Ice builds are one of the most effective Sorcerer builds you can use in Diablo 4, maximizing crowd control by chilling and freezing enemies and punishing them with powerful area-of-effect abilities. Like with any class, getting Aspects that maximize your abilities is a must-have, and Sorcerers playing with ice can get a valuable one early on.
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The Aspect of Piercing Cold causes Ice Shards, your primary Core skill for Ice builds for Sorcerers, to pierce three times instead of just one, albeit at a 25 percent damage decrease per hit. Still, it’s more damage overall and exceptionally useful to the Sorcerer.
Here’s how to get your hands on the Aspect of Piercing Cold in Diablo 4.
Where is the Aspect of Piercing Cold in Diablo 4?
Aspects are rewards for completing dungeons, and players can acquire the Aspect of Piercing Cold by completing Dead Man’s Dredge in Fractured Peaks. Dead Man’s Dredge is the Gale Valley section of Fractured Peaks, southeast of Kyovashad and near the Yelesna waypoint.



You can navigate to Dead Mean’s Dredge by going to Collections on your map, then the Codex of Power, and clicking on Aspect of Piercing Cold in the fourth row of all aspects. This should pin it on your map.
Dead Man’s Dredge dungeon guide
Here’s how to complete Dead Man’s Dredge and earn the Aspect of Piercing Cold.

Once the boss is defeated, the dungeon is complete, and the Aspect of Piercing Cold is yours.
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