This class feels like it’s coming out of Diablo 3 or 4.
It has nearly no gear requirements, AOE that surpasses any class in the early levels, superior survive-ability and of course they gave it a teleport.
This class truly feels like a perversion of what Diablo 2 was supposed to be. The previous nerfs were not nearly enough, we need a substantial nerf to this class.
Most of his builds got nerfed recently but Abyss is crazy good, better than Hammerdin. Clears Hell easily from safe distance, big magic damage, instant targeting and built in crowd control.
i wish i could get an honest reaction from someone if Sorceress was released today. people would literally lose their minds.
Also extremely OP and always has been.
Teleport and Static Field should not be in this game.
There are so many builds that are crazy OP.
Javazon lighting fury clears the map on the fly. High lvl blizzard one-hits everything. Hammerdin, Smiter for colossal ancients… all of them get to clear the screen without criticism but we can’t do the same with the warlock?
I think warlock is fine right now. Monsters just need more magic resist, and also players. Summon necro or bowazon are still weak, specially in mid levels. Low and mid bows and crossbows do terrible low damage, most of them you don’t even want to keep them.
Which sucks, because they’re cool. They just do terrible low physical dmg. You either have windforce or faith bow or you’re effed.
100%
I think the goal is to push people away from Diablo 2 into other games.
Aesthetically it looks like it’s straight out of D3/D4. The magenta colors on all the skills tells me that.
The power fantasy is also from D4. There’s no bad choices on warlock currently. Fire is strong, miasma/abyss is strong, echoing strike and blades are strong, summons are strong, plus it gets a magic shield and a movement skill.
The way they designed this class was to give it no weaknesses. By comparison every other class has huge holes/weaknesses which makes warlock stand out.
That being said, sorc is still best until you get an enigma on warlock. Sorc can teleport blitz the whole game with ease and farm anything it wants to on a budget.
You add more magic res to monsters and bone necro becomes unviable.
For me its ok if the char is as strong as a hammerdin. i played every warlock build except echoing strike. it was true that it was possible to circumvent inconveniences like immunities due to bind demon in past. but that problem is gone. apocalypse/abyss are good skills. but they are not OP (except Abyss in PvP).
the diablo 2 interpretation of the warlock is really good. if you think it is a d4 char, try the d4 version. this is a true abomination. like if you play a crippled character.