Use your favourite features in-game with our Desktop AppThe Dread Claws Warlock Build Guide teaches you about Gear, Skills, Paragon, Playstyle & Seasonal Mechanics in Diablo 4 Season 14.
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If you are not level 70 yet, make sure to check out the Leveling Guide Tier List.
This Variant is about being as tanky as possible.
Footfalls of the Waning World.To know where to farm all the Uniques you need for the build, make sure to check out the Boss Loot Tables Guide.
If you don't have the Mythic Seal that allows us to complete Set Bonuses with 1 less Charm, use 5pc 
Berú of Horazon's Chains with:
Rustbitten Dirk for Damage.Anathema of the Primes is another option if you don't have Rustbitten Dirk.Endurant Faith for Survivability.
Skill Rotation
Dread Claws. We utilize the Encircling Terror Dread Claws because it is much easier to hit and does higher damage. In order to get the most out of it, we need a Greater Demon summon. Our choices depend on our level of progression, but ultimately, 
Abyssal Titan Rampage is our choice as it doubles down as a Recast skill for 
Blasphemous Fragment.Rampage to get extra Greater Demons. Profane Sentinel can add up to five demons.Summon Laalish on cooldown to maintain the buff of your set bonus.
Terror Demon Metamorphosis should be used whenever it's off cooldown. It's one of your main damage multipliers.Sigil of Summons will add more dmg to this variant.
0 (0)Varyana is used for Attack Speed and Survivability by giving us 1% Life Heal.
Aldkin applies Damage Reduction.
Our Main Skill is Dread Claws. We utilize the Encircling Terror Dread Claws because it is much easier to hit and does higher damage. In order to get the most out of it, we need a Greater Demon summon. Our choices depend on our level of progression, but ultimately, Abyssal Titan Rampage is our choice as it doubles down as a Recast skill for Blasphemous Fragment.Berú of Horazon's Chains is picked over 
Berú of Harash's Shadow because it provides a tremendous amount of damage and survivability
When we cast Summon Laalish with Berú of Horazon's Chains 5pc, we summon all Shard Demons for 10 seconds and get [x]200% more damage on top of 34% Damage Reduction.
We get a total of 11 Greater Demons:
Profane SentinelAbyssal Titan RampageSigil of SummonsThis amounts to a [x]330% damage bonus from Berú of Horazon's Chains 
Summon Ae'grom 2pc. 
Summon Abodian 2pc bonus also grants us 25% Attack Speed and Summon Laalish provides Execute.
All in all, this Set provides a ~15x damage multiplier!Sigil of Summons is used as a means to proc 
Ritualism which also summons a Greater Demon for Berú of Horazon's Chains.
This build is considerably tankier than the norm with our many sources of damage reduction.
Footfalls of the Waning World. Whenever we 
Nether Step, we gain a tremendous amount of Damage Reduction via Damage Reduction Nether Step. Our Encircling Terror Dread Claws consumes Shadowform Stacks meaning we can reset our Evade in 2-3 Dread Claws.
Cir + 
Que to grant us 45% Barrier every 3 seconds.Nagu/Igni + Prid is used to keep up 
Chain Aura Dark Prison for a massive amount of Damage Reduction against distant enemies.
Weaken Dark Prison and Fortify Dark Prison.We can solve this through a combination of different things:
Dominion
Ring of Starless Skies
Wrath
UnboundGenerally:
Ring of Starless Skies + Dominion + Unbound + 1x Wrath Regeneration keeps up topped up no matter our Attack Speed.Ring of Starless Skies you will have to play around with the amount of Wrath Regeneration affixes. Unbound + Wrath should be used to help.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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To find everything you need to know about Masterworking and Greater Affixes make sure to check our Tempering and Masterworking Guide out.
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June 25, 2026: Updated for Season 14 - Death Awakening in Diablo 4.
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