In which ways exactly will the build be nerfed?

- es actually needs ar to hit
- bind demon is way less op, needs more hard skill points, curse chance now 5% (still able to do it the way it was done with holy freeze, right?)
- what else?

This post was edited by mastery_chief on May 9 2026 12:41am

No two handed weapons with shield, only with books.

Ah, good.

The only reason for SC players to ever consider not using spirit shield

Meta was using meph book anyway... Wondering though how much ar will be enough (if even any extra is necessary). How was it in ptr? Didn't play

Wasn’t noticeable really.
Insight has mass ar bonus, and was the best all a rounder.
I used elder staff and I did give myself 4 x 3/ar/str small charms, scaling was slightly more challenging

Ok so basically no nerfs apart from demon

No, it’s nerfed fairly significantly as player count goes up.
Think 5+5 vs 5x5.

Could you elaborate? Is this the part about "effects being multiplicative instead of additive"? So it's about synergies or ed from gear? How does player count factor in?

This post was edited by mastery_chief on May 9 2026 01:08am

Pride probably bad due to hit blinds target overwriting low-proc curses.

Possibly might merc with eth reapers due to lower amp-chance so you get a reliable curse that increases damage, self insight, demon with fana/curse.

Tbh I think blood boil / tainted and chaos will be much better than echo after patch.

i didn't touch the Warlock so i know nothing about it, but playing only chars which require AR to hit, bonus to AR is nothing if you dont have the AR..
i could be all wrong, again, dont know the char (and dont want to), but i hope all the lock players will feel the pain to balance between AR, FCR, mana, resists, leech as the rest of the melee chars