Delicious warlock tears.

It's hard to go back from 150k one shot with concentration might fana amplify and critical strike xd.

I think they should keep the eth weapon idea but make it so you have to add 20 hard points to psychic ward or maybe levitation mastery to get it.
This would also allow the idea of the eth weapon to be used with the way weaker skill of cleave or even an O skill item like say passion and zeal.

Force players to make more decisions with their skills points vs 1 point wonder then max out all synergies of main skill.

It's kinda killing the point of indestructible - Zod, that was kinda the design to be able to use eth stuff. And no need to repairing merc gear - no clue if that was the original design.

It could give a way with heavy investment to use those items. I always thought it was too powerful it just didnt lose durability with only using ES but the fact the warlock doesn't really hold the weapon could make it on theme.
Psychic ward giving it would make the most sense based on it being a theme of mental shield that protects. Maybe make it 10 hard points and your grimoire no longer uses durability and another 10 your weapon no longer does.
With the demon changes skill points are going to be a premium.

This post was edited by flyjum on Apr 11 2026 01:31am

All those eth thundermaul fortitudes… RIP
My cheap ass eth cv insight will at least be useful for Emilio.

There won't be that many points left :x of course we speak hypothetically, the PTR did not even start yet, nor these are confirmed changes.

20 echo
20 blade warp
20 mirrored
at least 15 in Bind demon
15-20 in demonic mastery
need for attack rating - so more points in levitation mastery likely (would not be surprised if there would be bugs with ignore target defense, attack rating calculation or similar)

for HC echo strike it will be even more difficult to distribute damage vs defense

Can turn them into oath atleast but yeah still pretty useless now

Thats the point

Make choices on the build you want to build not just max some stuff and a few single points with +15 to all skills from items to make them really good too.
The only reason I think the eth weapon bug or whatever is cool is because it allows more cool items to be used. This is why we all play ARPGs is find items to improve our characters or even allow for new cool builds.

We still can, but not eth. Insight in normal CV? Or then use Zod based RW with eth.