Warlock High End PvE Build Help

[north osprey]

New to Warlock, struggling to find builds suitable for high-end PvE due to lack of weaponry. Are there any Warlock builds not too weapon-dependent?

[lapis jackal]

Contraverse, Necrotic, Starfire, Phoenix, Swarmers

[clear osprey]

Cenotaph as well in things like gms that thing is nuts

[violet crystal]

aeons too, cenotaph is just long range aeons

[twin seal]

Sunbracers

[novel relic]

also wdym by "lack of weaponary" ?

[trim ledge]

sunbracers and sunshot n boom ur invincible

[peak valve]

phoenix protocol, wisher ender. profit. ur welcome.

[clear osprey]

Ceno is much safer to run in high content but ye + it allows you to be the DIV for champs and bosses if needed

[north osprey]

Like I have most exotics but like no variety when it comes to legendaries

[north osprey]

I tried that but I can never find opportunities to activate them

[trim ledge]

fair, my gm build rn is dawn chorus n polaris and it’s absolutely insane

[peak valve]

did u see my reply!

[proud orbit]

Sunbracers are like the only viable “grenade” build rn

[north osprey]

What if I said that Wish-Ender is a part of my "lack of weaponry"?

[peak valve]

get it, takes an hour unless u lack the dlc

[north osprey]

I dunno what to do

[peak valve]

youtube is available my friend

[gaunt sage]

Phoenix protocol and polaris lance, very good in GMs

[tall kite]

you want a healing build that can basically keep you alive forever (assuming you don't aren't reckless in like GM and Master content.... if you are, this ain't saving ya.)

Sunshot or something that was incandecent reliabaliy and fast (weapon) + healing gernade + heat rises (aspect) + verity brow = restoration x2 healing nades

Aspect: Touch of Flame + Heat Rises (Can remove if you want mobility but no resto 2x), Gernade: Healing, Other abilties are up to you

Aspect: Ember of Ashes (or torches if you need raidant), Ember of Benevolance, Ember of Empyeran (extents radiant and restoration effects upon SOLAR weapon kills >:D), Ember of Singeing

[north osprey]

That's the first time I've seen mention of Verity's Brow in a while

[tall kite]

Fusion gernade atheon

[north osprey]

The what?

[tall kite]

Some teams will have several people run verity to spam fusion gernades

Verity has two effects, increase the personal damage of a gernade + increasing the gernade regen of people in a certain radius around you by a crap ton

You have at least 2 verity brow user and you can therefore spam any gernade and fusions now hit for roughly 270k for the people who use it (assuming 5x / max stack of death throne)

@north osprey

Gernade regen buff doesn't apply to you so you need two to have max effective. You also needs ads to kill

[north osprey]

I wil take note of this

[tall kite]

btw this build is highly impracticle in lfgs since people can't really get their heads together to get a common exotic on

[deft lintel]

best build for GMs on warlock rn i'd say phoenix for well or dawn chorus for dawnblade

polaris lance is arguably best weapon for stuff like GMs

esp this season since it does barrier and unstop in one

and stupid damage with ignition

[worldly ore]

High end pve can relate to two things.
If gm: cenotaph, aeons, starfire, phoenix protocol (and solar for well obviously). If you dont like solar, osmiomancy + stasis is your best bet

If raids/dungeons: sunbracers/starfire (solar), fallen sunstar/vesper (arc), controverse (void), necrotic grip (strand), lunafactions (only use when entering a dps phase and you're using well), ophidians/rain of fire (only use these during dps)

Most of the ones that work in raids work for most content outside of gms (and some even in gms, just not as well as others)

Aside from these there are two more exotics i would like to mention:

Karnsteins: good for survivability on subclasses that lack powerful healing, like arc, strand or stasis, especially post buff

Verity's brow: this one takes intricate knowledge of the exotic and what it does for it to work well. Yes you can use it as a roaming exotic similar to sunbracers or starfire, but its not the best when used as such

When used properly, it can enhance dps scenarios massively, not only for you, but for everyone on your team. Its also the absolute best exotic to run on atheon cause of the ability regen during dps

I would recommend watching aegis' video on verity's brow if you are interested. It works best in coordinated teams and with another verity's brow warlock though so be aware of that.

[violet crystal]

brother

no way this guy is gonna read your bachelors thesis

[worldly ore]

Shh

I put all the most important info at the front anyway so

[violet crystal]

"Verity's brow: this one takes intricate knowledge of the exotic and what it does for it to work well. Yes you can use it a roaming exotic"

🤓

[worldly ore]

I said shhh

[violet crystal]

🥸

[worldly ore]

Tl:dr:
Gms: cenotaph, aeons, starfire, phoenix protocol, osmiomancy

Raids/dungeons: sunbracers/starfire, fallen sunstar/vesper, contraverse, necrotic grip
Damage: lunafactions, ophidians/rain of fire

Karnsteins for extra survivability if needed, verity's very good but hard to use (and best with 2nd verity's user)

Watch aegis' vid on verity's for more info on how/when to use it

[lapis jackal]

Contraverse ❤️

[ivory tinsel]

I’d say most people I’ve seen are still using well with Dawn Chorus in GMs this season. They’re just using it simply to juice Polaris and not worried about missing out on the dawnblade benefits wildly enough

[crisp bay]

these players are goobers

[crisp bay]

Starfire?

[worldly ore]

starfire is still good, anyone who says its not has clearly not used it post nerf

[crisp bay]

What does it do thats diferent or better then other exotics for lock

[worldly ore]

2 fusion nade charges. 1 grenade kill = rift
pair this with healing rift and benevolence, you have ability regen for days

without having to get close to enemies at all

[crisp bay]

Interesting

[worldly ore]

also, getting kills while in well gives you grenade energy just like pre nerf starfire with witherhoard ticks

which is good when youre bunkering up in a spot for a long time in like a gm

since you can just spam fusion nades everywhere

as long as youre getting kills

[grim imp]

For GMs, cenotaph and either Polaris lance or wishender (I prefer wishender for the super gain) is incredibly stupid assuming your teammates take advantage of it

Having 1 rocket per champ (2 with scavengers) is insane

[worldly ore]

thats a wild assumption

[crisp bay]

pheonix is also increadibly op rn as with 1 pheonix and one ceno its inf wells

[grim imp]

Also very true

[north osprey]

I read it and it was useful info

It seems like Phoenix Protocol might be the play for me since I like being a supporty, healy, no dying-y type of guy

But all of the other suggestions in this thread so far have been taken into consideration and noted whenever I wanna not be a heal bot. Appreciate all of this knowledge being bestowed upon my ignorant brain.

[deft lintel]

phoenix with polaris

will take u thru pretty much any end game

[proud orbit]

I want to get boots of the assembler and pair it with lumina

But that would require me playing warlock

[lapis jackal]

i use this often its fun

[cloud ferry]

isn't it barrier and unstop always?

assuming you use it with solar

[deft lintel]

nah doesnt proc radiant automically like that normally

flint striker from the artifact gives it constant radiant uptime, but u can still get radiant from ember of torches and well

[cloud ferry]

oh right i wasn't considering artifact

[north osprey]

What mods?