cant get my brain to work with warlock

[Mighty Joe Young]

my smooth brain cannot comprehend a decent build.
i have to be close combat to get essence to summon minions, but I'm too squishy.

i need intellect to wear magic armor, but i feel like i need armor or something.
do you guys create some other warlock build? like heal on hit or something? being summoner in this game feels so different from other video games. normally you summon minions using mana.

[Redux]

My NG+1 warlock is powerful/sundering dagger/handcrossbow, 66 dex/75 int (need to minmax a bit more). Cloth helm + gloves for spell crit / crit damage (minions deal spell damage). Wear leather body + boots for attack speed and movement speed. Carnage/Sundering (phys/armour pen) on all pieces. Max both minions, max essence, 1 point in ritual for life leech. Get Essence harvester when you leave town (magic shop) and level to 3 asap. You don't need more than 25 focus because you'll get mana back when you gain essence from a perk. You'll always want more int for more spell crit/crit damage/ability power.

Minions or party members killing stuff within your aura gives you essence from Essence Harvester, so you can let your minions kill ♥♥♥♥ to spawn more minions. You just have to stand kind of close to ♥♥♥♥. Minion's need you to be relatively close to stuff for their AI anyway.

The minions on summoner warlock are far and beyond my highest DPS on any any character, including my NG+2 Rogue.

Dagger gives fast stacks when you need it, dirk doesn't have scaling and ♥♥♥♥ affixes. hand crossbow can roll sundering on it as an offhand (gives you a total of 75 pen with gloves/dagger/offhand) and you can leech while chilling in ritual at range.

There are a few bugs with warlock holding it back right now, like not getting the right amount of max HP/max Mana from essence, and it's very skill perk dependent in a run. But it is strong.

[Ostrava of Boletaria]

Warlock gets carried pretty hard by life regen perks, damage reduction aura and his stacking passive that gives you extra max hp. Lock should feel good once you get a decent max hp pool and take the perk that heals you based on max hp for generating stacks.

Also, for warlock, try and experiment with different weapons. Personally I really like playing dual daggers with chaos spec. Sword and shield is very good on lock too for extra tankiness and the lower primary attack dps doesnt really matter on them for locks

[Mighty Joe Young]

Redux lähetti viestin:

My NG+1 warlock is powerful/sundering dagger/handcrossbow, 66 dex/75 int (need to minmax a bit more). Cloth helm + gloves for spell crit / crit damage (minions deal spell damage). Wear leather body + boots for attack speed and movement speed. Carnage/Sundering (phys/armour pen) on all pieces. Max both minions, max essence, 1 point in ritual for life leech. Get Essence harvester when you leave town (magic shop) and level to 3 asap. You don't need more than 25 focus because you'll get mana back when you gain essence from a perk. You'll always want more int for more spell crit/crit damage/ability power.

Minions or party members killing stuff within your aura gives you essence from Essence Harvester, so you can let your minions kill ♥♥♥♥ to spawn more minions. You just have to stand kind of close to ♥♥♥♥. Minion's need you to be relatively close to stuff for their AI anyway.

The minions on summoner warlock are far and beyond my highest DPS on any any character, including my NG+2 Rogue.

Dagger gives fast stacks when you need it, dirk doesn't have scaling and ♥♥♥♥ affixes. hand crossbow can roll sundering on it as an offhand (gives you a total of 75 pen with gloves/dagger/offhand) and you can leech while chilling in ritual at range.

There are a few bugs with warlock holding it back right now, like not getting the right amount of max HP/max Mana from essence, and it's very skill perk dependent in a run. But it is strong.

i had a feeling essence harvester was the way to go! thank you oh wise one. 🙏

[Marwi]

I found Chaos warlock to be far more interesting and rewarding than the Summoner variety.
Mixing it with mana regen and life steal on Dark Ritual makes it quite powerful and has carried me into ng+5.

[Nyah]

take the life regen on essence this way you can sustain yourself in melee.