Lighting Thunderclap Array Build

Video of the build in action: https://youtu.be/jg8A\_ZtC3II

(Note: Ignore the little flower cannon-fodder there. That fate is definitely not part of an optimized build, so you probably shouldn't include it)

Lightning is a great ranged AOE build that works great for smashing dungeons and bosses alike. The build below is more for nuking things with pure damage, so you might want to improve your survivability with good pills, a health passive that gives HP regen, and the blood demon fate. As a warning, this build has been tested on all difficulties up till the 4th difficulty, but has not been tested yet on chaos as of yet.

Here's a description of the skills in action (note: I don't know the accurate English translations of the skills, so I'll be providing a description of what they are instead and my own name for it):

## Breakthrough Fates

Some recommended breakthrough fates that go well with this build is below. Because lightning doesn't have a built-in lifesteal like Blade, the **Blood Demon** fate really helps for survivability and more comfortable fighting. The **Storm Specialization** fate also really ups your DPS as well because you can pretty much use your ultimate whenever you want.

血魔/煞/魇大法
 Storm Specialization
风雷擎天
使用风雷属性的神通无需达成施展条件（对需要引爆特殊单位的神通只解除限制，不会生成特殊单位）

In terms of order, personally I would recommend getting Blood Demon LVL 1 first for better survivability, then storm specialization.After that, the order of getting the remaining blood demon levels can be arbitrary.

## Leveling Tips

* At Qi-condensing, if lightning is your primary/highest element at character creation, you will get a basic lightning skill, which is--quite frankly--not that good. At lower difficulties it doesn't matter too much, but at higher difficulties it might just be easier to switch to using blade or sword skills at this stage first. After reaching foundation more/better skills should become available. If chain lightning skill isn't available yet, the lightning whip skill also works well.
* There is another lightning ultimate that gathers tribulation clouds above your head and does lightning strikes in the area around you. Essentially, instead of throwing out a crystal around which a lightning array domain is created, *you* become the array crystal. The benefit of this ultimate is that unlike the lightning array ultimate it is mobile; so you can stick close to the boss even if it moves. The downside though...well, if there are no enemies in the tribulation area/around you, then you get hit by the lightning instead. So yes, this ultimate could technically kill you if there are no enemies around you for it to hit.
* This build relies alot on keeping enemies within the AOE damage area (e.g. within your lightning array d main and within the attack area of the lightning orb), so you may need to kind of dance within this area so that the boss follows you/stays inside as well.
* When choosing passives, try to stack the effects for maximum damage/effect. Some special effects to look for are:
	+ Increasing the number/frequency of lightning strikes
	+ Increasing your damage done with every lightning strike
	+ Increasing the number of turbulent flow (亂流)
	+ Increasing the number of enemies that can be hit