News Tag: Diablo 4 Lightning Spear Sorcerer

In Diablo 4 Season 8, each class has high playability, and Sorcerer, which did not perform so well in previous seasons, has been enhanced in Season 8. Now he can definitely bring you a pleasant gaming experience.

Advantages And Disadvantages

Advantages

• High sustained damage
• Full screen clearing
• Ability to move and clear dungeons quickly
• Multiple defensive skills to improve survivability

Disadvantages

• Damage takes time to accumulate
• Damage partially depends on enemies that are controlled by the crowd or bosses that are knocked down
• Requires proper mana and cooldown management
• Lack of survivability when defensive skills or crowd control are ineffective
• Very dependent on equipment

Required Equipment

• Raiment of the Infinite (Chest): Unique Chest Armor, and increases the level of glass cannon (Tempering Affixes).
• Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop (Ring Slot 1): Ancestral Unique Ring, and reduces Skill CD (Tempering Affixes).
• Ring of Starless Skies (Ring Slot 2): Ancestral Mythic Unique, and increases Attack Speed ​​or Critical Chance (Tempering Affixes).
• Tibault’s Will (Pants): Ancestral Unique Pants, and increases All Character Stats (Tempering Affixes).
• Harlequin Crest (Helm): Ancestral Mythic Unique Helm, and reduces CD Affixes (Tempering Affixes).
• Sidhe Bindings (Gloves): Ancestral Unique Gloves, and increases Primordial Binding Level (Tempering Affixes).
• Boots: Any equipment that increases movement, speed, armor, or resistance.
• Staff: Any weapon that can increase Critical Strike Damage, or increase health or intelligence.

Since Boss Powers were nerfed before Season 8 was officially launched, if you want to maintain the strength of previous builds, you need to work harder on equipment. You can get most of the equipment by farming bosses. Ring of Starless Skies and Harlequin Crest are both Ancestral Mythic Unique items, which are relatively rare. You can make them by collecting materials such as Resplendent Sparks and Runes.

Ring of Starless Skies

• 2x Resplendent Spark
• 6x Ohm Rune
• 6x Tzic Rune
• 6x Cem Rune
• 5,000 Diablo 4 Gold

Harlequin Crest

• 2x Resplendent Spark
• 6x Eom Rune
• 6x Lac Rune
• 6x Ton Rune
• 5,000 Diablo 4 Gold

Harlequin Crest and Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop are necessary equipment for this build, while other items are recommended and you can temporarily replace them with other equipment.

Skills

The order of skills doesn’t matter:

• Lightning Spear (Rank 5)
• Frozen Orb (Rank 1)
• Teleport (Rank 1)
• Ice Armor (Rank 1)
• Flame Shield (Rank 4)
• Unstable Currents (Rank 1)

If you complete all the regional reputations ahead of time, you will get more skill points.

You don’t need Flame Shield to add points, because Harlequin Crest can increase the level of all skills by 4. In addition, although we need to unlock Arc Lash skill during the point addition process, be careful not to put it in the skill slot.

Teleport consumes a lot of mana. If you think you are short of mana, you can add points to Invigorating Conduit to help you quickly restore mana.

Boss Powers

Main Power: Beast in the Ice’s Sleet

• After casting 3 skills with a crowd control or stagger effect, shoot out icy spikes that deal 800% cold damage and freeze enemies for 2 seconds.

Modifiers:

• Beastmaster’s Training: Your summons deal 5% more damage, and 0.25 more critical damage per 1% you gain from items and paragons, up to 150%.
• Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste: Gain 5% critical chance, and 0.5% more critical damage per 1% Shadow resistance, up to 50%.
• Sinerat’s Flames: All elemental damage increased. Damage to that element increased by 0.2% per 1% elemental resistance, up to 25%.

Boss Powers is the theme of Diablo 4 Season 8. Among Boss Powers recommended by Lightning Spear Sorcerer Build, only Beast in the Ice’s Sleet is a Rare Boss Power, and the other three are Magic Boss Powers, so it is not so hard to collect all these Boss Powers.

You can use the stun caused by Lightning Spear when it hits the enemy to trigger Beast in the Ice’s Sleet, and Beast in the Ice’s Sleet can also control the enemy. Therefore, this build not only has high damage, but also can use control to improve its survivability.

To trigger Boss Powers more frequently, you need to increase the critical hit rate and reduce the cooldown of skills.

Runewords

• Igni and Thul
• Nagu and Vex

Runewords can be embedded in weapons to speed up resource recovery in battle or freeze enemies.

Gems

• Weapon Gems: Grand Emerald, Grand Sapphire
• Armor Gems: Grand Topaz, Grand Amethyst
• Jewelry Gems: Skull

Gems are mainly inlaid on body armor, helmets or pants, which can increase the mage’s resistance or increase the critical hit rate.

Elixir

• Elixir of Precision: If the critical hit chance has not reached 100%, it will increase your damage.
• Elixir of Advantage: If the attack speed bonus has not reached 100%, it will increase your attack speed.
• Elixir of Resource: Increase mana recovery.
• Elixir of Fortitude: Enhance survivability.

Mercenaries

Hired Mercenary: Varyana

• Skills: Cleave, Hysteria, Bloodthirst, Bloodlust

Reinforcement: Raheir

• Skill: Bastion

Sorcerer’s survivability is weaker than Barbarian and Spiritborn, so the protection of Mercenaries is also very important. You can use gold to hire mercenaries to provide support and protection for Sorcerer.

The above are the general items required for Lightning Spear Sorcerer Build. This is an endgame build so the requirements are very high. But this Builds has an excellent performance in dealing damage and survivability, and is one of the best builds for Sorcerer in Season 8.

The remastered Legendary Aspect Splintering Energy in Diablo 4 Season 5 has made Lightning Spear Sorcerer build the most popular build among Sorcerers. You can use this build to fight against enemies in Infernal Hordes and even watch them fall to your powerful Critical Hits.

But you must know that all builds in the game are very dependent on the items you use, so this guide will introduce you to some pros and cons of Lightning Spear Sorcerer build and what items you should choose for it. By following the steps in this guide step by step, you can create a powerful build suitable for a variety of situations. Without further ado, get your Diablo 4 Gold ready and start exploring Lightning Spear Sorcerer build!

Advantages And Disadvantages

As mentioned above, after Legendary Aspect Splintering Energy is reset, it will greatly increase the total damage value caused by Lightning Spear Sorcerer when using Lightning Spear skill, from 16% to 85%-110%, which is not available in other Sorcerer builds.

So in this case, Lightning Spear skill can easily bear the damage to the enemy in the late stage of the battle, provided that its cooldown is low enough. As for Mana, that Sorcerer is most worried about, this skill does not consume any mana at all, which you can rest assured. But don’t think that the spell damage it causes is not enough to clear the boss or enemies. Its clearing ability is still very good.

However, it must be mentioned that Lightning Spear Sorcerer will be very dependent on the items you choose later. Once the properties of an item are not good enough, it may not cause the most ideal damage. In addition, Lightning Spear Sorcerer can only be selected and built after you reach World Tier 3. Before that, you can’t use this build at all.

Items Needed

Before choosing the best items for Lightning Spear Sorcerer build, you need to understand the most important stats for this build. These stats can be roughly divided into two categories: damage stats and defensive stats. Among the damage stats are Critical Hit Chance, Critical Hit Damage, and Cooldown Reduction, which can provide you with longer Unstable Currents.

Defensive stats include Barrier Generation, Resistances, Armor, and Cooldown Reduction, which can provide you with longer-lasting Ice Armor.

In this build, don’t forget the items with Max Health and Intelligence affixes, as they can help you in some special situations. Items that provide Lightning Spear or other active abilities can be completely ignored, as they will not be used at all.

Best Gems To Socket

In Season 5, some Gems have also undergone some major changes. For Lightning Spear Sorcerer build, you can increase your Max Life by inserting Rubies into your armor, and increase your Armor resistance by inserting Skulls into Jewelry.

Both gems can increase your survivability in combat, and if you insert Emeralds into some weapons, you can increase Critical Strike Damage, which is great for quickly ending an easier fight so that you can have more time to explore those more tough bosses.

Tempering Priorities

For Lightning Spear Sorcerer, Tempering priorities are mainly focused on Critical Hit, Lightning Spear Cooldown Reduction, and ranks of Warmth. This means that you can temper the following manuals as much as possible to maximize damage and survivability.

• Conjuration Efficiency → Lightning Spear Cooldown Reduction
• Pyromancy Endurance → Ranks of Warmth
• Conjuration Fortune → Lightning Spear Lucky Hit Chance
• Natural Motion → Evade Cooldown Reduction

Imprinted Aspect

As mentioned above, the biggest drawback of Lightning Spear Sorcerer build is that it is very dependent on equipment, and the flexibility of the entire build is very poor. If you don’t find all Unique pieces you need in the build, you can use the following Legendary parts to replace them.

It should be noted that this is only a stopgap measure, and your principal goal is to find Unique pieces you need in the build. Remember that Legendary parts are only for temporary use, not substitutes that can be replaced with each other.

• Head: Snowveiled Aspect
• Body: Aspect of Concentration
• Gloves: Stormswell Aspect
• Pants: Tibault’s Will (Unique) / Everliving Aspect
• Boots: Esu’s Heirloom (Unique) / Aspect of Fortune
• Weapon: Aspect of Splintering Energy
• Amulet: Fractured Winterglass (Unique) / Aspect of Might
• Ring Left: Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop (Unique) / Rapid Aspect
• Ring Right: Aspect of Frozen Orbit

Mythic Unique Farming

Although Lightning Spear Sorcerer build does not require a Mythic Unique, having Harlequin Crest and Tyrael’s Might will greatly increase the level of this build. If you are lucky enough to get these two Mythic Uniques, don’t hesitate to throw away other equipment in the same position and use them.

The above are the pros and cons of the Lightning Spear Sorcerer build and some items you need to pay attention to. If you have questions about other Sorcerer builds or have experience to share with others, you can enter IGGM Discord to communicate with many players.

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