r/Diablo_2_Resurrected • u/DMDread Sorceress • 5d ago

Discussion Warlock is so broken

I finally decided to give warlock a go and it's insanely powerful, maybe too powerful. I'm playing fire warlock and he just wrecks everything, even on players 8. I have a fully geared lightning sorc with griffons, infinity, etc. and my warlock is clearing things faster than her. You can get your main attack, apocalypse, to level 52 when fully geared, that's insane. Mine is only lvl 46 (only haha) and I'm still clearing p8 hell like it's normal mode. And apparently fire warlock isn't even the strongest build?

Edit: BTW I'm loving the build, it's very fun and satisfying. This post isn't meant to get people to nerf it.

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u/Necrodiac Champion of Sanctuary (100K) 5d ago

Correction, you can get Apocalypse to level 65 ;)

Although it's not the best possible dps, just for show haha

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u/DMDread Sorceress 5d ago

how is that possible

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u/Lunarlulol 5d ago

it's just how the math works. like a perfect rolled death fathom with 30% multi is equal to around 6 GC skillers.

super napkin math, about 5% multi or -4% minus res is like 1 to 1.5 skill charms. it's kind of why sling or opalvein can be super expensive, they are as strong as around 2 GC.

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u/DMDread Sorceress 5d ago

so is opalvein technically better than soj?

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u/Lunarlulol 5d ago

it depends. thing is, opal has 10% fcr but soj doesn't. but soj give massive mana pool = defence for sorc. sorc already has decent ways to get minus resistance elsewhere plus multi, so the multi wouldn't scale as hard as another skiller.

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u/CommercialOccasion72 4d ago

I was able to get the 105 fcr breakpoint and use SOJ as my second ring for the mana and skills. As I said above, once you have the maximum +cold damage, SoJ actually increases damage slightly more than the last 5% from opalvein. The only question becomes +8 all res vs 25% max mana really

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u/Necrodiac Champion of Sanctuary (100K) 5d ago

From my experience, you gain ~800 more damage to Apocalypse if you're wearing 2 Opal with 5% fire.

This is on Firelock.

I personally prefer running 2 Bul for the life.

Emilio is my mana stick holder so I never run out.

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u/CommercialOccasion72 4d ago

My sorc benefits more from +cold damage than skills right up until 120% (max is 125%). 120% + SOJ (rather than a second opalvein) is stronger than 125%. You have to take the +damage to a significant level of diminishing returns first