Lightning Sorcerer Build - Zeus FAST Ball Lightening Build

This is the best lightening sorcerer build for Midgame 50+ content, this build is insanely fast, lets you burn down entire packs of mobs in seconds and holds out well against bosses. I’ve been blasting through 50+ nightmare dungeons with ease so lets get into it. Check out the full video of this if you want to see it in action.

Gameplay and Playstyle

So this Lightning Sorcerer build is all about speed and huge damage. First you pop ball lightening, but its modified with the gravitational aspect, so it spins around us. Then teleport into a huge pack, pop unstable currents and pump out charged bolts. Enemies will be constantly stunned, and taking damage from about 4-5 different attacks. And there are so many combos, once one thing gets stunned its triggers more charged bolts, once your lightning bolts are charged they stun again. Critical hits trigger more damage, stuns trigger more damage and you’ll just have numbers everywhere.

I won’t say this is perfect, but it’s the most fun I’ve had on sorcerer so far and it will get you all the way to Level 70 Tier 4 endgame without breaking a sweat. So if you want your screen to look like this and feel the overwhelming power of thunder, lets talk through the build.

Stats and Enchantments

Movement Speed
Attack Speed
Lightening Damage/Crit Damage/Damage to close enemies
Mana Reduction
Cooldown Reduction
Ranks of ball lightening/Charged Balls/Arc Lash

To make this Lightning Sorcerer build work you need speed, so go for movement speed, to get from pack to pack super fast and get out of trouble. You’ll be looking for a unique as well which I’ll talk about in the next part increases your crit the more movement speed you have.

Then you want attack speed. More attacks gives more stuns, more crits and more burst. We also enchant ball lightning and its damage scales as 200% of our attack speed. So you really want to be as fast as possible both with movement and attacks.

Then I’d look for Lightning damage, critical strike damage, or lightning critical strike damage. This is a zerg build, getting things zapped down as fast as possible is the goal.

Unique Items

There are 3 unique items you want to start looking for, that will make this build so much stronger. None of them are required to make the build, but each one ads a ton of damage and makes build feel more fun.

And they are the Staff of Lam Esen, this makes you charge bolt piercing at the cost of 30-40% of its damage. We loose some of our damage, but charged bolts release 5 bolts on the ground per cast, and with this legendary they’ll be hitting everything in front of you. This is a key item to making this Zeus lightning Sorcerer build perform.

Another really good legendary, that will take your damage through the roof is Raiment of the Infinite. This changes your teleport so that when you teleport it pulls in and stuns enemies around you. The beauty of this, is that charged bolts is pretty short range, so we want everything together. And we enchant charged bolts, which means whenever an enemy is stunned there is a 40% chance to release charged bolts from them.

Now finally is the is Esu’s Heirloom, this gives you flat movement speed, other movement speed buffs and crit strike is increased by a % of your movement speed.

Legendary Sorcerer Aspects

Here are some of the best aspects I’ve found that work well and synergise with this lightening Sorcerer build:

Gravitational Aspect: This is key, it lets lightning ball orbit around you, which is so good when we have everything around us.

Aspect of Static Cling: Lets casts of Charged Bolts have a chance to go towards enemies and last 300% longer. And because we also have piercing with our unique, this extra juicy.

Aspect of the Protector: Damaging an Elite enemy grants you a Barrier absorbing damage

Aspect of Might: Basic Skills grant [25]% Damage Reduction for (4.0-8.) seconds.

Aspect of Retribution: Distant enemies have a 8% chance to be Stunned for 2 seconds when they hit you. But it also gives damage increase to stunned enemies, which is what this build is all about.

Wind Striker Mobility Aspect: – Crit strikes grant a % movement speed increase, its just more gotta go fast and we want that cos we got little defense.

Other options are:

Overwhelming Currents: – unstable currents has a % change to spawn an additional shock spell

Stable Aspect: gives you a small chance to trigger the shock effects of unstable currents.

Lightning Sorcerer Build Skill Tree

Total

Arc Lash

Enhanced Arc lash

Flickering Arc Lash

Charged Bolts

Enhanced Charged Bolts

Greater Charged Bolts

Teleport

Enhanced Teleport

Shimmering Teleport

Glass Canon

Ice Armor

Enhanced Ice Armor

Align The Elements

Mana Shield

Protection

Ball Lightening

Enhanced Ball Lightening

Mage’s Ball Lightening

Static Discharge

Shocking Impact

Unstable Currents

Prime Unstable Currents

Coursing Currents

Electrocution

Conduction

Convulsions

Vyr’s Mastery

We use a total of 55 skill points here. As that is what is needed to fully fill out this build. As you complete renown, you will get these extra skill points.

Class Specific (Shift + C)

For Sorcerer we want to enhance our 2 main abilities Ball Lightning and Charged Bolts:

First you want to enchant ball lightning. It stacks up charges, once it hits 50 charges it stuns enemies. And you’ll see once you pop unstable currents, you’ll fire tons of balls, so can stun so much and do so much more damage. It also increases our damage bonus based on our attack speed, which we’ll have a lot of.

Second we enchant charged bolts, which lets us do 25% increased damage to stunned enemies, and enchanting it lets extra bolts be summoned.

Best Glyphs and Paragon Boards:

Best Glyphs:

Control – 20% Extra damage to stunned enemies

Charged – Extra damage when picking up charged energy

Destruction – Extra damage from crits

Electrocute – 5% increase change to crit

Paragon Boards:

Static Surge – Gives extra damage to stunned enemies
Ceaseless Conduit – Extra damage to elites + crackling energy
Searing Heat – Damage Resistances

Hopefully this helps, if you’re looking for more builds check out our other Diablo 4 guides and builds.

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