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Diablo 4 Sorcerer BuildChain Lightning - Emperor Palpatine

Season 5

End Game

Speed Farm

Meta

Easy to Play

Build Summary

Chain Lightning got a new Unique, Axial Conduit, that has quite an intense mana drain mini game. If you play the game well, you are rewarded with big lightning explosions. We have solved the mana problems fully. There are a few methods to keep the mana up, the easiest being Andariel's Visage and the Starlight aspect

This build stacks Critical Strike Damage to utilize the new splintering aspect giving it some extra punching power. Chain Lightning is a lot better than it was in the past, but it still needs some help!

Andariel's Poison damage scaling build

Ubers - Wand/Focus

Ubers - Staff

Starter

Winterglass Hybrid

Variant Summary

• Splintering on Gloves makes this a discount spear build • Once your gear is good, you can drop splintering for Lightning rod, this is how I play it • If you hate it, put splintering back on

Assigned Skills

Skill Tree

Paragon Board

Aspects & Uniques

Gear Stats

Gems

EmeraldWeapon

TopazArmor

SkullAmulet

SkullRing 1

SkullRing 2

Strengths and Weaknesses

strengths

High Damage
Visuals
Insane Healing

weaknesses

Semi Unique Dependent
Single Target is mediocre unless there are enemies for Splintering to chain off

Build Notes

Gameplay Loop

• Cast Chain Lightning as much as possible and let Starlight/Andariel's cover your mana

• Piano your fingers on your keyboard on all your cooldowns

• Save flame shield for when necessary

When you are mobbing in Infernal Hordes, you can use Teleport Enchantment over Ice Blade Enchantment to go fast from event to event

How It Works

Chain Lightning Leveling Guide

This is an extremely fun build and especially potent in group play with say a barb who can do pulls with steel grasp as shown in the first few seconds of the video guide.

Andariel Visage's Life on Hit and the Starlight resource aspect cover our mana concerns. Starlight grants us 40 mana for every 20% life we heal. Andariel's heal is quite a lot, and we hit things a lot.

We stack critical strike damage to scale our Chain Lightning and Axial Conduit damage, as well as the Splintering Aspect. Splintering lets our Lightning spears deal massive damage when they critically strike and the damage chains to 5 other enemies. We generate Lightning Spears during our Unstable Currents Ultimate, which we have up permanently thanks to the Orange Herald aspect on our boots.

Slap Splintering on the amulet to 1.5x its value, and simply go to town on packed mobs. They are literally blown up with no disregard for life.