Diablo 2 Resurrected Reign of the Warlock update is now live, and Season 13 has officially begun, which means you'll need to start competing with other players for the top spots on Ladder leaderboard. To climb faster, you need a powerful build that works for both leveling and endgame content.
In general, the classes newly added during D2R season changes are the most powerful, and this Season 13 is no exception. So, it is highly recommended that you use Warlock class directly and craft the best builds according current game content. So who is the top-tier build at the start of the current season?
To reduce the time and effort, you spend repeatedly trying out different build options at the start of season 13, EZG.com has sourced the most popular and effective 4 Warlock builds from various social media and communities, along with the essential skills they come with. Enough with the small talk, let's get started!
1. Summoner Warlock
Warlock class features three powerful summoning skills: Summon Goatman, Summon Tainted, and Summon Defiler, which work together to unleash devastating ranged damage, allowing you to strategize and complete battles from a safe distance.
You can also use Blood Oath to enhance the survivability of these minions and employ Death Mark to precisely target specific groups. At the same time, you can also equip Bind Demon, which allows you to bind any demon in the game, including powerful unique demons.
This is very beneficial for efficiently farming encounters with specific loot, but it only applies to encounters with single targets or boss battles, as its area-of-effect damage is not strong enough to eliminate large groups of enemies.
However, it's important to note that if you want to summon all minions at once, you'll need 10 Ranks of Demonic Mastery, which is extremely difficult to obtain and may require ten times more time and effort than farming Uniques.
2. Fire Warlock
For players who prefer powerful area-of-effect damage, Fire Warlock in D2R S13 will perfectly meet your needs: with just a few taps of the skill button, the entire arena can be engulfed in flames, causing immense suffering to all enemies and rapidly depleting their health. However, all of this will only be available after you reach level 6.
Once you reach level 6, you'll gain the ability to upgrade your Ring of Fire skill. This skill not only knocks back enemies but can also quickly eliminate groups of them, and its efficiency increases with level. At that time, your Flame Wave and boss-killer skill Apocalypse will be ready to shine.
With its ultra-high-definition monster speed and ability to damage bosses, this build has been praised by many players as the best leveling build in Season 13. But its potential is far more than that; as long as you avoid enemies that are immune to fire as much as possible, you can directly clear Hell Difficulty.
If you absolutely cannot avoid it, you can allocate some skill points to skills with affixes that increase other elemental or physical damage, such as choosing Tainted Demon to increase fire damage, or directly using them to enhance your defensive capabilities. In addition, Summon Tainted, Consume, Sigil: Death and Sigil: Lethargy can also be your alternative skill choices.
3. Cleave Warlock
The next build takes Warlock's ability to wield two weapons with one hand to the extreme. It utilizes melee skills like Cleave and Mirrored Blades to make it possible for a spellcaster to win through pure physical damage and close-quarters combat. With the addition of Levitation Mastery, your offensive potential can be maximized.
In this build, you can use Cleave to sweep away hordes of enemies or use Mirrored Blade to deal with single targets, this high versatility is comparable to the previously acclaimed Zealot Paladin build. However, it is a great pity that Cleave Warlock has a very obvious drawback: it relies too much on high-rarity gear.
You'll need to select powerful Diablo 2 Resurrected Season 13 Items, armor and helmets with high defense attributes, and weapons with high damage output, etc. Acquiring them is always difficult, even arduous, so maximizing their effectiveness may require a significant investment of time and effort.
4. Echoing Strike Warlock
While most Warlock builds are weapon-focused, not all rely excessively on top-tier gear, such as Echoing Strike Warlock build. In this build, you only need to focus on Attack Rating and decent gear; other stats like defense, attack speed, and movement speed are less important, somewhat like a Barbarian build.
As for its skill rotation, you only need to cast Echoing Strike to throw the weapon at the enemy, as it will automatically return and attack the enemy it just damaged a second time, which is very easy for both novice and casual players. Equipped with Mirrored Blades and Blade Warp, the combined power doubles the damage, making it easy to tear enemies apart.
Similar to previous builds, you'll need to select Levitation Mastery; however, you can reasonably replace it with Hex: Purge, as their main function is to add area-of-effect damage to your skill combo. If you're worried about its survivability, then activate Psychic Ward.
These are the four best Warlock builds worth trying in Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 13. While some builds may seem to do more harm than good, trust that Blizzard will consider the bigger picture and make continuous adjustments to the skill attributes of this class over the next few days to make it more balanced. So get ready in advance, and have fun playing!
