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Do you like holding left click but also want to play a caster? Do you like the idea of charms but they're just too dang annoying since you can't damage the enemy? Do you want to be mediocre at everything but somehow still super useful?
I have a build for you!
The SOUNDBLASTER. The ultimate throwback to a product released before I was born but somehow still have nostalgia for!
Use synergies that somehow make too much sense to turn your feylock into a monster of death and despair! Bosses getting you down? With the new and improved Soundblaster Feylock Omega Supreme, you have many ways of debuffing even the peskiest of bosses to be absolutely sure that every number that appears over their heads gives off that sweet sweet damage enhanced color and grows larger and larger as you continue to pelt them with the supple sounds of whispers escaping your fingers.
Mobs get you down? Throw out a max damage Evards and Arcane Tempest combo and watch their HP fall faster than you can say "oops I'm doing force damage now"
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This build is focused on using the great many synergies between the Fatesinger tree and the Fey pact of Warlock. It focuses intensely on damage via blasting, boss debuffing, and a variety of CC. This makes extensive use of the Tainted Scholar tree and the debuffs in Soul Eater to ensure that everything goes down. Enclosed is the build, gameplay commentary, and a new player friendly recommended gear set that performs well in endgame (no raid items)
The build outline given below will be geared at players unfamiliar with Tainted Scholar, and assuming no past lives are in the mix. I will note variations at the end of the build that more experienced players might be interested in.
This build can solo low to mid reaper at cap with proper gearing and play. The abundance and diversity in control options along with the very good boss damage (for a warlock) make this a versatile powerhouse that has a different focus than the builds currently posted. This may also be the best ruin caster in the game - with an intense focus on force damage as well as crit damage buffs, the ruin numbers will be large.
Build (this post)
Tanky Build Alternative
Build Justifications
Gameplay Guide
Racial AP Versions
THE BUILD
Tiefling or Dragonborn
True Neutral
20 Warlock
Max out CHA, then CON
If you have INT tomes, you put it to 10- if not, take it to 12 (14-16 CON and 18-20 CHA are all fine)
Skills
Spellcraft
Use Magic Device
Perform
(Bluff)
(Diplomacy)
Feats
1 Maximize
3 Quicken
6 Force of Personality
9 Past Life: Wizard
12 Spell Focus: Enchantment
15 Greater Spell Focus: Enchantment
18 Spell Penetration
21 Epic Blasting
24 Burst of Glacial Wrath
27 Ruin
30 Greater Ruin
26 Epic Arcane Blasting
28 Epic Spellpower Sonic
29 Epic Spellpower Force
31 Spell Specialty: Enchantment
30 Scion of Feywild
Spells (First two are chosen, others are granted)
1: Shield, Jump, Feather Fall, Obscuring Mist
2: Invisibility, Sleet Storm, Web, Blindness
3: Displacement, Dark Discorporation, Crushing Despair, Slow
4: Evards Black Tentacles, Teleport, Death Ward, Greater Dispel Magic
5: Finger of Death, Undeath to Death, Greater Heroism, Otto's Sphere of Dancing
6: Hold Monster Mass, Charm Monster Mass, Otto's Irresistible Dance, Energy Drain
Enhancements
Epic Destiny
Gear
Gear if you don't plan on raiding (~R1 solo gear)
The numbers here are pre-stat squish but this set still works well
I have a quiver of alacrity for Striding 30, but if you don't, you can get a striding 30 augment from Chor Blast-Horn in House K fairly easily and slot it into anything with a Yellow or Green slot.
Endgame Gear
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