"More"lock Spirit Plague Bleed Warlock - 23 Ailments & 7 Curses | Low-Life Ward Build Guide

Simple playstyle with Chthonic Fissure, Spirit Plague, and Chaos Bolts combo!

Can get you to 1,000 Corruption on simple gear, with only Mad Alchemist's Ladle being the one suggested/required unique!

15k Ward with up to 20-24k buffed!

AMAZING at clearing and bossing!

Requires a lot of uniques.

Not everyone loves Ailment/DoT builds.

Requires Spirit Plague + Fissure + Chaos Bolts to do damage for us while we use Ghostflame for defense.

Not as tanky as Profane Veil and Bone Curse with the Bone Prison node.

Focuses on using Chthonic Fissure and Spirit Plague to automatically clear most of the map/echo. We then use Chaos Bolts spam for targeting down bosses.

The main damage comes mostly from Spirit Plague and the Exsanguination 5/5 & Laceration 5/5 nodes. This allows us to stack a crazy amount of bleeds by utilizing Fissure Spirits and Chaos Bolt hits for as many hits-per-second as possible. The best part of this rotation and build though is the automaticity it has with Plague Burst 2/3. With this skill, you simply cast your Spirit Plague once or twice per screen only to have it spread across entire packs almost instantly. We then let Chaos Bolt's and Fissure automatically barrage hits onto the target through the use of the Chaotic Rupture 3/3, Stygian Current 5/5 giving us the most Spirit/Chaos Bolts per second. We also utilize PrefixIncreased Spirit Frequency with Chthonic Fissure on our chest to boost this effect.

To finish off big targets or Bosses, we dip into Profane Veil for a second to utilize the Scorn 5/5 node for a massive increase to our DoT ailment ticks from Bleed! This along with the passive skill Doom Herald 8/8 give us a whopping 74% more multiplier to our damage!

For the rest of our defensive rotation we focus on Ghostflame with Spectral Menace 5/5, Disdain 4/4, and Wraith Form 3/4 for Ward generation, Dodge, and Damage Reduction. Utilize this as well for a solid damage boost with Doom Herald, just like with Profane Veil.

For a specific leveling guide, follow this video: https://youtu.be/w2wk1XwaQ2w

This Build is a fantastic starter as well, that can progress to my version of a Bleed Warlock, or into any Warlock Build you want to try. It takes you right up to level 55 at the end of the Campaign, and has a seamless transition into the rest of my follow-up Build Videos to take you to Level 100 and up to 1000+ Corruption. The best part, the Life Variation only needs a few unqiues and no LP!

Levels 1-17

We start out with a basic opener of Forbidden Knowledge 8/8, Stolen Vitality 8/8, and Blood Aura 4/8 to get us to our 20 required to unlock Warlock at 17.

For skills we use Rip Blood, Bone Curse, Wandering Spirits, Summon Bone Golem, and Summon Skeleton. Our goal is to cast Bone Curse, and them spam Rip Blood to procs, using our minions to give us free attack triggers for Bone Curse.

Specialize Splatter 5/5 in Rip Blood for AOE clear and triggers of Bone Curse. Also go with Defile Defenses 5/5 in Bone Curse for easy early damage.

Levels 17-35

To make this transition easier, focus on your Rune of Ascendance first on wands for Mad Alchemist's Ladle, next focus on armor for Exsanguinous.

From here we should have unlocked Warlock! We focus on rushing for Soul Stealer 5/8 and Occultist's Mind 5/8 for as much Mana Regeneration and sustain as possible. This build is VERY mana hungry, this should be our top priority! Next get to Lich for Apocrypha 5/10, and then move back to Warlock to work toward Cauldron of Blood 5/8 and Unholy Torment 6/6 for easy early damage.

We drop Wandering Spirits. Rip Blood and Summon Skeleton for Spirit Plague, Chthonic Fissure, and Chaos Bolts. Our main combo is now online with us dropping a Fissure and them Spirit Plague for constant damage, and Chaos Bolts for single target focus.

Drop Rip Blood and Bone Curse Specializations to instead go with Stygian Current 5/5 in Fissure, and Devour the Damned 1/2 & Cursed Blood 1/1 in Chaos Bolts for sustain.

Levels 35-55

Follow the recorded tree and skill specializations here: https://www.lastepochtools.com/planner/om630M8A

This will bring you up to the point of the last transition at approximately 52-55 for killing the campaign boss and moving into Monoliths.

Our only real big change here in 35-55 is adding back Defile Defenses 5/5 with Bone Curse as our 4th Specialization until we unlock Profane Veil.

Levels 55+

From here transition into the standard tree listed in this build if you have the gear, and try to focus on the preferred gear/affixes listed in the guide.

The biggest thing is being patient and letting the build carry you into about 100-200+ Corruption with just the gear you find. Don't worry about making an early transition to low-life until you find PrefixExperimental Ward per Missing Health & Exsanguinous. Once you have at least a 12%+ Ward affix, make the transition to low-life, as this is the stronger way to play this build in the long term.

Until then, look above at my Life Variation to show you some suggested gear options.

This build can be expensive to optimize it for a true End-Game grinder. As stated above, I would highly recommend following my Life Version of the build listed in Variation section of this build guide if you don't have all the pieces. This will give you the best foundation to start with until you get the required gear.

Low-life Ward must have these items:PrefixExperimental Ward per Missing Health (12%+) and Exsanguinous! If you do not have these, do not transition to low-life.

Once you get these required pieces I highly suggest you make the transition to low-life as this is a far superior way to play this build. Don't worry about pushing too fast though with the Life Version though, this can easily carry you into the 100-200+ Corruption in Empowered Monoliths without having to do much.

Our skill rotation stays the same as stated before, with the only change for Corruption 600+ being our reliance on Ghostflame. Use Profane Veil as well when you can on bigger packs and enemies. Use both these skills to allow your Spirit Plague Bleed stacks to do your damage. Drop Chthonic Fissure as needed, but watch your mana and allow enemies to come to you to give time for your Chaos Bolts to proc.

I have not maxed out the capability of this build, and it might not have one. With the generation of your Ward from Ghostflame and it's many layers of defenses, we can consistently maintain 18k+ ward. When we add Ambitions of an Erased Acolyte's unique ability of 2-6% Enemy Health Gained as Ward, we can get up to 24-26+k consistently while in Echoes. The best part is this scales with the Corruption, increasing their health, and in turn increasing our Ward. Yes, we are not immortal, but we are pretty close... but still watch your placement and let your skills automaticity do the heavy lifting!

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