Chain Lightning - Lightning Currents - Diablo 4 Sorcerer Build

Chain Lightning is our bread and butter for this build, it does reasonable damage and bounces often giving us plenty of extra damage to boot. It works great with Unstable Currents and its bounces are further increased by Aspects like "Unbroken Tether".

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.

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.

Are keystones with this build don’t change, at all, “Vyr’s Mastery” is basically the best possible solution for our build, especially after the buffs, it gives up great damage up close and a huge DR bonus to boot. If you wanted better up time on your Unstable Currents we could opt for Overflowing Energy but I don't personally think it's required.

Mana can be a problem early, so we'll want two rings invested for this.

Firstly we'll always want Recharging Aspect, The Aspect was buffed recently as well putting it pretty high up there if you're using Chain Lightning. it can be picked up early as a Dungeon Reward which is incredibly helpful.

The second aspect we'll want is something like Prodigy Aspect, though getting anything here and working around it can help, for example, a decently Aspect of the Umbral mixed with Frost Bolt enchantment can work very similarly to how Recharging Aspect works.

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 Chain Lightning, Unstable will also have a chance to cast those same Chain Lightnings.