stop listening to streamers 99% of them don't know what they are talking about nor actually play the game outside of speed-running.
Warlock has 1 build thats bugged aka echoing strike and it's not even that much faster than a nova sorc, it just requires 0 gear because of the bug calculating the damage twice.
if warlock was forced to race as the magic build or the fire build it would lose to Hammerdin, Nova or light sorc, and java zon by miles.... the class is just mechanically easier and less gear focused because it has lot of stuff baked in, but the actual damage is not that crazy.
also a smiter is still 1000000x better for ubers than anything warlock has on a budget. Soon as echoing is fixed, your typical braindead classes like sorc/hammerdin/java zon will be back on top.
i think you may want to stop watching streamers and play a blood boil warlock with a cursed conviction a5 dark lancer with jab (x3 attack) and a might merc using mania (fanatacism aura) or a1 merc using harmony for frw. i have 400+ mf with 1000+ gf and can clear p8 quickly. cows, t5 heralds, ubers, dclone etc.
you can tele stomp or death mark with 3 demons and obliterate anything. not to mention the sigils that grant aoe corpse explode or aoe decrepify
This post was edited by wakeboardguy on Mar 4 2026 02:28pm