1.000T Apocalypse Warlock Endgame Guide

Apocalypse is one of warlocks strongest builds, currently dominating the pit leaderboard while being an absolute powerhouse for general T12 content. 1 shotting bosses, speedfarming tier 120 pits, etc etc. We are able to do such insane damage leveraging extremely high damage multipliers for the skill such asHands of the Worldbreaker. I would not recommend swapping to this build until you at least have said item, until then for leveling and early endgame I'd highly recommend this dread claws build.

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Push

• Stack Endless Barrage Bombardment to 5 Stacks on bosses/high HP mobs, otherwise 1-2 stacks is fine every 10 seconds or so
• • Stacks Fathomless
  • Provides hits for Annihilation Apocalypse
• Cast Nether Step for Damage Reduction and Mobility.
• Cast Summon Vollach to overfill your Overpower.
• Cast Dark Prison (make sure to keep this up or you're dead)
• • Provides Damage Reduction and Fortify.
• Spam Chain Whips Umbral Chains.
• When you get 80-100 Stacks, cast Apocalypse.

Speedfarm

• Spam Demonic Smash Rampage for Mobility.
• Cast Nether Step for even more Mobility and Damage Reduction.
• Cast Summon Vollach to overfill your Overpower.
• Cast Dark Prison
• • Provides Damage Reduction and Fortify.
• Spam Chain Whips Umbral Chains.
• When you get 80-100 Stacks, cast Apocalypse.

Core Mechanics

Damage

Apocalypse becomes spammable with Annihilation Apocalypse by using other Hellfire skills that generate many persistent hits likeChain Whips Umbral Chains or Endless Barrage BombardmentEvery 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 theRitualist Shard in combination with Scorching Fragment to permanently Empower our Apocalypse and gain Multiplicative Damage per Overpower Stack.

• Empower increases our Additive Damage by 50% + Volatility Damage
• Scorching Fragment makes Volatility stack up to 3 while also giving us 10% Multiplicative Damage per stack.
• • The main downside of Scorching Fragment is the Life Cost it adds to our skills but we can counteract it by using Undying Aspect.
• We can get upwards of 150%+ Volatility Damage which then gets multiplied by every stack.
• 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.
  • We can also get 70%+ Additive Overpower Damage per Stack.
  • Banished Lord's Talisman becomes an incredible damage option.

The Hemat Stone doubles the value of every single Ritualist Shard, Scorching Fragment and Summon Vollach buff which is ridiculous and ends up totaling a value of almost 300% more damage.

Although Scepter of the Three might seem very attractive as it gives us 15 Ranks and a 200% Multi, in practice, the Multi doesn't have enough uptime to be worth it.

Resource Management

Before getting Ring of Starless Skies, we must get as many Wrath Regeneration affixes on our gear as we can to be able to sustain our Chain Whips Umbral Chains spam on Bosses. Unbound supplements this. Wrath can also be included instead of Occultist for more Regen.

Defenses

Defensively, we must stack Maximum Life almost everywhere we can to survive. We also use Cir + Que to generate Barrier. We also use a 2H Weapon, despite it being less damage than 1H + OH, to be able to use Aspect of Heavenly Strength.

If you find you need even more survivability you can use a Endurant Faith charm instead of an offensive one like Banished Lord's Talisman.

The Grandfather can be used for more tankiness, moving Cremator's Aspect to Crushing Aspect's place, only really worth using if you get one with gem strength multi on it

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get Overpower?

Summon Vollach provides max stacks instantly

How do I Make Enemies Vulnerable?

With Ceh, the Wolves apply Freeze and Vulnerable.

How do I Know Which Stat to Focus on?

Check out My Sheet to balance our your Stats!

Masterworking and Greater Affixes Explained

To find everything you need to know about Masterworking and Greater Affixes make sure to check our Tempering and Masterworking Guide out.

Further Questions

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