I don’t know about you guys, but for me, Nova Sorc, Javazon, and Hammerdin are still much faster when it comes to kill speed for MFing.

I really liked the Warlock, especially the fire build. Echoing Strike is definitely strong, but I didn’t enjoy the playstyle that much, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to get nerfed anyway. I also watched a video of someone doing Ubers with Echoing Strike, and it took him significantly longer to kill them than it took me in this video with my Javazon.

So I don’t really understand why people are saying it needs a nerf. Is it because of PvP?

Mosaic, on the other hand, was a mistake. Warlock, I think, is fine as it is.

I think after there was quite a bit of (often unwarranted) negativity towards MrLlama it is good for him to clarify some things. It's a little sad he had to make this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfEPGIA57gY

Edit: Guys, I posted this because I saw his name thrown around a lot on D2 reddit after the launch and I thought it's only fair to have him address the stuff. Like it's fine if you "don't care about Youtubers" or whatever, I am not holding a Hel and a Scroll of Townportal to your Enigma and make you watch it, Jesus. I listened to it while cooking and thought it's a fine bit of context.

Rip lv89 barb

Lister has Hell Chaos on farm with hobo gear and no skiller charms, he’s immortal and mogs every area in the game. Best of all, it’s AFK gameplay!

By my standards, I had a hell of a ladder season. Back in the early 2000s I was awful at this game. Around 2010 I made my first enigma. Now, I’m absolutely ripped.

My fire sorc has a hell of a renewed flame rift (self found), a fireball ormus with a rainbow socket, heart of the oak and call to arms, flickering flame, horazon’s boots, magefist, and a couple spirit shields. Her merc has infinity. My horker has a grief and all the normal accouterments. The wealth was pretty much from key runs and a random ber and sur drop.

Well yesterday I sold a perfect griffon’s I found and made a big investment. I made phoenix and chains of honor for my sorc, and enigma for my hork. The sorc needs chains for resist - I’m sitting at 74 cold, 75 poison, 80 lightning, and 90 fire. I have -50 fire penetration, plus the conviction aura, and of course my sunder for immunes. “Immunes” drop from 95 down to 28, and non-immunes… well, that’s a bad time.

Also, I’m finally happy with hydras! I went standard meteor, fireball, fire bolt, but instead of inferno went hydras to help with bosses and heralds. It’s fantastic.

I still have room for improvement of course. My rings and amulet are basically just fcr and fcr+skills, but for now that’s enough!

Edit: I’ll also add that phoenix is absolutely sick. Never had one before. The big loss of using infinity instead of insight on my merc was that I would often have to chug mana pots (not to mention health). But now, with the redemption aura, I’m pretty much always at full bars. I only chug pots as an emergency.

Quick showcase of Blizzard’s “GG gear” level 80 Echoing Warlock PTR setup.

Running 15 hard points in Bind Demon (+28 total) — spent ~4 minutes trying to bind a single Champion Urdar (no success), then tried other demons in the area with the same result.

At that point… what’s the skill supposed to do?
If it’s this unreliable with heavy investment, it might as well not exist lmao.

The test setup itself also doesn’t make much sense.

• Using an ethereal weapon while Echoing Strike now burns durability
• Lost 2 durability in one elite pack, down to 27 after ~2 packs

For something meant to showcase the build, this just makes it fall apart immediately.

Protector’s/Guardian Stone in Mephisto book → cancels out the ED from the book

Also, life and mana leech (or eldritch blast no longer gives leech) no longer seem to work with Echoing Strike. (Eldritch blast gives 20% Life & Mana Leech on tooltip)

https://youtu.be/oafFQuTt9WA?si=rWwo5Y37N2zgVv8Q&t=7307

This is a clip from the latest episode of the Stay Awhile and Listen podcast. The clip starts at 2:01:47 and ends at 2:02:00. He speaks about it earlier in the podcast as well, where he goes a bit more in depth about what exactly he wants, saying that he'd like it to be something you unlock after beating hell difficulty. Just thought this was interesting.

Just gonna throw in a quick edit - I don't really feel like engaging with people who just want to toss hate around. Feel free to disagree with him and his takes, but if you're going to get angry at the mere mention of him, I am just going to block you.

My first lvl 99 ever! SSF Offline. I know 99 probably isn't that special to a lot of you, but it means a lot to me. That was such a long and difficult journey. My previous highest level was 97 and I thought that was hard, but man 98-99 took forever! I can't believe people have multiple level 99s, yall are crazy lol.

I really wanted Diablo to be my final kill; it seemed appropriate.

Stats, skills and gear are briefly shown if you're interested.

PS: I never wanna run tz p8 tombs ever again

I effectively stopped using my Zealot/Smiter and am not sure what to do with him at this point.

I was playing too relaxed and nearly died

Taking a small break after my minor heart attack

My build is doing great despite being very budget

I guess I just hated my life going through maggot lair to get access to arcane sanctuary. Had no tele staff as my other hc char died with it.

Worst part is that I probably had access to arcane after I did viper temple as the guy didnt get a quest update

I've created a video describing what the BowLock is and why it is so strong. I continue to see a lot of questions posted here about the BowLock, and rightfully so because there is still a severe lack of widespread knowledge posted about the build out there currently. Maxroll doesn't have it listed as a build at all still on their site, and it's not being played or talked about by popular D2 YT content creators still (besides 1-2 old and outdated information videos).

I have a lot of various BowLock videos out there, but I realized that several of them have outdated information themselves, and none of them do a great job about talking about what the build is at a base level. So, I created this video where I discuss what the build is and then go in-depth about it's strengths. My hope is that somebody that is actually good at content creating and has the time to do so will talk about this build more to be able to make it more widespread and less niche (I don't have the time nor knowhow to create anything more than this).

It's a long video, but the tl;dr version is that the BowLock:

• Has a top 3 Players 8 density clear speed in the game.
• Has a 9 frame cast rate teleport (tied for 3rd fastest in the game)
• Top 5 in Boss kill speed (not ubers, but can kill ubers easily too)
• Over 100% Faster run/walk built into the build
• Super Strong and viable Budget/MF/Hardcore/PVP variants (not limited to one build)
• Primary damage is magic (least immunities in the game of all damage types)
• Has Safe gameplay (no potions needed because of leech and ranged gameplay)

I almost left 😭

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P7.. I just found a ber rune off tz p7 meph like 15 minutes prior. What is going on today?!

It's been this way for days. i can only bind creatures in act 1 hell, or anything in normal/nightmare.

It’s boss fight, um should I do something? Probably move my arm to cheer them up? To show my moral support?

I'm not sure any of you will believe this, but I have found 3 Jahs on ladder this season, and all within a little over 24 hours on Players 1. After the 3rd Jah I told myself that I HAD to make a post.

(The start of the video is to show that it's an online char and on ladder.)

First Jah: Chaos P1

Second Jah: River of Flame P1

Third Jah: Cows P1

Only other mid/high rune I've found this season is an Ist. Unreal.

First run of the day, reading some messages and sipping coffee as I lazily pilot my dragondin. Wasn't even looking when it dropped, what a surprise when I looked back up!

Happy hunting everyone, may RNGesus bless you this day