It's a kill timer in seconds.

Top tier is sub 20. So you’re around 20% of DPS. You sure you’re done with that build?

ZooperDooper wrote on Apr 17^th, 2019 at 2:10pm:


Pure lock out of curiousity?

ZooperDooper wrote on Apr 17^th, 2019 at 5:59pm:


Fair point. I've been dicking around with Tiefling and Henshin. Managed to make essentially a half-assed fire sorc that doesn't instantly die in the middle of a pack of mobs in reaper and can actually heal the party decent due to healing ki.

Not sure if I'd roll it on live, but it's pretty fun on Lamma.

Edit: Casting Cauldron of Fire on a tiefling actually looks demonic lol.

Highlights include a decent QP, a near no-save Hellball, and a solid mass frog.

Downsides: Absolutely fucking useless in the Sharn raid.

Frank wrote on Apr 18^th, 2019 at 7:34am:


You'd have to grab the Vistani capstone to really compete with SWF for attack speed.

But he's getting 3d4 light damage on both attacks, vistani being about 100% offhand and depending on your PLs and AP spendature; you're probably looking at about 50-75% doublestrike and 25% offhand doublestrike. So you're hitting upwards of around 200-400 light damage per click. Probably more depending on your gearing. Add in the fire damage per hit from Tiefling once they hit the HP threshholds.

20% HP without having to use epic defensive fighting from the ES capstone. Add on top of that the aura ticks every 2 seconds for all of his EB dice, plus the full fiend dice since nothing will be immune to the fire damage, plus the extra 3d4 + 3d6 light. So you're getting near an extra 1-2k damage per 2 seconds for free.

Feat wise he only needs to take TWF, ITWF, GTWF, and IPC:P. That's 4 of the heroics. I'd then suggest Quicken, Maximize, and Empower for the heroic 7. That makes your ES cleaves deal a good amount of damage, not to mention your Evard's is going to hurt as well.

From the epic levels I'd probably guess: OC, Epic eldritch, Precision, PTWF, Blinding Speed or Intensify, Arcane Warrior, and for his build I'd suggest taking Scion of Fernia for the extra damage on your aura and cleaves, plus the extra fire damage on your melee swings. But everyone has their own taste on the Scion feats.

the_biggest_dog wrote on Apr 18^th, 2019 at 1:25pm:


All I did was give a theoretical feat break down.

Vistani isn't quite there for meshing with ES for a DPS build. Or atleast an end game top DPS build.

I was hoping we might see a new universal tree built around another melee weapon type. But frankly, I'd rather the universal trees go back to being universal instead of singularly focused. VKF and Inquisitor, and even Falconry to an extent aren't very universal. They all fit an archtype of playstyles rather than having features any class could make good on.

Digimonk wrote on Apr 18^th, 2019 at 2:11pm:


The problem here comes from the fact that the dev team was opposed to melee warlocks from the beginning. Things like Hideous Blow, Eldritch Glaives, and Eldritch Claws were brought up frequently and shot down.

My guess is someone cheesed the devs games with melee warlocks in tabletop and they let their nerdrage spill over into design implementation preventing us from experiencing one of the more fun ways to play a warlock. You know; as a melee ranged glass cannon?

Instead we got melee ranged tanks with shit damage. Fair trade? You decide.

Frank wrote on Apr 18^th, 2019 at 11:38pm:


If you're going SWF you might as well use vistani as well, you just spend less points in vistani compared to TWF.

The extra 20MP from Single Dagger aint too bad. I'd say it arguably puts SWF dagger on part with some options. Though you'll always have outliers such as Knight's Training and Soulrazor.

But Khopesh vs Dagger on that one is a hard sell for me. There aren't enough khopeshes in game with vorpal effects to abuse PSWF. If you don't want to run daggers, don't piss away a feat on Khopeshes. Grab Knight's Training and use one of those weapons, or better yet use scimitars.

But again as Digimonk pointed out; it aint exactly even a B-tier build. Now there are a few things you can do with aura lock melees. The problem is there aint much you can do with a pure warlock. Not with our current selection of universal tree weapon choices.

What would the build's split happen to look like if you dont mind sharing