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 months 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: 2 months ago

Queegon wrote: 2 months 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: 2 months 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.

justinman114 wrote: 2 months ago

Queegon wrote: 2 months ago

My favorite warlock build.

This sounds sick, you got any footage?

LMAO, my friend texted me, "dude look, 3 hours ago some streamer released a video of your build"

This isn't actually my build in this video. Macro's build isn't optimized for teamplay at all, doesn't maximize magic damage, and unfortunately also uses Holy Freeze's aura. But overall, you can see what Bowlock with Mist or Demon Machine is capable of from my posts above.

Queegon wrote: 2 months 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.

Thx and excellent

I'll check it out except for dual Last Wish that'll take some grinding and trading

Would throw weapons like Lacerator work too with this build? And just for science: Are Throw Potions multiplied too?

I Have been using Hex Bane and its synergies I feel like its more consistent. Its a super fun build.

Someone finally has a Warlock IAS calculator at least for Mirrored Blades. Not sure about the frame data as this is the only calculator I have seen.

https://sins-of-the-sun.github.io/warlock-ias-calc/

Queegon wrote: 2 months ago

with double Last Wish act 5 merc

I tried that and actualy went back to good ol' Cure/Insight/ Prayer A2 as the mana fades away so quickly when teleporting around and the additional damage oumph is not that noticable imo. Will give A2 Blessed Aim a try in the near future as is still have problems reaching this 95% chance to hit...