Recently, I’ve devoted a lot of time to improving Endgame Lightning Sorcerer. Therefore, I want to share this fully optimized Lightning Endgame build. It has extremely high burst damage, and One Shot Elites visuals are all over the screen. Single target damage similar to Ice Shards, knocking down bosses in 10 seconds.
This is Thunder God mode. So I named it Thor in this guide. I’ll cover how to enjoy this synergy breakdown of build gear with Aspects, Stats Priority, Skills and Paragon Board.
Synergy Breakdown
Let’s start with Synergy Breakdown. It’s a bit complicated, but it’s the fastest way to increase damage as I’ve concluded. Of course, you can also choose Diablo 4 Boosting Service to increase the level. Long story short, let’s start with the simplest case.
All my gear defaults to +50% crit damage. I got 129.5% crit damage and 87.19% crit damage. This results in 216.5% critical damage. Plus 93.1% crit damage from Destruction Glyph and 24% crit damage from Gems. This makes it 333.6% critical damage.
Also, Fire Bolt in Enchantment will create Devouring Blaze’s burning effect, which is fixed from Flame Shield. This, combined with a 150% multiplier for critical strike damage, makes it 834% critical strike damage against elementalists.
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We can think of the first Chain Lightning as an almost 100% critical strike. This makes it do 834% damage in Amulet’s Aspect of Control instead of critical hit damage. 53% increased damage per status.
We’re applying all three stats in one second, which makes it nearly 3000% damage. And Tactician Glyph casts three defensive skills will increase its damage by 1.33 times. This makes the Control Glyph deal almost 4000% more damage.
There are three other multiplicative 20 damage boosts, making it closer to 7000% damage. Hoarfrost gives it another 18 damage boost. This makes it deal 8000% damage. That’s how the 1 million damage figure came about.
The second biggest synergy is attack speed. I put Ball Lightning in the enchantment so that every critical hit has up to 25% trigger Static Ball Lightning. Static Ball Lightning is great for consistently dealing high AOE damage since enemies are Crowd Controlled.
How To Enjoy This Build?
All you need to do is Teleport to the center of the enemy, then press Frost Nova and Flame Shield and spam with Chain Lightning. You’ll see the most One Shot Elites ever. Because it designed this combination for Elites.
For normal enemies, you don’t even need to use your ult. Just choose one of the three. Ultimate is great to use when all three abilities are on cooldown.
For mana, you don’t need to worry at all. Because both Chain Lightning and Ball Lightning can generate Crackling Energy. And Crackling Energy will generate 12 points of Mana. We’ll also be using Prodigy’s Aspect, and all four of our cooldown abilities will generate a maximum of 25 Mana.
Gears, Aspects & Stats Priority
Next, I will introduce Gears you need one by one. For Helm we need to get Aspect of Might for 20% damage reduction. Its Stats Priority is Max Life Total Armor Cooldown Reduction and Active Barrier’s Lucky Hit Chance increase. This build has almost full-time barrier uptime, as each cooldown skill will generate 30% of your max health by protecting the chest as a barrier.
We’ll also use Raiment of the Infinite. Teleport by adding pulling and stun, and get Accelerating Aspect with starting gloves. Its Stats Priority is +4% Chain Lightning critical strike chance.
An extra note is that you can grant barriers through potions when you take damage. So before you start your adventure, it is very necessary to get enough potions with Diablo 4 Gold.
Also, you need to utilize Flame Shield to get Aspect of Binding Embers to Immobilize enemies. Added 4 Frost Nova to reduce its cooldown as it is our only source of weakness.
We can focus on improving our DPS and mana cost reduction or weapon stats, getting Two-Handed Weapons and using the aforementioned Conceited Aspect. Also deals Vulnerable damage to enemies in close range or Crowd Control.
Skills
I covered some skills earlier, here are some additional points for the basic skills.
Instead of using Arc Lash, we use Spark. Because Spark increases critical strike chance by 8%. It synergizes better with the crit damage from the first part and generates more Crackling Energy.
With infinite Crackling Energy on screen, it can increase DPS Synergy to Hoarfrost by 3 points. The other 18% burst damage doesn’t add any points in Flame Shield.
Paragon Board
For Paragon Board, use Control Glyph from the first Glyph slot. Then go to Burning Board and use Destruction Glyph to increase the crit damage. Then go left to Frigid Fate Paragon Board and use Tactician Glyph to double the rare node gain. Thus spawning 40 Vulnerable nodes and gaining all other Vulnerable nodes.
Then head to Enchantment Board, just the area that unlocks the new Glyph slot and further boosts Vulnerable damage when you reach level 90.
I really like this build, it gives me a lot of fun. If you’re also interested in Thor Lightning Sorcerer build, give it a try.
