Personally, to me, the most interesting part of playing a warlock was how enslave demon worked.

If they nuked that from orbit, I'll likely play a horker for season start.

Let’s just say it’s not recommended to play warlock now unless you pvp

You gonna need infinity in fire lock

At that point I'd rather play trapsin >_>

Needing infinity is it really that big of a nerf for builds.

that secondary, you'll also need a very good book for off hand else you cant use two handed weapon. you wouldn't get that until mid season or get luck out with drop. vs live where you could just use spirit

See, to me, the most interesting part of lock was easily the whole pokemon thing you could do for the unique demons.

If that's gone, I genuinely don't see a reason to play one. I don't care about echoing strike at all, but that's a deal breaker if they killed it.

Imo as far as minion focus goes the CTC curse reduction and loss of -DR on Lethargy is brutal. Kind of stuck scratching your ass waiting for a 5% curse proc on phys immunes or skipping them or forcing hybrid damage in Blood Boil, which in turn is a bit of a mess on its own as skipping Bind completely and going 3x Tainted seems to be better for that route.
Not sure how the dust will settle now that Tainted gets 20% synergy instead of 30%.


Pure summoner caught a lot of collateral damage on an already weaker build, Blood Boil dropped Bind, and the health cap seems to have been problematic enough against Heralds I believe they raised it for the coming patch. I heard on P8 Curse+Conc Heralds were one shotting 45+ skill demons.

Lock are still strong af
it went from OP to still S tier

Which build though? My main concern is mostly just the giga demons being useless now.