Chain Lightning Sorcerer Endgame Build Guide

By Tharid Updated: 2025/09/22

Discontinued Build GuideChain Lightning Sorcerer Build

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is this build's primary Skill and our main Mana expense. Paired with , 's damage and gameplay drastically changes, rewarding you for careful spending of your Mana with an abundance of extra AoE damage.

is vital for any Lightning-based Sorcerer build. We summon more Conjurations with it, thus fueling , gaining extra Attack Speed thanks to , and we create additional s and s.

is our main reliable source of applying Vulnerable and is an essential part of our build. It produces two stacks upon casting, thanks to , and adds a ton of Crowd Control and potential Stagger against Bosses.

provides us with another option for applying Vulnerable, but its true strength is its ability to lower our cooldowns. Pairing this with our gives us more opportunities to benefit from the bonus CDR from .

grants a massive Barrier while also enabling several important Barrier-related synergies, such as . Additionally, allows us to benefit more from our Passive.

is primarily taken as a source of Fire damage to enable several Passives from our build, such as and , but it's also one of Sorcerer's main ways to break Crowd Control effects. It is important to note that we unlock this Skill through our in the final version of our build. Before obtaining a , you can take one point out of to invest into .

is the newest Key Passive and has been the most popular for most Sorcerer builds since Vessel of Hatred. Despite our build being primarily Lightning focused, offers unrivaled damage, Attack Speed, and Mana regeneration bursts, allowing us to keep a high number of stacks, all for rotating different elemental Skills.

is one of the most essential damage Passives Sorcerers have, and every build fully invests in it. Despite its downside of making us take more damage, Sorcerers have several defensives that allow us to mitigate this downside.

- This Passive has changed several times over the past few seasons. While its buff does now have a cap, we do summon a lot of s through and several through our .

is another required Passive for every Sorcerer. Gaining a free damage multiplier for merely staying above 80% health is essentially free damage.

is, in essence, another instance of free damage scaling, since our primary weapon is . Pairing it with, we can constantly activate the Chill effect without being a Frost-focused build.

- Much like , this Passive is also basically required for every Sorcerer build. Since most builds in Diablo 4 heavily work around Vulnerable, it offers us another nearly constant damage multiplier.

- With a total of three Lightning skills on our bar, this is a flat 9% damage multiplier for our Lightning spells and an extra 6% for our from our two Frost skills.

provides a sizeable Barrier every time we use a Skill with a cooldown, allowing both our Offensive and Defensive spells to bolster us throughout combat.

- Damage reduction is critical for surviving anything in higher Torment levels, and is our most consistent way of keeping us alive, especially since we burn through Mana quickly with .

- With Resistances becoming harder to obtain due to the increasing Resistance dampeners in higher Tormet tiers, this Passive becomes more valuable the higher you climb into the late game.

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Comments

Comment by SweetBubbleT

Can the build author let us know how far this build can go in a D4 pit? I'm starting to have issues with mana/cooldown with this build.

Comment by Howru

Op, in "Best-in-Slot Chain Lightning Sorcerer Gear" rings section you mention Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop twice, instead of Ring of Starless Skies.

Comment by Kornos80

Just wanted to know about the Mana replanish, how do I achieve that since in this build I don't see the recharging aspect..?

Chain Lightning Sorcerer Endgame Build Guide

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