Loving Warlock this season, impressed by how much smoother most abilities are. A lot of flexibility in builds and most have ways to use the skill with the build you want. Chaos Bolts is an exception, I’m running low life with necrotic damage / DoTs and really need “Another Affliction” to cast Bone Curse. I can’t come from the left as it converts the skill to physical. Coming from the right, I’m forced into:
“Devour the Damned” - + 10 life per hit
“Cursed Blood” +18 life per hit (running 3 curses)
Despite my armor/gloves draining life I still build up 600-700 life (will be more when I add cast speed) and my ward drops as a result. it is playable, but would love to see a node to let me remove this health gain - bonus if I get half as ward (Rip Blood does an amazing job with this).
Thanks
You can remove 1 point in Devour the Damned, you have 2/2 specced even though only 1/2 is necessary. I am not really familar with DoT variants of chaos bolts, but if you don’t spec into Cthonic Aurora mana sustain should not be a problem.
You are also not using another source of health drain in the Lich Passive (Unclousing Wounds), which would actually give you simialr damage to some other passives you ahve taken.
Also you are not using Health Drain on the Boots (Last Steps of the Living)
Another method to keep your health low as well would be using
Twisted Heart of Uhkeiros Unique Relic. it gives you the same or evne more skill points with better stats and is very easy to farm with 1LP (and then corrupt).
With that item you probably want to balance your health drain, and health sustain and might need to change some other things, but its a great item.
I think any of these suggestions in any given combination could improve your build in regards to health/ward balance.
Um… you want a warlock to go 25 points deep into Lich to correct a skill tree that needs to support low life?
Twisted Heart has been on my list for a long time, I actually just got it and it helps a ton. But again - shouldn’t require a specific piece of gear to correct a skill tree.
Devour the Damned is actually for mana, as Chaos bolts is my cheap skill, with bluefeather band it is essentially free with this node. Certainly not a required point, but helpful.
Would be nice if Chaos Bolts stood on its on for low-live, as other skills can.
Well Lich has a lot of good nodes in its passive tree. I play a lot of builds that go very deep into other masteries.
I get where you coming from, but on the other side I also think its kinda cool if certain skills excell at one thing A LOT, while simultanously making other playstyles harder or incompatible. It gives skills a bit of flavor and makes then other skills or interactions way more cool and useful.
For example a Low Life Lich using Chas Bolts with the Corrupted Form Passive.
I just really like if not every skill can do everything, same with conversions etc.
Chaos Bolt already can go into so many different directions, I just think it doesn’t need to excel at low life, its fine if you need to jump through some hoops and still can make it work if you want.
