Chain Lightening has had a lot of buffs in Season 10, so this build will give you huge AoE Damage, and fast clear speed while leveling. And this build will prepare you to transition into one of the super powerful endgame lighting builds.
S11 Crackling Lightning FAST Leveling Build
Build Overview
Strengths and Weaknesses
- Fast Movement/Clear Speed
- HUGE AoE Damage
- Transitions To Very Powerful Endgame Build
- EASY to Play as Crackling Energy + Chain Lighting bounce to enemies
- Single Target Boss Damage Lower Than Fire Builds
- Mana hungry at low levels
Assigned Skills








This Chain Lightning Sorcerer build focuses on HUGE AoE damage to clear packs of mobs instantly for super fast leveling speed. Our points are invested into chain lightning and taking all the advantages of the new buffed Cracking Energy which is where most of our damage comes from. With lots of defensive and utility cooldowns to support them.
How far can this build go:
- Speed leveling through to 60 FAST
- Easy Torment 1 with no uniques
- Easy Clear High Torments, pits + bosses with basic GA gear.
Aspect & Uniques
















Uniques:
If you manage to find any of these uniques while leveling, they are a MASSIVE upgrade in damage. Not required, but very nice to have.
- Axial Conduit Unique that buffs chain lightning damage.
- Galvanic Azerite New unique that buffs Crackling Energy Damage.
Skill Tree
0 (0)Paragon Board
No Glyphs Installed
Stats
Mercenary
How it Plays
- Use Unstable Currents to deal tons of damage
- Use Chain lightning until out of mana
- Use Spark to regain mana
Use these abilities as soon as they come of cooldown:
- Ice Armour to keep shields up
- Lighting Spear and Teleport to proc crackling energy
Divine Gifts (season 11 powers)
We only gain power from the gifts that we santify, so here is the recommended 4:
Andarial - Essence of Anguish - 30% movement speed
Asmodan - Essence of Hellfire - 10% chance to stun
Belial - Essence of Shadows - Unstoppable when crowd controlled
Durial - Essence of Pain - Gain max barrier when injured
How it Works
This is a pure chain lightening and crackling energy leveling build. Most of your damage comes from lighting just flying around the screen hitting everything.
Tips To Increase Damage:
- Always temper your damage items - weapon, gloves, amulet, rings
- Level up your chaos powers, this damage scales really well
- Attack Speed = more lightning and more damage, get as much as possible
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