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How does the bow warlock build work and how does it do in p8? I saw one with buriza and one with demon machine. I think pierce and magic damage is op? Any good builds? I can’t find a good guide on one.
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Jun 21 2026 12:48pm
In case anyone cares I've been testing this one out
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/sm7n9q0h

Bound a Random Fanat Urdar 20 soft points Bind Demon
10 Hard Points Demon Mastery - Fanat Urdar / Defiler / Consume Defiler
20 Points Hex Bane
20 Hex Purge
20 Mirrored Blades
Remaining into Consume

Never goes down in HP
Insight QOL
Holy Freeze QOL
Attacking faster than 52 ias Javazon
5x 12k magic damage for 60k damage
Good spread AOE with defiler and aiming the projectiles
Can hit all 5 projectiles on single target too

Never losing life or mana and teleporting at 75fcr bp
Feels like pre nerf echoing strike

500 bolts instead of 120 javs

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Jun 21 2026 12:58pm
How is the attack speed with mist if you don't use a fanat demon?
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Would you be down to make a quick video showing a run or two? chaos cow baalrun tz whatever
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Would you be down to make a quick video showing a run or two? chaos cow baalrun tz whatever


Just export the build and try it yourself. It's op tho

How is the attack speed with mist if you don't use a fanat demon?


Still good, but I am not sure what other aura you would have.
Also, you can prebuff with this build, but I didn't prebuff because I don't like that. It still shredded p8 tz chaos and river
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How's the dmg difference between mist and buriza? Most of the dmg comes from hexes, no? Wouldn't more attack speed be superior then?

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How's the dmg difference between mist and buriza? Most of it comes from hexes, no? Wouldn't more attack speed be superior then?


Cant really tell, the mist is definitely better for QOL/capping resist/buffing merc, buriza is budget and you can knockback Nef rune it which is cool. As far as attack speed goes I put it in a demon crossbow too and tested and couldn't really notice the difference. It's slightly better maybe. Leech was fine in both either way

Damage definitely coming from hex bane. Wave 2 baal though is still pretty good with merc and urdar and sunder.
Seems a little slow against baal but shredding everything else.

Its really nice with no mana issues, no life issues... never potting... and fast tele frames... seems cheaper than a lot of GG builds too

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Sry for spamming your post, but I am interested in whether you have tried the "normal" hex purge build with obsession, meph etc. For pvm I can't really see how bowlock can beat this. Purge you get huge life, res and fhr from obsession, more skills, high "ias" since 125 fcr bp is reached easily, pierce, way more - magic res, can use insight merc... If you played both, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the comparison. Only thing I can think of in favour of bow is more range (which is not an issues for es tbh, range is fine) and leech

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I've tried this lately with max bind demon / mastery / tainted / boil (but not synergies) build (using hex:purge for the attack speed), with a mist colossus xbow. I'm not sure it's worth using such a slow base but I had it around from a mule. With a conviction+might merc, a holy freeze amp urdar, one tainted @ 30k+ dmg, and the mist I'm reaching like 15k rating and around 6k max phys per bolt (so 30k phys if they all hit, supposedly). It is certainly a fraction of the damage of the bound demon's swings, but they pierce and work in conjunction quite well with the single tainted (I opt to use one tainted and buff the xbow with a sacrificial goat).

Also I just changed the xbow setup to grief pb + sorb and cleared the uber ancients pretty easily. I dunno. With full gear, I kind of feel like with the sunder tainted and the max bound demon, you can basically do whatever you want because they will steamroll the game on their own. The big question IMO is does the xbow/melee beat out using blood boil, and TBH I'm not really sure. The crossbow or melee/cleave does work much faster for bosses and heralds, though.

also if you go with a bow/crossbow with the tainted at the same time, don't get insta deleted by dolls from a bad teleport because of how quickly the tainted's fireball launches from the end of your teleport... better to just tele with your swap side for that :thumbsup:
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Sry for spamming your post, but I am interested in whether you have tried the "normal" hex purge build with obsession, meph etc. For pvm I can't really see how bowlock can beat this. Purge you get huge life, res and fhr from obsession, more skills, high "ias" since 125 fcr bp is reached easily, pierce, way more - magic res, can use insight merc... If you played both, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the comparison. Only thing I can think of in favour of bow is more range (which is not an issues for es tbh, range is fine) and leech


Ya I’ll try it, haven’t done it really. Just firelock. Is the enigma LAEK good enough to keep you max? Leeching in this build is very good
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