I have a similar build to yours and CDR was the biggest problem since you want to keep barriers up at all times. I was struggling at 7 and switched to ice blades enchant over BL and slotted flickerstep and fist of fate for dmg boost. I am now pushing 10. I love your number crunching and build crafting. I used your builds back in S1.
Excellent build! I’ve tried several other popular ball lightning build but this one combines high damage with great ability to withstand big damage attacks. My first test of this build had me go up against the Butcher (7 levels higher) and one of those freaking annoying blood hunters that spawn when you are swarmed with enemies. The sorc did some dodging to take down the Butcher. The blood hunter was stunned continuously will lightning balls took it down . Super impressed especially since no Uber unique items are needed! Many kudos , I subscribed of course!
It's from high intelligence from gear, paragon board all resistances and the all resistance from the tal rasha ring. If you have the matching Intelligence and Paragon Board + Tal Rasha Ring, you will cap the resistances without resistance stats or gems.
Thanks for posting your build. I am looking forward to make some changes to my Ball Lightning Sorc that you have recommended. In currently stuck at level 9-10 and only able to consistently clear level 7/8 for glyph leveling. I do have a Shako so I think after making some changes I should be able to get to T15. Thanks again! GG
REMEMBER to use elixirs and incense. 3 active max. sometimes 2 because of a bug but it will help get you into higher tier. I use armor, max resist one plus the max life and mostly armor elixir. It will help you reach near the end at least. you can comfortably get 4 runs of AOZ before incense runs out. Timing is everything here. Stuns, stuns, stuns.
I’ve tried your build man, amazing! T11 done first try 👌🏻 The only thing I miss is the movement speed from Esu’s, and a bit of lacking in the mana generation for content outside of AOZ. Great job and keep updating if you find even better setup!
Thanks for sharing your experience! Yes I miss the movement speed from Esu's too. The good thing is that we have Rank 5 Teleport + 2 CDR from offhand this time that we can cast Teleport a lot more to speed up :)
Hey bro I just got my Harlequin Crest after like 145 runs .... it was a double unique drop. I got a shock when I saw it. Yes, I just got it today. I still have lots of Duriel mats if you need them. I am done with Duriel. I got 5 melted heart of seliq, 2 Avaharion Spears and a Andariel's Visage. I was giving up hope when it drop....
Anyway to incorporate the new glyph into your fireworks build? I’m running it now and absolutely love it!! I’ve gotten to tier 7 so far and died a few times to the end bosses.
Glad you had fun running the fireworks build! I tested using a Gloves with Piercing Static and +4 Charged Bolts + Staff of Lam Esen while keeping every other gear from this build is good + keep the same Skill Tree from the fireworks build. For the Paragon Board, do the following changes from the paragon board in this build Adept Glyph -> Enchanter Glyph Enchanter Glyph -> Exploit Glyph + Removing the Intelligence Nodes & Adding all the Dexterity Nodes in Glyph Radius And since we lose a bit of Intelligence, we lose a bit of All Resistance too that adding one point to the all Resistance node in the first board at the bottom left is needed. Personally I don't find super fun to run Fireworks in AoZ high tiers as it takes a long time to clear anything. But it feels great to farm low tiers :)
@@ayajamesaya I really appreciate it man. You make being a causal player a lot more enjoyable. I don’t think I plan on trying to push the high tiers, just wanted a way to incorporate the new glyph since it seems really strong and keep having fun. I tried the lighting ball build for a while and while it’s strong, I just find it boring. Fireworks is it for me tho! Thanks again!
Hello, what a good construction, I'm enjoying it and I made the changes to use the shako and it's going great, my Glypho at the moment is level 7 and I do Zir of level 7, I hope to raise it to level 10 the Glyph and try a Zir 10, greetings
Trying this build now, with shako and rainment. But there is a big problem, and that is the manapool. iam not able to get it to above my ball lighting cost, above 100. I have mana cost reduction on gear, but not enough, and i cant rly reroll anything to get pluss mana, or more mana cost reduction. Not sure what i can do. 2 more points into the + mana talent isent enough either. iam probably best of then to put exploiters on the item i had elementalits on.
I used a mixture of ua-cam.com/video/B8cMK1vQyeM/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/RVBnNLVQr84/v-deo.html when I was leveling to 100. The former one is a ranged build and the latter one is a melee build but higher damage. If you have Staff of Lam Esen, I recommend ua-cam.com/video/EyODTb5SJVY/v-deo.html for fast leveling.
I don't have Ahavarion that I don't know for sure how it feels by using it. The AoZ requires high Damage Reduction. Using Ahavarion will lose a 18% DR from Burning Enemies and 2 CDR from offhand. We will definitely be squashier by using it while the damage will likely be more if the random Shrine proced is good. If you can survive high AoZ tiers with it, then it is a good addition to the build by just replacing the one hand weapon and offhand.
I'm testing it now. Trying elementalist on amulet, exploiter on helm, disobedience on chest, gravitational on hands, Everliving pants, and prodigy on ring #2. It's not ideal but seems to work for me while I work through low AoZ runs. My tears glyph is only T3.
This is fine for low tier farming, but for 20+ it doesn't work. You miss some damage and snapshotting and it is squishy without the injured damage reduction. I prefer Ice blades enchantment with the passive that gives multiplicative damage for each active conjuration. And you can have like 25 of them active all the time. They reduce their own cooldown and you get to a breakpoint where you can spam them, which also give you barrier every second. And yoiu can have an item with + to the passive. That by itself is stronger than the tear of Blood glyph in term of damage.
@@casnik-rejeeplife2904simple: instead of going a lot of tanky affixes you go low life with Selig, and you make up for the toughness with ice blades with the upgrade that reduces ice blade cooldown. You use ice blade enchantment. You make that each cooldown skill gives you barrier. You also use the passive skill that increases multiplicatve damage for each active conjuration. That turns your survival also into DPS.
@@ayajamesaya Thanks. So that means allso not using rainment. I have shako, and currently trying to figure out a build that is ok for 10+ aoz. Do you have any build that uses shatter? iam currently running that. With frost bolt and firebolt enchant. Snapshotting vyrs , then shatter inside.
@@baldis12 If you are using those T18+ builds, the DR when injured stats on Amulet/Pants/Boots are essential. Then Raiment is viable to use. Otherwise I recommend sticking to this setup to have enough defense first until you have at least 2 40%+ DR when Injured Stats on top of the 13500 Armor to switch to the low health setup. Frost Bolt Firebolt Enchant + Shatter works great but it comes with a learning curve. You may need sometime practicing it before it gets better results. If you are ok with Snapshotting, you can also snapshot Infection after dealing one time damage after entering AoZ so that we have poison stack and update it to Resilience or Sanguine Brace. Right before fighting the Bosses, update it back to Infection and then update to Resilience again.
Damage depends a lot on Weapon Item Power, Crit Chance and Gear pieces quality too. Reaching T14/15 requires close to perfect gear pieces that I showed at the end of the video.
Damage depends a lot on Weapon Item Power, Crit Chance and Gear pieces quality in endgame. Reaching T14/15 requires close to perfect gear pieces that I showed at the end of the video.
AyaJames, I created a Hota Barbarian and have level to 80 with vampiric powers and reasonably good gears. I then went to do 5 Rotations of Duriel Boss with others - I waited till Duriel is almost dead then go for a fast kill. I got a Doombringer in the 20 runs. I went for second 5 Rotations of Duriel and got a Harlequin's Crest. Took a break then went for another 5 Rotations of Duriel and got a Grandfather Uber Unique. All this happened yesterday and all within 1.5 hours. I like to give you the rest of my Duriel Mats - if you like else I will sell it or use it to get better 925 item gears. In 60 runs I got three very good Uber Uniques. Better drops with lower 80 level and actual Duriel kills. Sniperelite#11507.
That's amazing experience and drops! I don't plan to play further in Season 2 and am waiting for Season 3 but thank you for offering the mats :) Hope you find a good way to make use of the rest of the mats and sent ya a friend request too 😉
I have a similar build to yours and CDR was the biggest problem since you want to keep barriers up at all times. I was struggling at 7 and switched to ice blades enchant over BL and slotted flickerstep and fist of fate for dmg boost. I am now pushing 10. I love your number crunching and build crafting. I used your builds back in S1.
Excellent build! I’ve tried several other popular ball lightning build but this one combines high damage with great ability to withstand big damage attacks. My first test of this build had me go up against the Butcher (7 levels higher) and one of those freaking annoying blood hunters that spawn when you are swarmed with enemies. The sorc did some dodging to take down the Butcher. The blood hunter was stunned continuously will lightning balls took it down . Super impressed especially since no Uber unique items are needed! Many kudos , I subscribed of course!
Thanks for sharing your experience! Glad you had fun running it :)
Great build! Without perfect equip it lets me do T5! Thanks a lot for sharing!
Thanks, aYa! Been waiting for this. Much appreciated!
This build is great. Good job. I just did T10 with ease. Thank you!!!
Nice build.
How do you cap the element resistances without them on your gear?
It's from high intelligence from gear, paragon board all resistances and the all resistance from the tal rasha ring. If you have the matching Intelligence and Paragon Board + Tal Rasha Ring, you will cap the resistances without resistance stats or gems.
Thanks for posting your build. I am looking forward to make some changes to my Ball Lightning Sorc that you have recommended. In currently stuck at level 9-10 and only able to consistently clear level 7/8 for glyph leveling. I do have a Shako so I think after making some changes I should be able to get to T15. Thanks again! GG
REMEMBER to use elixirs and incense. 3 active max. sometimes 2 because of a bug but it will help get you into higher tier. I use armor, max resist one plus the max life and mostly armor elixir. It will help you reach near the end at least. you can comfortably get 4 runs of AOZ before incense runs out. Timing is everything here. Stuns, stuns, stuns.
I’ve tried your build man, amazing! T11 done first try 👌🏻
The only thing I miss is the movement speed from Esu’s, and a bit of lacking in the mana generation for content outside of AOZ. Great job and keep updating if you find even better setup!
Thanks for sharing your experience!
Yes I miss the movement speed from Esu's too. The good thing is that we have Rank 5 Teleport + 2 CDR from offhand this time that we can cast Teleport a lot more to speed up :)
one of the best guides out there, two thumbs up!
Wow nicely done bro - love this new build - great effort... Merry Christmas AyaJames.
Merry Christmas!
Great explanation and presentation of your build! Great job and I am excited to give it a try!
Very great build and video! Thks man, I'm on the standad AOZ maxroll one but I'm gonna try yours for sure!
Hey bro I just got my Harlequin Crest after like 145 runs .... it was a double unique drop. I got a shock when I saw it. Yes, I just got it today. I still have lots of Duriel mats if you need them. I am done with Duriel. I got 5 melted heart of seliq, 2 Avaharion Spears and a Andariel's Visage. I was giving up hope when it drop....
Whoooaaa, what a luck! Congrats on the drops 😍
Hey, if you're down to give them to anyone I'd deff love some. Haven't really grinded much duriel, probs 30-40 runs. Ticlikebuttr#1303
Great video. Thanks for the hard work!
Anyway to incorporate the new glyph into your fireworks build? I’m running it now and absolutely love it!! I’ve gotten to tier 7 so far and died a few times to the end bosses.
Glad you had fun running the fireworks build!
I tested using a Gloves with Piercing Static and +4 Charged Bolts + Staff of Lam Esen while keeping every other gear from this build is good + keep the same Skill Tree from the fireworks build.
For the Paragon Board, do the following changes from the paragon board in this build
Adept Glyph -> Enchanter Glyph
Enchanter Glyph -> Exploit Glyph + Removing the Intelligence Nodes & Adding all the Dexterity Nodes in Glyph Radius
And since we lose a bit of Intelligence, we lose a bit of All Resistance too that adding one point to the all Resistance node in the first board at the bottom left is needed.
Personally I don't find super fun to run Fireworks in AoZ high tiers as it takes a long time to clear anything. But it feels great to farm low tiers :)
@@ayajamesaya I really appreciate it man. You make being a causal player a lot more enjoyable. I don’t think I plan on trying to push the high tiers, just wanted a way to incorporate the new glyph since it seems really strong and keep having fun. I tried the lighting ball build for a while and while it’s strong, I just find it boring. Fireworks is it for me tho! Thanks again!
Very good build. I just got done doing t16 aoz with ball lightning blizzard build. One thing that annoys me is when I get 1 shot by a ballista lol.
Hello, what a good construction, I'm enjoying it and I made the changes to use the shako and it's going great, my Glypho at the moment is level 7 and I do Zir of level 7, I hope to raise it to level 10 the Glyph and try a Zir 10, greetings
Trying this build now, with shako and rainment. But there is a big problem, and that is the manapool. iam not able to get it to above my ball lighting cost, above 100. I have mana cost reduction on gear, but not enough, and i cant rly reroll anything to get pluss mana, or more mana cost reduction. Not sure what i can do. 2 more points into the + mana talent isent enough either. iam probably best of then to put exploiters on the item i had elementalits on.
Check ua-cam.com/video/7txU98DQF7g/v-deo.html for infinite mana tips. This build is only for AoZ.
Hmmmm will try . Thanks fun looking build
Do you have a speed farm build? I just hit 60 and I'm not sure what to go for quick leveling
I used a mixture of ua-cam.com/video/B8cMK1vQyeM/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/RVBnNLVQr84/v-deo.html when I was leveling to 100.
The former one is a ranged build and the latter one is a melee build but higher damage.
If you have Staff of Lam Esen, I recommend ua-cam.com/video/EyODTb5SJVY/v-deo.html for fast leveling.
Awesome video bro very well put together. Unfortunately, I have no interest in finishing this season but I once again great job.
If you had Ahavarion, would you slot that in somehow? And how if so?
I don't have Ahavarion that I don't know for sure how it feels by using it.
The AoZ requires high Damage Reduction. Using Ahavarion will lose a 18% DR from Burning Enemies and 2 CDR from offhand. We will definitely be squashier by using it while the damage will likely be more if the random Shrine proced is good.
If you can survive high AoZ tiers with it, then it is a good addition to the build by just replacing the one hand weapon and offhand.
I'm testing it now. Trying elementalist on amulet, exploiter on helm, disobedience on chest, gravitational on hands, Everliving pants, and prodigy on ring #2.
It's not ideal but seems to work for me while I work through low AoZ runs.
My tears glyph is only T3.
Wait, lightning spear will auto cast even if you don’t have it equipped in the skill bar or enchant??
Yes. When ultimate is active.
Hello, you will not make a construction for Zir, using the unique Uber Lycander. Excellent day
This is fine for low tier farming, but for 20+ it doesn't work. You miss some damage and snapshotting and it is squishy without the injured damage reduction.
I prefer Ice blades enchantment with the passive that gives multiplicative damage for each active conjuration. And you can have like 25 of them active all the time. They reduce their own cooldown and you get to a breakpoint where you can spam them, which also give you barrier every second. And yoiu can have an item with + to the passive. That by itself is stronger than the tear of Blood glyph in term of damage.
could you expand on that? I am curious.
@@casnik-rejeeplife2904simple: instead of going a lot of tanky affixes you go low life with Selig, and you make up for the toughness with ice blades with the upgrade that reduces ice blade cooldown. You use ice blade enchantment. You make that each cooldown skill gives you barrier. You also use the passive skill that increases multiplicatve damage for each active conjuration. That turns your survival also into DPS.
How using ball lightning gives you a barrier if dont have any CD on it? im not getting it. Cause when i use it i dont gain a barrier
Ultimate Active -> Ball Lightning will randomly cast Lightning Spear -> Protection Passive -> Barrier
Dont use Domination even when its good it will get you randomly killed when you get stunned just once xD
What should I use instead?
That’s an issue that literally doesn’t even happen on sorcerer, only Barbarian/&/or melee classes.
@@charmilli0n It does happen on sorc when your barrier isnt up
Got any build wich uses Shako?
Check 12:45
@@ayajamesaya Thanks. So that means allso not using rainment. I have shako, and currently trying to figure out a build that is ok for 10+ aoz. Do you have any build that uses shatter? iam currently running that. With frost bolt and firebolt enchant. Snapshotting vyrs , then shatter inside.
@@baldis12 If you are using those T18+ builds, the DR when injured stats on Amulet/Pants/Boots are essential. Then Raiment is viable to use.
Otherwise I recommend sticking to this setup to have enough defense first until you have at least 2 40%+ DR when Injured Stats on top of the 13500 Armor to switch to the low health setup.
Frost Bolt Firebolt Enchant + Shatter works great but it comes with a learning curve. You may need sometime practicing it before it gets better results.
If you are ok with Snapshotting, you can also snapshot Infection after dealing one time damage after entering AoZ so that we have poison stack and update it to Resilience or Sanguine Brace. Right before fighting the Bosses, update it back to Infection and then update to Resilience again.
The build is very good overall but I just did a t11 and I didn’t have enough power keep in my glyph is 30 and I didn’t have enough power for t11💁🏾♂️
Damage depends a lot on Weapon Item Power, Crit Chance and Gear pieces quality too.
Reaching T14/15 requires close to perfect gear pieces that I showed at the end of the video.
No shako no uniques? Why?
U r a genius
Thanxs!
Do you have to have Flickerstep?
For maximum synergy yes, but replacing it with Esu's Heirloom is OK too.
Just tried, everything is good with survivability…just not enough power!!!
Damage depends a lot on Weapon Item Power, Crit Chance and Gear pieces quality in endgame.
Reaching T14/15 requires close to perfect gear pieces that I showed at the end of the video.
How about we get a graded reward for how far we make it in AOZ instead of just wipe and get nothing.
AyaJames, I created a Hota Barbarian and have level to 80 with vampiric powers and reasonably good gears. I then went to do 5 Rotations of Duriel Boss with others - I waited till Duriel is almost dead then go for a fast kill. I got a Doombringer in the 20 runs. I went for second 5 Rotations of Duriel and got a Harlequin's Crest. Took a break then went for another 5 Rotations of Duriel and got a Grandfather Uber Unique. All this happened yesterday and all within 1.5 hours. I like to give you the rest of my Duriel Mats - if you like else I will sell it or use it to get better 925 item gears. In 60 runs I got three very good Uber Uniques. Better drops with lower 80 level and actual Duriel kills. Sniperelite#11507.
That's amazing experience and drops! I don't plan to play further in Season 2 and am waiting for Season 3 but thank you for offering the mats :) Hope you find a good way to make use of the rest of the mats and sent ya a friend request too 😉