Rapid Fire Rogue Guide (Season 2) - Paragon Boards, Vampiric Powers, Skills, Aspects, Uniques.

Rapid Fire Rogue Endgame Build Guide

Bone Spear Necromancer Guide (Season 2) - Paragon Boards, Vampiric Powers, Skills, Aspects, Uniques.

Bone Spear Necromancer Endgame Build Guide


# Ball Lightning Sorcerer Guide (Season 2)
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Slay everything with a maelstrom of electrically-charged lightning balls! In Season 2, the Ball Lightning Sorcerer is one of the strongest builds in all of Diablo 4. This build setup will enable you to utterly annihilate Nightmare dungeons, wreck bosses, and even destroy Uber Lilith in seconds if you're fully optimized! What's even better is that this build has some of the best mobility in the game - you can teleport from place to place extremely quickly and wreck everything in your path.

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It's important to note also that this is a "glass cannon" version of Ball Lightning, prioritizing damage over survivability.
If you wish to build more defensively, you could drop Raiment of the Infinite , Tibault's Will , and/or the Godslayer Crown in favor of more resistance or damage reduction, but doing that is unnecessary unless you want to push 100 Nightmare Dungeons and you would lose out on some offensive power by doing so.

This is super resource-intensive, and you will not be able to keep multiple Ball Lightning orbs going until you get the build-enabling aspects and Uniques. For this reason, most people choose to level with the Arc Lash generator until you have enough resources to drop it altogether in favor of Flame Shield. Getting to that point can be tricky, and you're still powerful with Arc Lash, so don't despair when using it through the leveling process. The Ball Lightning Sorcerer build also requires putting your two mandatory Basic Skill points in Fire Bolt so it can be enchanted for added Burning Damage.

With the addition of the new Unique Ring Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop , we can super-charge our damage by adding the Infection Vampiric Power to give us another elemental damage source. Here are our four sources of elemental damage to get the most out of this bonus:

1. Lightning - Ball Lightning and Chain Lightning
2. Fire - Fire Bolt (enchanted)
3. Cold - Ice Blades 
4. Poison - Infection (Vampiric Power)

*Note - because of addition of the new Unique rings, this guide should take precedence over embedded video that was created before they existed. The information in this guide is the most up-to-date and accurate for making this build the most powerful!

## Skill Tree

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### Main Skill
- Ball Lightning - this is our main skill that deals the majority of our damage. It doesn't do a lot of damage in a single hit, but hits in rapid successsion with great results. Thanks to the Gravitational Aspect we can carry our Ball Lightning around to smack enemies with it.

### Defense
- Ice Armor - An amazing defensive Ability that can protect us with barrier and increased resource regeneration when active.

- Flame Shield - Get out of jail free ability that completely protects our Sorcerer from any damage. Should be used in any tricky situations to ensure survival.

### Utility
 - Ice Blades - A Conjuration Skill that is only used to get the bonus from the unique ring, Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop , since it provides a source of cold damage. Use for damage increase when required.

### Mobility
- Teleport - One of the best Mobility abilities in the game. Can pull the enemies in thanks to the Raiment of the Infinite and provide 30% Damage Reduction because of the Shimmering Teleport. Should be spammed consistently in all situations.

### Ultimate
- Unstable Currents - Excellent Damage amplifier that can provide even more Ball Lightning for us to carry around. Use it when you need more damage.

## Vampiric Powers 

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### Essential Powers

- Ravenous - Ramps our Attack Speed up to insane levels, giving us one of the biggest damage amplifiers this build can have.

- Metamorphosis - Grants an overall mobility increase and triggers Unstoppable which can provide +50 mana via Tibault's Will (which also scales with your Resource Generation stat) whenever you Evade! Evading through enemies also applies Vulnerable to them via Prey on the Weak. If you keep this power at level 1 rather than leveling it up, you actually gain more mana with each Evade, so keep it at level 1.

- Prey on the Weak - Makes enemies that are Afflicted by Vampiric Curse Vulnerable and provides as straight 16% damage increase - apply the Curse via Evade/Metamorphosis interaction!

- Infection - The damage boost is small, but this is taken because it adds poison damage and synergizes with Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop to give us a fourth elemental damage source, and therefore more bonus damage with 100% uptime!

- Anticipation - Unstable Currents ultimate is our big damage amplifier, and this reduces its cooldown by 20%, increasing uptime.

### Interchangeable Powers

For most cases, if we want to utilize any alternative Vampiric Powers, we will want to replace Anticipation .

- Domination - a great way to boost damage against crowd controlled enemies - can also help with instant kills against injured non-elites in higher tiers Dungeons and in the Abattoir of Zir.

- Undying - A great way to heal that synergizes very well with high attack speed and a lot of cats. Could be mandatory to Survive better in higher tier dungeons.

- Resilience - Another good source of Survivability that can provide up to 50% of Damage Reduction Based on missing health.

## Gear Aspects and Priority

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### Offensive

- Gravitational Aspect - This is the BIGGEST build-enabling aspect for Ball Lightning Sorceress Build, which transforms the skill from a single bolt to a stacking orbit, and increases the damage through the roof!

- Conceited Aspect - Amplifies our damage while we have a Barrier, which is almost all the time thanks to Ice Armor !

- Aspect of Control - Everything gets crowd-controlled as part of Ball Lightning Sorceress Build, so this boosts our damage to most enemies!

- Recharging Aspect - Used to boost our resource generation from the enormous amount of Chain Lightning going out via our enchantment.

### Defensive

- Aspect of Disobedience - this is the best damage reduction aspect in the game, almost doubles your armor when put in your Amulet, or increases it by 66% in your other slots. It's optimal to use on the amulet slot for better survivability.

### Alternative Aspects

- Prodigy's Aspect - An alternative way to keep resource regeneration high. Our cooldowns are used ridiculously frequently, so this serves as a huge Mana battery that allows us to keep the Ball Lightning going.

- Storm Swell Aspect - An great source of damage which can give us bonuses against enemies that we make Vulnerable through the Metamorphosis and Prey on the Weak Vampiric Power interaction.

- Ghostwalker Aspect - Paired with Metamorphosis Vampiric Power it is the best aspect for mobility in boots. 
 
- Accelerating Aspect - Can provide a solid damage increase from Attack Speed increase.

## Recommended Unique Items

- Godslayer Crown - Gives us a great cooldown boost while pulling enemies in and increasing damage to them! Can also Increase single target damage to melt bosses faster.

- Raiment of the Infinite - Pulls enemies together to get slaughtered by our Ball Lightnings after each Teleport, and allows us to kill enemies so quickly we don't have to deal with their affixes and damage. A really strong option for CC and clear speed.

- Flickerstep - Reduces our cooldown for Unstable Currents with every evade - a big damage amplifier!

- Tibault's Will - Provides a damage boost when we are unstoppable, and also triggers the resource generation ability through the Metamorphosis Vampiric Power / Teleport / Flame Shield usage. Make sure that you are not Unstoppable at the moment to get the Resource boost.

- Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop - Enables a huge enhancement to our damage, with a 15% (at max) bonus for each of the four elemental damage sources we use, and due to our build interactions we can them all for even more damage.

## Alternative Unique Items

- Harlequin Crest (Shako) - The best of the best! Increases your survivability, damage, and cooldown and health. +4 to All Skills bonus can boost overall performance significantly. This should replace Godslayer Crown if it drops.

- Esu's Heirloom - A good damage amplifier that works best for single target damage in short fights when you need some burst.

## Resistances

In Season 2 the resistance system was revamped heavily. Now to achieve maximum survivability we will need to cap most if not all of them to a maximum of 70%. This can be done through a variety of options.
For Sorcerer Builds we receive a lot of resistances from our paragon boards, but we can add some Royal Diamond in the Jewelry slots to get more if needed.
For higher tier nightmare dungeons we will ideally need at least 60%+ to stay alive without any issues and have a smoother gameplay experience overall.

## Enchantments

- Chain Lightning - Forms automatically every 100 Mana spent, which is constant in this build since it is very mana hungry, and synergizes with Recharging Aspect to provide a constant resource generator and damage source.

- Fire Bolt - This allows our Ball Lightning to deal additional Burning Damage to trigger effects from the unique ring Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop . It can also open the way to some passives that can work only when enemies are burning.

## Paragon

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Our Paragon Boards emphasize the most powerful damage bonuses, including boosts to Crackling Energy , Crowd-Controlled enemies, and Mastery Skills (including Ball Lightning !). 
We also pick resistances here and there together with other survivability increases if we can.

- Reinforced - Initial Board - provides Non-Physical Damage, Resistance to All Elements, and Intelligence boosts while also giving us 15% Damage Reduction while our Ice Armor is up.

- Territorial - Static Surge Board - Almost all of our damage is to Close targets, including enemies hit by Ball Lightning and Fire Bolt, so this provides a big damage bonus while also giving us some vital damage reduction.

- Exploit - Searing Heat Board - our abilities make all enemies Vulnerable, so this increases our damage to Vulnerable targets while also adding an additional Vulnerable engine.

- Charged - Enchantment Master Board - The Crackling Energy produced by Ball Lightning gives us both more Crackling Energy Damage and more overall bonus damage.

- Control - Ceaseless Conduit Board - In this build we crowd control everything, so the additional stacking damage bonus is extremely helpful.

- Destruction - Burning Instinct Board - even though Critical Strike Damage isn't quite as good as it used to be, it and the increase to all damage is a crucial boost!

- Adept - Elemental Summoner Board - Ball Lightning is a Mastery Still, so this gives us a lot of extra damage and area bonus to our chief source of damage.

### Legendary Nodes

- Static Surge - because we are constantly spending Mana, the 10% bonus Mana after Chain Lightning is very helpful to keep our resources high at all times!

## Playstyle and Rotation

We can start engagements with teleport to pull enemies in and stun them, then we spam Ball Lightning until every enemy around has been eliminated. Use Unstable Currents when you encounter tougher enemies that aren't immediately destroyed.

In the meantime we can also use Ice Armor right after Teleport to get some resource generation and overall defense.

Click Flame Shield if we are losing too much health or there are too many enemies around, or in various difficult situation.

For single target like tough Elites or Bosses we will want to use Ice Blades and Unstable Currents at the start of the fight to deal with them quickly - after that just spam Ball Lightning and defensive abilities when necessary.

## Conclusion

The Ball Lightning Sorcerer build can perform very well in all types of content due to the amazing damage potential together with strong chain CC that helps to lock enemies before they can do anything.

It also excels at Speed clears due to the frequent usage of Teleport and the ability to pull enemies in to kill them more quickly and efficiently.

This build boasts some of the best single target damage in the game, but can lack the survivability of other builds.

Given all the upsides, the build can be a perfect for all the content in the game including Abattoir of Zir.


Ball Lightning Sorcerer Guide - Paragon Boards, Vampiric Powers, Skills, Aspects, Uniques.

Ball Lightning Sorcerer Endgame Build Guide


Tortured Gift of Living Steel chests during the helltide event require 300 cinders to open, and you'll need these to farm mats for Uber Duriel, which is the primary method
to obtain uber uniques in Diablo 4 Season 2.

All the possible spawn locations for these chests can be seen below.  The locations that are active have a purple circle hovering over them.  The set of active chests rotates on the hour during helltide events.

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To track all world events like helltides, bosses, and legion events, head over to [Diablo 4 Event Tracker](/trackers)

To save your progress for marked locations, and for a fullscreen view of the full map of Sanctuary, head to [Diablo 4 Interactive Map](/map)

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Tortured Gift of Living Steel chests are necessary for farming Grigoire the Saint, and Uber Duriel

All Helltide Tortured Gift of Living Steel Locations


Tortured Gift of Mysteries chests during the helltide event require 250 cinders to open, but they are well worth it.  They have a much higher chance to drop high level gear and necessary crafting resources.

It's highly recommended to save your Aberrant Cinders for these chests, as they are much better than the other helltide chest types.

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All the possible spawn locations for these chests can be seen below.  The locations that are active have a green circle hovering over them.  The set of active chests rotates on the hour during helltide events.

To track all world events like helltides, bosses, and legion events, head over to [Diablo 4 Event Tracker](/trackers)

To save your progress for marked locations, and for a fullscreen view of the full map of Sanctuary, head to [Diablo 4 Interactive Map](/map)
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Tortured Gift of Mysteries chests have a very high chance to reward high level legendaries and uniques

All Helltide Tortured Gift of Mysteries Locations


Along your leveling journey in Sanctuary, you may have come across some unique elite monsters, with a guaranteed rare drop.  Revisiting these elite monsters on higher world tiers is very worth it,
because they can drop sacred and ancestral items with very high item power that can be imprinted with legendary aspects.  For a map of all possible unique elite location, see the interactive map below:


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To save your progress for marked locations, and for a fullscreen view of the full map of Sanctuary, head to [Diablo 4 Interactive Map](/map)


Some of the highest item power gear you can farm in D4 are guaranteed drops from unique elite monsters

Farming the Highest Item Power Gear in Diablo 4


After you've completed the main Diablo 4 campaign, explored the map, and unlocked every altar of lilith, that leaves side quests and dungeons as ways you can increase your renown to get increased paragon points for every zone.
There are a number of side quests that involve a dungeon in some way, so the most efficient way to farm this source of renown is to do them both at the same time!  To help, here is a list of all the side quests that will
require you to complete a dungeon as part of the quest chain:

*Credit to [/u/Tyndy](https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/143ho61/list_of_all_side_quests_that_lead_to_dungeons_for/) for compiling this list*
## SCOSGLEN  
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**Dungeon:** Domhainne Tunnels  
The Seer - [Map Link](/map?lat=65.50820416340673&lon=51.765604052591414&marker=The%20Seer)  

**Dungeon:** Underroot  
Daughter of the Oak - [Map Link](/map?lat=62.78132127577916&lon=31.817811582607163&marker=Daughter%20of%20the%20Oak)  

**Dungeon:** Sarat's Lair  
Feral Moon - [Map Link](/map?lat=55.21088986883862&lon=41.39210933433972&marker=Feral%20Moon)    
Fields of Ruin - [Map Link](/map?lat=63.32493054172551&lon=43.5043238568542&marker=Fields%20of%20Ruin)  

**Dungeon:** Wretched Delve  
The Diviner - [Map Link](/map?lat=68.22022471508478&lon=-20.384702137426274&marker=The%20Diviner)  

## FRACTURED PEAKS  
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**Dungeon:** Light's Watch  
Legacies of Light's Watch - [Map Link](/map?lat=-18.073260590315627&lon=57.62891511051535&marker=Legacies%20of%20Light's%20Watch)  

**Dungeon:** Hoarfrost Demise  
Shattered Tribute - [Map Link](/map?lat=20.002016775015846&lon=98.79846019871007&marker=Shattered%20Tribute)  

**Dungeon:** Rimescar Cavern  
Hammer of the Champion - [Map Link](/map?lat=20.348717479034818&lon=97.37226891185571&marker=Hammer%20of%20the%20Champion)  

**Dungeon:** Black Asylum  
Cries of Innocence - [Map Link](/map?lat=12.597723105168726&lon=74.86771635869687&marker=Cries%20of%20Innocence%20)  

**Dungeon:** Sanguine Chapel  
Blood Sermon - [Map Link](/map?lat=31.69974214944942&lon=115.7281631692689&marker=Blood%20Sermon)  

**Dungeon:** Cultists Refuge  
Sight to Madness - [Map Link](/map?lat=11.02459261360282&lon=60.885291205670114&marker=Sight%20to%20Madness)  

**Dungeon:** Hallowed Ossuary  
The Dread Martyr - [Map Link](/map?lat=18.848928827486233&lon=84.38558878505609&marker=The%20Dread%20Martyr)  

## DRY STEPPES 
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**Dungeon:** Champion's Demise  
Raising Spears - [Map Link](/map?lat=10.84692039869654&lon=-44.75222277073675&marker=Raising%20Spears)    
Consumed by Pride - [Map Link](/map?lat=9.727768067812363&lon=-46.13249927435416&marker=Consumed%20by%20Pride)  

**Dungeon:** Grinning Labyrinth  
Hubris Smiles Back - [Map Link](/map?lat=-11.473406024194304&lon=-31.5828327253474&marker=Hubris%20Smiles%20Back)    
Augury of Bones - [Map Link](/map?lat=-11.753202691039405&lon=-31.791572959722544&marker=Augury%20of%20Bones)  

**Dungeon:** Whispering Vault  
In the Name of Love - [Map Link](/map?lat=31.771408669725233&lon=-7.2684781886597705&marker=In%20the%20Name%20of%20Love)  

## HAWEZAR
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**Dungeon:** Blind Burrows  
A Price to Pay - [Map Link](/map?lat=-65.9337858858503&lon=-4.8278776731959&marker=A%20Price%20to%20Pay)    
The Heretic - [Map Link](/map?lat=-68.1220387212996&lon=-4.156712531443304&marker=The%20Heretic)  

**Dungeon:** Maugan's Folly  
Remnants of Faith - [Map Link](/map?lat=-66.5350003889918&lon=-6.345989206700409&marker=Remnants%20of%20Faith)  

**Dungeon:** Shadowed Plunge  
Left Behind - [Map Link](/map?lat=-71.92739751538085&lon=48.35288007487168&marker=Left%20Behind)  

**Dungeon:** Light’s Refuge  
Desperate Remedies - [Map Link](/map?lat=-42.67289839418873&lon=41.60945008936835&marker=Desperate%20Remedies)  

## KHEJISTAN
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**Dungeon:** Prison of Caldeum  
Remnants - [Map Link](/map?lat=-57.465755626610694&lon=-91.40818095927834&marker=Remnants)  

**Dungeon:** Conclave  
A Voice from the Past - [Map Link](/map?lat=-63.81138510020628&lon=-111.66516523762887&marker=A%20Voice%20from%20the%20Past)    
The Speaking Stone - [Map Link](/map?lat=-71.54147772066949&lon=-123.44106272474227&marker=The%20Speaking%20Stone)  

**Dungeon:** Forgotten Ruins  
A Wolf's Honor - [Map Link](/map?lat=-46.11484677974582&lon=-101.78073315&marker=A%20Wolf's%20Honor)  
  
**Dungeon:** Tomb of the Saints  
Symbol of Faith - [Map Link](/map?lat=-17.63134219621152&lon=-107.93362483009044&marker=Symbol%20of%20Faith)  


Side Quests and Dungeons are both options for increasing your renown to make your character more powerful

Efficient Renown Farming in Diablo 4


Abattoir of Zir is coming to Diablo 4 Season 2 on December 5th.

Blizzard has prepared a new challenge for players who are seeking to test their mettle against the hardest game encounters.

Lord Zir, a boss introduced in the Season of Blood, gathers his vampire legions to launch an attack on Sanctuary. Definitely not the first villain to attempt that, yet Blizzard claims the challenge players are going to face is the hardest Season 2 has seen so far.

The new Nightmare Dungeon type will go live with the Patch 1.2.3 on December 5 and will add a new Glyph Tears of Blood that will be able to be leveled up to level 200 as well as a special Sigil type - Bloodforged Sigils, where you will be able to face Zir’s legions themselves.

Want to make sure you are prepared? Check out our [Diablo 4 Build Guides](/builds) to beat Abattoir of Zir.


Don't skip cellars while exploring the world of Sanctuary!  You may just find a cellar full of loot goblins.

Abattoir of Zir is coming to Diablo 4 Season 2 December 5th


It seems that at least some of the powerful effects granted by malignant hearts in Season 1 of Diablo 4 will be returning in the form of Malignant Rings.  To earn these rings, you can farm Echo of Varshan starting on November 7th.
The rings will be available in both the seasonal and eternal realms.


## Barbarian
#### RING OF RED FUROR
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## Druid
#### AIRIDAH'S INEXORABLE WILL
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## Necromancer
#### RING OF THE SACRILEGIOUS
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## Rogue
#### WRITHING BAND OF TRICKERY
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## Sorcerer
#### TAL RASHA'S IRIDESCENT LOOP
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Upcoming items for Diablo 4 - Malignant Rings - mark the return of powerful malignant heart effects

Malignant Rings Bring Back Season 1 Malignant Heart Powers


The new expansion for Diablo IV - Vessel of Hatred will be coming late next year, and feature a new class never before seen in the Diablo universe.  This seems to rule out the return of the fan favorite Paladin class for the time being.  This article will be updated as more details about the expansion emerge.

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Upcoming Diablo IV expansion, Vessel of Hatred, is coming late next year

Diablo IV Expansion - Vessel of Hatred


Don't skip those loot cellars!  Apparently there are various tiers of loot cellars, the highest being one that can spawn full of loot goblins.  As you can see from the below video by [DM: Diablo 4](https://www.youtube.com/@dmdiablo4), loot cellars
can come loaded with loot goblins who have also been [confirmed to have been buffed for launch](https://www.wowhead.com/news/treasure-goblins-buffed-for-launch-diablo-4-333038).  

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