Face Tank Necrotic Shade Combustion Warlock Build Guide

Ridiculously Tanky

Ailment, Curse and Dots stacking monster

Can do any content

Mana management especially early game

Slow start until level 15-20 until you get Chthonic Fissure

Build dynamics changes around level 47 after getting Maehlin's Hubris but until then it's bleed necro for you

Gameplay is super simple and easy basically works like this:

• Spam Spirit Plague to spread curses. What's cool about this is it it has a very low mana cost so you can spam to your heart's content! With will proc Hemorrhage bleed stacks to enemies that have the Plague. This will also activate Exsanguination that will increase bleed penetration but will affect the warlock as well. We will be turning this bleed to ignite using the Maehlin's Hubris and Immolator's Oblation to turn that ignite on warlock to +Spell Power. We further increase the area of effect from Plague with Plague Burst and Agonizing Expanse. To further increase the damage we will make the Plague scale with your Necro Damage using Plague of Eyes and Rotten to the Core.
• Simultaneously active Infernal Shade. This will ignite enemies and surrounding targets. We just need to increase the chances by taking Fanning the Flames and Torment Beacon. Further more to build more of that nasty fire damage we will let the enemies explode in glorious fire by taking Combustion. Ow did I mentioned that Spirit Plauge andInfernal Shade doesn't require a target so you just spam the button all you want. It'll do it's thing!
• Chthonic Fissure will be our primary source of damage so we need to take this very early. This will ensure enemies will get the good stuff. Torment and Cursing our way to VICTORY! Just need to increase the length of the fissure with Of Gloom and Flames and turning it to a traversal skill Chthonic Passage this will allow us to traverse between gaps in the MAP! Really cool right?! Pyrochasm will also add that line damage along the fissure. Just scale more damage by taking Tombgorger, Twisted Waves, Grim Tide.
• Time to add the Godly Survivability by using Bone Curse. We will be taking Bone Prison. This will turn the curse to minions that has it's own HP so we can further increase it by Ossify. Giving atleast 2500HP each. Add more bleed chance Cloven Flesh . This will lock your enemies inside the prison and dealt DOT. Now it's basically ready for us to turn them to our WARD battery.
• Profane Veil will be the secret source to the build. This will allow us to forget about mechanics and just go in the shadow realm! We will be consuming the bone prison and turn them to Ward using Vampiric Pool. This will provide you that insane Ward on demand. Add in the cool down reduction of Stream of Profanity. What's interesting is that while you spam Spirit Plague it will make the cooldown much lower because of the continuous application of curse. It even works without targets C:

Leveling is very simple just using Chthonic Fissure as your main damage source. Spam Spirit Plauge and Infernal Shade as your DOTs. Drop Bone Curse and use Profane Veil to refresh Ward Stacks. Ez.

After reaching End Game and empowered monoliths. Your goal is to get all the unique gear and start farming for the sweet Legendary Potential. Your goal is to acquire the gear stated in the Variant Section .

Exalted gear and stats to prioritize T5 - T6 to Smash on Legendary Potential Gear:

1. Intelligence - It scales will all Skills that you have to make them even more powerful
2. Damage Over Time - It will further strengthen the DOTS of the build
3. Ignite Chance and Fire Damage - For the Ignite stacks and Combustion damage increase
4. Minion Health - This will increase the HP of Bone Prison and will translate to more WARD Generated on Profane Vail
5. Mana and Mana Regeneration - Oviously to eliminate problems in spell usage. (High Priority especially on Leveling)

Other priorities are some other stuff like:

Smash more Necrotic Resistance that will further increase the Ward per second of the Boneclamor Barbute. Fire Damage increase for the Shade Combustion damage, Ward modifiers like Ward retention and Ward Threshold mostly on your Idols, Mana or Mana regeneration is also great to have. The most important Finding gear that provide Intelligence is TOP PRIORITY because all our skills will scale from that. All are affixes recommended to SMASH into that Legendary potential that you've been farming!

It can easily clear Empowered Monoliths, Push high corruption, T4 Bosses, Arena.

Have FUN!