With the "proposed" nerf/update/(wtf changes)...
Here are my thoughts.

1. Cursed Affix chance to cast Amplify Damage skill from 75% to 5%(!?).
Has anyone tried playing without this proc at all? Feels like a Druid class tbh.
It hugely effects:
Sigil: Death
Blood boil Lock
Physical damage Lock
The Decrepify from A2 Reapers toll even with +Fanaticism Aura from bind is stupidly laughable.
There is zero kill speed and mostly struggles to make sense of all of this.


2. The following requires hard points:
-Demonic Mastery
-Blood Oath
-Bind Demon
...................LvL 10 Champion
...................LvL 15 Unique (up to this certain point seems ok and can spawn "cursed" mod
...................LvL 20 Super Unique

Requires too much points to hybridize other tree's to be effective.

So no 2x defilers for that AOE or other things we do with Demonic Mastery
So no damage reduce leading to struggles and deaths especially in HardCore mode.
So no Bind demon that is useful without "Cursed" gimped chance to proc

These 3 supports the warlock main abilities. By making it hard-point invested the player will need to prioritize what's important for them. Can choose up to 1, 2, max or partially leveled. This ultimately will make warlocks become talent hungry where they require at least 2+ synergies maxed(!).

3. BloodBoil
-Range reduced to Level 10+: 4 yards.
Not only are the range reduced but +Amplify damage proc chance is reduced AND no conviction aura forcing Warlocks to have A2 Merc wield Infinity instead of Insight for QoL.
At this point might as well just scrap it and play Nova Sorc.

4.
...............Flame Wave
-15% Damage Reduction.
...............Ring of Fire
Damage reduced to be more similar to Frost nova damage.

So now we have the following unplayables:
*Echoing Strike
*Blood Boil
*Flame Wave
*Ring of Fire
*Eldritch Blast (life/mana steal from 20% to 5%(!) @1.2s/tick)

5. Sigil: Lethargy
-Removed the Damage Taken stat.
So reduce amplify damage proc rate. Remove -% damage taken for physical builds to become gimp. Nice.

What's this leave the class with? Oh my.
What do you think of these notes/ptr?
Much reduce to the ground and lack of compensating for balance/relativity
IMO this is a slap in the face to the customer base and players. /ouch

If you are at the helm what will be your solution(s)?

This post was edited by GforceUSA on Apr 12 2026 12:06am

People cried to much now they will struggle with the class and end up playing a nova sorc for the 10th time. The real question is if we get -3 on charms will coh eschuta jmod be the bis

1:
Amp won't be that hard to proc. It's just not going to be an instant full screen amp before you even finish teleporting. Holy Freeze + cursed will still proc amp quite fast. only negative to this is for horking.

2:
just get a Cursed TZ game and grab any demon and replace it til you get HF. upgrade to a better demon as possible. only really need it to spread amp and tank a little. don't need an unkillable demon that can solo the ubers to play the game with.
blood oath is really, really good, but you don't NEED it to play any of the builds. it's more of a luxury in my opinion. still plenty of ways to not die without it. like every other class in the game manages to do.

3:
Blood Boil definitely seems to have been pretty much neutered. will have to wait and see whether it's still playable or not with the PTR.

4:
Apocalypse will still 1 shot the whole screen on p8.

5:
Lethargy with only the slow is still an absurdly good skill to use.

Until we see the PTR and can actually play the characters, besides Blood Boil which seems unplayable unless it's change is worded really badly, the builds don't sound like they will be so weak they can't play the game. it'll be a bit slower killing things on p8, but whatever. Warlock is so strong it makes the rest of the characters irrelevant. it's a step in the right direction. just a matter of whether they tuned it too far down. which we won't know until we can get on the PTR and test them out.

we can't say one way or another whether the builds will be unplayable or not until we can actually get in and try them. so i'll hold my judgement on them until the PTR.

it's broken already, minor nerfs aren't going to change anything

From doing 100k to maybe 30-50k now and still moaning

Can’t do ubers with a Wirt’s Leg, game too difficult

Bowlock still GG

Not sure if serious 🤔

I just Made a New char for Blood Boil WarLock, Now it’s not playable anymore?

Maybe Gotta try it or respec it to become a Summoner Warlock or Full Fire Warlock.

at the very least, it'll still be good for the rest of this season. so if you want to play it, go for it now. Blood Boil seems like it's getting hit stupidly hard with the PTR. hopefully it's not as bad as it sounds though haha.

but go ahead and play it for now The PTR doesn't effect the ladder/nonladder characters.