With all my Sorcerer knowledge from pre-Season and Season 1. I optimized Min-max Sorcerer 1-50 upgrade build for Season 2.

With this build, I successfully leveled from level 1 to level 37 in 2 hours and completed Enchantment Quest for any Seasonal Power. Let’s not waste time and get started with the skill tree process.

Skill Tree Progression

We start with Arc Lash and Flickering Arc Lash Passive, which gives us 18% movement speed. Then there’s 5 levels of Chain Lightning, since that’s the major source of damage for our upgraded build. We also want to choose Greater Chain Lightning Passive skill to get direct extra damage.

Because our critical hit rate is currently very low. So we need to unlock 4 skills first: Teleport, Frost Nova, Hydra and Ice Armor. The order of unlocking doesn’t matter.

We start by adding Hydra Passive for more damage. I recommend picking up Summoned Hydra since they buffed it in Season 2. Then select Shimmering Frost Nova Passive. When we are surrounded by a group of monsters, it allows us to restore more than half of our mana with a Frost Nova. This results in more Chain Lightning spell-casting.

It’s important to note that choosing Mana over Vulnerable State early in the game will be more powerful, as Season 2 nerfed Vulnerable State a lot.

We then use Shimmering Teleport to get 30% damage reduction. It balances our ability to survive. Next we’ll gain 3 levels in Glass Cannon to increase our damage.

Next we’ll reach level 15, so let’s focus on Fireball. I recommend teleporting out as quickly as possible to complete this Enchantment Quest, as this will significantly increase our damage output.

We can just target clear mission elites and ignore everything else to speed things up. This way, we can get the special Diablo 4 items directly without going to the second area to fight the boss.

After completing the task, we put Fireball into Enchantment. This way, one or two Chain Lightnings can temporarily clear the entire screen. We need to keep putting more Diablo 4 Gold in Fireball until we reach level 5.

Also, I did a test to confirm that Fireball from Enchantment Explosion does not have increased damage radius due to Enhanced Fireball Passive. Casting Fireball increases the range though.

Next we need to unlock the ultimate part, but we haven’t used Unstable Currents yet because its cooldown is too high at the moment. Instead, we add 3 points to Coursing Currents to increase our critical hit chance, and 2 points to Electrocution to gain damage reduction.

Now comes the fun part. We’re going to overhaul the entire skill tree to be powered by Crit Chance and Crackling Energy. Because next we can unlock the key passive skill, Overflowing Energy.

Before choosing, we first change the basic skill from Arc Lash to Spark to get an 8% critical hit rate bonus. Then we can get a critical chance from passive and Coursing Currents. We changed Chain Lightning to Destructive Chain Lightning to get a lot of Crackling Energy. This is what it looks like when we cast our ultimate.

Also, we added 1 point to Elemental Attunement for additional teleportation.

Let’s remove all Glass Cannon points and Ice Armor. We can put these skill points into Lightning Spear and use Invoked Lightning Spear to stun the monster.

We then remove all Hydra points and gain Invigorating Conduit, which restores 12 mana per Crackling Energy. Next remove the 2 Electrocutions and get Lightning Ultimate, Unstable Currents.

Finally, remove a Coursing Current and gain the key passive, Overflowing Energy. We now have considerable reductions in the cooldowns on Teleport, Lightning Spear and Unstable Currents.

For Ultimate, we cast it whenever we see more than 6 monsters around. We changed Teleport Passive to Mystical Teleport to reduce the cooldown of Crackling Energy and make it more aggressive.

But not having 30% damage reduction can be very dangerous if you find that your survivability isn’t what you want.

Next, we will add some passive points to enhance our combat effectiveness. If Courses Currents reaches 3 levels, it will be 1 point. Level 3 Electrocution reduces damage taken by 15%. Level 3 Conduction can increase movement speed by 9%. We should be at level 30 at this point.

Let’s use Chain Lightning as a second Enchantment to further enhance our ground damage and Crackling Energy.

After we cast the cooldown skill, Level 3 Protection can gain 30% of maximum life as a barrier. Upgrade Mana Shield by 3 levels to reduce damage by an additional 21%. Finally, upgrading Elemental Dominance by 3 levels can increase Chain Lightning damage by an additional 9%.

In Season 2, vigorous defense at level 3 is essential, and this passive will make us more tanky.

Initial 10 Skill Points Boost

Assume that all 10 skill points have been unlocked by completing Renowns in all 5 areas. Because skill point rewards from Renowns will carry over to Season 2. If you haven’t done so already, I highly recommend taking the time to farm Renowns to unlock all 10 skill points. It will make your ancient game in Season 2 that much more fun.

Gear

For gear, I think the key is to always increase our Crit Chance Aspect wisely. I recommend getting Recharging Aspect of a ring and Aspect of Disobedience on the pants.

Although Season 2 armor only reduces physical damage, overall physical damage is still the major source of monster attacks. Having Aspect of Disobedience allows us to survive longer against monster melee and ranged attacks.

Aspect of the Unbroken Tether is also perfect for this Chain Lightning build. It was a printable Codex in Season 1 and I hope in Season 2 we can put it on an amulet as well.

Also, I would also recommend using Sapphire on weapons since we have a wonderful source of stun in the build. I had a lot of fun upgrading my sorcerer with this optimized process build.

Ending

Overall, mastering Chain Lightning Sorcerer in Diablo 4 Season 2 has been an exciting journey. Wiping everything becomes easier with Season 2 Vampire Powers.

From early levels to the endgame, this build offers a unique play style and the best leveling experience. Customize your approach to your liking and enjoy your shelter adventure!