Ball Lightning - Zeus

The Ball Lightning Zeus build guide should be a quick farmer capable of doing Torment 4 content.

In season 10 Ball Lightning was an absolute powerhouse with Banished Lord's Talisman.
However, in season 11 Ball Lightning has fallen back down to earth and once again lacks the raw damage for the skill itself to really stand out.

I know a lot of folks are big fans of Okun's Catalyst and how smooth it plays, so despite Ball Lightning dropping to B tier, I still cooked something up.

If you want to Pit or Tower push, I recommend Crackling Energy which plays similar to Ball Lightning, but deals damage in a different way.

• Ball Lightning main caster and damage
• Unstable Currents attack speed steroid
• Teleport on the skill bar for Raiment of the Infinite pulls and movement
- Teleport enchant for more movement
• Summoned Ice Blades for cooldown reduction
• Invoked Lightning Spear mainly as a bar space filler and for barriers
• Invoked Familiar 10% damage and mainly as a bar space filler for barriers

General Overview

Ball Lightning with Okun's Catalyst is a pretty fast and smooth build. I put Teleport on the skill bar with Raiment of the Infinite for speed. In addition Okun's Catalyst lets you cast while moving and grants a large amount of attack speed. If you want higher damage you can equip Strike of Stormhorn or just playing crackling energy lol.

The new shiny unique mace Orsivane

This season introduces a new Unique 1H Mace, Orsivane which grants us 40% damage per missing defensive skill on the skill bar and the enchantment of those missing defensive skills. Unfortunately we still want Teleport on the skill bar, so we don't get that enchant for free and we only get 120% damage from Orsivane, which is still a lot.

Free Enchantments from Orsivane

• Pit Setup Only
• Mystical Frost Nova enchant that procs off any Lucky hit for 15% damage
• Mystical Ice Armor grants us a barrier when we press a potion and increases our damage to frozen enemies
• Mystical Teleport enchant grants us a teleport evade on a 3.5 second cooldown
• Flame Shield enchant gives you some immunity frames when you take too much damage, which then goes on a 30 second cooldown.

These Free Enchantments do NOT grant additional damage for Enchantment Master.

• Masterworking an item adds 2-5 Quality per upgrade, up to a max of +25 quality
• Each quality point increases all affix values by 1%, so +25 quality = a 25% bump to all affixes
• Fully Masterworking an item to +25 quality now gives a 50% upgrade to a random affix or temper
• Masterworking will cost anywhere from 200-500 ish obducite to get to +25 quality

Tempering

• Tempering is done at the blacksmith and you manually add a single extra affix to an item from a list of temper manuals you obtain by killing monsters, completing activities, opening chests, or collecting whisper caches
• Temper manuals have different classifications; offensive, weapon, defensive, resource, utility, and mobility and different item slots can only apply certain temper classifications. Ex. Weapons can only have Weapon tempers or Offensive tempers
• The temper manuals themselves have a quality range from magic to rare to legendary, but it's not too difficult to acquire the max legendary manuals
• Each temper manual has 3-4 affix choices, but you get to choose the exact one you want (ex. Chance for Frozen Orb to cast twice)
• The temper affixes have a value range of say 25-30% Chance for Frozen Orb to cast twice for a legendary manual. The magic and rare manuals will have a lower value
• When you temper it will randomly apply a value within the given range, and if you don't like the value you can re-temper the item to try and get a higher roll
• If you apply a magic temper manual, when you get a rare or legendary manual you can re-apply the higher quality manual for a higher value
• If you change your mind about a temper you can re-temper to a different affix from any available to that item, even if it's a different classification, such as swapping your Amulet from Offensive: Cold Damage, to Resource: Unstable Currents Cooldown Reduction
• Tempering has a chance to apply as a greater affix which sets the value to the max in the range, then bumps that max value by 50%
• An item gets 6 chances to temper, which is increased by 1 for each greater affix on the item. Additionally once you are out of chances, you can reset the chances back to max one time using a Scroll of Restoration acquired from a variety of sources, with the most consistent being opening the Item Chest in Infernal Hordes

Seasonal Sanctification

Process: Sanctification is a process where after your item if fully complete, you can slam it into a slot machine that transforms the item by adding something random to it.

Finality: Once you sanctify, the item cannot be changed. You cannot imprint a new aspect, add additional sockets, re-temper, etc. The only thing you CAN do is change out the gems or runes.
But remember, if you forgot to add the gem/rune sockets to the item, you are screwed.

Example Outcomes:
• Adds 5-25 Quality Ranks (5%-25% bump to all affixes (Most frequent)
• Replaces an affix with a curated list of affixes (Legendary Items only)
• Adds an extra affix such as Lightning Damage[x] or Intelligence[%]
• Adds a random Legendary Aspect from the list of available aspects the item can have such as addingAspect of Shredding Blades to Orsivane (Low chance to occur)

Elixir/Incense

Elixir - Advantage II for 15% attack speed
Incense 1 - Sages Whisper for 100 Intelligence. Use 60 All stats one if you need to hit paragon reqs
Incense 2 - Reddamine Buzz for +750 max life or Song of the Mountain for +300 armor
Incense 3 - Soothing Spices for all resistance, max all resistance, and some armor

12/5/25 - build updated for S11