Given you have perma UC, I would drop points from Static Discharge and all BL points as you get enogh crackling from CL. Also only basic Ice Armor is needed. Those points I would allocate into maxing Teleport, base Ice Armor and remaining into Potent Warding. Also in PTR I tempered all rings and amulet for UC cooldown reduction for QoL between packs. This allows to put Might on pants, as Orange is not needed. I also went with Glinting Arc Lash, given I have enough crit chance. Overall this is excellent build with very fast paced gameplay. I like it. Hope the aspect won't be nerfed as this build is a nice step up from FO build.
This is just a rough draft. And it’s also a remnant of when I was running verathial and remade the planner in about 10 mins. Thanks for the advice tho!! I’ll remember it when I make the final S5 version in a month
@@Lurkin17 I am also not sure about Shredding Blades, given CSD stacking instead of Vulnerable damage. Currently I am running Abundant Energy to power UC machine even more with Overflowing Energy, which allows more manual spear casts. Main problem I see is loosing Vyrs unconditional damage reduction along with Mana Shield unconditional damage reduction, you can really feel it. I ended up dead on solo hordes tier 7 council boss, while outputting pretty low damage. Tier 101 is a breeze tho, using boss reset trick.
I don't know what's wrong with me but i always gravitate towards weaker classes/builds every season. I think i'll go either Sorc, which is always so much fun regardless of the dmg output, or Pulverizer Druid, probably both. Great video as always Lurk!!!
Hi, thank you for your content! How do you think the new boots compare to Esu's? CDR + Non Phys and the fire dmg on cd vs crit chance of Esus? And how does Andariels compare to shako (or is the LHC too low?) For lilith you would have probably got her staggered in P1 with Raiment - still like that armor for bosses.
Hated the boots. Sorry 75 non phys and 10% CDR and some piss poor fire damage ain’t matching 30% crit chance boots. You don’t want andariels on this build because sorcerers only additive the works well with andariels is vulnerable damage and andariels is a DOT
Nice build 👏 It gives us a little hope for s5 🙃 Did you try arc lash instead sparks? Looks like arc lash cast twice temper can fit this build well to get more unstable currents procs. Why using sparks is better?
For taking the sub-node for additional crackling energy that interplays with the Lightning Spear Enchantment [Absorbing Crackling Energy has a 10% chance to conjure a Lightning Spear.] that is how he was getting up to 29+ LS on screen
spark just casts really fast and can cast at range on enemies to proc spears, where arc lash felt clunkier. you could do arc lash or spark it doesn't matter. you can run firebolt or LS enchant. i go over the pros and cons to both in the video. they both have their merits and it is preference whether you run firebolt or LS enchant in combination with ice blades
Thank you for all your testing man - best sorc content creator! Please could you add Hydra to your testing list - I'm really hoping it's viable in Season 5.
I have a questions, If I didnt miss the part sorry, How did you get this high critical damage? Are these tempering manuals new for sorc? I didnt know you could put chd to amulet, weapons and gloves.
Yeah that would be fine. I’m not too sure on the actual setup. Shako is really only taken for the 4 ranks to TP and Ice armor. We might actually not even want it and want a GA int helmet with GA CDR, you can get defensive ranks on a chest. Shako is literally just easy. Shako isn’t doing much on this build, in the same way it doesn’t do a ton on blizzard. It’s just nice and 20% ALL DR. But now that I think of it a might or hectic helmet might just be better
nice build. cooked something similar a couple days prior. But u dont need spark crit. LS has inherent 15% crit increase. But ur right that only works for LS, my bad spark crit is a go then :P Wudi showcased it a bit, but urs is way more optimzed, didnt had the time to do it with mine. Problem on Bosses is the bugs mostly, despawns some LS or they fly away to far. My build was w/o uc wanted to try how far u could push LS cdr on its own, but seems uc is still better. Kinda sad that we cant build w/o it
Funny thing. LS has 15% crit. But splintering doesn’t. And vyrs doesnt. And when vyrs is fixed I will be using it. Yeah bosses just kinda sucked. Idk what they wanted with this. A support skill? We are running this as glacial. If that’s the case the chain 5 needs a boss damage portion
Every lightning sorc runs unstable currents and its just becomes a jumbled mess of lots of skills going off. I dont think any of these lightning builds are viable without it. All lightning builds are unstable current builds. Just because the skill focus changes doesnt mean the build is different, its still an unstable currents builds.
It's because the other Ultimates aren't really viable tho. In the end there just aren't as many options for secondary skills with sorc. For me Unstable Currents is also just to messy, would love a more "cleaner" build for sorc, which just does damage.
there is a pure LS variant, i was building/creating it, its just harder to get there and ultimately more squishier since it uses hectic. and u dont want other defensives beside teleport, or they interfere too much with it.
mana wouldn't be an issue if you picked up crackling. i think you can make this build with a variety of shock skills, i just chose spark because it attacks very fast. you can do BL or CL and do ice blade/ Lightning spear enchant. you have options. I do not know what will be best
i am updating it. the meta is now mekunas winterglass version. this build is still strong, but its actually a stepping stone to the winterglass version
I played sorc lightning strike build in PTR. The temper to LS doing double spears doesn't work on the LS enchantment. That's why I gave it up. Only works on Spears from your skill not from passive made LS. The build was shit with boss killing.
Ball Lightning was fine. I didn't really like it with splintering because it was hard to scale both. you really wanted starless which just gives up 200% crit dmg.
@Lurkin17 I tried it again with some inspiration from your build and it worked ok. I think the most important part was perma uptime of unstable currents. My gear wasn't very good but you could definitely see the potential of the build. Season 5 safe 😆
It’ll be pretty legit. It’s definitely sorcerers strongest mobbing build we have ever seen. The 5 chains are insane. I’d rather have it chain twice and chain twice on bosses
Really love the video man. Well spoken!
Looks fun, tons of lightning effects on the screen is what i wana see when i play sorc hehe
Given you have perma UC, I would drop points from Static Discharge and all BL points as you get enogh crackling from CL. Also only basic Ice Armor is needed. Those points I would allocate into maxing Teleport, base Ice Armor and remaining into Potent Warding. Also in PTR I tempered all rings and amulet for UC cooldown reduction for QoL between packs. This allows to put Might on pants, as Orange is not needed. I also went with Glinting Arc Lash, given I have enough crit chance. Overall this is excellent build with very fast paced gameplay. I like it. Hope the aspect won't be nerfed as this build is a nice step up from FO build.
This is just a rough draft. And it’s also a remnant of when I was running verathial and remade the planner in about 10 mins. Thanks for the advice tho!! I’ll remember it when I make the final S5 version in a month
@@Lurkin17 I am also not sure about Shredding Blades, given CSD stacking instead of Vulnerable damage. Currently I am running Abundant Energy to power UC machine even more with Overflowing Energy, which allows more manual spear casts. Main problem I see is loosing Vyrs unconditional damage reduction along with Mana Shield unconditional damage reduction, you can really feel it. I ended up dead on solo hordes tier 7 council boss, while outputting pretty low damage. Tier 101 is a breeze tho, using boss reset trick.
I’m pretty excited about this build! Dang, that Tals 😂 R.I.P.
yeah i dropped tals on most of my builds in the PTR. Don't need as much cooldown if you aren't running flameshield
I don't know what's wrong with me but i always gravitate towards weaker classes/builds every season.
I think i'll go either Sorc, which is always so much fun regardless of the dmg output, or Pulverizer Druid, probably both.
Great video as always Lurk!!!
path less traveled
Hi, thank you for your content!
How do you think the new boots compare to Esu's? CDR + Non Phys and the fire dmg on cd vs crit chance of Esus?
And how does Andariels compare to shako (or is the LHC too low?)
For lilith you would have probably got her staggered in P1 with Raiment - still like that armor for bosses.
Hated the boots. Sorry 75 non phys and 10% CDR and some piss poor fire damage ain’t matching 30% crit chance boots. You don’t want andariels on this build because sorcerers only additive the works well with andariels is vulnerable damage and andariels is a DOT
im trying to do the winterglass one but the assigned skills are showing spark, no use of flame shield, etc... what layout do you recommend i use?
the new one on the tier list with winterglass
Nice build 👏 It gives us a little hope for s5 🙃 Did you try arc lash instead sparks? Looks like arc lash cast twice temper can fit this build well to get more unstable currents procs. Why using sparks is better?
For taking the sub-node for additional crackling energy that interplays with the Lightning Spear Enchantment [Absorbing Crackling Energy has a 10% chance to conjure a Lightning Spear.] that is how he was getting up to 29+ LS on screen
@@raxxial He uses glinting spark instead of flickering spark in planner
no uc is a cast trigger, extra arc lash hits do nothing. and u need the weapon tempers for the double cast on LS
spark just casts really fast and can cast at range on enemies to proc spears, where arc lash felt clunkier. you could do arc lash or spark it doesn't matter. you can run firebolt or LS enchant. i go over the pros and cons to both in the video. they both have their merits and it is preference whether you run firebolt or LS enchant in combination with ice blades
Great content as always. Keep it up.
Thanks, will do!
nice build & nice tal rashas rofl
Hahahah right. Don’t think I’m using Rasha much next season tbh 😂
Thank you for all your testing man - best sorc content creator! Please could you add Hydra to your testing list - I'm really hoping it's viable in Season 5.
I did some hydra testing. I like it with Tyraels
I have a questions, If I didnt miss the part sorry, How did you get this high critical damage? Are these tempering manuals new for sorc? I didnt know you could put chd to amulet, weapons and gloves.
new offensive temper can get critical strike damage, shock critical strike does nothiign for it
And if I don’t have shako yet,use might aspect on helm?
Yeah that would be fine. I’m not too sure on the actual setup. Shako is really only taken for the 4 ranks to TP and Ice armor. We might actually not even want it and want a GA int helmet with GA CDR, you can get defensive ranks on a chest. Shako is literally just easy. Shako isn’t doing much on this build, in the same way it doesn’t do a ton on blizzard. It’s just nice and 20% ALL DR. But now that I think of it a might or hectic helmet might just be better
I’m excited for this!!!
Is Crit chance on Offhand, Amulet ang Glove enough for 100% crit?
With esus boots yeah I think so. You just need 70. Idk it all depends on whether you get GA or not
nice build. cooked something similar a couple days prior. But u dont need spark crit. LS has inherent 15% crit increase. But ur right that only works for LS, my bad spark crit is a go then :P Wudi showcased it a bit, but urs is way more optimzed, didnt had the time to do it with mine. Problem on Bosses is the bugs mostly, despawns some LS or they fly away to far.
My build was w/o uc wanted to try how far u could push LS cdr on its own, but seems uc is still better. Kinda sad that we cant build w/o it
Funny thing. LS has 15% crit. But splintering doesn’t. And vyrs doesnt. And when vyrs is fixed I will be using it. Yeah bosses just kinda sucked. Idk what they wanted with this. A support skill? We are running this as glacial. If that’s the case the chain 5 needs a boss damage portion
@@Lurkin17 yeah thats a cool suggestion for boss dmg, i assume u already suggested it to blizz. gonna do it as well.
how do you have 0 cd on lightning spear?
Nice ! i love lightning 😍 is this doable now in s4 ?
Not yet, splintering won't get this change until S5
Tried playing your most up to date moba build for this and no getting anywhere close to 70% attack speed, can only manage to get around 40% unbuffed
its really rough gearing man i wont lie. take flickersteps if you cant keep unstable up
Every lightning sorc runs unstable currents and its just becomes a jumbled mess of lots of skills going off. I dont think any of these lightning builds are viable without it. All lightning builds are unstable current builds. Just because the skill focus changes doesnt mean the build is different, its still an unstable currents builds.
It's because the other Ultimates aren't really viable tho. In the end there just aren't as many options for secondary skills with sorc.
For me Unstable Currents is also just to messy, would love a more "cleaner" build for sorc, which just does damage.
@@leonwendel6874 you dont have to use an ultimate. It would then be a true lightning spear build if you didnt use it.
there is a pure LS variant, i was building/creating it, its just harder to get there and ultimately more squishier since it uses hectic. and u dont want other defensives beside teleport, or they interfere too much with it.
correct. all lightning builds are UC builds scaling with spears. they are all just different activators.
Yes its one more variation based unstable currents, but im not impressed since all build about ulti just.
With that much crit, chain lightning might be better than spark for crackling generation. Mana would be the only issue I guess
mana wouldn't be an issue if you picked up crackling. i think you can make this build with a variety of shock skills, i just chose spark because it attacks very fast. you can do BL or CL and do ice blade/ Lightning spear enchant. you have options. I do not know what will be best
Hopefully they fix the lightning spear bug of them shooting off the screen and never coming back by s5 start
Yeah and give it some boss damage love
Damn.. you put feedback to help the sorc? Barb is gonna get buffed now.
Shouldn't have made a video about it. If bliz see this they going to nerf it as they capping all effects on sorc. This will now get a cap of up to 40x
gosh darnit
Will you be updating this or you taking a break big fella?
i am updating it. the meta is now mekunas winterglass version. this build is still strong, but its actually a stepping stone to the winterglass version
this build is extremely cool lol
I’m excited for it. You can really use any shock skill. Sparks just the easiest cuz no mana
They need to add staff slot to sorc !
I played sorc lightning strike build in PTR. The temper to LS doing double spears doesn't work on the LS enchantment. That's why I gave it up. Only works on Spears from your skill not from passive made LS. The build was shit with boss killing.
No other temper to take as spark cast twice doesn’t proc UC twice
wow loves the reworks cant wait to try it, how about BL nothing good?
Ball Lightning was fine. I didn't really like it with splintering because it was hard to scale both. you really wanted starless which just gives up 200% crit dmg.
excellent analysis and build, too bad the ptr is pretty much over, hope this rocks during s5
We shall see
hope they bless sorc with some single target dps
You and me both
If Splintering would arc back to single target, instead of other targets, that might improve bossing.
agreed
Yesterday, I tried this and couldn't even finish t101 o_O. Now I wonder, what is the 10x difference 😅
critical strike damage tempers and my board
@Lurkin17 I tried it again with some inspiration from your build and it worked ok. I think the most important part was perma uptime of unstable currents. My gear wasn't very good but you could definitely see the potential of the build. Season 5 safe 😆
WHAT IN THE LORT IS GOING ON??😂😂😂
see thats why we need a third enchantment slot
yeah i want both LS and firebolt lol and ice blades
Hope doesnt get nerfed... Not maybe tbis is something
I’d love for the 5x chain part to get nerfed to 2-3x if it meant it exploded for 2x damage if there wasn’t a target to chain to
Nice.
Nice
A good build showcase but you were driving me insane calling it Ver's instead of Vear's
i pronounce shit dumb
wait is this a legit build ??? thats crazy
It's ptr so no. If they see this vid it will get nerfed. Provided no one else informed them of the crit damage increase
It’ll be pretty legit. It’s definitely sorcerers strongest mobbing build we have ever seen. The 5 chains are insane. I’d rather have it chain twice and chain twice on bosses
throw on a staff with esu's
nah. I want crit chance and cooldown on focus.
Bro!! please do a whole video as Trump
i could swap between trump rambling and biden being confused
@@Lurkin17 lol