Hey all, this was my first character in the game and I moved on to other characters when this one didn’t seem viable any longer. I’ve since returned to it to try and salvage it somehow. Level 80, Act II on Ultimate.
I realize I made a lot of mistakes, particularly in spamming my Spirit and ignoring my health. Anyone have any tips or suggestions on salvaging the build to make it a bit more viable to finish out Ultimate?
Wait for the expansion to reset them legitimately.
Deal with it.
I recommend using GD Defiler. You will be able to easily salvage your attribute points. As for skills and devotions, you can already reset those in game.
There are only a couple of Warlock builds that I would personally recommend. The first is a Black Flame chaos ray Warlock. The second is a cheesy build of sorts, and requires 2 Decrees and 2 Ablrecht’s Dualities, but it’s pretty silly just how much flat aether damage you can get. Aether Beronath Warlock. There’s other viable Warlock builds, but I have not tried them, so I cannot personally vouch for them.
I think if you can get to around 9k+HP with ~50% resist you can complete most anything except edge of reality and the final crucible game mode (this is because of the damage absorption of maivens will increase your effective Hp). I don’t know about your augments, but Creeds cunning from black legion can give +200 health for focus and scepter. You could also try to get some well rolled Gollus’ rings for resist and the flat health. Grabbing alot more health from devotions could also work. Aeon’s hourglasses new ability would drastically reduce the Cooldown of Mirror of ereoctes, which might be worth grabbing.
Sit down and take some time to resolve your resists, but before that you should heavily consider spec’ing into Blood of Dreeg + Aspect of the Guardian and max them (you will no longer need to worry about poison/acid resist + you get Physical Resist) which will require 32 points into Occultist mastery.
After you’ve done that and fixed up your resists via components/augments I’d consider specializing more into a specific damage type. I see a lot of mixing of elemental and aether, I’d probably go with elemental because it’s a little more flexible and easier to gear imo. If you take that route then spec into Iskandra’s Elemental Exchange+Elemental Balance and consider moving from Reckless Power to Star Pact and Devastation to Trozan’s Sky Shard. You’ll also be able to remove some points out of Panetti’s Replicating Missile synergies that are purely Aether and afford you some extra breathing room.
That would be where I’d start if I inherited your character.
Follow kidpid’s suggestions on attribute reset. Otherwise, Jesus Christ, that’s one hell of a mess of a build you got there. I don’t even know where to start. What do you want it to turn into? You don’t need it to be a really good build to have fun and complete Ultimate (like kidpid’s suggestion), but it certainly can’t be like this. Post once you have a direction in mind, then we can start talking about helping. As for right now, I have absolutely no clue how to respond to that haha.
Yeah, like I said, it was my first character. I didn’t know what I was doing lol. I’ve got others that I’m very happy with and wanted to try and come back and salvage this one. I guess I need to try and roll with aether or elemental exclusively.