Chain Lightning PTR T101 | Axial Conduit Pants | My disappointment is Immeasurable 

"Looks like we need to nerf sorc and buff barbarian " -Blizzard probably

think i saw a 2mil crit in there, we getting closer to barbs 77barbillion dmg number

This looks sick, but for being the "super op mega buffed" ability for Sorc next season this is laughable. Also yet another build where mana makes or breaks the build. Blizzard is incapable of just letting Sorcs have fun.

That was way too efficient. Definitely getting a 50% damage nerf just like the Orb build this season. Also, 100% barb getting another buff, they are too squishy and dont do enough damage 🥂

Just login with my ball light sorc and feel so sad. Teleport nerfed, focus nerfed, flame shield nerfed, ice armor nerfed :_( I am teleporting 30% slower and have no more damage to compensate. If chain lightning build would not perform too, so RIP sorc Very sad day

Having to let the boss kill you first seems very viable for Hardcore! 2 Thumbs up! (/s Blizzard please buff Sorc for the love of all that's Holy)

The God of…I mean Lord of Thunder Build lmao. This is probably the Thunder Apprentice build base on the performance. Damage needs 300% buff across the board for any Sorc build.

Damage is to low for a fully decked Sorc. I saw a 2mil. We need hits for 30m to be able to compete with other classes.

"Look how They massacred My boy" (blizzard)

I hate how blizzard is almost trying to make you play a different class if you play solo just to be able to farm tormented or push the pit from season to season. I don’t care about specific builds being nerfed but don’t make me play barb when I find the gameplay boring just so I can have a chance at a mythic unique drop.

We found a bug in the pit where you have to die to them, and then you can actually deal damage to them.

Have to give up a ring for recharging aspect sadly don’t see how else we can sustain mana… if only we could use both tals and starless Ty for prompt testing looks fun

This looks incredibly fun

Lurkin, these new pants are quite interesting because there is actually very little reason to build around chain lightning with them. Why? Because their proc itself is actually better than chain lightning with a higher ceiling, and because you dont even need to directly use the skill chain lightning to use them. Go for max cdr on gear, go non-unique rings and amulet for 3x unstable current cdr reduction. Go for as much attack speed and crit chance as possible. Use arc lash and unstable currents to proc free casts of chain lightning, these work with the pants proc. You can get so much effective attack speed with arc lash now because of the new "chance to cast arc lash again" tempers, combined with the already existing second cast of arc lash on crit skill effect. You will be spitting out so many chain lightnings during unstable currents free of charge, and maintaining max mana with arc lash new 5 mana a hit effect(works on the additional proc when you crit and addittional cast tempers). The last part of this strategy is the new helm of lucion. This is because its increased resource cost per stack works on the pants effect "6 mana drained", which is important because it allows you to build up to the 66 threshold far faster and more often. I was able to kill tormented duriel in 10 seconds. Addittionally since you wont be spending mana casting arc lash, the helm will still build up stacks off of the mana spent on the pants proc itself. Allowing you to maintain max stacks at all times. Dont build around chain lightning at all, build around the pants effect, and arc lash. You only need a a point in chain lightning and two more in its sub tree, simply to access the pants proc.

It literally feels like (had the same thoughts when playing wow) that Blizzard has 2 parallel teams working on the same game. Switching up every patch, so one feels decent and has some playable moments, when the next one is dog's shit .

they give us the flashiest skills but we got the shittiest damage, still my fellow sorcs thank you for your efforts

I started out playing my Blizzard build. The cooldown changes on Ice Armor and Flame shield hurt and then add to that the loss of CDR on the focus and it has slowed that build down. Then I made a new character to try Lightning. Since Blizzard keeps reducing our defensive abilities, I figured they must have given us some big damage so that we do not need defense because we will one shot everything. Nope, although the lightning skills look cool as hell, I struggled even doing mini bosses in Helltides. I then put on Andariel helm, and put a few points in Ice Blades and Hydra for more types of damage and more cooldowns for Prodigy (mana problems). Still no defensive skills because I know Blizzard has got my back and they are encouraging me to play full offense. Right?

Honestly if they just adjust the single target damage this would be perfect. The only area I see this struggling is the boss portion. You mowed through the Mobs faster than I’ve been able to do with any of the classes I’ve played this season.

Capping the damage on greater chain lightning to 30% was a big mistake, even without the cap it wouldnt have amounted to much damage anyway. I dont know what the design philosophy behind this change was. You cant even infinitely scale this damage increase, its capped at the max amount of bounces so why?

Seems very fun, great for speed running all content, easily deals with high pit for material farm. Couldn't care less if there are stronger builds, it's more than adequate.

I think the build is good need some small buffs only, as i heard that the bosses in the ptr take almost close to no damage as they are bugged, not sure if they fixed them. Plus remember they gonna introduce the new S5 theme which include some powers and such as well to compensate, but compare this to Barb, this is shit i agree.

This is the build I've been waiting for. Hoping for some buffs before the season

I clicked "Show Normal Damage" in options and I still cant see Sorc damage numbers.

I had zero expectations and Im still disappointed. Maybe arc lash will work but thats it

I think the pit nerfs didn’t make it into the PTR, everyone is struggling. I wouldn’t overthink it.

People are sleeping on Shocking Impact. 150% damage to stunned enemies with 3 ranks and that is easy to do with LS and Audacity. You can also add ranks with amulet

Still the same really. Frozen orb can clear mobs but not boss. Same situation. Looks fun but requires buffs

At this point they have 0 excuse they just dont care man its not that hard to give some buff to sorc we do like 0.1% of the dmg done by barb and rogue

Will skip season 5. I don't like how stronger barbs and other classes become with every patch and how much stupid nerfs and new absurd mechanics reseive sorcs.

Bro F them..If you want to play real Wizard try Last Epoch, next season is coming soon. :)

Pit is bugged. Even devs said it. Don't know if only bosses but some say that mobs are too. It's harder. My friend that is testing on Ptr he did pit 101 hardly but on S4 he could do 140. So bad scaling maybe. We will see. Thanks for showcase and keep up good work, thank 😊

at end of the day it doesn't metter , if CL hit like a wet noodle , with this unique we still have a really cool and flashy wet noodle🤣

Well they got the visuals and gameplay loop down…now give a boost to base damage of chain lightning and give unbroken tether x% damage pls

Build actually works with CROWN of LUCION. Sadly helm is bugged an makes DobbleDip multiple DMG.

that’s a tier 101 to sad days…

I will try a hydra burning but for sure s5 will be Druid for me, sorc needs to be rebuilt as it was for abattoir , sorc was good just cause dmg red on injured, sorc is a meme right now

Sorc. Underwhelming? No way. It’s almost like a running joke at this point. Let’s nerf survivability. AND Make it do less damage than every other class. It’s not even like it’s something that’s a skill gap to if you’re good at it it’s godly. It just plain sucks that you HAVE to have 3 defense skill slots at all time to do average content.

Good at clearing.. terrible on bosses :( ... I looked forward for that build to come but after making it I had problems with the boss at ND 90... :(

Any particular reason we are putting points into Charged bolts and ball lightning when they're not on the action bar?

i think the real sorx build in s5 is blizzard with azurewrath and shatter.

Why u dont play blizzard? Blizzard sorc doing 800m burst its my fav build

As a fellow sorc I can tell you. Blizzard is testing our love for the brand. I never give up I only play with sorc mostly HC, since they changed the flame shield enchantment slot I knew blizzard is trying to turn our class in a worthless piece of garbage! We die so easy and have to rely on magic for stay alive, when we menage to stay alive they start nerf our skills

storm swell aspect is giving 30% dmg when u have ice armor active and another 30% to frozen enemies

Only barbs can hit high without bugs

sorc is such a glass cannon, minus the cannon part.

I was on PTR tonight. Ready for this? I couldnt even damage the boss of the Pit, and it was the lvl I use for farming. Overall mobbing might have been a little bit quicker, but they BROKE bossing. You thought it was bad before? Shit's unplayable

This build is so low damage against bosses....and the bosses are bugged, if u die once you get like 1000 stacks of pity and they have like 1% of their original HP on your second try. Horrible changes and horrible tuning.

Did I saw for a split second 10m dmg? I might be wrong, but just in case, nerf it.

Druids doing 19 damage now. We’re getting closer to barbs as well.

Looks really cool, does 0 damage. Must be a sorc build

man this electromaster build is interesting

I love how everything is stunned before u even get there. The pit was lovely, and boss damage does look pretty good. Imma definitely have to try n stack max life on the bitch in higher tiers. Build/affixes/tempering/aspects look like choices i would make as well. Awesome vid and showcase!!

Remember that time sorc had a bugged build that is constantly referenced by Blizz and others as OP and broken? Spolier....it was still worse than barb in that season 😊

You need the Crown of Lucion with Axial Conduit.

respect bro

Visually it looks cool and it seems like it would be fun to play but the damage numbers just seem so far from what the other classes are doing.

All these damage legendary effects are bad as theres no way to scale them or they dont work with other multipliers. The only one ive seen that can scale is the wind shear aspect which is bugged as the basic skill multiplers from other aspects scales the poison damage on the wind sheer aspect as well as the base wind shear damage They need to give us ridiculous i mean ridiculous multipliers, tal rasha should give 50% per stack lol and give us back omnipower, that was the only season where chain lightning was viable.

Seems like dmg needs to be doubled to even tickle barbarians balls. Let alone compete

RIP sorc

Won't this temper disappear from the game? Unless I increase the number of times I can do it, it's not worth it. As long as Sorc remains weak I won't go back to this game and I won't give in to another class.

Isn't this one of the builds hitting for 2 quadrillion alongside druid shenanigans...?

Can this get any better or no ? I’m saying maybe A tier good vid thz

Well this looks cool af anyways. Needs some buffs to be more viable though.

Blizzard really nerfed Sorc to the ground.. this is so sad.. guess I’m not playing season 5

Sorc always never getting big bursts of damage like other classes but at least dps is good? I can’t stand this. They better be cooking up massive buffs for the actual season drop. This is ridiculous.

How much of the damage is from Andariel's? I tried the new pants on my sorc (which in fairness is designed for ball lightning) and it was sort of like getting a weak ball lightning in exchange for 66 mana. I need to try some other options but so far neither of the new sorc uniques are worthwhile.

Dmg numbers so low. How can we compite others. I did try both new pant and new staff... oh god staff is more terrible then pant

That seems a bit underwhelming.

Like 1000% more damage and a perma cooldown shrine then it'll be good

Did they revert the PIT boss DR? If so, this might be impressive.

This weird boss bug, i hope they fix it quickly

Visually stunning but Barb still a massive outlier in damage

is andaeiel's, chain lightning, or the explosions doing the most damage

I’m glad there’s a PTR so they can fixed this shit. SMH

Did you already get a chance to test the new boots vs Esus?

Get the new unique helm Crown of Lucion and you will do alot more damage.

are pits harder on ptr again ? cause this is kinda sad if its a 101 like in current season.

That looks like damage without vampyric powers in s2 lmao

i have never seen these pants before what the hell

Hi can you explain pls about attack speed breakpoints if you know

You should try arc lash with pang and the new 1h sword that gives 300% more basic attack dmg

okay i HAVE to say this sorcerer is META shhh don't tell blizzard😂 let me finish tempering and masterworking i am sure we can hit bosses 20mil EASY i can get to the end of t100 pit in around 2min or less with 5 items not masterworked or tempered ⚡

Underwhelming? This shit looks fun as hell lol

At level 60 and crap gear showing 15-17k every stun

looks impressive visually at least. boss damage is doo doo brown. all show, no go.

Yeah, Idk what to say... I Will say tho tier 90 pits feel like the current pit tier 101

Seeing what the new chain lightning sorc will be like on the S5 (melee, no dmg, and forced to collect crackling energy, one of the worst mechanics in the game), it will be the perfect time to uninstall the game and not pay for the expansion

Barb 4 release a new balance patch for barb

hello man >> can you give me a help to defeat Uber lilith ?

The only class that can do damage in Barblo IV is Barbarian - deal with this. That's why they won't nerf Gushing Wounds but instead, they will increase the bleed time (which means more damage), will increase by 50% Polearm damage (from 10%[x] to 15%[x]), and that's why they will buff Grandfather by 100% from 100%[x] to 200%[x] and on top of everything new aspect to pull in nearby enemies every 1s and deal to them extra 10%[x] damage.

Why font use new boots for cdr ? And flame shield w/o cd

you have a long range build so maybe don't hug the boss? Aren't you supposed to try and avoid its attacks instead of acting like a punching ball?

what are the enchantment?

This looks super strong! I think they will nerf the chain light dmg by 50% when PRT ends

What kind of yu gi oh bs is this affix?

Why andy and not shako? Which lvl you think this can rich?

The RU-vid Rob make a video saying he does not like the idea of a barbarian skill being nerfed, immediately blizzard releases a note telling they made a mistake on the patch description and they won't do the particular nerf. Sorc only gets strong when blizzard let a bug pass like happened with ball lightning

So sad story. Break to season 6.

Ya sorc blows

Literally PTR this is why we have this and than they'll get your feedback and buff the skills and change other things... Literally day one of PTR give them a second to adjust