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Footfalls of the Waning World must have one of the two mandatory affixes:
Moloch's Beating Flame: hardest slot to get good stats.
Hands of the Worldbreaker: second hardest slot to get good stats.
Scepter of the Three: stats roll high because it's a 2H.
Leoric's Crown
Splinter of Pain.Check out My Sheet to balance our your Stats.
The Hemat Stone is by far the strongest Unique Charm as it triples the benefits we get from: 
Ritualist Shard
Scorching Fragment
Summon Valloch
Berú of the Nameless is the dedicated Talisman Set for Sigils which we use perfectly because 
Hands of the Worldbreaker turns 
Apocalypse into a Sigil Skill.
Nether Step.Mythic Seals are useless for this build.
Baal's Splinter of Destruction is optimal for farming Lair Bosses and Undercity for XP.
Diablo's Splinter of Terror is optimal for farming Helltides.
Mephisto's Splinter of Hatred is optimal for having the best AoE so we will use it for pushing.
Skill Rotation
Umbral Chains: Chain Whips to generate Hellfire Hits for Apocalypse: Annihilation.
Bombardment: Endless Barrage while on the move.Apocalypse: Annihilation.
Fathomless for more damage. Always have at least one stack to keep Fathomless maxed.Apocalypse is your main damage skill.
Sigil of Chaos: Sigil of Smoke, 
Sigil of Subversion: Sigil of Lava and 
Sigil of Summons: Summon Hellwyrm for free.Sigil of Subversion: Sigil of Lava Hexes enemies and generates Hellfire Hits for Apocalypse: Annihilation.
Sigil of Chaos: Hellfire Aura allows Hands of the Worldbreaker to work.Sigil of Summons: Summon Hellwyrm casts another Bombardment: Endless Barrage.Sigil of Subversion for 
Aspect of Heresy.
Dark Prison is your main Defensive Skill. Cast it whenever it’s off Cooldown.
Summon Vollach on Cooldown.Scorching Fragment.
Nether Step with Footfalls of the Waning World often.
Nether Step: Damage Reduction makes you a lot tankier.Aspect of Heresy.Aspect of Heresy.
0 (0)Apocalypse becomes spammable with Annihilation Apocalypse by using other Hellfire skills that generate many persistent hits like
Chain Whips Umbral Chains or Bombardment: Endless Barrage. Every hit with a Hellfire Skill generates 1 Stack up to 100 Stacks, which increase Apocalypse's damage and size.Hands of the Worldbreaker turns Apocalypse into a Sigil Skill, meaning it benefits greatly from Berú of the Nameless and 
Fleshwrit Carapace.
We use the
Ritualist Shard in combination with 
Scorching Fragment to permanently Empower our Apocalypse and gain Multiplicative Damage per Overpower Stack.
Scorching Fragment makes Volatility stack up to 3 while also giving us Multiplicative Damage per stack.Scorching Fragment is the Life Cost it adds to our skills but we can counteract it by using life on hit transfig or 
Undying Aspect.Double Blast Apocalypse makes our Apocalypse deal double damage when Empowered.Ritualist Shard provides 4% Multiplicative Damage per Overpower Stack.Summon Vollach increases our Maximum Overpower Stacks and allows us to Overfill this by 2 to a total of 10 Stacks.
Banished Lord's Talisman becomes an incredible damage option.
The Hemat Stone triples the value of every single Ritualist Shard, Scorching Fragment and Summon Vollach buff which is ridiculous.
Scepter of the Three has been buffed and now has great uptime and is now worth using.
While Summon Valloch is active, we have no Wrath Regeneration issues.
Defensively, we must stack Maximum Life almost everywhere we can to survive. We also use 
Zan + 
Que to generate Barrier. 
Igni + 
Mot can also be used for further Damage Reduction.
Fathomless over Pyrosis?Pyrosis is worth more the closer you are to one shotting enemies. If you one shot an enemy it is worth [x]450% more damage, if you only deal 20% of the bosses' life after your first few Apocalypse, it is only worth around [x]20% more damage.
Because Survivor Damage Apocalypse exists, future Apocalypse casts after the first one will deal double damage, unless we way overgear the content we're doing we end up doing much less damage overall by taking Pyrosis.
With Fathomless we get to do [x]105% more damage the whole way through, including when Survivor Damage Apocalypse is active and we are doing [x]100% more.
Summon Vollach provides them.
You need to make sure you cast Summon Valloch to prevent the Life Loss from Scorching Fragment.
With life on hit, 
Earthen Bulwark, and potions.
Lucky Hit: Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable on your Weapon.
Check out My Sheet to balance our your Stats!
Because the game's server operates in frames (images), Skills can only be cast in a whole number of frames. This means, for example, that you can't cast a Skill in 10.2 frames. To extend this example further, that means that all Attack Speed values that lead to a cast time of 10.01 to 10.99 frames would mean you end up casting at 11 frames, effectively wasting all Attack Speed gains from 11 frames to 10.01.
For that reason, it is important to reach the Attack Speed Breakpoint of a frame.
You might be wondering how frames translate into actual Cast Speed. Because the server runs at 60 frames per second, the way we translate frames into Cast Speed is with the formula: 60 / Frames = Casts per Second.
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Misanthropic Aspect really does not play well with this build, it's basically wasted because the Sigil of Summoning adds more than 1 demon because you already have Valloch following you. I do not understand why it is included.
The tier list shows, ACE. In the build tells us Sanctum, and the Social Media says, Goblin Inc. Is this a team build?
Is there a preferred prime power?
why choose to stack overpower instead of critical hit damage on glyphs?
Could you please finish the endgame Paragon board?
i got a mythic horadric seal with nameless 10% occult skill dmg and its effect makes me use 1 less charm to complete the set, should i replace one of the 5 nameless to another unique charm? as i can have 4 and it will still count as 5. i already have hemat stone on
Damn, did the Warlock get nerfed!? Now there's only one S class build. Counting the Paragon boards 1,2,3,5,4 is strange.
The leveling guide needs to be reworked it says to take dark prison but that does not unlock until lvl 4
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