Can anybody comment on how Apoc does with early ladder gear, like for example using the Horizon set. I could token & see but I don't want to lose my demon homie
Fire is easily the best warlock build on day 1 of a new ladder / leveling a char from a1 norm to a1 hell
Once you're in hell the build starts fumbling due to immunes, and by the time you could have hor
azon's set an echo build could have insight and be clearly better
but then fire build either pulls even or maybe pulls ahead once you reach best in slot enigma++ gear
In P1 game my Apocalypses needs to only be cast once in cows. When cows are Terrorized its about 2 casts. Baal waves 1-3 are cast once, wave 4 cast twice, and wave 5 takes a lot more (between 4-5). The 1.8 sec delay is a killer, have to have a big old demon bound to attract attention. Endgame when it is level 35 and higher it is a good skill.
But building up, almost all Warlocks suffer from too much mana requirement. No Insight then the toon is useless. For a ladder toon the fire/apocolypse almost requires a sunder, good luck with that on getting one.
I mean in P1 most builds can breeze through stuff virtually instantly.
Blood boil sure feels like its the least mana stressed, because compared to say echoing strikes you're using half the mana per cast and getting back twice the MAEK because of max engorge synergy to hex siphon
fire and echo both have those mana issues for a lot of the game even with insight on themselves or merc