Arc Lash Sorcerer Endgame Build Guide - Diablo 4

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Best Arc Lash Sorcerer Skills and Rotation

Arc Lash Sorcerer Primary Skills and Rotation

(5/5)
As the name of the build implies, is what our setup revolves around because of its reliable crowd control and synergy with landing crits that only scale better once we start piling on tons of attack speed, which triggers our respective modifiers, but also gets us to that 10th swipe which stuns anyone we hit with it, giving us a lot of crowd control, or stagger against bosses.

is a massive upgrade, not only allowing us to proc our stun faster, but we essentially double our damage with a crit. That doubles the damage of our and helps rank up value from our & just by landing critical hits.

has received a considerable change, now replenishing a small portion of our Mana with each swipe and scaling up our overall damage when striking bosses or multiple enemies. Not only is this an overall damage buff, but it also now helps restore a bit of the Mana we close each time we swing with equipped.

(1/5)
plays a huge part in our build, mainly for gaining stacks of , but also because it applies Vulnerable to our enemies.

Another quality of this skill is that it partially lowers its cooldown from . This passive ability triggers more consistently when other skills also apply Vulnerable, such as when playing with other players or using our other Conjuration skill, .

is what we mainly take this skill for lowering all of our cooldowns by having strike Vulnerable targets is extremely helpful since the majority of our setup is cooldown-based.

(1/5)

is our other Conjuration skill. Much like our reason for taking , we primarily use this skill for more on top of the Vulnerable and CC it brings.

gives us two spears whenever we hard cast it, dramatically increasing its critical strike chance. The bonus crit chance is not only incredibly important because we need this skill to crit to apply Vulnerable, but now we get two stacks for casting this skill.

doubles up on its initial value of landing crits; with this modifier, landing a crit with this skill now applies Vulnerable and stuns enemies at the same time, giving us double the value. Plus, these bonuses are kept through any spears we create through , potentially enabling crowd control over hordes of demons or inflicting a substantial amount of stagger on bosses.

(1/5)
Our first defensive skill is , our biggest barrier primarily used to keep us alive during those critical moments. However, Sorcerers have many aspects that synergize with barriers. Even though our end game setup doesn't run any of these aspects, such as , it's important to note its importance for leveling and its utility while you are still getting your end game set up.

serves as a nice extra Mana Regeneration resource since we are constantly spending Mana to cast because of our .

As previously stated, since we are constantly burning our Mana with the why not get some extra CDR for our strongest barrier with .

(5/5)
is one of the most powerful movement abilities in the game. It not only makes us Unstoppable, but also allows us to break crowd control effects and move faster than most other classes.

Speaking of going fast gives us a burst of movement speed after each use, which significantly contributes to our overall clear time.

Yet, the main reason why we are here is for , which gives us a large sum of damage reduction for a few seconds after blinking. With enough cooldown reduction and pairing it with the , we can keep this buff rolling pretty frequently.

(1/5)
plays an integral part in all lightning Sorcerer builds. During this window, any shock skill we cast, which includes our , , but most importantly, our , will cast another random shock spell. This is why we have invested extra points into & for their modifiers, so that whenever activates, we can gain extra Crackling Energy from or some survivability from .

But the main attraction is getting extra s for more stacks, and since we are stacking tons of attack speed, we can manifest dozens of free spells by spamming our .

Speaking of attack speed, gives us even more attack speed, which feeds back into making more free spells with and increases our overall damage.

has received a rework and now synergizes with crits, synergizing even more with the lightning playstyle. When landing a Crit, gives you a damage reduction buff. While you have this buff, any additional crits have a chance to release extra AOE damage or deal extra damage if there is only one target. It’s important to note that the initial damage reduction only works with crits from a shock skill, but the arcing lightning damage can activate off of any damage.

With enough crit chance, can provide almost permanent damage reduction buff more AOE damage, and since can naturally double its swings, or perhaps even more with Tempering and a ton of attack speed, we can reliably keep this buff up so long as their demons to zap

Arc Lash Sorcerer Passive Skills

(X/3) - A staple passive for all Sorcerer builds, boosting our overall damage at the cost of a slight debuff.

(X/3) - Having one point here is common for many builds, mainly because having a slight chance to reset our & is always helpful.

(3/3) - Provides extra damage, movement speed, and Mana regeneration for every active or , plus with our we can easily gain a ton of stacks.

(2/3) - This is what enables our shock skills to generate Crackling Energy, without it we can't generate extra Mana.

(3/3) - Enables our Crackling Energy to generate Mana, which is an absolutely-necessary passive

(1/3) - Gives our shock skills the ability to eventually land a crit if and when we don't crit.

(3/3) - Enemies that get damaged by our & crits will deal less damage.

(1/3) - Grants us damage reduction against elites until we take damage from one. We only want one point here so we can grab the passives connected to this one.

(3/3) - Using any cooldown grants us a barrier drastically increasing our survivability.

(3/3) - Using Mana from grants us a hefty amount of damage reduction for a small time.

(3/3) - Gives us extra Resistances and boosts a few of our Maximum Resistances for casting skills.

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Comments

Comment by GreyWolfe

This build is fully functional once you reach paragon levels (Even if you don't have the last 4 skill points from rep), regardless of having the necessary aspects and gear. Although having the grip effect from the chest piece is a huge plus.

This means you can switch over from your leveling build pretty much right at 50 while farming the equipment for it. It is a bit bursty, so in non-boss fights, you may want to wait for Teleport to come up before re-engaging the next group if you are running T4 under level 70. I only had to do this until I had the rep points to finish leveling Tele.

Overall, a smooth build that allows consistent rotation in longer fights, and you can facetank most bosses. (I haven't tested this on Ubers yet, but I can stand on the T4 world bosses for the entire fight without full gear at level 76.

Comment by Wynter

There's a mistake in the build description. It says take Shimmering Ice Armor but the author's description clearly describes Mystical. Assuming this is Mystical :) great build though! I have fallen in love with this and other variants of it.

Arc Lash Sorcerer Endgame Build Guide - Diablo 4

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