Diablo 4: 3 Warlock Level Builds to Complete the Campaign of Lord of Hatred Relaxed

With Lord of Hatred came the new class of Warlocks into the game, but to play through the campaign relaxed, you need level builds. We show you 3 examples in Diablo 4 that make leveling a breeze.

What are these builds? In our overview, you will find three easy-to-build Warlock builds for the early game of Lord of Hatred. The focus of the builds is to guide you through the campaign as relaxed as possible. Of course, you can use these builds as a basis for the endgame, but you should make further changes not mentioned in our guides to effectively slash through stronger monster hordes.

In our guides, you will find the necessary skill tree as well as an explanation of how the builds work to deal the best possible damage. Now let’s get to the three builds.

Dread Claws

Skill tree for Dread Claws

• Up to level 4
  • Basic skills
    • + Hellspawn Spike (Level 1)
  • Core skills
    • + Dread Claws (Level 1)
  • Defensive skills
    • + Deep Step (Level 1)
• Up to level 9
  • Basic skills
    • + Hellspawn Spike: Damage
    • + Hellspawn Spike: Eviscerate
  • Core skills
    • + Dread Claws: Damage
  • Defensive skills
    • + Deep Step: Damage Reduction
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    • + Frenzy
• Up to level 13
  • Core skills
    • + Dread Claws: Ambush
  • Defensive skills
    • + Deep Step: Movement Speed
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    • + Frenzy: Killstreak Damage
  • Seal skills
    • + Seal of Decay (Level 1)
• Up to level 15
  • Basic skills
    • Hellspawn Spike → Tail Spikes
  • Core skills
    • Dread Claws → Enveloping Terror
• Up to level 23
  • Core skills
    • + Dread Claws (Level 4)
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    • Frenzy → Abyssal Titan
    • + Frenzy: Hit Chance against Elite Enemies
  • Seal skills
    • Seal of Decay → Infiltration Traces
    • + Seal of Decay: Movement Speed
    • + Seal of Decay: Slow
• Up to level 34
  • Core skills
    • + Dread Claws (Level 14)
  • Defensive skills
    • Deep Step → Shadow Call
• Up to level 40
  • Basic skills
    • – Respec of Hellspawn Spike
    • + Command the Fallen (Level 1)
    • Command the Fallen → Frenzy of the Fallen
    • + Command the Fallen: Wrath
    • + Command the Fallen: Dominance
  • Core skills
    • + Dread Claws (Level 15)
  • Defensive skills
    • + Dark Abyss (Level 1)
    • Dark Abyss → Chains Aura
    • + Dark Abyss: Weaknesses
    • + Dark Abyss: Fortification
  • Seal skills
    • – Respec of Seal of Decay
  • Ultimate skills
    • + Metamorphosis (Level 2)
    • Metamorphosis → Terror Demon
    • + Metamorphosis: Maximum Life
    • + Metamorphosis: Dominance
• Up to level 53
  • Ultimate skills
    • + Metamorphosis (Level 15)
• Up to level 67
  • Defensive skills
    • + Deep Step (Level 15)
• Up to level 70
  • Defensive skills
    • + Dark Abyss (Level 4)
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    • + Frenzy (Level 15)

As soul shards, the Wire Drawers Shard and the Blasphemous Fragment are recommended, as they not only provide you with free Laalish but also offer you synergies for Abyss and Shadow form. In addition, Frenzy gains the ability to spread Hex, which increases your general abyss damage.

How does the build play? Your main attacks revolve mainly around the Hellspawn Spike for a powerful DoT (Damage over Time) on elite and boss enemies. For small trash mobs, you use the Dread Claws as they generate powerful area damage around you. Anyone coming close will be annihilated. You mainly use Deep Step to quickly escape from critical situations.

Later, you replace Hellspawn Spike and Seal of Decay with Command the Fallen, Frenzy of the Fallen, Dark Abyss, and Chains Aura. In the mid-game, you increasingly use a combination of your demons, which you unleash on your enemies, together with the Dread Claws during boss fights.

This class mechanic you choose: At level 15, you unlock the class mechanic of the Warlocks. Afterwards, you can select soul shards and fragments (from level 30) that allow you to summon demons. You drag the skills from the skill assignment to your skill bar.

For Dread Claws, the Wire Drawers Shard and the Blasphemous Fragment are recommended. This unlocks Laalish, which you can summon. Additionally, the soul shards grant you buffs for your sources of damage.

On maxroll.gg, you will find more details about the level build as well as suitable builds for the endgame in Diablo 4.

Minions

Skill tree for the skill tree

• Up to level 4
  • Basic skills
    • + Command the Fallen (Level 2)
  • Core skills
    • + Bombardment (Level 1)
• Up to level 9
  • Basic skills
    • + Command the Fallen: Wrath
  • Core skills
    • + Bombardment: Additional Demon
  • Defensive skills
    • + Deep Step (Level 1)
    • + Deep Step: Additional Charge
• Up to level 13
  • Basic skills
    • Command the Fallen: Dominance
  • Core skills
    • + Bombardment: Focused Target
  • Defensive skills
    • + Deep Step: Movement Speed
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    • + Frenzy (Level 1)
    • + Frenzy: Wrath of Lesser Demons
• Up to level 18
  • Basic skills
    • + Command the Fallen → Shields of Flesh
  • Core skills
    • + Bombardment (Level 2)
    • Bombardment → Brutality
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    • + Frenzy: Hit Chance against Elite Enemies
  • Seal skills
    • + Seal of Summonings (Level 1)
    • + Seal of Summonings: Damage
• Up to level 25
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    • Frenzy → Abyssal Titan
  • Seal skills
    • + Seal of Summonings: More Powerful Summons
    • + Seal of Summonings → Frenzy
  • Ultimate skills
    • + Abaddon’s Abomination (Level 1)
    • + Abaddon’s Abomination → Devious Wrath
    • + Abaddon’s Abomination: Bonus from Lesser Demons
    • + Abaddon’s Abomination: Dominance
• Up to level 34
  • Core skills
    • + Bombardment (Level 10)
• Up to level 40
  • Core skills
    • + Bombardment (Level 15)
  • Defensive skills
    • + Deep Step → Shadow Call
• Up to level 53
  • Seal skills
    • + Seal of Summonings (Level 15)
• Up to level 70
  • Basic skills
    • Command the Fallen (back to level 1)
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    • Frenzy (Level 15)
  • Defensive skills
    • + Deep Step (Level 4)
  • Ultimate skills
    • + Abaddon’s Abomination (Level 15)

As soul shards, the Legion Shard and the Blasphemous Fragment are recommended, as they provide you with Ae’grom for free. Additionally, the passive skill increases the casting speed of Bombardment, which enhances your DPS accordingly. This enables you to summon your Abaddon and Frenzy for free.

How does the build play? Your main attack is Bombardment. You call down demons from the sky and let them fall on your enemies. Meanwhile, the Seal of Summonings helps you summon even more demons when enemies or your own minions are defeated.

Together with Abaddon and your Frenzy, you have tougher minions that can take the fight to the bosses. Basically, you summon your minions, let them die, summon more minions, and let them die again. This rotation ensures that your resources are replenished continuously.

This class mechanic you choose: As soul shards, you choose the Legion Shard and the Blasphemous Fragment. This allows you to summon Ae’grom, along with a small army of demons that trigger all Eviscerates.

On maxroll.gg, you will find more details about the level build as well as suitable builds for the endgame in Diablo 4.

Eviscerate

Skill tree for the skill tree

• Up to level 4
  • Basic skills
    • + Hellspawn Spike (Level 2)
  • Core skills
    • + Bombardment (Level 1)
  • Defensive skills
    • + Deep Step (Level 1)
• Up to level 9
  • Basic skills
    • + Hellspawn Spike: Eviscerate
    • + Hellspawn Spike: Damage
  • Core skills
    • + Bombardment: Additional Demon
  • Defensive skills
    • + Deep Step: Damage Reduction
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    • + Frenzy (Level 1)
• Up to level 13
  • Core skills
    –>
    • + Bombardment: Telekinesis
  • Defensive skills
    –>
    • + Deep Step: Movement Speed
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    –>
    • + Frenzy: Wrath of Lesser Demons
  • Seal skills
    –>
    • + Seal of Summonings (Level 1)
• Up to level 15
  –>
  • Basic skills
    –>
    • + Hellspawn Spike → Tail Spikes
  • Core skills
    –>
    • Bombardment → Brutality
• Up to level 23
  –>
  • Basic skills
    –>
    • + Hellspawn Spike (Level 3)
  • Core skills
    –>
    • Bombardment (Level 2)
  • Arch-nemesis skills
    –>
    • Frenzy (Level 2)
    • Frenzy → Shockwave
    • Frenzy: Hit Chance against Elite Enemies
  • Seal skills
    –>
    • + Seal of Summonings: Damage
  • Up to level 38
    –>
    • Arch-nemesis skills
      –>
      • Frenzy (Level 7)
    • Seal skills
      –>
      • + Seal of Summonings → Hell Wyrm summon
  • Up to level 61
    –>
    • Basic skills
      –>
      • + Hellspawn Spike (Level 15)
    • Core skills
      –>
      • Bombardment (Level 15)
    • Arch-nemesis skills
      –>
      • Frenzy (Level 15)
  • Up to level 70
    –>
    • Defensive skills
      –>
      • + Deep Step (Level 9)
    • Seal skills
      –>
      • + Seal of Summonings (Level 15)

As soul shards, the Legion Shard and the Fragment of Subjugation are recommended as they provide you with Ae’grom for free. Additionally, the passive skill turns all your demons into walking eviscerators that trigger the effect – this also includes your Bombardment.

How does the build play? When you face single targets like bosses or elite enemies, you should use Hellspawn Spike for the highest DPS. Against larger groups of enemies, Bombardment and Frenzy are your best options as they provide the necessary area damage.

With Deep Step, you also have the opportunity to easily escape your enemies’ attacks and move quickly across the map.

This class mechanic you choose: As soul shards, you choose the Legion Shard and the Fragment of Subjugation. This unlocks Ae’grom, which you can summon along with a small demon army that triggers all Eviscerates.

On maxroll.gg, you will find more details about the level build as well as suitable builds for the endgame in Diablo 4.

What should I pay attention to with gear? Since the damage of your weapon is the basis for all further damage calculations, you should focus on upgrading it. Particularly recommended are affixes such as damage, damage against nearby targets, and vulnerable damage. Defensive stats are also important for increasing survivability. Use the hardening early to increase stats, as it doesn’t cost much but can make a significant difference.

These were all the important info about the level builds for the Warlock in Diablo 4 Lord of Hatred. Do you have other favorites that you strolled through the campaign with, or did you prefer to start with the Paladin? You can also find more about Diablo 4 here: Diablo 4: Fishing Guide – This is how you can fish