Hello, this my first chaos build posted. It’s sorcerer utilizing BWC and mortar traps for dealing damage. Build is very hard to play (compared to my other builds), squishy and I do not suggest beginners to follow it (until you want have fun on 65-66 shards or something). Whole defense is based on behemoth, timing mirror, timing potion and not getting hit - like dodging attack animations of Reapers who are our true nemesis.
Why did I choose Sorcerer over Pyromancer or Purifier? Because absorbtion and mirror from Arcanist tree provide enough defense to survive so we can invest a lot into damaging devotions, components and auguments. Except it arcanist increase our OA, crit, some flat and % chaos and gives CDR for our burst BWC casting.
Build
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/a2dz5JJZ - main setup which I tested and recorded videos.
https://www.grimtools.com/calc/wV1vPmYZ - setup for players who care less about damage, speed and eventually want to enjoy build with less stress. Changed devotion route, got Bat, Ghoul and more DA.
Choices which I want to explain:
Weapon - Blade of the Black Flame vs Grimfate (popular choice for Infernal Knight). With current devotion route Black Flame works better because of conversion - we hit more with meteors, flame torrents and convert more flat fire into chaos. Difference in Crucible was around 15-20 seconds average.
Amulet - converted chaos mortars gives additional damage and help a lot with kiting. Chaos has no real dot so in bad situation we can’t just rely on cooldowned BWC. They are very good at procing meteors either.
Gloves and Offhand - for more mortars.
Boots - Defensive choice. Except 15% physical resistances it cap our reduced trap duration. We don’t want to be catched into Ben’jahr prison with reapers charging on us.
Pants - Grava’thul leggins for +3 agonizing flames. Aim for Demonic prefix + dmg/oa/da/resistances suffix. For no rare choice Demonbane Legplates are okay, may require changing components and auguments for resistances.
Performance
Crucible 5:00 (4:55 buff) - average 5:2x, require being careful, I had to practice build a little to be consistent.
SR 95 showcase - method to cheese Iron Maiden with so squishy caster build on conclave map is there.
Crate boss - easy fight.
SR 80 full room - stick to 75-76 with agroabuse or 65-66 for less stress.
Horrible 170ex naked run - I don’t know how to speedrun it and I had to fight for life with double reapers in last wave. Lack of Dots is very painful in kiting.
Regards
Other devotion route which I showed in second setup would make it easier to play but will be probably ~30-40 seconds slower or something like that.