Quote (IMCL85 @ Apr 14 2026 09:53am)

so any one got their hand on ptr? waiting for some answer

Quote (crosspawz @ Apr 13 2026 01:40pm)

Is being removed from demons entirely is insane, every YouTube short I’m stumbling upon keeps saying it, the comment sections are filled with it. I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to understand that they’re removing conviction from the random bind demon aura pool.

Literally under the bullet point “WARLOCK”

Removed Conviction Aura, Holy Fire Aura, Holy Lightning Aura, Blessed Aim Aura, and Might Aura from possible pool. When these roll they are now replaced with Fanaticism, Vigor, Thorns, Concentration. Holy Freeze can still roll on a bound demon.

Why is this so hard for people to comprehend?? If they were removing conviction from demons or all monsters in the game, they would explicitly state that, and it certainly wouldn’t be under the warlock nerfs.

Dear diary, im losing my mind 😭

Quote (urkel182 @ Apr 14 2026 09:17pm)

This aged well

Quote (crosspawz @ Apr 13 2026 10:40am)

Is being removed from demons entirely is insane, every YouTube short I’m stumbling upon keeps saying it, the comment sections are filled with it. I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to understand that they’re removing conviction from the random bind demon aura pool.

Literally under the bullet point “WARLOCK”

Removed Conviction Aura, Holy Fire Aura, Holy Lightning Aura, Blessed Aim Aura, and Might Aura from possible pool. When these roll they are now replaced with Fanaticism, Vigor, Thorns, Concentration. Holy Freeze can still roll on a bound demon.

Why is this so hard for people to comprehend?? If they were removing conviction from demons or all monsters in the game, they would explicitly state that, and it certainly wouldn’t be under the warlock nerfs.

Dear diary, im losing my mind 😭

Quote (crosspawz @ Apr 13 2026 12:40pm)

Is being removed from demons entirely is insane, every YouTube short I’m stumbling upon keeps saying it, the comment sections are filled with it. I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to understand that they’re removing conviction from the random bind demon aura pool.

Literally under the bullet point “WARLOCK”

Removed Conviction Aura, Holy Fire Aura, Holy Lightning Aura, Blessed Aim Aura, and Might Aura from possible pool. When these roll they are now replaced with Fanaticism, Vigor, Thorns, Concentration. Holy Freeze can still roll on a bound demon.

Why is this so hard for people to comprehend?? If they were removing conviction from demons or all monsters in the game, they would explicitly state that, and it certainly wouldn’t be under the warlock nerfs.

Dear diary, im losing my mind 😭

Quote (bQQ @ Apr 15 2026 12:01am)

update?

Quote (SinsOfTheSun @ Apr 13 2026 08:23pm)

Yeah the correct way to interpret "When these roll they are now replaced with..." is that you can still bind with a demon that has it.
But we know blizz... their patch notes and reality is 2 different things.
So at this point, we can only guess.

The downside is that you need 15 hard points in bind demon to be able to do so.
And you also get forced to invest much more points into demonic mastery.
And on top of that, blood oath becomes also more important to max, cuz we already know it's the best defensive skill in the game, but since they also want to nerf the demon's hp, he may need the bonus life% from blood oath to survive.
But this is just speculations too, cuz we don't know how hard they will nerf its life.

In the end, to obtain the same power we currently get from 19 points in the demon tree (1 in each, 20 in blood oath), we will need 62 hard points, which is not feasible cuz all builds need ~63 skill points to max their offensive core skills.

The total skill points needed is not only a nerf for end game builds. It will severely affect the early game.
You'll need to invest all you skill points from lvl 30 to 44 into bind demon to obtain the same thing you normally had at lvl 30.
That's 15 levels later, while all those levels do not improve your core dmg.

Quote (crosspawz @ Apr 13 2026 09:02pm)

There are tons of other demons to bind that aren’t hephasto that are just as good if not better, but you’re right 90% of warlocks have either Hephy or Lister as their minion it seems.

I just like having a melee demon so he pulls all the monsters on him while I cast ES from behind him, he’s really only used for amp, holy freeze and tanking anyways so literally any bound melee demon with curse + hf works for my es build

Quote (crosspawz @ Apr 13 2026 01:40pm)

Is being removed from demons entirely is insane, every YouTube short I’m stumbling upon keeps saying it, the comment sections are filled with it. I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to understand that they’re removing conviction from the random bind demon aura pool.

Literally under the bullet point “WARLOCK”

Removed Conviction Aura, Holy Fire Aura, Holy Lightning Aura, Blessed Aim Aura, and Might Aura from possible pool. When these roll they are now replaced with Fanaticism, Vigor, Thorns, Concentration. Holy Freeze can still roll on a bound demon.

Why is this so hard for people to comprehend?? If they were removing conviction from demons or all monsters in the game, they would explicitly state that, and it certainly wouldn’t be under the warlock nerfs.

Dear diary, im losing my mind 😭