Warlock - pure summoner X blood boil

Hi

I'm still leveling my Warlock.
I started using a pure summoner, as at first I was pretending to use it as my end game build.
https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/summoner-warlock-guide

But, It is taking some time to clear the areas, unless I keep casting

Blood Boil to help (even with only a single point on it - as a pre-requisite to

Bind Demon - it is making a big difference)...

The point is, I'm having the same felling I had with the necro summoner: against multiples enemies, minions are just meat shield and your

Corpse Explosion (or in this case

Blood Boil) is that really kills the mobs...

It is just an impression, because I'm still leveling, or it is the real deal with this build... if it is the case (for general farming - not Boss killing), would probably be better another build (maybe

Blood Boil - so I still keep 3 demons... - https://maxroll.gg/d2/guides/blood-boil-warlock-guide )

The summoner gets much stronger the moment you bind a good monster. But I don't think we can expect

Corpse Explosion-like madness.

I have a cursed demon now, so I work with 1 Goatman, 1 Defiler and the merc. For hard single targets, I swap to 2 Goatmen. Always have your guys engorged for the IAS.

On the long run I will swap the A2 merc for something with AoE damage (A1 or A3), but for now, he is of use as a might spender and personal bodyguard.

My actual skillset is:

Sigil Lethargy - maxed

Demonic Mastery - maxed

Summon Goatman - maxed

Death Mark - maxed

Bind Demon - 9pts, maxing now

I screwed up a few points since this is my original walkthrough build, I didn't respec once, but I have a good companion now. So I am waiting to be killed, haha.

OK, I will give the summoner, another chance

Idk if u ask me all those points in the summon tree are kind of unnecessary, because you can still have tanky summons with enough points left over to invest heavily into Fire Warlock or Eldritch.

i have pure summon lvl 91 now. i work like a

Nova sorc or poison necro, i tp through the map, nuke everything with bloodboil and take less then 10 sec for terrorized act bosses. it is absolutely playable and very enjoyable at that

But did you invest points in

Blood Boil + Synergies?
(In this case it is more of a

Blood Boil build than a "pure summoner" )

NewGuyPlus wrote: 1 hour ago

i have pure summon lvl 91 now. i work like a

Nova sorc or poison necro, i tp through the map, nuke everything with bloodboil and take less then 10 sec for terrorized act bosses. it is absolutely playable and very enjoyable at that

fredkid wrote: 1 hour ago

But did you invest points in

Blood Boil + Synergies?
(In this case it is more of a

Blood Boil build than a "pure summoner" )

NewGuyPlus wrote: 1 hour ago

i have pure summon lvl 91 now. i work like a

Nova sorc or poison necro, i tp through the map, nuke everything with bloodboil and take less then 10 sec for terrorized act bosses. it is absolutely playable and very enjoyable at that

It is in the "summoning" tree, its just called "demon" for wl also it does revolve highly around your summons as the dmg only happens through them, i d say it very much is a pure summoners build, without summons i also cant

Blood Boil

also yes i did,

Demonic Mastery,

Blood Oath,

Death Mark,

Blood Boil and

Engorge get maxed out, after i prob throw the rest into

Bind Demon. but with Enigma its like a

Nova sorc with benefits, you

Teleport and spam

Blood Boil but with the nice perk that when you get into a pickle, you can reposition the wall of flesh that is also the center of your "

Nova" ^^ so far i found bound demons with either cursed and/or

Conviction aura to be the strongest with this build, but it is true that it mostly evolves around

Blood Boil. you are limited to 3 summons anyway though so "minion master" at a scale as with necro or druid isnt possible ^^