Is there a guide for endgame as chain lightning sorcerer somewhere? I tried all major builds and chain lightning is the most fun to play for me.
But I can find only leveling guides for this build, at level 56 I would like to see some recommendations how to better spend paragon points.
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You won’t find one because chain lightning (and most other skills) are unusable in mid to late game.
Currently, there are only three viable builds for world level 3 and above:
- Ice Shards build (most play this)
- Arc Lash build
- Fire Wall build (for HC)
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Well…
I am level 56 and cleaning tier 7 dungeons with lvl60 monsters on without any issues with 0 deaths. So this build definitely works in mid game.
I tried all the builds you listed but chain lightning is still the most enjoyable to play for me.
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56 isn’t mid-game. 70 is. I wouldn’t consider a character to be in the mid-game unless they have 3 glyphs activated on the paragon board. You’re barely better than a campaign build right now. Endgame is 90+.
I may not agree with your definition of “mid” for levels 1-100 range 
Will see how it goes. I am 60 now and see no change…
It would be a disaster if there are indeed just 3-4 wotrking builds for a character.
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That’s not how it works. You think you’re being cute when you’re really just totally ignorant.
There is not much difference between a level 30 and 56 character. Your build is set by then. You have barely scratched the surface of gear. You have no investment in the paragon board. You likely aren’t running uniques that changed the direction of your build or aspects that you can’t find in the Codex of Power. This is what the mid-game is about. In short, you’re still playing the same way as you did during the campaign until you solidly get into these things.
Beyond this, the amount of time you will spend from 50 to 100 is vastly more time consuming then it was during 1-50. You can’t slice it like this.
End-game is another step beyond that.
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I even put a smile there… why so serious and aggressive?
I started playing this game >20 years ago and know a bit about leveling.
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Not aggressive. I am merely pointing out that there are many pieces of evidence that lead me to conclude that were on the left side of the Dunning-Kreuger effect. And I gave you valid information. Take it or leave it. I don’t care anymore. I tried to help.
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Hi, you should look for BlackHeart86 on Youtube. Nice gameplay with chainlightning.
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icy veins website has some builds
stop spreading missinformation from steamers…
May be true that non meta builds are not S-tier but they are far fron non viable…
I’m playing a lightning sorcerer based on chain lightning, working on perfecting the build myself, and I’m lvl 92 able to clear NM dungeon tier50 easily
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End Game Sor4c builds incl Lightening
https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/sorcerer/builds/
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Stick with it man. My crackling build is annihilating torment tiers 21-25. I use the frost nova and ice blade enchantments at the moment. d4builds.gg/builds/b8c1c330-ce86-4dc4-b105-211b364c8633/
My build basically uses the CD reduction from crackling energy as a base for everything else.
You get survivability with unlimited shields from teleport and lightning spear. You get unlimited crowd control with stuns from shock skills, lightning spear and freeze from frost nova enchantment. You have constant vulnerability up with ice swords and frost nova procs. You can ult on a pack of enemies and have it off CD before its 10 sec duration expires, so you can immediately blink onto the next pack and ult them too. You have very high AOE damage when you ult. Single target damage is where this build lacks until the boss goes crowd controlled then you annihilate them.
Mana issues are mostly resolved with the prodigy aspect which restores 15-25 mana the legendry node that restores 10 mana when close enemies are stunned and picking up crackling energy(which im thinking of dropping now).
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so, I’m a chain Lightning sorc at 63 doing lvl 20 solo sacred nightmares with relative ease. I imagine it gets harder the further it goes up but currently i’m very viable and expect to be for some time. I feel that once Shako’s start dropping and you get +4 to everything that skill variety will open up. if, for example I had 4 more into frost nova I could cast it far more often. currently using teleport/lightningspear/frostnova/unstablecurrents/chainlightning/arclash. Enchantments=chainlightning/frostnova. My aspects are very specific to increase damage/viability/CC currently i’m critting out stunned targets for 58-78k (visually confirmed. May be higher) I haven’t had the perfect set up CC’s happen yet that would be my theoretical maximum but I’m having no trouble. If you want a list of aspects lemme know.
I’d be game to hear what the aspects are. I respec’d into charged bolts from chained lightning and i’d be willing to change back if i had a bit more of a gameplan.
So in other words, you are in midgame and massively overlvld for the NM dungeons you are clearing.
Like mate, t50 is actually not high.
And hello, im running a cl build too, but that doesn’t change, that the build isn’t only “not S-tier” It’s at best B-tier in midgame (where you are) and drops down to essentially non-playable in engame.
CL - currently lvl 87. Top dmg is about 150k. But most likely 20-40. I have 47% crit chance, 140% crit dmg, lightning crit dmg 70%, vulnerable dmg 80%, vs elit 120%, lightning dmg 250%, cracking energy 300%
Enchantments: arc lash ( for stun), charged bolt (more lightnings + 20% damage resist)
Depends on sigil, but 37-40 is ok - but 1 shots happens a lot + overall “tankiness” is low.
Mage lord aspect could be helpful - but it is not dropping.
And I really wanna try Melted Heart of Selig amulet
upd: 150-160k crits when you do a full combo - teleport(stun)+nova(freeze and vulnerable) + CL
at a time when there are space crits in frost and in other classes, the crits are 2.5kk+ of AOE skill
lightning have max 150k and havent normal aoe skill
just killed the world boss, literally in 5 seconds. And it’s clearly not me who did it on lightning
The first step to making an endgame build is realizing that the Chain Lightning Enchantment sucks. It scales negatively with mana cost reduction and ends up doing very little for your damage.
If you want a viable build then I suggest switching to a fire bolt and frost bolt enchantment combo. Fire bolt gets you all the passive goodies, but frost bolt brings the damage. It gains you access to multiplicative chill damage bonuses of 9% from the skill tree, up to 10% from boots, 10% from a glyph, and a ton of additive vs chilled/CCed bonuses from Paragon boards.
The standard firebolt/CL enchantment setup leaves you with very few glyph and Paragon node options, which ruins your chain lightning DPS.
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