Arc Lash - Diablo 4 Sorcerer Build

In Mastery we’ll be levelling our Ball Lightning, we choose to level this as our source of real damage because of how it scales with our kit and the modifiers we take. In our build, we want a lot of attack speed for “Arc Lash”, due to this if we take “Enhanced Ball Lightning” which lets “Ball Lightning” scale with our attack speed by ticking faster, we are increasing our DPS better than we would with other options.

Although this build doesn’t “need” Legendary Aspects to be functional and thus can be played pretty early on once you activate your ultimate, you’ll want to start your very early levels playing with “Chain Lightning” until you get your ultimate and Keystone. This build functions better with item modifiers such as “Cooldown Reduction”, as our ultimate “Unstable Currents” is what we’re playing around.

The Rapid Aspect, Aspect of Control, and Aspect of Might can all be obtained from Dungeons, and you should attempt to aim for these Aspects when you can, this will give you easy access to some essential Aspects to increase damage early and give your levelling process an overall boost.

At lower levels we want to run the “Arc Lash” Enchantment and “Fireball”, to help increase our CD reduction and overall clear speed. The Arc Lash Enchantment stuns nearby enemies, allowing us to utilise “Aspect of Control” and the CD reduction on Arc Lash, although it’s brief every little helps early on.

We’ll be using all 4 of the Sorcerer's defensive abilities, allowing us the ability to survive most situations. Teleport should be used mainly in my opinion to engage but can be used to retreat until you get used to the play style, this is also how you would commonly play when you don’t have the Raiments of the Infinite.

Ice Armour should be used when initiating, we don’t take any passives, but it’s an incredibly strong defence on its own. We do have the option of opting into its passive “Mystical Ice Armour” which increases barrier size when attacking vulnerable enemies, this can be effective if you have durability issues as we are always applying vulnerable.

Frost Nova is our source of Vulnerability, this is great because we can have a reasonably consistent uptime on this, due to “Glinting Arc Lash” reducing the Cooldown of this as well.

Flame Shield is our form of “Cleanse”, it allows us to skip out on control-impairing effects, and it also gives us a valuable boost of speed, I usually use it to break out of hard CCs or move away from ground effects that will CC me, it’s important to note here that Flame Shield also makes us “Immune”, it’s an incredibly powerful skill that gives us the ability to avoid getting one-shot.

We want to focus on using the Keystone “Overflowing Energy” as it helps with our Cooldowns, specifically reducing “Unstable Currents”, which is the ability our build revolves around, we want this to have as much uptime as possible.

Early game Vyr’s Mastery can be taken for a bit of extra damage and defence if you feel you lacking in these areas, but I believe “Overflowing Energy” should still work just fine.

The Keystone “Shatter” is also a viable choice late game when we get enough cooldown reduction to forgo, “Overflowing Energy”. Shatter can bring in a substantial amount of wave clear, and we’re able to Freeze enemies often due to our innate CD reduction that also will affect Frost Nova.

Vyr's Mastery, recently buffed now holds a good position as a more optimal choice for late game, as it gives us an incredible power and defence boost that will help us move into high NM dungeons, while we may struggle with keeping Unstable Currents active without proper CD on gear, but with good CD on gear and proper use of Arc Lash we shouldn't have a problem maintaining it allowing us to drop Overflowing Energy.

Our Ultimate and the source of our builds power, “Unstable Currents” is a great skill, allowing us for 10 seconds to cast random “Shock” skills, it can cast all of them, at random- and it’ll even cast them at the level we have them at, with the passives we select, so due to us focusing on “Ball Lightning” we have it levelled so that Unstable Currents is casting ours and not a “Level 1” version.