This is my second character build which suits more for Party Play and it's being played in Serious Difficulty at the moment at level 39 Master. This build is updating on the go as difficult encounters happens at certain time versus bosses like the Maze boss (Malgar) or the crypt boss (Dace). This build will reflect on general direction which makes Warlock skills more versatile depending on the situation. Unlocking certain skill and passive/upgrade is probably worth to do before maxing out a skill depending on your character level and progression.




Warlock's main hand will always grant you Poison Damage which means scaling it with Poison will increase your DoT. Warlock is also sacrificing some Health with certain Passives and uses Mana to spend it on their spells. Going roughly 50/50 ratio on STR/INT is something to be looked into as you'll feel a bit squishy and might want to focus on Plate armor.






50 STR soft cap to wear Plate at Master and to increase your HP. Adjust accordingly to what's needed.
50 INT soft cap to wear Robes and spending the rest on INT will help a lot due to spells cost a lot but could be managable with consumables that recovers MP
50 DEX is needed for soft cap for Leather gear but also enough stamina/stamina regen for dashing/healing.

Apprentice
• Dimensional Step 5/1/0 - Your mobility skill and self healing with just one point to have it proc for dashes.
  
• Soul Dagger 6/3/2/3 - Maxing your main attack is crucial as this scales of your main hand and is jack of all trade with single target and multiple target damage. A good main hand and off hand is recommended for this core attack.
  
  Adept
  
  
• Soul Harvester 4/3/4 - Once you get Adept, this passive is a MUST to get for your soul dagger QoL. This generates souls while you don't need to siphon as much.
  
  Expert
  
  
• Dark Ritual 3/2/0 - This is to be honest one of the strongest skill that I've seen but it's tedious to wait 3 seconds for it to deal the heavy damage but it is providing Life leech and burst AoE damage.
  
• Shadow Tendrils 3/0/0 - This skill is amazing and should be unlocked and maxed out ASAP. This also scales with your poison damage which comes from gear. Especially Main Hand.
  
• Aura of Atrophy 3/3/1 - Aura passives that benefits you with debuff on the enemy and life leech. One point into life leech is enough as you don't gain that much when maxed.
  
• Malevolent Casting 3/1/3 - Free damage as you spend your spells Ritual and Tendrils which cost a lot of MP to begin with. Same deal here, one point into Mana Leech for the proc.
  
  Master
• Vortex of Souls 3/2/3 - Your mandatory skill for warlock's soul gimmick. This generates souls for you as well as dealing AoE damage.
  
  Remaining Skill Points
• Transmutation - Honestly this passive doesn't seem to do much when you have to rely on 20 second duration buff which triggers whenever you take damage. It's not recommended to stay low health such as Demonic Resolve skill or lose health in general for party play or solo.
  
• Soul Infusion - The skill itself is not something you'd use anymore once you reach Master. But the passives might be an interesting skill allocation option due to the stats given whenever you are max stacks. But it's very rare to be at max stacks besides start of a boss fight. I would still not recommend this.
  
• Demon's Tail - This skill will be an additional mana dumping skills which triggers Malevolent Casting. Definitely a good choice if you want more firepower but make sure to have enough keybindings and MP regen to rotate all your active skills. This skill will probably replace the summons for certain fights due to AI not working on certain bosses. Passives is dependant on the fight, Fire seems most logical towards stationary targets.
  
  Uniques
  
  
• Queen's Legacy - This is now almost a mandatory and probably best "summon" skill for Warlock because it scales with Physical and Poison Damage. Doesn't require any investment of skill points and summons quickly and strong Hatchlings that does a lot of damage along with your Tendrils.
  
• Chained Suffering - Warlock unique off hand which solves majority of the issues with stacks. This off hand works well with Soul Dagger as you can just siphon with your high health and regain it back with dimensional step or Health Regen due to allocating points to STR.