Not trolling, I am looking for an honest answer. What would be the second strongest Warlock build? Echoing Strike is completely busted obviously but also not very fun in my opinion.

So far I have tried Abyss and Fire. Both are excellent at AoE and a bit slow on single target. Abyss Warlock stacking miasma clouds is quite a bit faster than fire on single target, and I'm very much enjoying Abyss.

How strong is the demon tree compared to Fire and Abyss? How fast is it on fat, single target monsters? That's where Abyss and Fire sort of fall short.

Blood Boil has been great for me. Amazing for trash/uniq mobs but not the greatest at P8 bosses

Blood boil is generally better than chaos-fire with good gear, it plays like nova but you have more buttons you to mash. The single target will be handled by the bound demon (dark lancer), but finding the right one won't be that easy.

This post was edited by LordHextor on Mar 17 2026 06:40pm

pure summ isnt too bad

I would assume this is also quite decent

Need to find a way to lower enemies resist as much as possible

You can get several tainteds that spam 41k fireball each

Cleave + teleport

except the tooltip dmg is bugged and apparently tainted only deal around 6k even though tooltip says 40k

Ah that’s good to know then that’s useless

To answer your question, the 2nd strongest build is echoing strike.

bboil > es