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Although the week-long 2.4.0 PTR is almost over, I believe you've fully experienced the charm of Diablo 4 Season 10 and its potential improvements.

More importantly, if you fully explore the new seasonal mechanics, such as Chaos Perks or Armor, you should be able to discover even more powerful builds! These can be brand new or classic builds enhanced by the new mechanics.

With this in mind, this time we'll introduce three builds from different classes, all benefiting from special Chaos Armor. Assuming the relevant armor isn't nerfed, you should be able to continue utilizing these builds in Season 10.

Boulder Druid Build

One of the most notable features of this build is its excellent survivability thanks to stacking Fortify, while Hurricane of Boulders and continuous poison damage ensure you can utilize it for consistent damage output.

Therefore, despite Druid's lack of strength due to changes in its mechanics over several seasons, Boulder Druid build remains one of the class's most reliable.

In Season 10, to maximize the power of this build, in addition to maintaining Focus and Fortify, it's also crucial to pair it with well-compatible Chaos Armor. Recommended armor for Boulder Druids is the following:

• General - Banished Lord's Talisman: After you consume 275 Primary Resources, your next Core Skill gains an Overpowered effect, increasing your critical hit damage by 72%.
• Druid Exclusive - Vasily's Prayer: Your Earth skill can now be utilized as a Werebear skill, granting you a 6.0% maximum Health boost.

Additionally, while regular gear may not be as effective as Chaos Armor individually, if you want to maximize Chaos Armor's effectiveness, it's best to add the following gear to your build:

• Dolmen Stone: When you cast a Boulder during Dolmen Stone, it will rotate around you. Each time a Boulder rotates, its damage increases by 20-40%. You can have up to 10 Boulders active at once.

Note that in the official Season 10, all of this Chaos Armor and regular gear must be got from farming bosses. While this may take a long time, you will also gain XP and Diablo 4 gold.

Blood Wave Necromancer Build

Blood Wave is also one of the most reliable Necromancer builds. Its strengths include its ability to handle both AoE and single-target attacks, and also has high damage output & strong survivability. However, its weaknesses are its lack of mobility and slightly slow speed.

Based on PTR testing, the recommended Chaos Armor for this build still includes Banished Lord's Talisman. Other essential armor items include:

• General - Crown of Lucion: Each time you use a skill that requires resources, your damage output increases by 18% and resource consumption increases by 30%. This effect lasts for 4 seconds and stacks up to 5 times.
• Necromancer Exclusive - Bloodless Scream: Your Dark abilities freeze enemies for up to 100% and deal 240% additional damage to them. In addition, every 800 times you deal damage to an enemy with a Dark ability, all nearby enemies are feared for 0.25 seconds and then frozen for an additional 3 seconds.

Charged Bolts Sorcerer Build

This build excels at quickly clearing groups of enemies with explosive AoE damage, combining various defensive abilities with crowd control to increase your survivability. However, you'll primarily be expected to utilize it at melee range.

Generally speaking, this build works by continuously casting Charged Bolts, using the lightning damage cooldown to make all abilities almost automatically rechargeable, ultimately unlocking the ultimate skill.

In Season 10, the addition of the following Chaos Armor gives this build further opportunities for improvement:

• Sorcerer Exclusive - Staff of Lam Esen: Charged Bolts actively seek out enemies and last longer. Furthermore, their damage is increased by 48.0% for each second they're active.
• Sorcerer Exclusive - Galvanic Azurite: Your Lightning Damage output magnetizes enemies for 4 seconds, then releases Crackling Energy, increasing all Lightning damage you deal by 72.0%. If two magnetized enemies collide with Crackling Energy, they are pulled together.
• Sorcerer Exclusive - Esadora's Overflowing Cameo: Each level of Shock Energy equipped with Crackling Energy grants 10% increased damage, and enemies struck have a 10% chance to refund one charge. Once your Crackling Energy reaches maximum, you can quickly unleash all of it to attack the nearest enemy, dealing 96% bonus damage.

Which Chaos Perks Are Worth Adding?

While Chaos Armor buffs mentioned above are important, it would be even better if you could add more Chaos Perks to these builds! Like armor, these special perks are divided into general and class-specific perks.

Using the three builds we have introduced here as an example, we recommend adding the following perks to each:

• Boulder Druid Build: Overabundance, Wild Transformations
• Blood Wave Necromancer Build: Grim Reapers, Decimating Desecration
• Charged Bolts Sorcerer Build: Explosive Combinations, Advanced Techniques

In fact, other classes should also have some builds that can be enhanced with the new season mechanics. You can continue to explore them after Season 10 officially launches to gain more combat options. Thank you for reading.

Diablo 4 Season 10 is an absolutely insane season. Chaos Perks and Chaos Armor are changing the build strategy this season, bringing some incredibly high-damage builds.

Currently, Raven Druid is incredibly popular on the PTR, as it can easily reach 150 The Pit. However, its near-infinite damage is because of a bug, a fairly serious one that will probably be fixed soon. Here's a recommended normal but strong build: Ball Lightning Sorcerer.

Diablo 4 Season 10 primarily buffs Lightning-related abilities. This build was already considered a Tier A build in Seasons 8 and 7, and the new unique item for Season 10 Sorcerer, Galvanic Azurite, further enhances this build, making this build potentially Tier S in Season 10.

Pros And Cons

In Diablo 4 Season 9, this build's strengths lie in its high damage and fast farming speed. It's particularly effective in situations with many enemies, such as Infernal Hordes and Chaos Rifts. It also offers decent survivability. Besides being able to teleport away from monsters, you can also use Chaos Perk, Mana Shield, to boost your survivability.

This build is even highly effective against bosses, as the immunity phase for all lair bosses (including Lilith) has been removed. Now, you can instantly kill them with high damage without having to wait for them to transition. Just unleash all your Ball Lightning upon the boss, and they'll be swiftly annihilated.

On the downside, besides requiring some resource management and a relatively high number of skills to unleash, you'll also need Mythic items to maximize your damage.

Skills

• Lightning Spear (Rank 1): Enchanted Lightning Spear and Invoked Lightning Spear
• Ball Lightning (Rank 5): Enchanted Ball Lightning and Mage's Ball Lightning
• Ice Blades (Rank 1): Enchanted Ice Blades and Invoked Ice Blades
• Unstable Currents (Rank 5): Prime Unstable Currents and Supreme Unstable Currents
• Familiar (Rank 1): Enchanted Familiar and Invoked Familiar
• Chain Lightning (Rank 1): Enchanted Chain Lightning and Destructive Chain Lightning
• Teleport (Rank 1): Enchanted Teleport and Shimmering Teleport
• Enchantment Slots: Teleport and Familiar

In fact, most lightning-related skills are worth using in Season 10, so the above skill options are not the only choices, and you can even make all your skills with lightning skills. If you think there is a better skills match, you can also use Diablo 4 gold to reset them.

The main use of this skill set is to spam Ball Lightning at enemies. Once you're surrounded by Ball Lightning, you can repeatedly teleport among monsters to deal damage. Unstable Currents provides useful buffs like attack speed, while Ice Blades makes your enemies vulnerable.

Chaos Perks

• Mana Shield (Sorcerer Unique): Your maximum health is reduced, and damage you take is first applied to mana, then to health. If you haven't taken damage in the past 4 seconds, your mana regeneration is increased by 5,000%. Your maximum mana is increased by 200-400%, and your Intelligence can be used instead of mana.
• Advanced Techniques (Sorcerer Rare): Your base core skill level increases mana cost or cooldown by 10% and further increases damage by 10-20%.
• Power Siphon (Rare): Your core abilities deal increased damage, but your maximum resource is reduced.
• Mana-Infused Conjurations (Sorcerer Legendary): Your spells are empowered, increasing damage by 30% (multiplicatively), but each cast costs 5 mana per second. Ice Blade attacks create bursts of energy around the target. Lightning Spear attacks have a 10% chance of spawning static ball lightning.

Chaos Perks address Sorcerer's survivability issues. With the massive shield provided by Mana Shield, even with half your maximum physical resistance, virtually no monster can penetrate it, making you practically a tank.

Mana-Infused Conjurations, on the other hand, leaves static ball lightning on the field after you cast Lightning Spear, damaging nearby enemies. This improves your Diablo 4 item farming efficiency.

Equipment

• Helm: Heir of Perdition (Nagu and Ohm)
• Chest Armor: Shroud of False Death (Cir and Vex)
• Gloves: Aspect of Inner Calm
• Pants: Banished Lord's Talisman (Topaz and Topaz)
• Boots: Crown of Lucion
• Amulet: Aspect of Tenuous Destruction
• Ring 1: Galvanic Azurite (Skull)
• Ring 2: Ring of Starless Skies (Skull)
• Weapon: Aspect of Shredding Blades (Ruby)
• Offhand: Strike of Stormhorn (Ruby)

Since Season 10 Sorcerer is more survivable than in previous seasons, the armor requirements for gear are less stringent, allowing you to focus more on attack speed and critical strike, which can boost your DPS.

This gear set requires three Mythic unique items, which is a bit of a burden for most players. Heir of Perdition provides a significant DPS and critical strike chance boost, while Ring of Starless Skies reduces resource consumption. These two Diablo 4 items are practically essential.

Before you get Shroud of False Death, you can use Raiment of the Infinite as a replacement. The unique item that enhances Teleport and improves your farming efficiency somewhat.

That's the basics of this build. When using this build, be mindful of mana consumption. Besides the mana regeneration provided by Legendary Diablo IV runes and glyphs, you can also use Elixir of Resourcefulness II to supplement your mana. However, as long as you have Ring of Starless Skies, you're pretty much covered. Currently, reaching 100 The Pit with this build is no problem.