Lightning Spells

This page lists Sorceress skills from the Lightning Spells skill tree. Other Sorceress skills: Cold Spells, Fire Spells, All Sorceress Skills

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Charged Bolt

• Description: Creates multiple, randomly directed bolts of electrical energy
• Required Level: 1
• Required Skills: None

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Lightning Damage (min)	2	2	3	3	4	4	5	5	6	6	7	7	8	8	9	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	17	18	20	21	23	24	26	28	30	32	34	36	38	40	42	44	46	48	50	52	54	56	58	60	62	64	66	68	70	72	74	76	78	80	82	84	86	88
Lightning Damage (max)	4	4	5	5	6	6	7	7	8	8	9	9	10	10	11	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	19	20	22	23	25	26	28	30	32	34	36	38	40	42	44	46	48	50	52	54	56	58	60	62	64	66	68	70	72	74	76	78	80	82	84	86	88	90
Bolts	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	28
Mana Cost	3	3.5	4	4.5	5	5.5	6	6.5	7	7.5	8	8.5	9	9.5	10	10.5	11	11.5	12	12.5	13	13.5	14	14.5	15	15.5	16	16.5	17	17.5	18	18.5	19	19.5	20	20.5	21	21.5	22	22.5	23	23.5	24	24.5	25	25.5	26	26.5	27	27.5	28	28.5	29	29.5	30	30.5	31	31.5	32	32.5

Charged Bolt receives bonuses from:

• Telekinesis: +6% Lightning Damage per Level
• Lightning: +6% Lightning Damage per Level

Changelog

Season 4: Charged Bolt can now reach 28 bolts maximum from 24 Season 2: synergies increased from 4% to 6% Season 1: now also has Telekinesis as a synergy synergies are now 4% (was 6%) Vanilla Info

Telekinesis

• Description: Uses the power of your mind to pick up items, use objects, and knock back enemies
• Required Level: 1
• Required Skills: None

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Lightning Damage (min)	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Lightning Damage (max)	7	10	13	16	19	22	25	28	34	40	46	52	58	64	70	76	88	100	112	124	136	148	160	172	184	196	208	220	232	244	256	268	280	292	304	316	328	340	352	364	376	388	400	412	424	436	448	460	472	484	496	508	520	532	544	556	568	580	592	604

Mana Cost: 7

Telekinesis receives bonuses from:

• Charged Bolt: +14% Lightning Damage per Level
• Nova: +14% Lightning Damage per Level

Changelog

Season 2: now counts as a Lightning skill (for items that grant +X Lightning Skills) Season 1: moved in the skill tree, requires level 1 (was 6) large damage buff now has Charged Bolt & Nova as synergies at 14% Vanilla Info

Static Field

• Description: Creates an electrical field that reduces life of all nearby enemies. Lowers enemy lightning resistances for a short duration
• Required Level: 1
• Required Skills: None

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Enemy Lightning Resistance %	-2	-3	-4	-5	-6	-7	-8	-9	-10	-11	-12	-13	-14	-15	-16	-17	-18	-19	-20	-21	-22	-23	-23	-24	-24	-25	-25	-26	-26	-27	-27	-28	-28	-29	-29	-30	-30	-31	-31	-32	-32	-33	-33	-34	-34	-35	-35	-36	-36	-37	-37	-38	-38	-39	-39	-40	-40	-41	-41	-42
Radius (yards)	2.6	2.6	3.3	3.3	4	4	4.6	4.6	5.3	5.3	6	6	6.6	6.6	7.3	7.3	8	8	8.6	8.6	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3	9.3

Reduces remaining enemy life by up to 25% down to a minimum of 55%/70%/85% in normal/nightmare/hell

Mana Cost: 9

Duration: 5 seconds

Resistances are reduced at 1/2 effectiveness when those resistances are above 99% (immunes) or below 0%

Static Field receives bonuses from:

• Lightning Mastery: +0.2 Seconds Duration per Level

Changelog

Season 2: now follows the ½ penalty on immunes now capped at 55% in normal, 70% in nightmare, 85% in hell Season 1: moved in the skill tree, requires level 1 (was 6) radius reduced reduces enemy life to 50%/65%/80% in normal/nightmare/hell (was 0%/33%/50%) now also has -1% to enemy lightning resistance per level (breaks immunities) Vanilla Info

Nova

• Description: Creates an expanding ring of lightning to shock nearby enemies
• Required Level: 12
• Required Skills: Charged Bolt [1]

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Lightning Damage (min)	1	6	11	16	21	26	31	36	43	50	57	64	71	78	85	92	100	108	116	124	132	140	149	158	167	176	185	194	203	212	221	230	239	248	257	266	275	284	293	302	311	320	329	338	347	356	365	374	383	392	401	410	419	428	437	446	455	464	473	482
Lightning Damage (max)	22	29	36	43	50	57	64	71	80	89	98	107	116	125	134	143	154	165	176	187	198	209	221	233	245	257	269	281	293	305	317	329	341	353	365	377	389	401	413	425	437	449	461	473	485	497	509	521	533	545	557	569	581	593	605	617	629	641	653	665
Mana Cost	8	8.5	9	9.5	10	10.5	11	11.5	12	12.5	13	13.5	14	14.5	15	15.5	16	16.5	17	17.5	18	18.5	19	19.5	20	20.5	21	21.5	22	22.5	23	23.5	24	24.5	25	25.5	26	26.5	27	27.5	28	28.5	29	29.5	30	30.5	31	31.5	32	32.5	33	33.5	34	34.5	35	35.5	36	36.5	37	37.5

Nova receives bonuses from:

• Charged Bolt: +3% Lightning Damage per Level
• Telekinesis: +3% Lightning Damage per Level

Changelog

Season 6: Nova level 1-8 scaling reduced from 6-8 to 5-7 Nova level 8-16 scaling reduced from 8-10 to 7-11 Nova level 16-22 scaling reduced from 9-12 to 8-11 Nova level 22+ scaling reduced from 10-13 to 9-12 Nova level 28+ scaling reduced from 11-14 to 10-13 Season 4: Nova damage scaling changed from 5-7 / 7-9 / 8-11 / 10-13 / 12-15 to 6-8 / 8-10 / 9-12 / 10-13 / 11-14 Season 3: Novas level 22-28 scaling reduced from 10-19 to 10-13 Novas level 28+ scaling reduced from 10-19 to 12-15 Season 1: prerequisites changed (now requires Charged Bolt instead of Static Field) minimum lightning damage scaling improved slightly at low levels mana cost halved now has Charged Bolt & Telekinesis as synergies at 3% Vanilla Info

Lightning

• Description: Creates a powerful lightning bolt to lay waste to your enemies
• Required Level: 12
• Required Skills: Charged Bolt [1]

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Lightning Damage (min)	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Lightning Damage (max)	30	40	50	60	70	80	90	100	113	126	139	152	165	178	191	204	220	236	252	268	284	300	319	338	357	376	395	414	436	458	480	502	524	546	568	590	612	634	656	678	700	722	744	766	788	810	832	854	876	898	920	942	964	986	1008	1030	1052	1074	1096	1118
Mana Cost	4	4.2	4.5	4.7	5	5.2	5.5	5.7	6	6.2	6.5	6.7	7	7.2	7.5	7.7	8	8.2	8.5	8.7	9	9.2	9.5	9.7	10	10.2	10.5	10.7	11	11.2	11.5	11.7	12	12.2	12.5	12.7	13	13.2	13.5	13.7	14	14.2	14.5	14.7	15	15.2	15.5	15.7	16	16.2	16.5	16.7	17	17.2	17.5	17.7	18	18.2	18.5	18.7

Lightning receives bonuses from:

• Charged Bolt: +6% Lightning Damage per Level
• Chain Lightning: +6% Lightning Damage per Level

Changelog

Season 4: Lightning faster cast rate breakpoints changed from lightning to regular frames Lightning synergy reduced from 8% to 6% Lightning max damage scaling changed from 12 / 15 / 20 / 24 / 28 per level to 12 / 15 / 18 / 21 / 24 lightning has had its level 1 mana cost reduced from 8 to 4 lightning mana cost now increases by .25 per level instead of .5 Season 3: Lightning 1-8 scaling increased from +8 max damage per level to +12 Lightning 8-16 scaling increased from +12 max damage per level to +16 Season 2: scaling at 28+ increased from 26 to 28 synergies increased from 6% to 8% Season 1: maximum lightning damage starts at 30 (was 40) synergy from Nova removed synergies are now 6% (was 8%) Vanilla Info

Teleport

• Description: Instantly moves to a destination and reduces the spell damage you deal for 1 second
• Required Level: 18
• Required Skills: Telekinesis [1]

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Mana Cost	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Hard Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Spell Damage Penalty -% (1 second)	65	63	61	59	57	55	53	51	49	47	45	43	41	39	37	35	33	31	29	27	25

Changelog

Season 6: Teleport tooltip now displays the damage debuff reducing with base points Season 5: Teleport now once again uses its original cast frames (no longer uses lightning cast frames) Teleport damage reduction debuff now starts at -65% from -50% Teleport debuff will now reduce damage at proper values Season 4: Teleport reduces debuff reduction by 2% per base level from 1% Season 2: now counts as a Lightning skill (for items that grant +X Lightning Skills) Season 1: 50% spell damage debuff for 1 second on cast uses lightning FCR frames damage debuff reduced by 1% per hard point Vanilla Info

Chain Lightning

• Description: Creates a bolt of lightning that arcs through several targets
• Required Level: 24
• Required Skills: Charged Bolt [1], Lightning [12]

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Hits	5	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Lightning Damage (min)	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Lightning Damage (max)	40	53	66	79	92	105	118	131	147	163	179	195	211	227	243	259	278	297	316	335	354	373	395	417	439	461	483	505	530	555	580	605	630	655	680	705	730	755	780	805	830	855	880	905	930	955	980	1005	1030	1055	1080	1105	1130	1155	1180	1205	1230	1255	1280	1305
Mana Cost	4	4.5	5	5.5	6	6.5	7	7.5	8	8.5	9	9.5	10	10.5	11	11.5	12	12.5	13	13.5	14	14.5	15	15.5	16	16.5	17	17.5	18	18.5	19	19.5	20	20.5	21	21.5	22	22.5	23	23.5	24	24.5	25	25.5	26	26.5	27	27.5	28	28.5	29	29.5	30	30.5	31	31.5	32	32.5	33	33.5

Chain Lightning receives bonuses from:

• Charged Bolt: +6% Lightning Damage per Level
• Lightning: +6% Lightning Damage per Level

Changelog

Season 4: Chain Lightning synergy reduced from 7% to 6% Chain Lightning max damage scaling changed from 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 to 13 / 16 / 19 / 22 / 25 Season 3: Chain lightning 1-8 scaling increased from +11 max damage per level to +13 Chain lightning 8-16 scaling increased from +13 max damage per level to +14 Season 2: starting mana cost reduced from 16 to 8 level 22+ scaling improved slightly synergies increased from 5% to 7% Season 1: moved in the skill tree, requires level 24 (was 18) mana cost scaling halved synergy for Nova removed synergies are now 5% (was 4%) Vanilla Info

Thunder Storm

• Description: Summons a deadly thunderstorm that strikes your enemies with bolts of lightning
• Required Level: 24
• Required Skills: Charged Bolt [1], Lightning [12], Nova [12]

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Duration (seconds)	32	40	48	56	64	72	80	88	96	104	112	120	128	136	144	152	160	168	176	184	192	200	208	216	224	232	240	248	256	264	272	280	288	296	304	312	320	328	336	344	352	360	368	376	384	392	400	408	416	424	432	440	448	456	464	472	480	488	496	504
Lightning Damage (min)	1	3	5	7	9	11	13	15	18	21	24	27	30	33	36	39	43	47	51	55	59	63	68	73	78	83	88	93	99	105	111	117	123	129	135	141	147	153	159	165	171	177	183	189	195	201	207	213	219	225	231	237	243	249	255	261	267	273	279	285
Lightning Damage (max)	100	104	108	112	116	120	124	128	133	138	143	148	153	158	163	168	174	180	186	192	198	204	211	218	225	232	239	246	254	262	270	278	286	294	302	310	318	326	334	342	350	358	366	374	382	390	398	406	414	422	430	438	446	454	462	470	478	486	494	502

Hard Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Delay between hits (seconds)	2	1.9	1.9	1.8	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.5	1.5	1.4	1.4	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.1	1	1

Mana Cost: 19

Thunder Storm receives bonuses from:

• Charged Bolt: +6% Lightning Damage per Level
• Nova: +6% Lightning Damage per Level

Changelog

Season 6: Thunderstorm tooltip now displays the delay reducing with base points Season 3: Thunderstorm aoe has been increased by 300% Thunderstorm’s lightning synergy changed to charged bolt Thunderstorm synergies increased from 5% to 6% Thunderstorm no longer flashes your screen Season 2: synergies increased from 4% to 5% Season 1: prerequisites reduced from 5 to 3 (no longer requires Static Field, Chain Lightning) time between attacks goes down with hard points and starts at 2 seconds (was 4.4) casts nova on impact damage scaling reduced now has Lightning & Nova as synergies at 4% Vanilla Info

Energy Shield

• Description: Creates a magical shield that consumes mana instead of health when you take damage
• Required Level: 30
• Required Skills: Charged Bolt [1], Telekinesis [1], Lightning [12], Teleport [18], Chain Lightning [24]

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Duration (seconds)	144	204	264	324	384	444	504	564	624	684	744	804	864	924	984	1044	1104	1164	1224	1284	1344	1404	1464	1524	1584	1644	1704	1764	1824	1884	1944	2004	2064	2124	2184	2244	2304	2364	2424	2484	2544	2604	2664	2724	2784	2844	2904	2964	3024	3084	3144	3204	3264	3324	3384	3444	3504	3564	3624	3684
Absorbs % Damage	15	17	19	21	23	25	27	29	31	33	35	37	39	41	43	45	47	49	51	53	55	57	59	61	63	65	67	69	71	73	75	77	79	81	83	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85	85

Telekinesis Hard Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Absorbed Damage Multiplier %	225	218	212	206	200	193	187	181	175	168	162	156	150	143	137	131	125	118	112	106	100

Mana Cost: 5

The energy shield buff will end if the character is reduced to zero mana.

The Absorbed Damage Multiplier affects how much of the absorbed damage is dealt to mana. 100% of the original damage is taken with 20 points in Telekinesis, whereas the character will take up to 2.25 times the original damage without any points in Telekinesis.

Energy Shield receives bonuses from:

• Telekinesis (-6.25% Absorbed Damage Multiplier per level)

Changelog

Season 5: Energy shield now properly requires level 30 Season 3: Energy Shield absorbs 5% more at all levels Season 2: now counts as a Lightning skill (for items that grant +X Lightning Skills) Season 1: moved in the skill tree (still requires level 24) absorb reduced to 10% +2% per level (was 20% +5%) absorb caps at 80% (was 95%) synergy from telekinesis nerfed (now has 225%-100% damage taken, was 200%-75%) Vanilla Info

Lightning Mastery

• Description: Passive - Increases all damage caused by your lightning spells
• Required Level: 30
• Required Skills: None

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Lightning Damage +%	50	62	74	86	98	110	122	134	146	158	170	182	194	206	218	230	242	254	266	278	290	302	314	326	338	350	362	374	386	398	410	422	434	446	458	470	482	494	506	518	530	542	554	566	578	590	602	614	626	638	650	662	674	686	698	710	722	734	746	758

Changelog

Season 1: no pierce, high damage no changes Vanilla Info