Diablo 4 Sorcerer BuildArc Lash Ball Lightning (remove)

Arc Lash is one of Sorcerer's best leveling builds. Simply put 5 ranks into arc lash, slot 4 defensive skills, and then whatever mana spender you want to use such as Chain Lightning and go to town. Once you get gravitational you can start to cook.

Ice Blade Enchantment to reduce cooldowns, stack conjuration mastery, and apply vulnerability

Lightning Spear Enchantment to crowd control, stack conjuration mastery, and apply vulnerability

Gear

Disobedience Legendary Helmet for armor and damage reduction

Raiment of the Infinite Unique Chest for stunning and pulling groups on enemies on teleport

Paingorger’s Unique Gloves Damaging enemies with a cast Non–Basic Skill marks them for 3 seconds. When a Basic Skill first hits a marked enemy, the Basic Skill’s damage is echoed to all marked enemies, dealing 100–200%[x] increased damage

Tibault's Will Unique Pants are here strictly for 40% damage after teleporting

Esu's Heirloom Unique Boots - increases your critical strike chance by 30% of your movement speed over 100% base movement speed. At 2 movement speed rolls this is 15.75%. During an Esu's 75% extra movement speed evade this becomes 38.25%. Esu's factors in your overcap above 200%, despite your character being locked to 200% max

Shredding Blades Legendary Wand for 1.25x vulnerable damage and better vulnerable chance and uptime from enhanced ice blades

Legendary Focus with Rapid to cast basics faster during the 3 second echo window of paingorgers

Tal Rasha Unique Ring: 1.15x damage per elemental damage, stacks fall off after 4 seconds of not doing damage, any elemental damage will refresh all stacks. Aka apply fire, cold, lightning damage for 1.45x damage then only have to apply cold damage to continually refresh all buffs to keep 1.45x damage rolling

Legendary Ring with Gravitational for 1.25x damage with Ball Lightning and it now orbits you on cast

Legendary Amulet with Storm Swell for 1.45x damage to vulnerable enemies when you have a barrier

Key Passives

3 Rank Devouring Blaze for 1.21x crit strike damage against burning targers Burning applied via Senescha Construct

3 Ranks Conjuration Mastery for 6% damage per active conjuration out

Overflowing Key Passive for reduced shock skill cooldown

If Rapid is not working for you, move Storm Swell onto the Focus and place Control or Adaptability on your Amulet

Tempest to apply burning - run safegaurd or resource until evernight Flash of adrenaline for perma 1.5x damage buff, run initiative until genesis

Glyphs

Adept: (+)damage to mastery skills and 20% mastery skill area

Reinforced: 15% damage reduction with a barrier and 125% bonus to rare nodes

Enchanter: +Non-Physical Damage. For each skill equipped in your enchantment slot, gain 5% to the Max resist of that element. Acts as a multiplicative glyph by buffing frigid fate legendary node by 8.58%

Destruction: (+)Crit damage and a stacking 2% damage multiplier for 12 seconds for critically striking, up to 12% damage

Territorial: 15% close damage reduction and (+)Close Damage

Control: (+)Damage to crowd controlled enemies and 10% damage to slowed or chilled enemies and 20% damage to frozen or stunned enemies

Conjurer: (+) Conjuration skill damage and conjurations last for 20% longer

Legendary Nodes

Enchantment Master: Your Enchantments are 20% stronger. Ex. Fireball Enchant explodes for 60% damage instead of 50%. Lightning Spear enchant goes from 10 to 12% chance. Ice blades enchant would drop from 40 to 33.33 seconds (40/1.2=33.33)

Frigid Fate Legendary Node You deal bonus damage to Vulnerable enemies equal to 10%[x] of your total damage bonus with Cold, up to [x]30%

Elemental Summoner Legendary Node: 10% cooldown on conjuration skills and deal 5% extra damage based on your total damage with fire, lightning, and cold (will be around 45-50% extra damage)

Armor Requirements for Different Content

This build has a 66% disobedience and 1 armor roll. Use a 900 armor potion if you are struggling in NM dungeons.

Sorcerer has around 5800 Base Armor with Skulls in Jewelry

Conveniently Armor Requirements accurately equate to a point system 29.2% Armor Roll = 1 point 900 Armor Potion = 1 point 66% Disobedience = 2 points 99% Disobedience = 3 points

T100 NM Dungeon =13,440 Armor = L154 Enemies 4 Points Needed to Cap Armor

Gauntlet = 11,200 Armor = T70 NM Dungeon = L124 Enemies 3 Points Needed to Cap Armor

Overworld = 9,350 Armor = L100 Enemies 2 Points Needed to Cap Armor (Not really necessary though)

Resistances This build maxes 70% resistances through Intelligence and Paragon alone

January 22nd, 2024 - Build created for S3