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you aren’t allowed to play season 14 til you finish your goddamn chron


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I actualy think bind demon can still work in a build that is able to spend the points. If you can get a cursed demon with holy frost + light enchantet, all the light bolts + aoe frost procs have a chance to proc amp for every hit .
Getting an immortal tank + aura + perma amp for a single point should never have been a thing and was broken as hell :D

That said, a lot of warlock builds look less broken but still insanely strong now

-pure fire lock still looks super solid

- blood boil radius increased to 7 yards (from 4 on ptr), the broken tainted synergy got a nerf but it’s not fully gutted, looks like a super solid build, too

- miasma chains can be spammed and are now capped at 10 chains (from 5 on ptr). Chains also stay when you teleport/bladewarp, making a 125 fcr magic build look realy strong now

- mirrored blades bowlock is almost the same.

- echoing strike buffed again. The bug making skill damage multiplicative instead of additive is fixed, making it loose a lot of damage. But eth weapons can be used again and skill damage multiplier is buffed from 75% to 90. guess the additive change + higher weapon multiplier makes big weapons > + skills now but not sure bout bis for echo in s14

- cleave lock has always be slept on and remains pretty unchanged


I think the miasma/abyss lock looks like the clear winner of the patch and spamming up to 10 chains and porting around with them looks realy realy good

This post was edited by Junglist69 on May 10 2026 12:32am
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I actualy think bind demon can still work in a build that is able to spend the points. If you can get a cursed demon with holy frost + light enchantet, all the light bolts + aoe frost procs have a chance to proc amp for every hit .
Getting an immortal tank + aura + perma amp for a single point should never have been a thing and was broken as hell :D

That said, a lot of warlock builds look less broken but still insanely strong now

-pure fire lock still looks super solid

- blood boil radius increased to 7 yards (from 4 on ptr), the broken tainted synergy got a nerf but it’s not fully gutted, looks like a super solid build, too

- miasma chains can be spammed and are now capped at 10 chains (from 5 on ptr). Chains also stay when you teleport/bladewarp, making a 125 fcr magic build look realy strong now

- mirrored blades bowlock is almost the same.

- echoing strike buffed again. The bug making skill damage multiplicative instead of additive is fixed, making it loose a lot of damage. But eth weapons can be used again and skill damage multiplier is buffed from 75% to 90. guess the additive change + higher weapon multiplier makes big weapons > + skills now but not sure bout bis for echo in s14

- cleave lock has always be slept on and remains pretty unchanged


I think the miasma/abyss lock looks like the clear winner of the patch and spamming up to 10 chains and porting around with them looks realy realy good


Great point of view!!

I’m still unsure what char I will start with
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Great point of view!!

I’m still unsure what char I will start with


Thanks <3

I think warlock will still be a good starter

It has a poor mans teleport with bladewarp before enigma and some pretty strong builds.

Magic build will have almost no issues with immunes and doesn’t need sunder . Abyss makes it easy to pull stuff together and away from you , making it super safe , also. Looks like a realy great starter.

I‘m curious about the bloodboil meta. Maybe running 3 tainted. Or maybe bound demon (amp, holy frost, light enchant) + two tainted. Should also be very safe and strong and could Farm anything.

Guess warlock will still be good to start the ladder. Sorc may still be queen for starters without fg but that’s not a surprise at all and was true even before all the nerfs

Tried around with some cleave lock builds in editor recently and it was actualy super strong without bound demon . But that’s pretty gear dependend of course.

This post was edited by Junglist69 on May 10 2026 01:02am
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WL was still an A tier during the PTR
now its more like an S tier
Before is totally busted
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