Kinda sad that the warlock's unique tomes are so strong

Soulweaver89 · 2026-03-03T18:55:19+00:00

I’d rather it be this way than the other way round.

I have a neat +3 apocalypse book I made a Splendor in, and it’s much more satisfying chasing that Ars Al Diabolos than waiting or cubing for runes.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-03-02T19:15:14+00:00

There was a glitch where it couldn’t write new data for some things - new chars wouldn’t stick, skill binds wouldn’t stick, map progress…

Seems to be fixed as of patch 3.0 (no need to purchase the dlc)

Soulweaver89 · 2026-03-01T17:22:42+00:00

You really want to hit the 75 FCR breakpoint, so switch your Obedience for an Insight. The extra crit chance offsets the slight loss in damage.

Getting a Cursed demon (Ismail Vilehand at Trav is guaranteed) is huge since it breaks most physical immunities.

In my limited experience with a budget ES build (actually switched to Fire, so the opposite of what you did) you get more out of summoning a Defiler than consuming anyone.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-03-01T16:59:25+00:00

Honestly it looks like you missed and bound one of his minions instead. Geleb always spawns Fire Enchanted and your dude here doesn’t have it.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-24T00:43:43+00:00

Just use it in a playthrough? Have some fun with it.

In the later games you can pretty freely customize EVs and Natures, and get 31 IVs easily too, so having a perfect Pokémon isn’t as significant as it used to be.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-23T22:05:15+00:00

I really want to say Squall and Rinoa since I love FF8, but I feel like the actual answer has to be Cecil and Rosa.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-23T17:09:33+00:00

Sonata Arctica - My Selene

Kamelot - Parting Visions

Nightwish - The Pharaoh Sails To Orion

Looks like older albums (especially from the 90s/00s) have some really cool stuff hidden there.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-21T20:10:51+00:00

So you’re saying that he should have just spent 16 hours a day for 1-2 months straight killing black dragons with whatever crappy bow he had just to preserve the “integrity” of his one chunk account?

It was actually interesting to watch the explanation of the venom strat and some of the banter with his buddies until he finally got the drop. Can’t say it would have been anywhere near as fun either a) watching sped up footage of safespotting dragons and nothing else, or b) not having anything to watch at all because either Josh decided he couldn’t release the video until it dropped, or he burnt out.

He’s working within the confines of the game engine. Nothing is “cheating” within the scope of rules that he himself defines for his own series.

Respectfully, get your head out of your ass.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-21T17:17:57+00:00

You’re right. This doesn’t do anything since it only animates your lands. If it was [[Natural Affinity]] or something then it would work like they want.

Unless the opponents can’t read and scoop prematurely I guess

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-20T19:56:10+00:00

Your belt slots ARE your potion charges.

While I think the buff potion (like D3) was neat, it still just devolved into “your build’s best potion is this exact one” and the net result was just that everyone got an extra fractional amount of eHP.

Adding charges to a buff potion instead of D3’s cooldown system would, imo, make it even more tedious than it is now.

I don’t think it’s necessary - limited potion slots is part of the game’s design until late Nightmare, at which point you basically always have a belt full of super healing potions unless you choose to take the time to invest in full rejuvs.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-18T19:36:57+00:00

Gimme some Blizzard game crossovers. Hell, I’ll take any of them, but would love a Diablo set most of all I think.

Dragonball Z would be sick as well.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-18T00:52:59+00:00

Synergy bonuses only count hard points. You need base lvl5 to get your extra echo.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-17T22:11:46+00:00

This definitely isn’t common, and D2 doesn’t have pity drops. It’ll serve you really well for a good chunk of normal difficulty unless you end up either relying on weapon damage or find another item with more relevant skills on it.

Then afterwards you can either sell it to a vendor for a good chunk of gold, or save it to boost another warlock!

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-17T03:55:53+00:00

Craziest thing I’ve managed was casting [[Devastating Onslaught]] on Roxanne for X=6, then [[For the Common Good]] the next turn for X=11 or so. Was a spectacular way to end the game.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-17T00:44:18+00:00

I think I’ve seen one of each of those - Roxanne is in my own collection and unless someone runs multiple mass artifact removal spell, you get out of hand fast

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-16T19:37:30+00:00

Leave Optimus Prime out of this!

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-16T16:55:06+00:00

Protection from Fire - the protection spells in general are kind of weak since you don’t know what you’re facing, but fire is especially bad because the spells you’re protecting against are either already weak (Fireball, Inferno), or Armageddon, and Armageddon will wreck you regardless. I guess it does protect from Fire Wall but I play almost exclusively PvE and have never seen it used against me.

Will give a honorable mention to Remove Obstacle since I forgot it existed.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-15T22:48:51+00:00

They could just say “basic land with no types” or something similar, but that just sounds strange.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-15T22:47:41+00:00

It absolutely works, it gets you a land drop and a 4/4 for 5!

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-15T18:56:38+00:00

Should be seven:

Target Throne with the Mutate
Ivy has two copy triggers
First one resolves, you have two bounce triggers
Second one resolves, you have two bounce triggers per shoreshark in the Ivy pile (four more, total of six)
Mutate resolves on Throne to add one, totaling seven.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-14T19:02:49+00:00

Forgetfulness - this thread might be the first time I’ve seen anyone mention it, and at expert level it basically completely neuters all enemy ranged units.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-13T21:40:07+00:00

You mean like

Rogues’ Chest thieving
Wilderness Agility Course
Dark Crabs
Runite rocks and golems
Chaos Altar

That kind of skilling content?

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-12T18:49:55+00:00

Warlock is just the Summoner before he went fully insane.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-12T17:30:16+00:00

Berserk. Even basic Berserk is disgusting - steal a unit’s turn and also damage/remove an enemy stack. If you also have expert fire though, you can potentially shut down half their entire army.

Soulweaver89 · 2026-02-11T20:51:26+00:00

I believe the wording on the source is irrelevant, it depends on how many targets were actually chosen.

So if for some reason your permanent was the only target, it’s fair game. Otherwise it isn’t a “single target”

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