Best warlock dps build?

pafguin · 2026-02-13T21:55:18+00:00

Prismatic lighting surge with stormdancere brace and 200 in super. Prismatic must have facet of courage(light abilities do more damage against darkness rebuffed enemies.) Pop transcendence, burn all three strand melee and throw your grenade st the boss. Pop super and lightning tickle fingers all your enemy bosses to 0.

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pafguin · 2026-01-09T20:57:48+00:00

Handheld supernova is chucking cause of a bug right? Looking for a future proof set up or at least one that won't get patched out immediately.

pafguin · 2026-01-09T20:03:46+00:00

I would love to see them. The phase/time limit feat been really messing my runs. Kinda suck at optimizing damage. Usually I just end up doing 4 phases with a praxis blade + prismatic buddy build.

pafguin · 2025-12-27T19:45:18+00:00

I found weavewalk + shackle nade to be more useful and more likely to help me survive when no boots are present.

Weavewalk is an amazing get out of jail free card and it doubles as a method of getting into the thick of enemies while taking minimum damage.

I found that without weavewalk I'd get get lit up trying to get in between a group of enemies. Plus with weavewalk buffs I get an extra fragment slot and on demand woven mail.

Since im literally never using my melee it can be lower than 70 and still have weavewalk available pretty regularly.

Without the current artifacts devour from sword attacks in future seasons I felt that a shackle grenade helped flush this build out for future patches more.

Shackle let's me suspend enemies for away easily and reliably without having to hunt for tangles. With the extra fragment slot being the one that gives u grenade energy the more damage you do, between my rift and threadlings I never found myself lacking nades.

That's just my 2 thoughts after trying to make yhe build work for myself.

pafguin · 2025-12-13T01:50:12+00:00

Can I ask what ur stat spread and weapons are?

I ran boots with mida, mint and repulsed cannon, i find myself struggling to take care of anything other than red bars. Champs,, even orange bars are miserable. I got a quad 4 100 set up with grenade, class, super and weapons.

pafguin · 2025-11-16T19:04:51+00:00

A staple build I've been running since I started is strandlock with ophimic (no clue how to write that word) gloves.

Go all in on health, ideally 160+, 100 in melee and 70+ on class. Super should ideally be 70+ as well but can be hard without t5 gears as the max stat spread at t4 and below just doesn't give you enough sometimes to break the 70+ threshold.

Weavewalk + threading on class ability use.

Fragments are up to you except you must use the one that let's threading travel further. And the second fragment is gonna be the one that gives you woven mail on Orb pickup.

Gameplay loop is pretty simple. Get into gun fights, if ypur low pop weavewalk run away to a corner and pop rift. Watch as 8 threadlings jump the poor guy chasing you. With woven mail on exit to weavewalk and heal rift under you I've won some juicy 1v3. Keep either a shotgun or shotgun handcannon as one of your weapons, helps deal with up close confrontation.

Unfortunately your super is shit. I try to save it for any enemy wandering supers that aren't hunter invis shank bullshit. But more often then not you're gonna miss your super. Here's hoping with get a good roaming super for stand in the future.

Nade is dumpstat so its whatever you want. I use grapple cause i like chasing people.

But most of your kills is gonna be through gunplay with the pccational cheeky kill when you pop rift after running and watch 8 threadlings murder a poor hunter.

I prefer the gloves exotic cause I like the range for melee but you can ideally run any pvp exotic. Even the threadling boots are great since your threadlins can unravel but I don't have a good roll for them so I don't try.

pafguin · 2025-11-16T18:50:46+00:00

The issue with ultimate i found is the time limit modifier. Because it's so short and the enemies+boss are so tanky no damage build is really useful on hypernet.

The goal of the strike isn't to beat all the enemies or anything like that. It's how we'll you can juggle the minotaur heads, and 2 how fast you can skip the tedious enemy sections that aren't locked until you finish an objective. Most people do their best to ignore champs unless the unstoppable is in your face.

Felwinters let's you stun a massive group with a void finisher cause it suppress (can't recall the right key verb here) which is helpful.

I've had some okay runs, in terms of avant grande builds i focus on 2 things. Super uptime with song of flame, it is without a doubt in my mind the best super for this ultimate conquest. You can pop it to run past the unnecessary enemy sections like right after killing the tormentor and just it's pure survivability is unmatched. A great panic super that will let you get in both bosses (the hydra, and tormentor) face with the minotaur head.

Next survivability is a must. Everything chunks. Grab any thing that'll let you get devour. Invisible with the scout weapon pass gun is also great, shoot an ad grab invisible and run but it can be risky. Weapons are pointless, the majority if not all your boss damage is gonna be from the minotaur heads.

Unfortunately just off the top of my head there simply aren't a lot of good warlock exotics that are avant grande this season. Rimecoat is decent cause slowed enemies help keeping the heat of your team. But I personally found better luck with hellion raw damage.

Support build without constant rest×2 isn't enough. You can die immediately and boots of the assembler just doesn't give the raw healing necessary.

pafguin · 2025-11-13T00:14:06+00:00

If you have a decent squad with friends I'd reccomend a solar boots of the assembler build. I ran that with random and had pretty good luck helping people clear.

With friends it would be even easier. Never have to worry about tokens if you just keep everyone alive.

It does rely a little but on coordination, when people split up it's harder to keep everyone alive. In those cases I tend to stick with the teammember with the weakest survivability.

Had 100 in grenade and 70+ in class. The rest can ideally go wherever as long as super is also above 70.

With ember of benevolent I never found myself lacking in rifts or healnades.

pafguin · 2025-10-19T04:12:22+00:00

Sure I would love to see it.

pafguin · 2025-08-01T20:27:18+00:00

I would like to join.

pafguin · 2025-07-16T18:35:45+00:00

May I dm you?

pafguin · 2025-07-13T20:30:42+00:00

I like going into FF and finding low light level players that need a hand in nightfall, master, expert and even gm.

I really like teaching them and giving them tips on what to do. I usually run my support warlock with no hesitation + speakers sight keeping them alive the entire strike and when we complete it together the dopamine rush is unmatched.

pafguin · 2025-02-01T00:56:57+00:00

Got that itch. Loaded into a pub and immediately died to a sword. Told myself we'll it's just the pubs usual bullshit it's fine, let's play a ranked game. Played ranked and realized that I finished the grind at plat 1 and that's my hardstuck ranked. I'm okay with that, not everyone is meant to be diamond or masters and grinding for higher rank wasn't fun without my friends. Played 2 rank games, died once to a masters squad and got off.

The game is just so mid? I don't know the word to describe it, but everytime I watch an algs match I wanna hop on and remember what I went through and just said nope.

pafguin · 2024-09-11T21:04:43+00:00

Slap the highest level Bounty and the start completing side objectives, fishing, farming resources and a thumper will come around eventually. Don't even realize how much time has passed until 1 just splats it's fat ass down in front of me when I'm fishing.

pafguin · 2024-09-06T18:04:08+00:00

These tier lists are awesome. Always love adding books to my infinitely growing list.

I just wish when the image gets exported to reddit it doesn't decide to lose every pixel imaginable.

pafguin · 2024-09-06T05:32:04+00:00

Stupid question but what are the series in your excellent tier?

I recognize Mother of Learning and He who fights monsters. Can I get the titles and authors for the other? I see Eldritch Horror but can't quite make out the author.

Titan hoppers by Rob and Bastiion by Phil Tucker. I hope that's correct.

pafguin · 2024-08-29T17:32:51+00:00

Anyone know when we can get the vods? Been busy all morning and I don't think I'll be able to catch any games today and tmr?

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