Overview
My Fire warlock guide. Quite possibly the most powerful build in the game at the moment in terms of offensive ability, defensive ability, clear speed vs group, and clear speed vs bosses.
Introduction
This is a Warlock Fire build using the Burning Hell’s set. See that Anomaly 1200+ Boss right over there, the one with 10 billion+ HP? Want to kill him in less than 3 seconds? WELL NOW YOU CAN! WITH THIS BUILD!
This guide will basically focus on what the build is, the playstyle/mechanics, what skills I use and why, and also the equipment used. It will be very straight to the point. Note that this is an end game build, so good equipment is required for the full effect.
PROS:
-Kills everything almost instantly
-Highly mobile
-Very high defenses
-Can play it both short range or long range
-Most powerful build in the game
CONS:
-None
To get an an idea of what this build looks like in action, here is a short video:
Playstyle
You can play this close range. You can play this long range. You can use warp to zip around. Or you can walk really fast. There are a few different play styles you can do with this build, all of them have one thing in common: that is, no matter what style you pick, you will nuke pretty much everything with this build.
The equipment set used is Regalia of Burning Hells. This turns Combustion into a nuclear bomb. The skills used are Fire Storm for close range, Hell Pit for long range/bosses, Warp for mobility and activating Sun+Moon. You also have the Demon Spawn ultimate to keep you alive whenever you warp around, as it pushes enemies out of your way, but they get hit by Firestorm and die as they get knocked back.
It’s a very high damage and very mobile build, with no setbacks at all because due to not having any need for critical chance/critical damage, you can dump all your enhancements slots into HP. Because of this HP stacking, you can get about 37k HP, which means every time you get a soul, you get a shield that has about 17K HP to absorb damage. You get this shield NON STOP due to warping/killing enemies. This, plus maxed out resists and 25% evasion due to warp passive, plus any nearby enemy gets knocked back, makes it very difficult for anything to kill you.
Equipment
The equipment I used is full Burning Hells set, combined with Sun+Moon for damage amplification. The burning Hells set amplifies the damage of Combustion, which has 55% to activate and deals all the damage of burning hells all at once. If you have a lot of effect duration, you can boost this damage by a lot. With the full set, you get 10 more seconds of burning hells, which his huge. Sun and moon further amplifies this damage by multiplying it by 3. The result is damage in the billions.
For most of my equipment, I rolled Cooldown Reduction, Effect Duration, Resist All, and Health. There is no need for critical chance/critical damage for this build (the damage is already high without it) unless you want even more damage. At high anomalies, defensive stats are preferred if you can manage it.
Here is a list of my equipment and their enchantments:
Helmet: Crown of Burning Hells
Accessory: Health Injector
Amulet: Moon
Offhand: Opus of Burning Hells
Armor: Robes of Burning Hells
Weapon: Staff of Burning Hells
Boots: Pathmakers
Ring: Sun
Skills and Masteries
Active skills in my skill bar:
Warp: Fire Storm : Demon Spawn : Soul Trap : Hell Pit : Ritual of Souls
Skill Trees:
Corruptor:
Not much here, just a single point into Epidemic for some attack speed (it counts as cast speed and makes you spells less clunky.
Lich:
You will want to get Warp and max it’s passives. You want Frozen Veil and Frozen Core as well.
Demonologist:
Max Soul Trap, Demon Heart, and also it is important that you get the passives Soul Empowerment and Demonic Appetite maxed. Max Fire Storm and get the Demon Spawn ultimate. Of course, max everything in the Burning Hells tree. Get 1 point into Hell Pit, and max the second passive.
Reaper:
The utility tree. VERY important to max Ritual of Souls, Soul Feast, and Soul Rip.
Masteries:
And here are the Masteries. You can be flexible here. Most of your points will go into Burning Hells for damage, but I’ve added points for more health. Don’t need anymore damage, already have too much!
Closing
Very fun build to play, it reminds me of my poison warlock, which sadly does not do enough damage now that enemies can have hundreds of millions of HP and bosses, 10 billion+ HP. Damage over time will probably get buffed in the future, hopefully. I really hope the other classes can get their equipment/skills buffed so they can be fun to play too!.
Questions/Suggestions? Feel free to comment!