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Diablo 4 Build

Lurkin's Chain Lightning - Palpatine

Sorcerer

Season 15

End Game

Infernal Hordes

Speed Farm

The Tower

Ranged

Caster

Verified

By Lurkin

Updated on Sep 30, 2026

Sep 30, 2026

Build Overview

Chain Lightning: Power Flux is an OK build. The skill needs buffs. For the Palpatine enthusiast only.
I would recommend Ball Lightning - Zeus if you want to play Shock.

However... Infinity (Staff) is a super great staff and I didn't know it existed. Provides Druids Cyclone Armor passive for all res, makes Chain Lightnings, and gives damage to close.
Enjoy, you can essentially use the Mythic Infinity Setup off the rip and just bake in parts of the Ancestral Gear until you get there! If mana is an issue drop Splinter of Sin and take resource cost reduction tempers

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Fun to play
Tickle Fingers
Visually Appealing

Skill entirely lacks damage and AoE

Build Variants

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Mythic + Infinity

Equipment

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Mythic + Infinity

Helm

Aspect of Heavenly Strength

Chest armor

Aspect of Concentration

Gloves

Aspect of Inner Calm

Pants

Mage-Lord's Aspect

Boots

Aspect of Shredding Blades

Amulet

Conceited Aspect

Ring 1

Storm Splitter's Aspect

Ring 2

Sunderfrost Aspect

Weapon

Aspect of Splintering Energy

Offhand

Empty

Equipment Priority

Talisman

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Mythic + Infinity

SealUnique Charm

Mlor of Wild LightningSet Charm

Linta of Wild LightningSet Charm

Berú of Wild LightningSet Charm

Banished Lord's TalismanUnique Charm

Phoba of Wild LightningSet Charm

Fer of Wild LightningSet Charm

Talisman Priority

Wild Lightning Set

Phoba of Wild Lightning 5 piece provides an average damage increase of 505% or 6.05x
This set is all damage, no QOL

Threefold option

Phoba of the Threefold is 4x damage on average
- Threefold provides all resistance and you can get a Seal with Mana on Mastery Trigger

Charm Options

Banished Lord's Talisman got a rework and now provides you with 100% or 2x damage for 8 seconds after consuming an overpower (130% or 2.3x if mythic) Also grants 4 overpower after spending 275 mana (Tasty)
Thundergod's Blessing provides 25% more armor via granting resolve stacks and averages 75% or 1.75x damage (90% or 1.9x if Mythic)
Godslayer Crown deals next to no damage but it's absolutely insane for grouping mobs

Prime Evil Powers

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Mythic + Infinity

Ghosts of Odium

Mephisto's Splinter of Hatred

Mephisto Blue power to level glyphs faster with the warplan node

Skills & Rotation

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Mythic + Infinity

Primary

Secondary

Enchantments

Skills

Chain Lightning: Power Flux is your main damage dealer
Overpower Inferno to get 6 overpower for teleports
Hydra: Frigid Hydra for cooldown reduction and healing
Ice Armor for unstoppable and barrier
Blaze Teleport for movement. overpower stacks will grant free charges
Familiar: Fast As Lightning for cooldown reduction. Can run Flame Shield here.

Enchantments - 60% with 1 shock. 75% damage with 2 shock via Enchantment Master

Chain Lightning enchant for more Chain Lightning. Generates one every 77 mana spent and I believe there is a 1 second hidden internal cooldown before it can activate again.
Ball Lightning enchant is just to add a little bit more damage. Also gives me something to dump extra points into and not feel silly. Win win.
1. Can run Blizzard: Static Field enchant for more barrier with Blizzard: Barrier
2. Can run Teleport: Blaze enchant for more movement
3. Can also run Frozen Orb enchant with Frozen Orb: Barrier as well. Same idea.

Skill Tree

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Mythic + Infinity

Available

0 (0)

Spent69 (14)

Leveling Path

Paragon Board

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Mythic + Infinity

Mercenaries

Starter

Ancestral

Mythic

Mythic + Infinity

Frequently Asked Questions

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Changelog

9/14/26 - build updated for S15

9/29/26 - text fixes. Added Infinity (Staff) variant. added Ring of Starless Skies over Galvanic Azurite on Mythic setups to offset Splinter of Sin. Fucked with Runes. Added Max Resource to Raiment of the Infinite over Resist all elements again because Splinter of Sin is asscheeks on your mana.