Sounds like a winner. I however hate to pot, so I try to obtain a pure prayer/cure/insight merc on every character.

you have 600 mana which is more than enough for teleporting across multiple zones without going oom
one hit from echoing will leech back all ur mana

the might/pride merc doubles your damage

without him you do 10k instead of 20k

the holy freeze curse gives you way more damage than curse nothing

its still worse than sorc or paladin or amazon

This post was edited by ahyp on May 21 2026 11:38am

Played 3 hours of pub tz shard game and I didn’t die once, found 3 sunder charms

Here’s my build
Eth insight/ 30fcr meph book socketed with phys jewel
Rare diadem with 2lock/fcr/frw/attack rating/str
Enigma
Mara’s
Steelrend 60/20
Tri res boot
Arach
2 rare rings with fcr/attack rating/str/mana/ some res

Inv skillers/res/life
Got the venom lord with fanatism/cursed/multishot

Skill tree
1 lethargy
Max echo/mirror blade/ blade warp
1 pt hex bane
5 pt levitation
10 point demon mastery for 2 defiler+ bind demon
0 consume
15 point into bind demon
Rest into blood oath2-3 points

Merc is pride/cure/coh might merc

warlock doesnt need res because of high leech, and needs 125 fcr for qol



i tried it, i see the point in using it, but only if you get 8 yards in it

thats super low both on dmg and ar, res doesnt matter




no pots were chugged, during cs, only in diablo because you cant leech

fanat with cursed is your best bet, or holy freeze cursed



agree with the mana thing

disagree with pally or sorc being better



goated demon binded

levitation worse for ar than putting those points on some hex, 5% vs 9% per lvl. DS doesnt cut it for me, i tried max ds build with edeath and gore and ebotd is still better.

This post was edited by DevilPK on May 21 2026 01:20pm

It’s either warlock 15-20 fcr ammy depends how good ur meph book is.
With magefist using Ebotd
Vs eth insight / Mara’s / high lord/ or metal grid and LoH or Steelrend

For the 125fcr build

Both works good
Will test the Ebotd version tonight

Great changes overall. Back to the old meta! Solo games with some fillers. Shards just became dense zone rushing to spawn heralds. Not effective elite hunting. Screenblast objective accomplished.

Imma be real with you, mirrored blades-cleave flies under the radar and it's probably better than this.

it's not s tier and it is crap outside of players 1. You can play Bane (but your not really echoing strike ur just bane magic dmg es which is worse than every other lock build btw and is slow on p8.) So yes it's 100% garbage post nerf vs the bugged version where it was 1 shotting on p8, it is no longer a P8 ladder racer it's like a D tier build now.
Bane is good, ES is not.

Abyss lock
Fire lock
Bloodboil
Cleave/Mirrored Blade are all better builds than ES for fast p8, Bloodboil is the new build everyone is gonna use for first 99.

MrLlama says still S tier.

/thread

pls ‘firm ty