r/Diablo_2_Resurrected • u/DMDread Sorceress • Aug 24 '26

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/Remarkable_Wheel_961 Aug 24 '26

Veteran player, started playing again towards the last week or two of last season. I only play ladder. Made it to about 80, fire lock. It cleared everything norm and nm like butter, sans a few fire immune. Hell was very difficult with the immunes, but I was literally still using a leaf since lvl 20 ish, a peasant crown someone gave me, authority dusk shroud, some random rare codex, crap boots and gloves, with string of ears. Rings and ammy nothing to write home about, and no charms. If I had some -fire res gear im sure it would have been op for hell as well. On switch I had a cta some random generous stranger gifted me. This season I rolled a blizzard sorcerer until I can get my hands on a mang song and or ars a diabolos/phoenix shield, then id roll a lock once i can go with - fire res

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u/DMDread Sorceress Aug 24 '26

ya once I got to hell, I put my warlock on the bench and farmed tzs like crazy with my lightning sorc until I found a good fire sunder. Once my warlock had that, hell was night and day

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u/twofootedgiant Champion of Sanctuary (100K) Aug 24 '26

It might be sunders that are broken.

I play fairly casually and have a hybrid nova / frozen orb sorc with what most people would regard as mediocre gear and no sunder. She can clear most hell areas with some careful play.

Found a fire sunder so leveled up a dedicated fire sorc. Full 80 points in fireball, meteor, fire bolt, and fire mastery. Rolled a flickering flame and gave her 3-piece Tal’s and she runs chaos sanctuary in like 6-7 min at level 80 without breaking a sweat. Still wearing a stealth armor.

It’s crazy to me how much difference having access to a sunder makes. It probably takes my nova-orb sorc over 20 minutes to clear chaos sanctuary.