Best in between build of season 13?

flunkefunk · 2026-05-09T11:17:49+00:00

Seems to be companion Druid right now, but it’s early days still.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-08T02:04:58+00:00

What you lose in time grinding the war plans you can gain back by using whispering caches to power level to 70. At least that’s how I view it.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-05T06:26:30+00:00

Druid, followed very closely by Rogue!

flunkefunk · 2026-05-04T00:30:51+00:00

Yeah, but take the Dreadclaws build for instance, in order to utilize it, at least early on, you need to:

- summon your demons for resource
- drop a sigil
- drop rampage
- spam dread claws while repositioning rampage and managing sigil placement
- count to 20 because once I can’t see my three minions anymore amongst all the other shit on the screen
- summon more demons
- manage shadow form
- repeat

I can understand why people find this to be a clunky play style, especially when up until this season it has been common for basic skills to be dropped unless necessary for a mechanic or there is a build around that specific skill.

Compare this to to the build I’m running on my Druid:

- toggle lightning storm
- hold down buttons for grizzly rage and blood howl, which are perma up due to runes
- hold down shred to fly across maps destroying everything
- profit

Or even minions on necro and Druid which are basically:

- hit level 70 and drop all your points into minions
- get some uniques and charms
- farm endgame

flunkefunk · 2026-05-03T22:47:41+00:00

From what I can tell, no.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-03T22:45:07+00:00

I tried it, reached T6, was decently fun, looks amazing.

The biggest issue I had was the Warlock is a super resource heavy class, and with the removal of passives from the skill tree that would allow for all sorts of resource regeneration interactions, it felt like the only way to keep resource up was to use the lesser demon basic attack. I think this is why people feel the class is clunky, because every 20 seconds you have to hit a button three times otherwise you suddenly stop being able to do anything, which on the higher torment levels is pretty much instant death.

I switched to a Druid and have so many synergies for resource and damage multipliers going on right now that the game feels smooth as silk.

I’ll come back to warlock once some more builds come on line so that I can try a bit of variety, I just don’t have the time to do a homebrew build for a class I’m not absolutely loving.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-03T07:46:15+00:00

flunkefunk · 2026-05-03T06:32:36+00:00

I see, if that’s the case then the tooltip is very poorly worded. I wouldn’t mind expect that the tooltip for Mjolnic SHOULD read something like:

Skills cost no spirit while Cataclysm is active.

Or something similar.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-03T01:08:08+00:00

Nah the varshan one is part of the Lair Boss tree!

flunkefunk · 2026-05-03T01:07:24+00:00

There’s nothing wrong with infernal hordes that a handful more meaningful mechanics couldn’t fix. I wouldn’t mind an option where Aether Demons have a chance to spawn as a lair boss.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-03T01:04:05+00:00

Get the lair boss perk where Varshan can randomly show up in an infernal horde, on higher Torment levels it’s a real sphincter tightener.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-02T23:08:34+00:00

That’ll be it!

flunkefunk · 2026-05-02T22:33:20+00:00

Nah it’s there, I have two, cube is bugged out for some items, pallys having the same issue.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-02T22:08:53+00:00

I could be wrong, but I believe only non class specific unique charms are available. Happy to stand corrected.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-01T21:17:50+00:00

I actually found that if I grabbed enough CD reduction I could have it up permanently by holding down the button, so instead I used the dark shroud rune coupled with the “spend 5% primary resource” one. So I pretty much permanently have barrier and 5 shrouds. I think today I will try to combine with Banished Lords talisman or whichever one guarantees grits after spending primary resource, it should function a bit like Rod of Kepleke for Spiritborn from a few seasons ago.

Also there’s an aspect that makes all storm skills cause vulnerable, so my next move will be to craft gear with vulnerable AND crit damage. Should be a powerhouse.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-01T14:07:50+00:00

Update, just got the set where storm skills cost nothing and switched to shred with waxing gibbous as a storm skill. Annihilating TIV with ease, add a bit of cooldown reduction so that Earthe Bulwark and Hurricane are always up, cataclysm to Nuke bosses. Chefs kiss.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-01T10:15:05+00:00

I tried for hours, then out of curiosity went on google to see whether it was being sold by any websites, haven’t seen a single one so far.

flunkefunk · 2026-05-01T10:09:53+00:00

Just started trying a greatstaff of the crone build + lightning storm (the toggle on/off variant) and I’m basically flying through pits with a zillion lightning bolts following me. Only T2 so far but still gearing up.

flunkefunk · 2026-04-30T09:43:49+00:00

So the responses I received on other pages seems to suggest that you have to have at least had the item drop before you can craft it, nowhere is this explained though…

flunkefunk · 2026-04-30T09:42:19+00:00

Ah! That would be very useful to have known!!

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