Hello everyone, wondering if I could ask for some assistance on a good build for a warlock.
if anyone can shed some guidance that would be awesome.
yes I would like to kill everything. but so far my warlocks have sucked.
any help would be awesome.
thanks.

1. Be warlock.
2. Invest AP.
3. ???
4. Profit!

I realize that what I'm about to say is an incredibly unhelpful statement but dear god, how can you have played enough casters to have "all the caster past lives" and claim to not have a clue how to make intelligent AP choices on your own in regards to a Warlock?  Warlocks are so stupidly overpowered, I don't see how you can build one that "sucked" unless you went full retard on melee.

DCs and spellpower are pretty basic concepts in DDO.  They work the same regardless of which class you're playing.  For DC casting on a warlock, you go Cha, Con, Int in that order.  For pew pew on a warlock, you go Int/Cha, Con in that order.  Pick the DC or pew pew APs accordingly. 

Pile on as much stacking +DC or +spellpower gear as you can get.  Then sleepwalk through HE and EE content until you get bored at the lack of challenge and TR into a class/build that takes more than 2 buttons and 3 brains cells to play.


Edit:  I personally don't see the point in a DC casting warlock.  There's nothing wrong with it per se.  It's just that a good pew pew or boom boom (AE) warlock kills entire crowds of trash mobs so fast that DC casting and CC'ing is just slow lane version.  To each their own though.

wogoflove wrote on Nov 5^th, 2015 at 9:15pm:

If you're going to do a warlock, go pure.  The class is so overpowered that there is zero reason to splash anything unless you have a very specific build goal in mind.

thanks man.

I find myself doing much more damage using Aura and SWF... going DC is just silly. I tend to Drow or Morning Lord, Fey in Shiradi, max my CHA for Perform, use Utterdark so you don't have to worry about Force and max your Light, Devotion, and Resonance. CRAZY damage.. especially if you took Colors of the Queen 3x 

string table error, tableDID wrote on Nov 12^th, 2015 at 11:23am:

Warlock melee DPS is supplementary at best; TYWA and harper strategic combat are just way too costly.  Instead, invest in the soul eater line for this:

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Which comes out to around ~50 damage per hit, but also boosts burst/blast damage, stricken, consume AND melee damage.  This is way more damage than you'd get with TYWA or harper. 

A lot of your melee DPS is based on spellpower (~200 damage per hit total with greater hunger and spiritual retribution)r.  I wouldn't bother investing more than that, and maybe one or two TWF or SWF feats. 

wogoflove wrote on Apr 4^th, 2016 at 5:45pm:


Skyvault shield is a tower shield with no arcane spell failure.  Use the highest level blue augment with ASF reduction you can (up to 15%).  Also medium armor may be just fine for you instead of heavy.

There are essentially 4 basic ways to build a Warlock (18 - 20 levels of warlock.  Splash builds are another story.)

1.  Bursting Enlightened Spirit tier 5 with Tainted scholar Tier 3 or 4.  This is basically the tankish build, most go CON based now, but CHA is viable.  You simply use your bursts to blow crap up.  Energy burst is a good twist on this build.  Other casting is kept to a minimum to keep rotating bursts. 

2.  Enlightened Spirit Tier 5 with Soul Eater Tier 4.  CHA based usually.  On this one you use your bursts but supplement it with the SLAs from Soul Eater (Consume/Stricken, etc) for damage.

3.  Soul Eater Tier 5 with Enlightened Spirit Tier 4 and Celestial Spirit for defense.  No bursts, aura for defense only.  Use SLAs with tier 5 soul eater for damage. 

4.  Soul Eater and Tainted Scholar.  This is the most pew pew build.  No aura.  Which one you tier 5 in is up to you.  You will use cone shape and blast away while throwing spells here and there.  Little defense, play as a ranged character.

There are variations within, but these 4 are the basic Warlock builds.