Yeah even with your setup, you can definitely avoid getting 1 shot... But what are you gonna do about your life ticking away by like 1/10th every second, and on top of that, not running into any chains and even with all of that you wouldn't be able to kill him.

Only real strategy is to play something like blizzard sorc and be l8z as humanly possible or join the dark side and play your own warlock. The second you get that dot on you, you're slowly gonna die.

With blood oath they are pretty much unkillable

-magic resist most abyss will have

-20 mephistos book /w -10 ancient jewel so -30
-8 hellwarden
2x sling -10
-10 sunder
consume defiled -10

=-68 magic resist


you might tank a few, I’d stack highest life you can
he likely won’t have much dr

gheeds belt over arachs for -75, and still hit about 4400 direct + 9200/s
not sure about the intervals of abyss or whether +direct absorb is fully effective, it varies skill to skill if they used a damage multiplier
blaze hits ~75 times per second and you get ~75x the absorb off rising sun. Abyss looks like its a few frames between intervals

The biggest shortcoming of abyss is that even without the stack resist or whatever, a lot of tanky chars can simply survive the full damage of 1-2 abyss and still have HP left, so abyss can't kill anyone who is going to town or save exiting. Unlike cold sorcs it doesn't just randomly OHKO high hp chars, the warlock can't stomp people with miasma bolt/chain because they suck. It can still OHKO less tanky chars though

Assuming the Abyss lock has no -EMR on gear.

Nevermind. Its already mentioned

This post was edited by Tjuwie on Apr 28 2026 12:27pm

Es sorc >

too easy to absorb

unless u got a nice magic or physical dmg build for sorc???

Yeah but u need 100 mdr
Oath greke gbane string mdr circlet etc

This post was edited by al1as on Apr 28 2026 12:57pm

nahh lol it will stoll kill barb bo’d “immortal” sorcs with 60% magic res + gerkes on and juvs if they hit chains

especially ez with a binded mana steal demon

Broken if true