Diablo 4 Sorcerer Gets Huge Lightning Buffs in Season 10

Skills

Lightning Spear

• Base damage increased from 80% to 120%.

Crackling Energy

• Base damage increased from 30% to 80%.

Ball Lightning

• Damage reduced from 30% to 20%.

Mage’s Ball Lightning

• Now also works against all bosses.

Blizzard

• Damage increased from 210% to 250%.

Charged Bolts

• Damage reduced from 45% to 35%.

Enhanced Charged Bolts

• Nova damage increased from 175% of Charged Bolts damage to 250% of Charged Bolts damage.

Fireball

• Damage increased from 66% to 120%.

Destructive Fireball

• Critical Strike damage reduced from 20% to 10%.
• Critical Strike damage vs 3 targets reduced from 30% to 25%.

Greater Fireball

• Execute life percent reduced from 25% to 20%.

Frozen Orb

• Shards damage increased from 52% to 70%.
• Explosion damage increased from 50% to 65%.

Incinerate

• Base damage increased from 150% to 175%.
• Max damage increased after 2 seconds of Channeling increased from 203% to 236%.

Passives

Overflowing Energy

• Previous: Crackling Energy hits 1 additional enemy. Each time Crackling Energy hits an enemy, your Shock Skill Cooldowns are reduced by 0.1 seconds, increased to 0.3 seconds against Elites.
• Now: You deal 85% increased Lightning Damage and Crackling Energy hits 1 additional enemy. Each time Crackling Energy hits an enemy, your Shock Skill Cooldowns are reduced by 0.1 seconds, increased to 0.3 seconds against Elites.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Charged Flash

• Previous: After Charged Bolts hits enemies 50 times, your next 3 Charged Bolts become waves that pierce and critically surge.
• Now: While you have Crackling Energy, Charged Bolts spends a charge to also fire a wave dealing 120-140% of Crackling Energy damage in the area.

Aspect of Piercing Static

• Previous: Charged Bolts pierce but deal 70-35% reduced damage to targets hit after the first.
• Now: The third time an enemy is hit by a single Cast of Charged Bolts, spawn 3-5 new Charged Bolts.

Serpentine Aspect

• Damage per point of mana reduced from 0.5-1.5% to 0.3-0.5%.

Unique Items

Tal Rashas

• Damage bonus per stack reduced from 10-25% to 10-20%.

Esadora’s Overflowing Cameo

• Previous: Upon collecting Crackling Energy, there’s a 15% chance to release a lightning nova, dealing x Lightning damage, increased by 120% for every 100 Intelligence you have.
• Now: Crackling Energy now gains 10%[x] damage for every level in Shock Skills you have equipped and enemies hit have a 10% chance to refund a charge. Upon reaching maximum Crackling Energy, you rapidly unleash all charges on the closest enemy to you dealing 40-80%[x] increased damage. You cannot gain charges from hits while rapidly discharging.

Staff of Lam Esen

• Previous: Your Casts of Charged Bolts have a 40-80% chance to be attracted to enemies and last 300% longer.
• Now: Charged Bolts attempts to seek enemies, lasts longer, and deals 20-40% increased damage for every second the bolt is alive for.

Okun’s Catalyst

• Damage increased from 140-180% of Ball Lightning’s damage to 210-250%.

Strike of Stormhorn

• Damage increased from 175-225% of Ball Lightning’s damage to 260-300%.

Affixes

• Inherent: 12.5% Resistance to All Elements
• Inherent: 5% Resistance to All Elements
• +5.2-6% Critical Strike Chance
• +57-75% Lightning damage
• 8.1-8.8% Cooldown reduction
• +2-3 Ranks to Elemental Synergies

Unique Power

• Lightning damage leaves enemies magnetized for 4 seconds, causing them to emit Crackling Energy, and increase all Lightning damage they take from you by 40-60%. If two magnetized enemies hit each other with Crackling Energy they pull each other together.

• Fixed an issue where the effects of Azurewrath and Hail of Verglass did not function together as intended.
• Fixed an issue where Shimmering Flame Shield did not account for increases in Maximum Health.
• Fixed an issue where Teleport did not behave as expected when playing on controller.