydra and Ice Wolves. On the other hand, Igni + Ceh is used to summon Spirit Wolves and synergize with the Familiar enchantment.
Ice Hydra Build Mercenaries
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| Gems |
Mercenary |
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| Mercenary | Reinforcement |
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 Varyana |
 Raheir |
Although this Ice Hydra build does not need any Mercenaries, we do have some personal recommendations if ever you still want to use them. Use Varyana as your main mercenary for the added movement speed and attack speed, while Raheir will be your Reinforcement, which can be set to cast Crater every time you use your Ultimate.
Ice Hydra Build Paragon Boards
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| Paragon Boards |
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| 1. Starting Board (Destruction) |
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| 2. Frigid Fate (Pyromaniac) |
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| 3. Enchantment Master (Conjurer) |
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| 4. Searing Heat (Tactician) |
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| 5. Elemental Summoner (Invocation) |
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The Paragon Boards and Glyphs for the Ice Hydra Build focus on amplifying your overall damage. Make sure to keep doing Pit runs to help you max out your Glyph levels and activate all the bonuses they provide.
Ice Hydra Build Playstyle and Rotation
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Mercenary |
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The Ice Hydra build playstyle revolves around spamming Hydra and Ice Shards. The rotation is as follows:
- Cast Hydra.
- Summon Ice Blades and Familiars to gain the damage bonus from Primordial Binding.
- Spam Ice Shards to quickly burst down enemies.
- Use Teleport for extra mobility and as a gap closer.
- Use Flame Shield whenever you take too much damage.
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