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Diablo 4 Build

Lurkin's Chain Lightning - Emperor Palpatine

presentationSorcerer
Verified
End Game
Season 13
Infernal Hordes
Speed Farm
The Tower
Ranged
Caster
Updated on May 6, 2026
May 6, 2026

Build Overview

Updated for S13 - A tier
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Welcome back tickle fingers. This MF got hands thanks to Boundless Unstable Currents scaling your damage per Crackling pickup.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Chain Lightning is finally good
  • Mana costs pre Fractured Winterglass

Build Variants

Bells and Whistles

Assigned Skills

Primary
15
15
Secondary
1
13
1
1
Enchantments

Once you have Fractured Winterglass it basically solves your mana problems and you need to start worry more about Boundless Unstable Currents uptime.

You will want Axial Conduit and Temerity so one of them will need to be on a Unique Charm.
Ex. Run Temerity pants with Axial Conduit
Temerity is more important because everything is so lethal in this game right now.
Defenses are no joke. Will need a LIFE ON HIT Affix, Focus is the best spot for it.

Can run Familiar enchant over Teleport enchant if you have enough mobility with the resets of Blaze Teleport

Equipment

8
HelmHeir of Perdition
3
Chest armorSnowveiled Aspect
2
GlovesAspect of Splintering Energy
6
PantsTemerity
1
BootsAspect of Shredding Blades
4
AmuletFractured Winterglass
5
Ring 1Aspect of Armageddon
9
Ring 2Ring of Starless Skies
7
WeaponAspect of Elemental Constellation
10
OffhandAspect of Overwhelming Currents
Equipment Priority
+10

You want to transfigure Aspect of Shredding Blades on your Fractured Winterglass using a Kullean Tuning Stone then you run Esu's Heirloom boots for crit chance

Talismans

Talisman Priority
+7

You can Run Fer of Wild Lightning set or you can run Fer of the Threefold set.

Fer of the Threefold is better because it makes more Crackling Energy Ball Lightning to scale Boundless Unstable Currents

Fer of Wild Lightning is a totally fine set and deals great damage. You won't notice a massive difference as a casual.

Skill Tree

Available0 (0)
Spent69 (14)

There is a bug and Crackling Energy Ball Lightning and Overpower Meteor cannot be selected at the same time, the overpower is more important because 4 stacks grants 60% damage

Use Ferocity Unstable Currents over Cooldown Reduction Unstable Currents if you don't have uptime issues

Paragon Board

Mercenary

How it Plays

Cast Chain Lightning. Cast Boundless Unstable Currents. Kill enemies and pick up crackling.
The more crackling you pickup, the more your damage goes up and if you get around 100 your Unstable Currents will be reset when it ends. Profit.

How it Works

Stack Ranks to Shock Skills. Collect a lot of Crackling Energy during Unstable Currents.
Profit.

Attack Speed Breakpoints courtesy of Avarilyn

  • These are the attack speed breakpoints for Chain Lightning when using Orsivane and an Offhand Focus.
    • There are 60 frames in a second, and as you get more attack speed the required frames to cast gets lower in discrete intervals.
    • All Credits to Avarilyn at Maxroll
    • Ex. If you have 115% attack speed, your cast animation will total 21 frames
    • Ex. If you have 121% attack speed, you cast animation will STILL total 21 frames as you need to reach 122.8% to reach 20 frames
  • 24 Frames = 47.65%
  • 23 Frames = 52.87%
  • 22 Frames = 61.74%
  • 21 Frames = 68.00%
  • 20 Frames = 77.91%
  • 19 Frames = 89.70%
  • 18 Frames = 98.37%
  • 17 Frames = 112.35%
  • 16 Frames = 123.62%
  • 15 Frames = 141.98%
  • 14 Frames = 156.28%
  • 13 Frames = 181.11%
  • 12 Frames = 200.00%

Changelog

5/1/26 - build created
5/2/26 - skill tree changes to match the meta

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