BiS Gear – Lightning Spear Sorcerer Build for Diablo 4 (Season 8)

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Legendary Aspects

Listed below are all the best-in-slot Aspects for the Lightning Spear Sorcerer build. Salvage Legendary Items with higher Aspect values to unlock them in the Codex of Power, and then imprint them onto Legendary Items with the preferred affixes. For the best results, combine these Aspects with the ideal Stat Priorities.

Gear Slot	Name	Effect
Amulet	Aspect of Shredding Blades	Ice Blades’ chance to apply Vulnerable is increased by 20% and the Vulnerable duration is increased by 4 seconds. You gain x [15 – 35%] Vulnerable Damage.
Staff	Aspect of Splintering Energy	Critical Hits with Lightning Spear cause the spear to arc to the target and up to 5 other enemies. This damage is increased by x [60 – 100%] of your Critical Strike Damage Bonus.
Ring Slot #1	Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop	Casting a Pyromancy, Shock, or Frost Skill increases your damage by [10 – 25%] for 8 seconds, stacking once per Element. Casting again refreshes all bonuses if the previous skill was a different Element.
Ring Slot #2	Ring of Starless Skies	Spending your Primary Resource reduces the Resource cost of your Skills and increases your damage by x10% for 3 seconds, up to x50%.
Gloves	Storm Swell Aspect	You deal x [15 – 35%] increased damage while Ice Armor is active. This amount is increased by another 15% against Frozen enemies.
Helm	Harlequin Crest	Gain 20% Damage Reduction. In addition, gain +4 Ranks to all Skills.
Chest	Raiment of the Infinite	After using Teleport, Close enemies are Pulled to you and Stunned for [2 – 3] seconds, but Teleport’s cooldown is increased by 20%.
Pants	Tibault’s Will	You deal [10 – 20%] increased damage while Unstoppable and for 5 seconds after. When you become Unstoppable, gain 50 of your Primary Resource.
Boots	Aspect of the Orange Herald	Lucky Hit: Up to a [5 – 13%] Chance when you damage an enemy with a Skill to reduce the Cooldown of your Ultimate Skill by 2 seconds. Can only happen once per Skill cast.

Stat Priority and Tempering Affixes

Listed below are the affixes to prioritize on gear for Lightning Spear Sorcerers, ranked by importance. Affixes on the same line have equal value, so attempt to obtain all affixes in each line before moving on to the next. Bolded affixes are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrades. For more details, check the Tempering and Masterworking guides.

The priority order of Resistances is Lightning > Poison > Fire > Cold > Shadow. Maximum Resistance is 70% by default for each element.

Armor is only needed until capped at 1,000.

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Slot	Gear Affixes	Tempering Affixes
Staff	1. Critical Strike Damage, Maximum Life, Intelligence	Conjuration Augments (Weapon): Chance for Lightning Spear to deal Double Damage Worldly Finesse (Offensive): Critical Strike Damage
Helm	Harlequin Crest	Masterworking Priority: Cooldown Reduction
Chest	Raiment of the Infinite	Masterworking Priority: Ranks to Glass Cannon
Gloves	1. Critical Strike Damage 2. Critical Strike Chance, Attack Speed 3. Maximum Life, Intelligence	Worldly Finesse (Offensive): Critical Strike Damage Natural Schemes (Utility): Barrier Generation
Pants	Tibault’s Will	Masterworking Priority: All Stats
Boots	Implicit Stat: Attacks Reduce Evade’s Cooldown 1. Movement Speed 2. Any uncapped Resistances or Armor 3. Maximum Life, Intelligence	Natural Motion (Mobility): Evade Cooldown Reduction Natural Schemes (Utility): Barrier Generation
Amulet	1. Ranks to Primordial Binding 2. Intelligence, Ranks to Glass Cannon, Inner Flames or Permafrost	Natural Motion (Mobility): Evade Cooldown Reduction Worldly Finesse (Offensive): Critical Strike Damage
Ring Slot #1	Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop	Masterworking Priority: Cooldown Reduction
Ring Slot #2	Ring of Starless Skies	Masterworking Priority: Attack Speed or Critical Strike Chance

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Uniques and Mythic Uniques

Listed below are the recommended and optional Unique and Mythic Unique Items for the Lightning Spear Sorcerer build. Each item description includes the most important affix to target for Masterworking upgrades. Check the Mythic Unique Items Guide for information on target-farming them.

• Harlequin Crest (required) provides a boosted Cooldown Reduction affix that is essential for this build.
  • Masterworking Priority: Cooldown Reduction
• Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop (required) provides up to a 75% damage multiplier with 3 elemental stacks.
  • Masterworking Priority: Cooldown Reduction
• Raiment of the Infinite (recommended) enables the Telestomp playstyle to vortex and Stun enemies.
  • Masterworking Priority: Ranks to Glass Cannon
• Tibault’s Will (recommended) provides multiple bonuses not normally available on Legendary Pants, including Damage Reduction while Unstoppable, a damage multiplier, and Mana generation. Alternate activations of the unique effect with Teleport, Flame Shield, and Ice Armor (with Snowveiled Aspect).
  • Masterworking Priority: All Stats
• Ring of Starless Skies (recommended) provides a 1.5x damage multiplier and solves any Mana issues. Imprint Aspect of Frozen Orbit onto Legendary Gloves for this setup.
  • Masterworking Priority: Critical Strike Chance or Attack Speed

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Gems and Runewords

Listed below are the recommended Gems and Runewords to socket into your gear.

Gems

Weapon Gems	Armor Gems	Jewelry Gems
Grand Emerald if Critical Strike Chance is capped at 100% or Grand Sapphire.	Grand Topaz for Intelligence or Grand Amethyst for increased Barrier Generation.	Any Resistance Gems needed or Skull for Armor (up to the 1,000 Armor cap).

Runewords

Insert one of the following Runewords, consisting of a Rune of Offering and a Rune of Invocation, into your equipped Staff. The other Runeword can be inserted into any equipped Helm, Chest, or Pants item. Add sockets to your equipment at the Jeweler if necessary.

Runewords	Effects
Igni Thul	Gain: 25 Offering — Stores offering every 0.3 seconds. Cast a non-Basic Skill to gain the stored offering. Requires: 300 Offering — Invoke the Sorcerer’s Mystical Frost Nova, inflicting Freeze and Vulnerable onto enemies.
Nagu Vex	Gain: 100 Offering — Maintain at least 1 active Summon for 5 seconds, gaining offering for each up to 6 Summon. Requires: 150 Offering, Cooldown: 5 Seconds — Gain +1 to Skills for 10 seconds.

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