Sorcerer Class Buffs in Season 5
When it comes to controlling the elements, Sorcerers are masters in all things arcane. As Season 5 enters the live game, this class has received some major buffs. With their skill Chain Lightning becoming a potent AoE mob clearing tool. This build takes advantage of its new buff this season and is a great leveling option due to its low Mana cost and spammable cooldown. Much of this build’s skill uses Lightning and Ice spells for the best early-game crowd control.
Skill Setup
This build primarily uses the following skills on the hotbar:
- Chain Lightning
- Arc Lash
- Teleport
- Unstable Currents
- Frost Nova
- Ice Armor
While Chain Lightning and Arc Lash will be your primary bread-and-butter skills, you’ll also use Frost Nova to prime your enemies with Vulnerability while using Unstable Currents to further increase your Chain Lightning’s effectiveness. Teleport will help you speed clear dungeons and Ice Armor is your emergency survival skill in case you take too much damage.
Skill Tree Allocation
While leveling your Sorcerer, spec your points into these talents in the following order:
- Arc Lash
- Enhanced Arc Lash
- Chain Lightning
- Flickering Arc Lash
- Enhanced Chain Lightning
- Greater Chain Lightning
- Teleport
- Frost Nova
- Enhanced Frost Nova
- Mystical Frost Nova
- 4 points in Chain Lightning
- Fireball in Enhancement slot
- 3 points in Glass Cannon
- Devastation
- 3 points in Elemental Dominance
- Elemental Attunement
- Unstable Currents
- Prime Unstable Currents
- Supreme Unstable Currents
- Ice Armor
- Enhanced Armor
- 4 points in Arc Lash
- Chain Lightning in the second Enhancement slot
- 3 points in Coursing Currents
- Vyr’s Mastery
- 3 points in Conduction
- 3 points in Electrocution
- Enhanced Teleport
- Shimmering Teleport
- 3 points in Protection
- 3 points in Mana Shield
- 4 points in Frost Nova
- 4 points in Teleport
Chain Lightning Gear Affixes
For your Legendary Aspects, these will be important for fully speccing out into Chain Lightning:
- Recharging Aspect
- Aspect of the Unbroken Tether
- Lightning Rod Aspect
- Elementalist’s Aspect
- Aspect of the Expectant
- Edgemaster’s Aspect
- Aspect of Control
- Accelerating Aspect
- Rapid Aspect
- Conceited Aspect
- Storm Swell Aspect
- Aspect of Might
- Aspect of the Bounding Conduit
As for your Gem slots, slot in Sapphires on your weapons as you’ll primarily be applying Vulnerable on enemies. For your armor, slot in Rubies for some maximum life and Skulls on your jewelry for a boost in your armor stats.
Lastly, for your gear affixes, you’ll want the following to further improve this build:
- Weapon
- Intelligence, Critical Strike Damage or Vulnerable Damage
- Helmet
- Critical Strike Chance or Cooldown Reduction
- Resource Cost Reduction or Lucky Hit Chance to Restore Primary Resource
- Maximum Life or Intelligence
- Chest
- Ranks to Chain Lightning, Critical Strike Chance, or Attack Speed
- Resource Cost Reduction, Resistances or Armor
- Maximum Life, Intelligence, Critical Strike Damage or Vulnerable Damage
- Pants
- Maximum Life or Intelligence
- Boots
- Mana per Second or Movement Speed
- Maximum Life or Intelligence
- Amulet
- Ranks to Glass Cannon and/or Elemental Dominance, Critical Strike Chance or Cooldown Reduction
- Attack Speed or Resource Cost Reduction
- Movement Speed, Resistances, or Armor