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Sorcerer

Diablo 4 Sorcerer BuildSorc Leveling - Chain Lightning

Season 7
Updated on Jan 28, 2025
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Build Summary

Chain Lightning is one of Sorcerer's strongest leveling builds. This is due to having solid damage early and the chaining nature of the skill! Chain Lightning has access to one of the best mana regen aspects in the game, Recharging, which grants mana every time Chain lightning bounces. The codex version can be found at the Zenith Dungeon in Fractured Peaks and it starts at 2.5 mana per bounce.

Assigned Skills
Skill Tree
Paragon Board
Mercenary
Primary
5
1
Secondary
1
1
5
1
Enchantments

Level 15 • Ice Blade Enchant - to aid in mana regen from primordial binding ranks and to reduce cooldowns • Also useful for proccing Frost Nova Enchant

Level 30 • Frost Nova Enchant - Mass freeze and vulnerable application. Also adds 15% damage to anything you hit

Aspects & Uniques
Gear Stats
Snowveiled AspectHelm
Aspect of DisobedienceChest Armor
Aspect of the Unbroken TetherGloves
Aspect of ConcentrationPants
Aspect Of Tenuous AgilityBoots
Recharging AspectAmulet
Lightning Rod AspectRing 1
Conceited AspectRing 2
Storm Swell AspectWeapon
Aspect of Shredding BladesOffhand

Note - The Shocking Impact passive is very strong early • As you transition towards Level 60, you should start to rely less on Shocking Impact and take Chance for Chain Lightning to Hit Twice Weapon Tempers

Once your build gets decently online, you will swap the aspect positions of Recharging and Lightning Rod, after you have changed to Chain Lightning Hit Twice Tempers around level 40-50 ish

If you absolutely cannot control your mana, drop Conceited for Elemental Acuity on your ring

Active Runes
Armor
Armor
CirRune of Ritual
GarRune of Invocation
Armor
Armor
PocRune of Ritual
LumRune of Invocation
Witchcraft Powers
Doom Orb
Eldritch Power
Gems
SapphireWeapon
TopazArmor
Witching HourAmulet
Wicked PactRing 1
Killing WindRing 2
Strengths and Weaknesses

strengths

  • Controller Friendly
  • Minimal aiming
  • Shocking Impact Giga Strong

weaknesses

  • Damage can fall off
  • Can have mana issues early
  • Not as Strong as Burning Builds

Build Notes

Gameplay Loop

How to play the build Chain Lightning is very simple to play. You just cast chain lightning and kill enemies. Use cooldowns as needed, let ice blades do their thing to reduce cooldowns

Cycling Cooldowns You cycle your cooldowns as needed and to try to keep a barrier up via the protection passive which grants a 3 second barrier when you use a cooldown. This helps prevent you from dying as the barrier takes damage before your life does!

How It Works

Amulet's and Rings are replaced less frequently than others so we put our most important aspects on those. Recharging on our amulet is very strong as we will regen mana everytime Chain Lightning bounces

Early we utilize the base strength that is the Shocking Impact passive. Shocking Impact deals 50% weapon damage per rank when we stun an enemy or attempt to stun a boss (apply a stun to increase the stagger bar). With Shock Familiars and some Lucky Hit chance to Stun Tempers we can get some good value out of this passive

Once you start to really get yourself online, you can spec into Chance for Chain Lightning to Hit Twice Weapon Tempers over Shocking Impact Tempers on your wand/focus

Try to do minimal enchanting when leveling, you replace pieces often

I typically use a staff early like level 1-25 because it's easier to replace 1 item than 2. The value of using a focus is it's cooldown reduction roll, which you really can't consistently find early when you replace gear all the time

Great Uniques if you find them early (basically any unique tbh) • Godslayer Helmet • Soulbrand Chest • Frostburn Gloves • Axial Conduit Pants • Esu's Heirloom, Flickerstep, or Rakanoth Boots • Azurewrath sword • Tal Rasha Ring

In-Depth Explanation

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