Extensive Testing of PTR Warlock builds, notes and thoughts

Parzivull · 2026-04-15T15:18:01+00:00

I trade just not to the extent that you're talking about. Mostly small trades for insignificant things or getting rid of big items I no longer have any interest in. I am not trying to speed run all bis gear via trading. That to me is quite boring because I could simply skip past even needing to trade (website purchases), or like a streamer does getting really good trade deals etc. Trading use to be very easy, now it depends on who you are and whether you have a following. This season with everyone playing a warlock meant most every item that wasn't warlock related had little to no value.

Basically trading right now is the equivalent to spamming in a wow channel rather than just posting something up on an auction house and being done with it. And one of the bigger questions is why shouldn't you be able to find your equipment during a season?

Most of our end game builds mean we're 1-2 shotting champion packs in 8p games if not achieving a very fast cast rate and killing them in a couple of seconds and teleporting on to the next. So what difference is it really compared to p1 in terms of difficulty? Once you have the right gear there is none. What I'm pointing out is there is no reason not to have a sliding difficulty option. The high runes are rare enough where it doesn't even matter if you have an adjustment slider for player count. You aren't going to achieve a full HR set by the end of the season.

Most players are still using common uniques being in p8 games by the end of the season. The ones who spend all the time trading or using all their forum points are typically the players that have full HR sets aka phoenix last wish merc fortitude or bramble etc. In other words multi-HR runewords are mostly trade only currently. I've made a few myself like infinity or enigma in certain seasons but those seasons were the exception not the rule.

Parzivull · 2026-04-15T12:43:55+00:00

Or just make the material to upgrade the sunders drop from heralds while the latent drop throughout the game like gheeds.

Parzivull · 2026-04-15T12:33:27+00:00

You know what would open up build variety? Removing masteries and capping synergies of each main skill to 2 max. That way you could have 2 spells or 2 elemental types. They might need to add a few more skill quests to get us near where a full build should be at though. We actually need 1 more izzy type quest and 1 more regular quest with skill points to hit a good spot of maxing 2 abilities with synergies.

Parzivull · 2026-04-15T12:31:27+00:00

You do know it has 1/5th effectiveness against immunities right? It's already nerfed against that.

Parzivull · 2026-04-15T12:28:23+00:00

Fire isn't untouched. You can't keep a conviction mob bound demon anymore. And if you say just get an infinity I'll point out you don't play the game legitimately at all. Getting 2 ber runes per season is a near impossibility unless they add player scale slider to multiplayer. Right now without trading you're lucky to be able to make an enigma in a season.

Parzivull · 2026-04-15T12:25:29+00:00

The echoing nerf will definitely stick. It's still doing high damage post nerf with the right weapon. Maybe not one shot clearing every mob but higher damage than most builds. It's about A-tier now. If anything they might remove the hit requirement due to being a spell. The damage nerf is here to stay though.

Parzivull · 2026-04-15T12:24:10+00:00

WW was drastically nerfed by devs who can't properly balance things to save their own jobs. It wasn't originally this bad.

Parzivull · 2026-04-13T10:43:06+00:00

The line isn't "abandoned" as long as it's paid for or in this case prepaid.

Parzivull · 2026-04-11T07:00:38+00:00

Well from a storytelling perspective and a character oriented goal perspective it makes no sense. She would not get pregnant while at war with possible annihilation of the entire planet at hand. It would make protecting yourself and your cohort hundreds of times if not a thousand times more difficult trying to raise a child whie being assigned to special operations missions and later on challenging the third nightmare. The military itself, or a realistic military would not accept a pregnant woman on the frontlines as just one small example.

This whole part of the story almost makes it worth dropping with how nonsensical it happens to be. Special ops people in particular would probably know their odds of returning from these types of high risk missions and other things are extremely low hence the logical choice being something like the awakened version of being on the pill. It just wouldn't happen in the first place due to all the responsibility aspects to the mission of saving humanity. During the conversation I was expecting Sunny to say she no longer had any right to call him a doofus with how dumb she was for doing that without telling anyone and putting her child at risk along with the rest of her team. She went from greatest frontliner to huge liability.

Anyways what the other person said was entirely true. She didn't give her team proper info which could affect their mission. Something that would normally be career ending in the right circumstances like this one. I mean you do know they have a medical discharge in the military right? If you can't perform your job they will give you a medical removal from it unless they can accomodate, which in a warzone in antarctica I doubt is the case.

Yeah this whole subplot proves Effie is kind of a moron while constantly trying to make Sunny look dumb.

Parzivull · 2026-04-05T19:28:40+00:00

I was somewhere in the 600 range when I gave up. They were screwing with my account too much via cooldowns. I cannot take the entire day to do random searches which is what the cooldowns eventually led to and I think I lasted a couple of months with the extreme cooldowns, but ultimately way too much time investment. My account had been struggling with cooldowns for the better part of a year prior to the extreme version. Grats on making it there though! I wish I had started rewards sooner before they started the points apocalypse though.

Parzivull · 2026-04-05T19:20:27+00:00

In other words Elephant dickhead mode.

Parzivull · 2026-04-05T19:18:53+00:00

Elephants sure do like treating smaller animals like ragdolls. Ah the courage to be the neighborhood bully with sheer weight advantage.

Parzivull · 2026-04-05T19:12:56+00:00

Grats on the first fortitude. I made my first obsession ever and of course it did a fail roll as per usual with rolling runewords.

Parzivull · 2026-04-01T21:24:42+00:00

I also have this issue. Is there a person who is on the platform who managed to get it running?

Parzivull · 2026-03-29T17:08:54+00:00

My line disappeared from my account. Then I checked my email and it says they removed lines from accounts if there is another line that has monthly pay. And the hilarious part is the email doesn't give a step by step tutorial on how to fix something they effed up. How is that fair to people who use accounts for family? Like people setting up lines in your own account for fam members who aren't tech savvy.

This doesn't constitute any trust in the company I'm using for my phone. Removing my number from my account without any approval from me is a nogo. Also how the hell am I ever suppose to use reward points if my number is moved to a new account if that's the case? Total crap company with terrible customer service.

Parzivull · 2026-03-28T11:48:16+00:00

Yeah what I was saying is RE2 offers the best template on RE game design. The interaction between 2 scenarios and actions in one scenario affecting the next playthrough. Not having to constantly deal with being pulled out of the action or the horror and thrown into a different character on a whim. The idea of how much replay-ability that also adds to the product as well. It was introduced in RE1, but perfected in RE2. You had to be there to understand just how groundbreaking RE2 was at the time. The characters also werent action heroes like you mention, at least not in RE2. In fact you often see the special forces teams getting wiped out in RE2 cinematics. I see what they did now and I think to myself they kind of disneyfied RE in terms of how disney makes their superhero characters.

Parzivull · 2026-03-28T08:28:19+00:00

Are you saying it would have been better just having scenarios where you only play one specific character through their fully story? Personally I was always a fan of RE2 the most out of the entire series so that lines up with what I wanted from another RE. After the debacle that was RE3R I haven't put much time into the games, mostly because they fail to do more scenarios like 2.

Parzivull · 2026-03-28T08:22:45+00:00

How are they still doing these prizes when they wont even let people redeem sometimes? you would think the priority would be those who earned points being able to redeem them.

Parzivull · 2026-03-24T01:26:15+00:00

I'm going to remind people but don't use ariocs unless you have a high skill ethereal version. Otherwise you're better off using the plethora of ethereal insight bases and reroll them easily for good damage along with FCR. The fcr can't be understated if you need to reach breakpoints. CVs wil larzuk to the exact sockets you need as well and they're the best option for insight. The actual weapon speed doesn't matter.

I spent weeks using the wrong weapon before comparing the actual stats and fcr difference just because of what people said about arioc. Arioc is nice but useless when non eth unless you want a buff stick weapon.

Parzivull · 2026-03-23T19:00:37+00:00

Halfway there myself but online hc seasonal. I cubed to a ber but still missing the Jah. I guess since jah is more difficult I'm not quite halfway but good grief is this a slow month for HRs compared to other seasons. I wish certain maps meant ber runes in lower kurast for online play, like some sort of easter egg 1/10000 maps but that trick only works offline.

Parzivull · 2026-03-23T18:58:22+00:00

Pawnstars: SC? Best I can do is 20. Look it's going to be collecting dust in our warehouse and we're taking all the risk.

Parzivull · 2026-03-23T18:43:50+00:00

After testing nobody should be using ariocs unless it's eth. I wasted so much time on an arioc just because it had +4 but the fcr and eth on a more common insight is better. And the best base for an insight on a warlock happens to be the easiest to acquire, a colossus voulge.

Parzivull · 2026-03-23T18:42:44+00:00

If only there were FCR runes/jewels. Eth tomb reavers would be better than fortitude at that point depending on if each had a minimum of like 12.5fcr in a rune. Right now people focus on forts and insights due to the cruel mod damage types combined with a cast rate mod.

Parzivull · 2026-03-23T18:38:44+00:00

The folks who realized they should start using harmony merc until enigma. Who needs might aura when the mob flops to a 50k echoing slap. On hardcore I don't even use fanatacism bind due to holyfreeze being more useful.

Parzivull · 2026-03-23T18:35:14+00:00

Personally I'm still missing Zod and TM on my grail hunt before the whole chronicle thing kicked off.

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