
To get Diablo 4 off to a good start with a build combining damage, speed and area cleaning via the crackling energy lightning witch!
Principle of the build and skills
What is this build based on:
- using lightning to quickly kill enemies
- crackling energy, allowing to generate lightning around you
- the basic critical hits given by lightning spells
The skills of the lightning witch:
- Etincelle - Spark: mana regeneration and critical chance
- Chain of Lightning - Chained Lightning: use of mana, our main spell
- Teleportation - Teleport: dodge spell
- Shield of Fire - Flame Shield: for defense
- Lightning Spear - Lightning Spear: additional damage spell
- Unstable Currents - Unstable Currents: buff
Skill Order
Here is the order of the skills with the total number of points invested in brackets:
- Spark (1) and chance to hit three opponents (2)
- Chain Lightning (3)
- Spark increases critical chance (4)
- Chain Lightning increases critical chance (5) and chance to create crackling energy (6)
- Teleport (7) & Reduced Cooldown (8)
- Chain Lightning (9) (10)
- Teleport increases Crackling Energy damage (11)
- Chain Lightning (12)
- Lightning Spear (13)
- Chain Lightning (14)
- Fire Shield (15), Movement Speed (16) and Restores 50% Missing Health (17)
- Passives near Sphere, Crackling Energy Chance on Crit (18) and Restore Mana (18)
- Spear of Lightning additional critical chance (20) opponent stuns on critical (21)
- Lightning Spear (22) (23)
- Unstable Current (24), Associated Attack Speed (25), and Crackling Energy Gathering (26)
- Passives near Current, Critical Chance, Critical Attack Speed, and Stun (27 to 29)
- Ultimate passive, attack in addition to crackling energy and reduce cooldown (30)
- Sparkle (31) (32)
- Lightning Spear (33)
- Passives near Sphere, critical forms crackling energy and restores mana (34 to 37)
- Passives near Current, two points each (38 to 43)
- Passive near Chain Lightning, increases your elemental damage and resistance (44 to 46)
- Passives near Lightning Spear, Mana Shield and Protection (47 to 53)
- Teleport (54 to 57)
- Sparkle (58) (59)
- Lightning Spear (60)
- Fire Shield (61 to 64)
- Spark (1)
- Chain Lightning (1)
- n / A
- n / A
- Teleport (1)
- Chain Lightning (2) (3)
- n / A
- Chain Lightning (4)
- Lightning Spear (1)
- Chain Lightning (5)
- Fire Shield (1)
- n / A
- n / A
- Lightning Spear (2) (3)
- Unstable Current (1)
- n / A
- n / A
- Sparkle (2) (3)
- Lightning Spear (4)
- n / A
- n / A
- n / A
- n / A
- Teleport (2 to 5)
- Sparkle (4) (5)
- Lightning Spear (5)
- Fire Shield (2 to 5)
Specialization
Choose from these spells:
- Spark: chance to make a crackling energy by killing an enemy
- Chain Lightning: makes a chain of lightning when you spend 100 mana or Teleport: the dash is replaced by a teleport
Equipment and statistics
Here are the statistics to collect in priority:
- intelligence and dexterity
- damage, resistances and critical hits (at higher level)
The Diablo 4 lightning witch allows an explosive kit based on critical hits and by using the crackling energies you will have an easy way to clear the monsters and bosses of the game very quickly.
By Alchemists, March 2023
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