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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