Enjoying the CL Sorc at level 55 currently and have been using maxroll as a guide as I normally do. However they want to many shields and I hate arc lash but still using it because I haven’t perfected Mana yet.
What interesting combos have you guys used with CL? I’m thinking of adding Blizzard or ice blades. I do get plenty of Mana from cracking energy and recharge ring.
Currently using lash, CL, ice shield, spear, unstable currents, and teleport. Enchants are CL and ball lighting.
Thanks!
I have experimented alot with chain lightning this season,
My build is , chain lightning only, no ultimate no hidden tricks, that what I wanted, no tal Tasha ring.
You solved 2 problems, the mana costs and very high attack speed to really bring chain lightning to shine like the emporer in star wars.
Important is that I use 2 basic enhancement slots, fire bolt for mana regeneration you kill a burning enemy and the glyphs with damage to burning enemys,
And ICE bolt for apply CC to Chain lightning, together with the ring umbral aspect
Second ring is of course the chain lightning aspect mana back on bounce
For amulet I use the fire passive aspect that gives,ou 75% attack speed on crit kill,
Hands attack speed with core crit
Thats the basics, unlimited chain lightning spam
Yes i need both , my attack speed is so high, sometimes on pure solo bosses I have a very short oom phase, but that’s ok
It’s also funny too freeze enemy’s with chain lightning with so many hits in short time
So what’s better for ammy - Ancient Flame or Unbroken Tether ? More CL jumps or faster CL with less jumps?
i dont know…i love attack speed, wush wush wush…i think its just better than a bit more bounce chance
but…i think both will work
I guess I need to test it myself. I have pretty much unlimited mana so that’s not an issue for me.
Mana generation on both rings + 2.5-3 mana Recharging aspect + Resource support from Construct + Static Surge node and you pretty much never run out of mana. Construct actually helps - in previous seasons I had to run extra mana generation on my focus and 3 mana Recharging aspect was a must. Now it’s easier. Umbral is nice while you level but it doesn’t do anything on bosses.
As for uniques - I prefer tal rasha for 45x dmg. I use frozen orb as my second ench to apply cold dmg.
my build is far from optimal, i just dont hate meta builds…and strong items…xfal for me kills every dot build 
just spam a rang 1 dot and xfal does the rest…thats stupid…
i have all 4 defensiv spells in the bar…and chain lightning…its so stupid lazy brain afk, just stand still and hold chain lightning and clear the screen 
i can kill kixxkarth the helltide boss in something like 45sec, thats really good for a kind of that build i think.
Mine takes about a minute but I don’t have my glyphs maxed out yet this season. Are you still using unbroken tether with base stats or you ditched it completely ?
i use it, but i have 5 21 glyphs
Ok, I did some Duriel runs and other testing and you were right.
Ancient Flame on ammy pretty much melts everything. It’s not S2 BL level but it’s close enough. Now I gotta lvl those glyphs (it’s so boring) 
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At what point did you switch to fire bolt and frost bolt enchants? Near end game or in the middle of leveling?
i wanted that from level 1,…and it was a bit pain to leveling
this spec need some power… because you have no true aoe, if you dont kill fast, many mobs will block you…its more a endgame 80+ spec imo
but at some point, i start to shine, biggest weakness is that mobs that give others the damage reduction
ht tps://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/k54x0at9 short guide for items / skills
I was also thinking of switching out frost bolt for frozen orb… Have you tried that
you need more talent points…so something will suffer
for a rnd frozen orb…most of the time it just fly in a rnd direction and dont help…sometimes it help a bit…for a to heavy investment imo
Prefer fire ball enchantment for the aoe.