My guess is eth obsession archon staff, meph book, and running the ed opal ring, steelrends on a warlock will be popular (multiple sources of enhanced damage). Rends will make its debut as a casters glove too.

Damn i should have kept mine 4sk 230ed no eth arioc needle

is not the point about warlock
thoose youtube - randoms made rest of class unplayble
noone play rest of chars
chat bug from begining of that game and terror zones killed all d2 guilds about 10% of players just moved to discord
they made mosaic so OP that started killing rest of chars is not the same if u play rest of class and mosaic
to fix that with mosaic they bring to us a warlock wich can endgame kill every single monster without any gear wich is 20 times more OP then mosaic
we wanted just a slash dmg to be added to mele chars so they come playble again but they didnt do it
they have to nerf that warlock to not do more dmg then fb sorc/pb nec/ mele skills must be nerfed to rest of chars
that game was played so much time just cus of friend ship and helping btw each other in guilds instead of that now we got a solo bot chars
they have to start with removing/banwave on multi client accs

This post was edited by al1as on Apr 14 2026 11:37am

I tried out the PTR with hero edited versions to test it out better. It's still a decent playable char but the nerfs have put it into a place where the damage isn't high enough to keep up with the previous best builds. I suspect this still lands in the S tier but the lower S tier in terms of power. Still stronger then Abyss Warlock but people will go back to lightning fury, lightning sorc, blessed hammer if they keep these changes.

obsession does too little damage and feels really unplayable in 8 player. Eth obsession has much lower damage then a non-eth insight

Non-eth insight and fortitude feel pretty okay. with non-eth insight CV, might merc, pride, good gear, and no skillers damage is about 12k (high end).

eth breath of the dying has the highest damage even when compared against a insight/pride merc setup. Hitting 125fcr is very hard with this though. Even accounting for a 75FCR it does more then a 125FCR insight/pride

I didn't try non eth arioc but i suspect it is 'ok'

breath of the dying and insight with pride seemed the best out of the ones i tried.

Additionally ars duls mephistos which was already a pretty rare drop is needed. Bind demon might become a summon build only demon because the demon just dies quickly now. There could be a world where you frequently use the skill that heals the demon to keep it alive ??

This post was edited by ArtDZ on Apr 14 2026 02:23pm

Only difference will be meph book BIS off hand and less overall damage.

Eth --> noneth insight
Everything else the same

You'll just have to accept killing a lot slower