My thoughts on bowalock

Hi guys
So past week i have been playing my warlock using bows

My take on bowalock is that they are very viable.

My current setup:
Mist on

Demon Crossbow
Enigma for

Teleport, have fort on standby for certain scenario
The usual mf gears, resist charms in inventory, no phys sunder, due to cursed from heph applies consistantly
Act1 with Faith bow
Binded heph with cursed and might

Maxed demon mastery. Eventually i will rebind heph again to get higher might aura or with

Conviction.

My experience comparing to my multishot amazon(who i mained before rotw) on P1:

I think bowalock is much better and killing monsters, better at surviability. With all the auras from minions, he basically 1 shot most mobs and have no problem killing diablo,

Baal within a few seconds

This is with current non min max gears.

Compare to

Echoing Strike , it is much slower in kill speed BUT with mirror bow, i can shoot from afar and clear at a distant.

Overall, i am enjoying this build, it reqs only 20 pts invested in mirror blades and levi mastery, so u have plenty of extra pts into other trees, for me is to buff my minions.

Im planning to swap out for Brand bow to try it out, but Mist is pretty good for overall dmg, surviability stats n 100%

Pierce.

Let me know if u also tried out bowalock and ur experience?

Do you mind giving an update on the bowalock with patch 3.2 in mind?

Thx

I run

Mirrored Blades Mist

Colossus Crossbow

Hex Purge with double Last Wish act 5 merc, and

Buriza-Do Kyanon

Hex Bane with act2 Pride+might merc (either/or, one is better at density clearing, the other at single target damage).

Both are incredibly powerful, at least the

Hex Bane buriza can take down p7 ubers, can stack crushing blow. Either owns both physical and magical

Echoing Strike warlocks after 3.2 and you save on not using a good ars dul. Currently I'd advise against

Demon Crossbow because yes, it's faster, but you have little to leech from. And you absolutely want a lot of leeching.
If maxroll calculator is correct Mist

Colossus Crossbow

Hex Purge reaches the fastest breakpoint for

Mirrored Blades just like Mist

Demon Crossbow. Buriza

Hex Bane reaches second fastest. Needs

Fanaticism demon to reach those. Preferably with cursed.

My favorite warlock build.

Queegon wrote: 2 hours ago

I run

Mirrored Blades Mist

Colossus Crossbow

Hex Purge with double Last Wish act 5 merc, and

Buriza-Do Kyanon

Hex Bane with act2 Pride+might merc (either/or, one is better at density clearing, the other at single target damage).

Both are incredibly powerful, at least the

Hex Bane buriza can take down p7 ubers, can stack crushing blow. Either owns both physical and magical

Echoing Strike warlocks after 3.2 and you save on not using a good ars dul. Currently I'd advise against

Demon Crossbow because yes, it's faster, but you have little to leech from. And you absolutely want a lot of leeching.
If maxroll calculator is correct Mist

Colossus Crossbow

Hex Purge reaches the fastest breakpoint for

Mirrored Blades just like Mist

Demon Crossbow. Buriza

Hex Bane reaches second fastest. Needs

Fanaticism demon to reach those. Preferably with cursed.

My favorite warlock build.

This sounds sick, you got any footage?

Queegon wrote: 2 hours ago

I run

Mirrored Blades Mist

Colossus Crossbow

Hex Purge with double Last Wish act 5 merc, and

Buriza-Do Kyanon

Hex Bane with act2 Pride+might merc (either/or, one is better at density clearing, the other at single target damage).

Both are incredibly powerful, at least the

Hex Bane buriza can take down p7 ubers, can stack crushing blow.

My favorite warlock build.

Also my favorite build, but I use a slightly different, budget build.

The main drawback of

Buriza-Do Kyanon and Mist is that they have the "Freezes Target +3" property. This is very annoying when group farming chronicle, because many frozen mobs are destroyed, and the barb-horker cannot loot them, even the Heralds.

deathertier wrote: 1 hour ago

Queegon wrote: 2 hours ago

I run

Mirrored Blades Mist

Colossus Crossbow

Hex Purge with double Last Wish act 5 merc, and

Buriza-Do Kyanon

Hex Bane with act2 Pride+might merc (either/or, one is better at density clearing, the other at single target damage).

Both are incredibly powerful, at least the

Hex Bane buriza can take down p7 ubers, can stack crushing blow.

My favorite warlock build.

Also my favorite build, but I use a slightly different, budget build.

The main drawback of

Buriza-Do Kyanon and Mist is that they have the "Freezes Target +3" property. This is very annoying when group farming chronicle, because many frozen mobs are destroyed, and the barb-horker cannot loot them, even the Heralds.

Here's the build I use:

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/at7cdz0y

But there are some nuances worth detailing later. I'll just add that I use

Hex Bane instead of

Hex Purge, and this build allows me to keep my inventory almost empty thanks to the massive prebuffs. I haven't tested it on ubers, but even with weaker prebuffs for the lazy, it melts everything in tz96 at 8ppl without any problems.

deathertier wrote: 47 minutes ago

Here's the build I use:

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/at7cdz0y

Pay attention to the set2 tab, this is a set for the

Hex Bane prebuff, it also uses the

Enchant from the sorceress and the high BO that a horker can provide.

But in reality it's almost optional, I don't even use Call To Arms because this build is very safe.