Lightning Spear Sorcerer Endgame Build Guide

If you are fresh in Torment 1 coming from a leveling guide, this is where you begin. Since only some Aspects can be guaranteed from Dungeon unlocks for the Codex of Power, focus on acquiring the additional aspects via gambling with Murmuring Obols.

Gear & Skills

• Early on in your progression, focus on Armor & Resistances to survive. Each Torment difficulty adds a penalty of -250 Armor and -25% all Res and it's recommended to keep both capped (1000 Armor, 70+ Res) at all times. As you unlock higher power gear, masterworking levels and more Paragon points, you naturally scale your character into the higher difficulties and can start replacing some of these rolls with offensive or utility stats.
• Starter version of the build uses Spark as our main skill. This way we don't have to worry about Mana generation and we also get some free Crit Chance, as well as acess to Hectic to help with Cooldowns.

The goal here is to progress through the Torment difficulties as you unlock Ancestrals, Paragon points, all Legendary Aspects, Temper mods and the most important Uniques to pilot this build. Some Legendary Aspects are used temporarily to fill slots that may be replaced with more Unique items later on.

Gear & Skills

• As you upgrade your gear to Ancestrals with more masterworking levels and reach higher paragon, you can focus more and more on replacing Armor & Resistance rolls with better stats, but ensure to stay capped at 1000 Armor and 70%+ Resistances for the difficulty you're currently in.
• In this version of the build we don't change much compared to the started version. We get Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop, Rakanoth's Wake, and Godslayer Crown but they don't change the build in a noticeable way.
• When we get enough Mana Regeneration we switch from Spark to Charged Bolts. This skill has much better Lucky Hit Chance, gives us access to Mana Shield and has a higher chance to summon Lightning Spear from Unstable Currents because it cannot duplicate the spell used to trigger it.
• At this stage of the game getting 100% uptime on Unstable Currents is more important than anything else so we use Zec Rune instead of Thul to help with that.
• Sidhe Bindings give a lot of Primordial Binding Ranks when upgraded. As a result, this passive becomes a lot less desirable on the Amulet (ideally we have another passive there).

This Speedfarming variant optimizes the build for easy activities like Helltides, Whispers, Nightmare Dungeons and lower Pit Tiers after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression.

Gear & Skills

Speedfarming setup is barely different from the normal one. You just need to make sure that your CDR is capped and that both your Boots and Amulet have Evade CDR tempers. That, combined with Enchantment Master should be enough to drop your Evade cooldown below 1.5s meaning any attack will instantly reset it. If you don't quite have enough CDR on your gear, you can use Flickerstep for its 2.5s Evade CDR.

This setup optimizes the build to push the highest possible Tiers in The Pit after you have finished the Mythic variant and reached a plateau in your progression. This variant sacrifices a lot of convenience and tankiness to get maximum damage output.

Gear & Skills

• We replace Charged Bolts with Ball Lightning because it casts even faster. If you struggle with Mana, get a Lucky Hit Chance to Restore Resource roll on your Weapon.
• Instead of Shroud of False Death we use Raiment of the Infinite. It provides similar damage bonus and also lets us group enemies together which is extremely important when they don't die instantly. Since spamming Evade Teleport is already optimal for our Lightning Spear generation, this item gives us unparalleled ability to keep all enemies in the same spot. Without Shroud of False Death you will lose a lot of All Stats and some Rare nodes on your paragon will deactivate. That's not a big deal because these late nodes mostly give you little bits of health and damage reduction. You can partially fix this problem by using Spiral Morning.
• We switch to Roaring Lightning Spear upgrade and pickup Mystical Flame Shield.
• We change our Main Boss Power to Beast in the Ice's Sleet and replace Thul with Ahu Qax combo for extra damage.
• We put 3 points into Invigorating Conduit to manage the increased Mana consumption.
• Finally, we replace Ice Armor with Greater Fireball to execute Elites and to reactivate Enlightenment faster. Without Ice Armor we can no longer use Snowveiled so we get Mind's Awakening in its placce to keep 100% Barrier.

In order to maximize the damge of Lightning Spear we need to do some snapshots. At the very start of the run, before you cast any Lightning Spear or Unstable Currents, use Ball Lightning to get full stacks of Roaring Lightning Spear. Then go find and enemy, stun them with Flame Shield and go ham with your Lightning Spears and all other spells. From this point as long as you maintain at least 1 active Lightning Spear, all your Splintering Energy procs will benefit from full Roaring Lightning Spear buff as well as Mystical Flame Shield's Crit Damage buff (which science cannot explain).

You can push this build even further if you wish, but it becomes very tedious and difficult to play.

1. Fist change is rather mild: replace your pants with Tibault's Will. You will lose a bit of tankiness and will generate way less Barrier but your overall damage will go up by 8-10%.
2. Second is much more radical change: using Heir of Perdition. This gives you 1.6[x] damage multiplier and also lets you run Harbinger of Hatred's Volley instead of Crit Chance power, but you lose a lot of Life, Armor, and CDR. You can somewhat compensate it with Unstable Currents CDR temper on the Amulet, Armor temper on Pants, and by switching to Roaring Ice Blades. But even with all that, surviving will be quite a challenge.