Lightning Spear

Lightning Spear is a Sorcerer skill from the Conjuration skill tree. Its features are:

Grants Player	Exploits Condition
Lightning Dmg	Critical Strike Damage
Stuns (CC)	Critical Strike Chance
Vulnerable	Crackling Energy
Conjuration
Shock

'Creates Condition' means this skill creates this condition i.e it could make a target Vulnerable that other skills can take advantage of. 'Exploits Condition' means this skill takes advantage of a condition, not necessarily of its own making. So for example another skill might Stun and this skill could take advantage of that.

Lightning Spear Conjure a spear of lightning that seeks out enemies for 6 seconds, dealing 15% damage per hit. Critical Strikes apply Vulnerable for 3 seconds. Mana Cost: 20 seconds. Enchantment Slot Effect Absorbing Crackling Energy has a 10% chance to conjure a Lightning Spear. Damage: Lightning Lucky Hit Chance: 5% Tags: Conjuration, Shock

Upgrades

Enhanced Lightning Spear After Critically Striking, Lightning Spear gains a + 5% increased stacking Critical Strike Chance for its duration.	Summoned Lightning Spear Collecting Crackling Energy increases the damage of your next Lightning Spear cast by x 20%, up to x 160%.
	Invoked Lightning Spear Lightning Spear Stuns (CC) enemies for 2 seconds when Critically Striking.

Items that work with Lightning Spear

The following items either:

• Grant a bonus when using Lightning Spear
• Create a condition Lightning Spear can exploit
• Exploit a condition Lightning Spear creates

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Control	Offensive	You deal 25 - 35% more damage to Immobilized (CC), Stunned (CC), or Frozen (CC) enemies. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Sunken Library (Map)	Kehjistan	Sorcerer
Aspect of Shared Misery	Utility	Lucky Hit: When you hit a Crowd Controlled enemy, there is up to a 30 - 50% chance for that Crowd Control effect to spread to another unaffected enemy. Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	Oblivion (Map)	Hawezar	All
Aspect of Splintering Energy	Offensive	Lightning Spear has a 11 - 20% chance to spawn an additional Lightning Spear when you cast it. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Crumbling Hekma (Map)	Kehjistan	Sorcerer
Battle Caster's Aspect	Offensive	When your Conjuration skills hit you have up to a 30 - 40% chance to gain +1 Rank to your Conjuration skills for 12 seconds. This can stack up to 3 times. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Sorcerer
Everliving Aspect	Defensive	You take 20 - 25% less damage from Crowd Controlled or Vulnerable enemies. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Sorcerer
Smiting Aspect	Offensive	You have x 10 - 20% increased Critical Strike Chance against Injured enemies. While you are Healthy, you gain x 20 - 40% increased Crowd Control Duration. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	All
Stable Aspect	Offensive	While Unstable Currents is not active, your Shock skills have a 7 - 12% chance to trigger a free cast from it. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Sorcerer
Storm Swell Aspect	Offensive	You deal 21 - 30% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies while you have a Barrier. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Onyx Hold (Map)	Dry Steppes	Sorcerer

Unique Items

	Ahavarion Spear of Lycander The angel Lycander left us a portion of her power in this spear. It is all the proof I need that she watches over us still. - Oracle Argoysni Type: Staff - Uber Unique Class: Druid and Sorcerer Description: Gain a random Shrine effect for 10-20 seconds after killing an Elite enemy. Can only occur once every 30 seconds.	+ % Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies Affixes: + % Damage + % Attack Speed + % Critical Strike Chance Lucky Hit: Up to a + % chance to Stun (CC)
	Banished Lord's Talisman "His name has been lost to history, but to have been exiled from a land as cursed as Hawezar, his deeds must have been truly depraved." - Scholar's Notes Type: Amulet Class: All Description: After you spend 275 of your Primary Resource, your next Core Skill is guaranteed to Overpower. Your Critical Strikes that Overpower deal %[x] increased damage.	Affixes: + % Critical Strike Chance + % Overpower Damage + % Resource Generation + # Ranks of all Core Skills
	Blue Rose "Her lover's spirit faded, and in her sorrow she wept frozen tears. Where they fell, roses of the purest ice would blossom each winter." - Greenslade's Tales, Chapter 7: "The Myth of Irina Coldheart" Type: Ring Class: Sorcerer Description: Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy has up to a 30% chance to form an exploding Ice Spike, dealing # Cold damage. Triple this chance if the enemy is Frozen.	+ % Resistance to All Elements + % Cold Resistance Affixes: % Mana Cost Reduction + % Critical Strike Damage + % Lucky Hit Chance + % Ice Spike Damage
	Esu's Heirloom "While scholars have proven these boots were not created by Esu herself, it is noteworthy that they have been passed down since the formation of the Mage Clans." - Barrett's Book of Implements Type: Boots Class: Sorcerer Description: Your Critical Strike Chance is increased by 20 - 30% of your Movement Speed bonus.	Affixes: + % Critical Strike Damage + % Movement Speed for 4 secs after killing an Elite + % Movement Speed % Mana Cost Reduction
	Flickerstep ""Considered a failure by their creator, it wasn't until the assassination of an "untouchable" Caldeum noble that these boots' true power was understood." - Barrett's Book of Implements" Type: Boots Class: All Description: Each enemy you Evade through reduces your active Ultimate Cooldown by # seconds, up to 10 seconds.	Attacks Reduce Evade's Cooldown by # Seconds Affixes: + % Damage + % Attack Speed + % Critical Strike Chance + Lucky Hit: Up to a % Chance to Stun (CC)
	Frostburn A touch so frigid it stops the heart and chills the very soul. Type: Gloves Class: All Description: Lucky Hit: Up to a 15 - 25% chance to Freeze (CC) enemies for 2 seconds.	Affixes: + % Critical Strike Chance + % Attack Speed + % Freeze Duration Lucky Hit: Up to a % chance to restore + % Primary Resource.
	Gloves of the Illuminator After Inarius returned to Sanctuary, he sought a way back to the High Heavens. His first step was to reignite the religion he had abandoned millennia before: the Cathedral of Light. Type: Gloves Class: Sorcerer Description: Fireball now bounces as it travels, exploding each time it hits the ground, but its explosion deals 35 - 25% less damage.	Affixes: + % Critical Strike Chance + 2 - 3 Ranks of Fireball + % Fireball Attack Speed Lucky Hit: Up to a 5% chance to restore + # Primary resource
	Godslayer Crown "The Sahptev faithful believe in a thousand and one gods. If it takes me as many lifetimes, I will find and kill them all." - Gaspar Stilbian, Veradani Outcast" Type: Helm Class: All Description: When you Stun (CC), Freeze (CC), or Immobilize (CC) an Elite enemy, or damage a Boss, it Pulls (CC) In Nearby enemies. You deal [30 - 60]%[x] increased damage to them for 3 seconds. This effect can only occur once every 12 seconds.	Affixes: % Cooldown Reduction + % Crowd Control Duration + # Maximum Life + % Damage
	Mother's Embrace "Every tome, every scroll, every book in this temple produces the same answer. The only being willing to stand against the Eternal Conflict, against the Prime Evils, was Lilith." - Elias Type: Ring Class: All Description: If a Core Skill hits 4 or more enemies, 30% - 50% of the Resource cost is refunded.	Affixes: + % Resist All + % Shadow Resistance + # All Stats + % Maximum Life + % Critical Strike Damage
	Paingorger's Gauntlets Crafted from fragments of Duriel's carapace, wearing these gloves, or being struck by them, causes an agonizing sensation akin to pushing one's hands through a thousand shards of glass. Type: Gloves Class: All Description: Damaging enemies with a cast Non–Basic Skill marks them for 3 seconds. When a Basic Skill first hits a marked enemy, the Basic Skill’s damage is echoed to all marked enemies, dealing x 100 – 200% increased damage.	Affixes: + % Critical Strike Chance + % Attack Speed + 8 - 14 All Stats + % Basic Skill Damage
	Penitent Greaves Remorseful devotees of the Cathedral of Light must undertake a gruelling pilgrimage, journeying across the frigid glacier known as the Serac Rapture. Only then may their gravest sins be forgiven. Type: Boots Class: All Description: You leave behind a trail of frost that Chills (CC) enemies. You deal [12 - 15]%[x] more damage to Chilled enemies.	Evade Grants +50% Movement Speed for 1 Second Affixes: + % Movement Speed + % Crowd Control duration % Slow duration reduction % Cold Resistance
	Raiment of the Infinite The power you have is never enough. Type: Chest Armor Class: Sorcerer Description: After using Teleport, Close enemies are pulled to you and Stunned (CC) for 2 - 3 seconds, but Teleport's Cooldown is increased by x 20.0%.	Affixes: + 28 - 42 Intelligence + 1 Rank of Glass Cannon Passive skill + 16.5 - 23.5% Damage to Close enemies + 16.5 - 23.5% Damage to Stunned enemies
	Ring of Starless Skies "Yours is the power to pluck the stars from the heavens with the ease of a child gathering fruit from the bough." - Unknown Type: Ring - Uber Unique Class: All Description: Spending resources reduces your resource costs and increases your damage by x10% for 3 seconds, up to 40%.	+ % All Resistances Affixes: + % Lucky Hit Chance + % Critical Strike Chance + % Critical Strike Damage + % Core Skill Damage
	Staff of Lam Esen "Also known as the Greatstaff of the Old Religion, this powerful relic is one of only a small handful of Skatsimi artefacts that have survived to this day." - Barrett's Book of Implements Type: Staff Class: Sorcerer Description: Your casts of Charged Bolts have a x40 - 60% chance to be attracted to enemies and last 300% longer.	+ % Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies Affixes: + % Lightning Damage + % Critical Strike Damage + % Damage to Close Enemies Lucky Hit: Up to a 5% Chance to Restore +% Primary Resource
	Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop "Fool said he dug it out of the sands near Lut Gholem with a few other worthless trinkets. I hid my delight at receiving such as treasure in exchange for a meager handful of coins" - Rakhaan Type: Ring Class: Sorcerer Description: For each type of elemental damage you deal, gain [X] 14% increased damage for 4 seconds. Dealing Elemental damage refreshes all bonuses. (Sorcerer Only)	+ % Resistance to All Elements + % Resistance to All Elements Affixes: + % Non-Physical Damage + % Lucky Hit Chance + % Resource Generation + % Cooldown Reduction

Paragon Glyphs

	Advantage Magic: Barbarian / Necromancer / Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Willpower purchased within range, you gain + 1.1% increased damage to Crowd Controlled targets.
	Conjurer Rare: Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Intelligence within range, Conjuration Skills gain + 3% (lvl 1) - 15% (lvl 21) increased damage.	Additional Bonus: Conjuration Skills have a 20% increased duration. Requirements: 40 Intelligence (in radius range)
	Control Rare: Necromancer / Sorcerer / Rogue Bonus: For every 5 Intelligence (Necro) purchased within range, you deal + 2% (lvl 1) - 10% (lvl 21) increased damage to Crowd Controlled targets. For every 5 Intelligence (Rogue) / 5 Dexterity (Sorc) purchased within range, you deal 3% (lvl 1) - 15% (lvl 21) increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies.	Additional Bonus: You (and your Minions, necro only) deal x 10% increased damage to Slowed (CC) or Chilled (CC) enemies or, instead, x 20% increased damage to Stunned (CC) or Frozen (CC) enemies. Requirements: 40 Int (Necro), 25 Int (Rogue), 25 Dex (Sorc) (in radius range)
	Destruction Rare: Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, you deal + 4% (lvl 1) - 20% (lvl 21) increased Critical Strike Damage.	Additional Bonus: Critical Strikes increase all damage the enemy takes from you by x 2% for 10 seconds, up to x 12%. Requirements: 25 Dexterity (in radius range)
	Electrocute Rare: Sorcerer Bonus: Paragon nodes within range gain + 15% (lvl 1) - 75% (lvl 21) bonus to their Lightning damage and damage reduction modifiers.	Additional Bonus: Your Lightning damage has a + 5% increased chance to Critically Strike enemies who are Stunned (CC), Immobilized (CC), or Frozen (CC). Requirements: 25 Dexterity (in radius range)
	Elementalist Rare: Sorcerer Bonus: Paragon nodes within range gain + 15% (lvl 1) - 75% (lvl 21) bonus to their Non-physical damage and damage reduction modifiers.	Additional Bonus: Dealing Fire, Cold, or Lightning damage to an enemy increases all damage you deal to them by x 5% for 10 seconds, stacking once per element. Requirements: 40 Intelligence (in radius range)
	Enchanter Rare: Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Intelligence purchased within range, you deal +2% (lvl 1) -10% (lvl 21) increased Non-physical damage.	Additional Bonus: For each skill equipped in your Enchantment Slots, gain + 5% Maximum Resistance to that Skill's element. Requirements: 40 Intelligence (in radius range)
	Invocation Rare: Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, your Conjuration Skills gain + 8% (lvl 1) - 28% (lvl 21) Critical Strike Damage.	Additional Bonus: Enemies damaged by your Conjuration Skills deal 1% reduced damage to you for 6 seconds, stacking up to 15%. Requirements: 25 Dexterity (in radius range)
	Ruin Magic: Barbarian / Druid / Necromancer / Rogue / Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Dexterity (Barb, Druid, Necro, Sorc) / Intelligence (Rogue) purchased within range, you gain + 1.1% increased Critical Strike Damage.
	Subdue Magic: Barbarian / Druid / Necromancer / Rogue / Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Dexterity (Barb/Druid/Necro/Sorc) / Intelligence (Rogue) purchased within range, you gain + 0.8% increased damage to Vulnerable targets.

Item Affixes

The following Affixes are particularly useful with Lightning Spear

Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Helm	Chest	Gloves	Weap 1H	Weap 2H	Offhand
Ranks in Lightning Spear [2 - 3]			✔
Ranks in All Conjuration Skills [1 - 2]	✔
Shock Skill Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]	✔			✔
Conjuration Skill Damage [14 - 28%]	✔			✔
Lightning Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]		✔		✔
Lightning Critical Strike Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]		✔			✔	✔
Lightning Critical Strike Damage [28 - 42%]							✔
Critical Strike Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]		✔				✔
Critical Strike Damage [28 - 42%]							✔
Critical Strike Chance [1.8 - 5%]		✔			✔			✔
Critical Strike Chance Against Injured Enemies [3 - 8%]	✔							✔
Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies [5 - 12%]		✔				✔
Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies [10 - 24%]							✔
Staff: Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies [35%]							✔
Crowd Control Duration [5 - 12%]			✔					✔
Damage to Stunned Enemies [16.5 - 23.5%]		✔				✔
Damage to Sunned Enemies [33 - 47%]							✔
Vulnerable Damage [9.8 - 19.6%]		✔				✔
Vulnerable Damage [19.6 - 39.2%]							✔
Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Helm	Chest	Gloves	Weap 1H	Weap 2H	Offhand

Changes to Lightning Spear

Patch 1-3-0, January 23, 2024

• Critical Strikes now apply Vulnerable for 3 seconds.

Patch 1-0-3, June 27, 2023

• Summoned Lightning Spear - Maximum Damage Bonus increased from 100% to 160%. [[Category:Sorcerer