ES warlocks, how will you adapt after the changes?

I am on borrowed time.

The day will come when my ethereal weapon becomes a relic. I will look at it from time to time and remember the good times. The near perfect

Protector's Stone socketed within will grow dim and dusty from lack of use...

Anyway, onwards and upwards. I don't intend to abandon my character. I am leaning towards

Mirrored Blades/and boosting

Hex Purge to adapt. I think

Bind Demon will have to go. To be honest I won't miss the

River of Flame hunts for the "right" Hephasto.

I have a Botd, a non

Eth ariocs on standby and I may look at Death to replace my

Eth-Ondals. I'm actually looking forward to new build experiments. Will you stick with ES? tweak? or reroll?

Patch 3.2 will almost certainly coincide with ladder reset, so I'll just start anew, with a build viable after the nerfs (nerves?). I don't know which one exactly, since we don't have final patch notes yet, and everything may be subject to change.

Renton212 wrote: 1 hour ago

The day will come when my ethereal weapon becomes a relic.

Currently I would not yet bet on this one. I think it is possible that they revert at least this nerf - not the least because the effect is relatively minor in comparison to the other nerfs and, above all, to the frustration and anger it causes among people who have spent tons of HRs to get or make those weapons.

This is a TEST REALM.

On release, the Warlock was totally op. Now they are testing the opposite.

I am sure that not all nerfs will make it into the next patch. In the end, things will take place somewhere in the middle of both extremes.

So just take a deep breath and wait for what will come.

DasNarf wrote: 36 minutes ago

This is a TEST REALM.

On release, the Warlock was totally op. Now they are testing the opposite.

I am sure that not all nerfs will make it into the next patch. In the end, things will take place somewhere in the middle of both extremes.

So just take a deep breath and wait for what will come.

Exactly. What they did was they let players test so that they themselves don't need to (talk about saving money!) and considering that they put

Eth weapon and 124FCR toon out (devs themselves don't really know the game), they've done the right thing. This is test only though. No one knows yet what, if anything, will make it to the game patch.

your ethereal weapon can be almost same good if you put perfect Stone in your

Shako +

Zod in weapon.
Of you have it already, give it to merc or try a Bladesin. For now I just get as close to lvl 99 as I can with OP Warlock. Hope I will make it and will have at least one lvl 99 character for crafting purposes.
And talking about nerf:my Bowazon will suffer most if Lethargy damage will be nerfed. No more Lethargy from merc. Other characters will not notice this change much.
+4skill

Eth Arioc I never played much anyway. it will stay in stash waiting for some other opportunity.