Diablo 4 - New Best Sorcerer Leveling Build - Season 2 FAST 1 to 50 - Vampiric Powers Guide!

Hello and welcome back to a new video.

Today I'm going to be showing you the best

level 1 to 50 leveling guide for Sorcerer

in the new Season 2 of Diablo 4. So this

build is going to be focusing on lightning

but also with a bit of frost magic, so

it's kind of like a lightning Sorcerer

hybrid frost build. And this gives us the

great AOE damage potential of lightning

attacks combined with the defensive

capabilities and crowd control of ice

attacks. And this build easily let me get

to around level 50 in only 2 days. You

could do it in 1 day if you played all day

long. And I also defeated one of the first

bosses in Season 2, Lord Zir, on the first

try without any problems at all. Okay, so

first of all, let's go through the build

and then I'll show the vampiric powers.

So we're going to be focusing on Arc Lash

instead of Spark. I did try both of them,

but I found Arc Lash was better in almost

every single situation because it does

like an AOE slashing attack in front of

enemies that are in front of you and also

stuns them momentarily. So we're going to

max out Arc Lash and get Enhanced Arc Lash

and also Glinting Arc Lash. And then we're

also going to get Chain Lightning and max

that out because Chain Lightning is good.

And we're also going to get Devastation,

so we increase our maximum mana and also

increase our core and mastery skills by 6%

with Elemental Dominance. And then we're

also going to get, uh, Ice Armor, really

good for defensive capabilities if you're

getting overwhelmed. Ice Armor is really

going to save your backside in a lot of

situations. And we're going to max out Ice

Armor with Enhanced Ice Armor and

Shimmering Ice Armor. And we're also going

to get Frost Nova, that's going to freeze

enemies around us, very self-explanatory.

Kills enemies frozen by Frost Nova reduces

cooldown, and also get Mystical Frost

Nova. And then we're not actually going to

get anything in Conjuration because I

don't like Conjuration, I think it's

boring. And then we're going to get Ball

Lightning, which is really good, and we're

going to get this aspect that makes the

balls of lightning actually rotate and

orbit around us instead of going in a

straight line, which I feel is completely

pointless. I hate it when it just goes off

in a straight line and then disappears,

and strays away from all of the enemies,

which makes it kind of rubbish. But with

the aspects we got, it's going to orbit

around us, which makes it very useful.

And then we've also got Static Discharge—

critical strikes with shock skills have up

to 15% chance to form crackling energy.

And then we're also going to get Unstable

Currents maxed out and max out these

Coarsing Currents, Conduction, and

Convulsions. And then for our key passive,

we're actually going to get Shatter

instead of any lightning skills. You could

try the lightning skills for extra damage.

But I like Shatter because when freeze

expires, enemies explode for 25% of the

damage. So when you freeze them using

Frost Nova, uh, yeah, Frost Nova, they

will get frozen, and then when it expires,

it will explode for like 25% damage,

which makes for really good AoE damage. I

mean, you could get these— Crackling

Energy hits one additional enemy, and it's

good for Crackling Energy. And this one,

close enemies take 15% increased damage

from shock skills. So That's just like

added lightning skills. You could get

those if you wanted to. And next I'll show

you the aspects. I've chosen the aspects

so that they're very good for this build.

On the amulet we have Imprinted Ball

Lightning Orbits Around You and Deals 36%

Increased Damage. So like I said earlier,

the balls of lightning are going to orbit

around us and also do 36% increased

damage. Very useful. And then we also have

Dealing 25% More Damage to Stunned

Enemies, Immobilized Enemies. So when we

freeze them with the Frost Nova. We also

do 25% damage to them whilst they're

frozen. And then we also have this one:

whilst Ice Armor is active, you leave

behind exploding ice spikes that deal 250

damage, and your ice spike chills enemies

for 15%. So that's really good for extra

AOE damage. And then we also got some

basic skills. And then on the chest, we

have Frost Nova gains an additional

charge, so we can use Frost Nova twice in

a row. You see little number 2 in the

bottom right corner, but it increases the

cooldown, which is fine. And then basic

skills grant 20% damage reduction for some

defensive skills, and then basic skills

gain 29% attack speed. And then when

there's 5 enemies around us, we can stun

them for 4 seconds every 20 seconds. So

we're gonna do like an AOE stun every 20

seconds, which is really good. Oh, okay,

new to Diablo 4 in Season 2 are the

vampiric powers, and I've chosen these 5.

So for the first vampiric power, we have

Undying. Casting skills heals you for 2.3%

life. Double this bonus whilst below 50%

life. So it's just like self-healing

abilities whilst you're casting spells.

And then we have Hemomancy. Hemomancy:

your attack steals 60% of your maximum

life. So our maximum life is nearly 1,000,

so 60% is like 600 damage of your maximum

life as physical damage to nearby enemies.

This effect can only occur every 4

seconds. So basically we're gonna do 600

damage to everything around us and every 4

seconds. That is really good for AoE. And

then next we have Anticipation: your

ultimate skills gain 20% cooldown

reduction. So that's going to be good for

our Unstable Current, so we can use that

more often with a lower cooldown

reduction. And then we have ultimate

skills deal 6% increased damage, so that's

good for Unstable Current as well. And

then for the next one, we have Prey on the

Weak: you deal 8% increased damage to

vulnerable enemies, and enemies are

vulnerable whilst affected by vampiric

curses from your other vampiric powers.

And then lastly, we have Domination. You

deal 12% increased damage to enemies who

are stunned. So again, it's more bonus

damage to stunned enemies, which works

really good with this build. And as you

can see, there's many vampiric powers to

choose from. Depends what kind of build

you want. There's some that summon bats

when you get taken damage, and there's

some makes you more tanky, some leeches

life from the enemy. So it's really up to

you what you want, but I like these 5 for

longevity, survivability, and also great

AOE damage. Okay, so I decided to go to

the Capstone Dungeon. I am 4 levels below

what they recommend, but seems pretty easy

so far. And I have done this before on

different classes, different characters at

like level 45, so I feel confident that I

can do this. So not really facing any

problems so far.

So if you get all— that was a lot of

damage I just took, but it's okay, don't

worry, we've got our ice shield.

There's a little mini-boss here, so we're

just gonna freeze this guy, activate

Unstable Currents, and then you'll see all

of the balls of lightning. Okay, this is

really good. Look at that, just took them

all down, melted them. Look at all the

balls of lightning floating around me. I

really like that aspect that makes the

ball of lightning float around you instead

of traveling forwards.

And we've got very good stun capabilities.

We're gonna be stunning the enemy a lot.

See, look at them all just getting

stunned. I don't even know what they're

getting stunned from. I think Arc Clash

and some of our other lightning skills

have stunning capabilities.

I'm gonna get to the first boss in this

dungeon and see how well we do,

and then we can start doing Nightmare

Dungeons. The annoying

thing is we don't have Teleport anymore.

I had to sacrifice Teleport for Balls of

Lightning because

I want more damage and more AOE, but we do

lose a way to get out of stuns and stuff,

but I think it'll be fine.

Another little mini-boss. Oh wow,

Unstable Currents is off cooldown already.

That was quick. Freeze them.

I'm gonna take a lot of damage here. Oh my

god, there's a lot here.

Holy crap. Ball of lightning.

Oh, that was, uh,

tense. Intense.

Another mini boss. Let's freeze him.

Shield up. 2 seconds until Unstable

Currents, but I don't think we need it

really. Freeze again. I like how we can

freeze twice in a row.

Yep, he's down. So these guys are

not really facing us, not really giving us

much of a problem.

Easy peasy.

Do have mana problems though.

Mana does go down. Oh, look at all these

enemies. Come on,

freeze! We also have a lot of self-healing

abilities as well, if you've noticed it.

Well, that was a long stun.

There's another boss here.

We can just melt through bosses using

Unstable Currents. Look at that, he didn't

even survive the stun.

Okay, I think I'll pause

it here and resume once we're

at the first big boss.

Okay, so here's the first bosses. 4 bosses

all at the same time. Let's, let's just

pop everything. Unstable Current, Shield,

Ball of Lightning. We've got 5 Balls of

Lightning. Keep getting stunned.

Potions, another Freeze maybe.

Oh, that's one down already. I can't move.

It is kind of scary not having Teleport.

My shield is back up. Oh, he's back up

as well. They resurrected him. I keep

getting stunned. Oh, that was a lot

of damage. Basically spamming

my potions. Yeah.

They keep resurrecting that big guy.

Who's doing that?

So just the Lord Commander left. Let's pop

Unstable Currents, not that we need it.

And I don't know, that's not the end of

the dungeon. Got to teleport now.

I forgot what happens in the level 50

capsule in dungeon. It's been a while

since I played this. I hate these

bits where you gotta kill every single

enemy in the room. Takes ages.

Okay, we're at the final boss, the

Curator. Oh yeah, I remember this guy.

I remember he was kind of difficult when I

was playing my rogue. I don't know how

difficult he is now. So we're gonna pop

Unstable Currents, do a Frost Nova. Oh

yeah, he does those AoE things. That was

really giving me troubles on my rogue.

I don't know how difficult this is going

to be now. I remember

not being able to dodge those and they

kept taking me out. Yeah, it took me like

50 tries to take this guy down on my

rogue. We already got him down to 50%,

only used one potion, and he's stunned

vulnerable already. We're just whacking

him with my little wand thing.

Yeah, this is no problem. How did this

give me so many troubles when I was on my

rogue? I remember he kept summoning these

things I couldn't kill them fast enough

before he killed me.

Dodged. Oh, dodge was on cooldown. Oh my

God, that was so easy. I swear that was

really hard on my rogue. Oh, 4

legendaries, a dagger.

Let's see what we got. Explosions from

the Shatter key passive deal 30% increased

damage if enemies die while frozen.

That's actually pretty good.

Increased damage if, if they die when

frozen. I think that's good. I'm not quite

exactly sure what that means, but I think

I understand it. What does this do? Well,

I should have barrier, ignore incoming

damage, boring. Uh, frozen orb,

boring. I don't use frozen orb. And then

amulet. Frozen Orb again.

That's 2 Frozen Orbs.

Yeah, those, um, what did I get?

This one. This seems pretty good. I want

to test it out. What can we test it out

on? Okay, now we finished the Capsule, we

can do Nightmare Dungeons.