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Diablo 4 Build

Trillion DPS Dread Claws Endgame Warlock Build

Season 13
presentationWarlock
End Game
Pushing
Speed Farm
Infernal Hordes
Verified
Updated on May 20, 2026
May 20, 2026

Build Overview

This Dread Claws build absolutely decimates the endgame, being one of Warlocks overall best builds, that requires literally no gear to work exceptionally well. The damage is insane even competing with Apocalypse, being able to complete a pit 132. It is much tankier as well which is nice. This will EASILY get you all the way from Torment 1 to Torment 12.

Make sure to check out the leveling guide if you're just starting out, you can literally use this skill all the way from level 1 to pit 130.

Pit 130 Mythic Seal Guide

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Insane Damage
  • Low Gear Requirement
  • Tanky
  • Slightly clunky

Build Variants

If you're looking to min-max your damage output and have the survivability for pit tiers, this is the setup for you. This exact setup was able to achieve pit 130, competing with Apocalypse players

Equipment

2
HelmHeir of Perdition
9
Chest armorJuggernaut's Aspect
8
GlovesAggressive Aspect
10
PantsAspect of Deeper Shadows
5
BootsFootfalls of the Waning World
6
AmuletSeed of Horazon
7
Ring 1Crushing Aspect
3
Ring 2Ring of Starless Skies
4
WeaponLitany of Sable
1
OffhandDemonic Aspect
Equipment Priority
+10

This build doesn't rely on any items to get going, it's very strong right out of the gate, but here's the items that take it to the next level:

  1. Litany of Sable is a pretty significant damage increase, simply just makes dread claws do more damage. It can be obtained by killing Astaroth in escalation nightmare dungeons, or crafting it via the Horadric Cube, which you can do my removing affixes on a 900 item power dagger to make it common, and then turning it into a unique
  2. Seed of Horazon and Night Terror are both very good amulet options and in good gear perform similarly. Night Terror is better early game before you have a lot of gear with maximum resource on it, but the damage is more conditional and relies on you being in Terror Demon Metamorphosis for full damage, which is why I personally prefer Seed of Horazon - you can use them interchangeably, and truthfully you should just use whatever amulet you happen to get a better roll of. Seed of Horazon drops from Grigoire, and Night Terror drops from Andariel
  3. Godslayer Crown is entirely optional and just works well for speedfarming content, drops from Andariel as well
  4. Footfalls of the Waning World are an incredible defensive option for us as it allows us to spam Nether Step for huge damage reduction, in addition to no longer needing Nether Step on our bars. These are entirely useless if they don't roll with +maximum evade charges or attacks reduce evade cooldown

Planner Fixes

  • Overpower is actually Overpower per Stack.

Affix Priority

  1. Crit chance until about 80%
  2. Critical Strike Damage Multiplier
    1. It's by far our strongest affix once we get a high Critical Strike Chance
  3. Vulnerable Damage Multiplier
  4. All Damage/Shadow Damage Multiplier
  5. Attack Speed
  6. Willpower
  7. Weapon Damage
  8. Maximum Life
    You want at least 1 piece with vuln damage multi greater affix + MW crit > crit multi once you have really high crit multi due to diminishing returns.
  9. Armor


If you feel squishy prioritize more life/armor on your gear

Check out this Sheet to balance out your Stats.

Transfigurations

For the love of god do not transfigure your items unless you are deep into endgame / 100% certain you won't need to change anything about that item again

I still don't know all of the possible transfigurations but here's my best estimation for BiS transfigures per item

  • Aspect of Rallying Reversal or Undying Aspect Transfiguration on Amulet - Some people use Exploiter's Aspect but I'm personally not a fan, even in pushing scenarios - With the recent patch you can now get Aspect of Deeper Shadows on the amulet which is technically BiS if using Night Terror on either amulet or talisman. However this requires a lot of re-rolls therefore isn't in the planner. If you get it on the amulet you can swap your pants (or wherever you had deeper shadows) to have Aspect of Coagulation
  • For weapons the best transfigure is to try and get Gem Strength Multiplier on a 2her as this is a massive damage increase. The Grandfather is very easy to acquire so it's a good candidate for trying to spam this until you get it, however it's a very low likelihood. It'll be better than Litany of Sable + offhand if you get gem transfig and have flawless amethysts
  • Other good weapon options include: Crit Chance > Attack Speed > Quality > Shadow Damage Multi > % Max Life > Willpower
  • Heir of Perdition try and get gem strength multi and put an Amethyst + Sapphire in it, otherwise Crit Chance > Attack Speed > Quality > Shadow Damage Multi > Willpower
  • Armor: Attack Speed > % Max Life > % Resistance > Quality > Shadow Damage Multi > Willpower
  • Jewelry: +4 Occult/All Skills > Willpower > Quality > Resistance to all elements >


Talisman

Talisman Priority
+6

Look for +3-4 demonology/abyss/core skills + resist - Until you can get +3 on all slots, other good options include Max Resource > All Stats > Max Life % > Resistance %

Keep in mind you can re-roll these at the cube!

Seed of Horazon is good, this can also be your ACTUAL amulet and then you'd swap the talisman with Night Terror they are interchangeable almost 1:1 it's just a matter of which you got to roll better

Rustbitten Dirk is good but only for bossing - Crown of Lucion is decent for damage but it nukes your single target at least in my experience

Skills & Rotation

Primary
15
15
Secondary
1
1
15
1
Soul Shards

Skill Tree

Available1 (0)
Spent69 (13)

Paragon Board

Paragon Board credit goes to Sanctum

Obviously a lot of points are spent here. If you're low on points just don't fill out the extra points around the glyphs, you can keep them 40/40 mostly.

Mercenaries

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