Abyss Warlock build

departure wrote: 3 hours ago

I've been tooling around in Terror zones with the Abyss/chains build using the Void above and a bound demon for a little while, and I've landed on a weird spot with my merc.

At first I tried Prayer/Insight/coh/Cure. The merc kept dying to heralds. I figured this was due to lack of damage, so not enough leech. My thinking with that was that the caster is way more powerful than the merc in this case, so the merc should really just be supporting the caster. But the merc dying was slowing me down.

So I switched to a damage based build. I went might/Insight/Fortitude/andy's. The merc no longer had a problem, but my health was all over the place. A super poison would leave me burning rejuvs. A few big hits and I'm popping more juvs. Then some folks die and siphon gives me life back. The whole thing was very unpredictable and felt quite precarious.

Instead of addressing that, I switched to a max damage build to see how much siphon was offering (in case I wanted to double down there). I went with might/Pride/Fortitude/andy's. Now my merc and bound demon were ripping things up better, but my health AND mana were all over the place. The potential of Abyss/miasma was wasted because I couldn't get into the mix effectively. This was probably the most frustrating to play.

I wanted to get back to a more maintained/speed style, so I switched to Prayer/Insight/Fortitude/andy's. This seems to be the right balance. It sacrifices might, but in exchange I keep my life and mana topped up, which lets me unleash a lot more damage. Ultimately I'm cruising with this build.

I really want that Flickering Flame aura to maximize magic find (offsetting fire res charms). But I think I need andy's to keep the leech going. The merc still dies with this build occasionally. But not often. The main use of rejuvs is for the merc against heralds.

Thoughts?