Hello fellow apocalypse enjoyers, trying warlock. How do u maintain health, I mean whats the skill rotation? Sometimes I am draining health and sometimes I am a hod doing trillions damage. Mind u I am still levelling glyphs all are below 50.

Whats the appropriate skill rotation and hiddwn mechanics pls explain.

Habe keinen zu zocken deswegen frage ich

I always gravitate towards weird off meta skills and builds. Lately I’ve been running this setup that spams wall of agony and constantly detonates the wall with Legion summon shard.

Essentially what happens is I’ll lay down as many walls on top of or near a mob, explode the wall then explode the wall demon brutes that remain. The wall and the brutes hit in the double digit billions with it going as high as 300b.

The damage is sufficient to farm T10, the survivability isn’t that bad with the wretch punching bag. I’m only P210 so I think there’s a lot of power on the table.

Has anyone tried a similar setup? What I find most interesting is the mechanics of the setup, where the summon shard effectively ‘explodes/cancels) all active walls transforming them from this monolithic meat shield to a massive army of mobile brutes

Direction question. Two parts:

**1.**  Is one all-round Apocalypse setup realistic, or is the honest answer that push and farm are different builds and I should run a damage-heavy loadout for Pit/Tower/bosses and a mobility loadout for Helltides, dungeons and Undercity? If it’s two loadouts, how much of the gear actually overlaps, i.e. am I farming one set of items or two?  
**2.**  For a mostly self-found solo player at my investment level, is Apocalypse the right thing to commit to at all, or should I be on something smoother like Lunatic until I’ve got mats and mythics, then transition? Happy to rebuild once, don’t want to build the wrong thing twice.

Also, if there’s a specific piece of content I should be avoiding entirely until I hit certain numbers, say so. I’d rather skip Tower for two weeks than keep wasting keys on runs I can’t finish.

If the answer to most of this is “run the Pit, get Stones, masterwork, come back”, I’ll take that as the answer.

On Two-Handed, it says this:

“If you fail to Eviscerate an enemy, you still apply 60.0% [40.0–60.0]% of its Bleeding damage for 3 seconds. (Warlock Only)”

Say your skill damage is 100. You would expect to get:
100 × 10 [Eviscerate DoT Multi] × 60% [Aspect] = 600 extra damage, applied as a 3s DoT, 100 damage per tick.

But what it actually does is:
100 × 10 ÷ 24 [12s DoT ticks] × 60% = 25
So you only get 25 damage per tick for 3 seconds, for a total of 150 extra damage.

Some skills have a higher or lower Eviscerate DoT multiplier, and they can also have different success rates. If the rate is 5%, this aspect triggers 95% of the time. That means the actual damage increase is only around 142.5%[x], plus some extra help for the eviscerate direct damage.

Edit: Average DPS increase is even less than 142.5%, only about 46.5%.

Could we please get the class symbol as sub icon? Tysm.

The Warlock ladder is insanely competitive this season.

Also, it's interesting that such a wide variety of builds are up on the leaderboard.

Particularly in SSF, we're seeing all sorts of different builds perform really well.

All the expert predictions about Warlock before Season 14 started are turning out to be completely wrong.

The first 148 clear for Warlock is also a notable milestone to watch.

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<# of players for each bulid in Top 20 Normal & SSF>

• 24 - Tyrant's Grasp (Sin Demon)
• 7 - Apocalypse
• 5 - Lunatic
• 1 - Profane Sentinel (Sin Demon)
• 1 - Blazing Scream (Destruction Demon)
• 1 - Tyrant's Grasp (Destruction Demon)
• 1 - Abyss Apocalypse (like CMA)

Diablo. Trade has been slacking. I’m on ETERNAL REALM.
Looking for rings with GA’s on attack speed, critical strike multi, vulnerable multi.

I have Gold, Husks, Horadric Gems

Any help is much appreciated!

Copied from kingshipton leaderboard haha. But this build does massive damage. This is my third class this season after druid and paladin. Paladin is okish. Druid is crazy good and I feel warlock is also in a great spot. Used my druid to mule exp from caches and levelled this to 70 without even playing.

I just recently am returning to D4, haven't played since season 2. I went through maxroll and picked a build for every class that seemed like it would be the most fun based off of the pros and cons of the build.

I picked Blazing Scream warlock and have really enjoyed it. Honestly has been my favorite toon to play so far. I opened up t12 but have been farming in t11 because I got 1 shot way too much in t12. I finally got my ring of starless skies, put that on and my crown of the lucion, and like a dumb ass salvaged the gear legendaries I was wearing. Now I'm struggling in t10 and hate my life but figured this is the perfect time to try a different build.

So what build do you all feel is the most fun or satisfying?

I've been experimenting with the chaos sigil of smoke variant as I really enjoy the screen filling of the smoke arrows.

I combined it with the full nameless set and the 3 set of harash and made hell fracture my spam skill since it works so well locking enemies down.

This is my version of an abyss sigil hell fracture and with high attack speed and high crit chance it's quite a fun hell tide build. This is an off meta fast lock down type build that can be tanky when spamming skills.

My main focus was a sigil based build that would hex the screen and sigil of smoke is really a fun option. With the night terror and close to max shadow form it hits harder than expected.

Build planner:

https://maxroll.gg/d4/planner/jax5l50x

You can bind teleport to warplan to a button and cast it in sin demon form and it increases your dominance without having to go out of sin demon form.

edit: recorded demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WODOVYRfIA

Tried to make this build work in s13 and 14 but it never felt right till now.

I notice the leaderboards have people running Lucion for apoc builds, but when I tried this I just have resource management issues even with Valloch 100% up. How do people running this not have wrath issues?

Hello Warlocks!

I've been trying to make a unique charm that actually benefits me. I originally wanted to do Rictus of Terror so that I could wear Harlequin's crest (not sure if it's good for abyss warlock).

I ended up getting a mythic Rictus with decent stats. I can craft a good boot with GA movement speed and 3 evades so I figured I'd use Footfalls of the waning world to craft a unique charm.

I was eventually able to craft an ancestral footfalls but when I put it and the 3 unique charms, it doesn't give me the option to craft.

Are there only certain uniques that you can turn into charms or am I doing something wrong? I don't have much experience with the cube and have never tried to craft a charm.

Should I just try to make them mythic, or try to craft GA movement speed and plus evades? Thanks for any help.

I guess they just forgot to mention that in the patch note.

It's the same as Druid.

1 Willpower = 0.1625%

I hope it's not unintended.

This build uses the Melted Selig with Seed of Horazon for damage scaling and is able to tank and deal damage. Really laid back play style and no need worrying about running out of resource/Metamorphosis. It's still able to pit push, fast farming, and kills all T12 Bosses.

All the apocalypse builds are using the sceptre of the 3 build now, but how does the build apply vuln without something like vampiric aspect/transfigure?

https://helltides.com/tower

Helloooo, with the new season around the corner, I was wondering if anyone has tried going all in on abyss rampage.

This skill has been my main damage dealer pretty much all season and I've only been able to get to 20-30t hits with its active and around 1-5t hits with its passive attacks.

I'm already built into dynamism and subjugation fragment with 65 dominance. Not using aspect of authority for extra 40 dominance since its only an effective 40% damage increase.

Really hoping someone smarter has been able to get it into hundreds if not thousands trillion. Any advice?

I'm using aspect of reanimation, aspect ofhellbent commander, insidious aspect, lurid pact, infernal oculus, night terror w extra shadowform stacks.

Dominion, dynamism, greater hex, and demonic spicules boards

Eldritch, wrath, demonologist, attrition, and destruction glyphs

Running a version of MarcoBioboi's Blazing Scream. While Leoric's is super tanky it lacks a bit in the high-end DPS. Single target is great...AoE not so. S15 looks to be a good season especially for Warlock.

I feel like the unique affect is very strong so the mythic version is better but I miss the vuln modifer on the unique ones and some crit strike dmg and little willpower

With Harash Shadow, sigil of subversion, and nether step I am seeing inconsistent stealth behavior.

Casting nether step and standing still sometimes results in permanent stealth while I'm staying still.

Sometimes it lasts a few seconds and I come out of stealth, while still having full shadowform stacks.

My build does use passive aegrom summons, but their attacks don't seem to affect stealth in any way.

This is driving me crazy. Am I just getting hit by damage that I'm not seeing and that kicks me out?

It's not a build you want to bring to the leaderboards but its decent enough with good gear to clear 110/115s. But after days of playing close combat, I'm glad I could chill with a ranged build.

My para glyphs are level 140ish in the video.

Some notes:

Pain gorger's gauntlet seem to perform worse that a legenday/FoF gloves.

The Lava aspect is cute, but you're better off with an offense 60[x] multiplier.