maxblock with ars dul meph + insight is the solution!

would be fun to watch all the "godlike" lockers with 65% chance to hit vs monsters with 50%++ chance to block + the nerfed damage for ES
as someone said here, the next patch should be called Reign of the Hammerdins ^^

You mean Echoing Strike Lock?

This post was edited by IR0K on May 9 2026 08:50am

Energy shield lock is the new meta

The skill itself and synergies is what was giving ES the bulk of damage.
Damage so high that player count didn’t matter and no ar checks.

I can’t attest to final, as the 75 to 90% weapon damage wasn’t in ptr, nor was eth insight

I tested with ES warlock set/warlock low gear/warlock full endgame gear.

Every rise in player count was noticeable and it was basically another p1-p3 build, could push past p3 with ebotd/death/ariocs.

Somewhere the info is available and posted not just from me but from others but cant search discussion

lethargy dmg boost also was a big deal on low gear

its going to be a slightly better "melee" option where you will need quite good gear for it to feel nice on p5+
full charm inv eth insight 30 fcr meph book loh 2/20 amy 2/20 circ arach

How do yall feel about the Eth weapon not using durability?

Personally the whole skill seems wonky. Levitating weapons as a sneaky way to avoid animating melee attacks

another class that will need angelic set to be able to hit anything endgame

The big nerf was changing the skill bonus from beeing multiplicative to additive. This was a bug and is fixed now.

This is the big one.That part makes echoing strike loosing a LOT of its damage.

People might switch to Miasma Chain.