Warlock

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Warlock

'Master of the Dark Arts'

Strength

11

Vigor

14

Agility

14

Dexterity

15

Will

22

Knowledge

15

Resourcefulness

14

Health

96.5

Memory

9

Description

The Warlock is a brooding manipulator of dark magic. They sacrifice their life force to call upon unknown forces of pain and evil. A worthy adversary proficient in both magic and weapon mastery.

Class Info

The Warlock is a brooding manipulator of dark magic. They sacrifice their life force to call upon unknown forces of pain and evil. A worthy adversary proficient in both magic and weapon mastery.

Weapon of choice - Swords or Spellbook

• Pros
  • Cast curses to debilitate targets.
  • Access to multiple physical weapons.
  • High melee burst damage. (Blow of Corruption skill)
  • Access to anti-healing.
  • Access to self-healing. (Torture Mastery & Vampirism perk)
  • Great at killing bosses.
• Cons
  • Uses health when casting spells.
  • Consuming too much health causes death.
  • Highly susceptible to range.

Warlock can gather Darkness Shards

• Each Darkness Shard gathered normally grants 33% Dark Power Bonus and 1 All Attributes while active, up to a maximum of 3 shards
• Blood Pact grants a different Dark Power Bonus per shard.
• When dark magic damage is dealt, all collected shards are consumed
• The effect that consumes the shards also receives the bonus.

Needs further testing!

Need confirmation that spells that deal damage intermittently receive the bonus for the full cast as opposed to only 1 tick of damage, i.e. ray of darkness. Clarify here. Contribute by joining the Spells & Guns discord!

You can equip an additional perk every 5 levels.
Currently maxed out at Level 15, so a total of 4 perks can be equipped.

Name	Description	Cooldown
Abyssal Orb	Dealing damage to an enemy with a Dark spell creates an Abyssal Orb, up to a maximum of 3. When hit by a magical projectile from an enemy, consume 1 Abyssal Orb to absorb it and gain 1 Darkness Shard. This effect is consumed when casting a dark spell.	-
Antimagic	Gain 25% Damage Reduction against all Magical Elements except Divine, Curse, and Neutral.	-
Curse Mastery	Gain additional base duration towards all curses you cast. Advanced Details Alters curses to use a new Status effect which have extended duration: Curse of Pain - 10.4s Curse of Weakness - 15s Power of Sacrifice - 15.6s This allows two curses to be active at the same time. One with and one without the perk. (with the exception of Curse of Weakness) Curse of Pain and Power of Sacrifice's damage per tick now both remain constant, but over a longer period, increasing total damage.	-
Dark Enhancement	Gain 20% Dark Power Bonus towards dark magic spells.	-
Dark Reflection	While active, reflect 15 Dark Magical Base Damage (75% Scaling) to the melee attacker. Does not reflect while on cooldown. This perk does consume Darkness Shards, but does not generate Darkness Shards with Soul Collector.	15s
Demon Armor	Gain the ability to equip plate armor. Suffer -10% Spell Casting Speed.	-
Immortal Lament	Casting spells will no longer take you below 1 health. This includes demon form self damage. When health falls below 5%, gain 100% Outgoing Magical Healing Mod for 5s. It will activate again after it's cooldown even if you haven't gotten above 5% health yet.	10s
Infernal Pledge	Gain 25% Undead Race Damage Reduction, 25% Demon Race Damage Reduction, 15% Undead Race Damage Bonus, and 15% Demon Race Damage Bonus.	-
Infernal Usury	When you deal magical damage, consume 5 gold coins to deal an additional 2 Neutral True Magical Base Damage to the target.	0.5s
Malice	Gain 15% Will Bonus.	-
Shadow Touch	Dealing physical damage to an enemy with melee weapon deals 2 Neutral True Magical Base Damage and heals you for 2 Magical Base Healing (0% Scaling).	-
Soul Collector	When you deal the final blow to an enemy, one darkness shard is collected. Advanced Details Can be activated by perks, skills, and spells. Can't obtain Darkness Shards from targets that do not give experience.	-
Torture Mastery	All curses inflicted upon enemies restores 2 Recoverable Healing (15% Scaling) to the caster with each instance of damage dealt. All spells cost 2x Does not heal you for cursing a corpse.	-
Vampirism	Gain 20% Outgoing Magical Healing Mod.	-

You can equip a total of 2 skills.

Name	Description	Cooldown
Blood Pact	Assimilate the contracted demon after casting for 0.3s, and transform into a Demon form (total transformation animation of about 3s). While in this form, gain an additional 50 Max Health Add (following the normal rules for temporary max health), 50 Armor Rating, and 50 Magical Resistance. Your entire body is covered in Abyssal Flame, taking 1% Health Cost damage per second and dealing 2 Fire Magical Base Damage (25% Scaling) per 1s in 0.2s ticks to characters within 0.5m. You can move during the cast and transformation animations, but once started you can't use skills, spells, interact with objects, or cancel the transformation. Additionally, all Darkness Shards are consumed on cast completion, you gain 1 All Attributes and 33% Dark Power Bonus for each Darkness Shard consumed. When you become a demon, your skills change to demon-only skills: Unbind and Exploitation Strike. Your unarmed attacks also change (see Details below). Needs further testing! Unknown if Silence can cancel the cast. Contribute by joining the Spells & Guns discord! Blood Pact Details Left-click: Same action as out of Blood Pact, except if the action would be an unarmed attack, instead performs up to 4 combo attacks using both hands. Right-click: Same action as out of Blood Pact, except if no items held in either hand, casts Bolt of Darkness.	0.2s
Unbind	Only available while Blood Pact is active, replacing the Blood Pact skill. Return to your true self, reverting the Pact's effects on you (aside from health lost to Abyssal Flame and Shadow Shards consumed) including the buff from Exploitation Strike (the max health loss follows the normal rules for temporary max health). Once started, you can move but the cast cannot be cancelled. Needs further testing! Unknown if Silence can cancel the cast. Contribute by joining the Spells & Guns discord!	-
Exploitation Strike	Only available while Blood Pact is active, replacing the non-Blood Pact skill. Deal an additional 20 Evil Magical Base Damage (100% Scaling) over 2s to all enemies you hit with a unarmed physical attack within 15s and heals the caster by 10% of the target's maximum health, up to 20 per hit. Buff is immediately removed when Unbind cast finishes.	28s
Blow of Corruption	Your next physical attack within 8s deals 12 Evil Magical Base Damage (100% Scaling) to the target and causes them to suffer -80% Incoming Physical Healing Mod and -80% Incoming Magical Healing Mod for 12s. Hitting an obstacle or a shield with the blade (not the hilt) counts as the next attack and will waste the effect.	24s
Dark Offering	Channel your mind for up to 10s (), sacrificing -9% Percent Max Health Healing per 1s () to gain 5% Physical Power Bonus and 5% Magical Power Bonus per stack, up to 10 stacks. This bonus lasts for 60s. All stacks are refreshed upon gaining a new stack.	24s
Phantomize	Phase through melee attacks and projectiles and become untargeteable for 6s. While active, gain 10% Move Speed Bonus and suffer -50% Magical Damage Reduction. During this period you can only move and do not collide with other players or monsters, but are still vulnerable to AoE damage. You can manually cancel the skill. While active, you will still take damage from active spike traps, but you will not trigger inactive ones. If Phantomize ends while standing on an inactive trap, you will continue to not activate it until you step off it or something else activates it. Needs further testing! Does the Spike Trap trick work on Hunting Traps? Contribute by joining the Spells & Guns discord!	28s
Servant Control	Only active when you have a currently summoned demon (see Summon Demon). Hold to open the command wheel and direct your servant. Commands set its position with a range of 20m, while stances determine how it engages in combat. After you summon your demon you receive a 30s debuff. While it's active, you can only sacrifice your demon, but after it's gone you can evolve it. Commands Attack: Attacks the aimed target. If aimed at the ground, moves to that spot and engages nearby enemies. Follow: Returns to your side and follows you. Hold: Moves to the aimed spot and holds position there. Stances Aggressive: Attacks all nearby enemies on sight. Defensive: Fights back when you or it is attacked. Passive: Does nothing until commanded. Other Actions Evolve: Evolve your demon into its next form. Sacrifice: Sacrifice your demon to recover health.	-
Summon Demon	Create a summoning circle in front of you and channel for 3s. If the summon succeeds, consume 10% Health Cost to summon your contracted demon. While the demon is within 5m of you, it takes 25% of the damage you would take in your place. The demon can evolve as long as it survives. Once it can no longer evolve, you can sacrifice it to recover 10% Percent Max Health Healing. The cooldown begins when the demon is sacrificed or dies.	28s
Spell Memory	Gain the ability to memorize spells to use in the dungeon.	-
Spell Memory II	Gain the ability to memorize additional spells to use in the dungeon.	-

The order in which you select spells will determine their Spell Memory priority. You can right click spells to "forget" them, and you must drag and drop a spell to memorize it. Spell tiers determine their spell memory cost.
Warlock spells cost health to cast.

All Warlock Spells have a cast range of 7.5m (meters).

Spell Types:

Dark
Evil
Fire

Name	Description	Tier	Casting Time	Health Cost
Power of Sacrifice	Curse the target, dealing 3 / Hybrid Magical Base Damage (0% Scaling) per second while granting them 15 Strength and 15 Vigor for 12s. Self cast if no target is found. This counts as a Debuff, not a Buff, and thus it is not affected by Spell Predation.	1	1s	4
Curse of Weakness	Curse the target, causing them to suffer -25% All Attributes Bonus, as well as -15% Physical Damage Reduction Mod and -15% Magical Damage Reduction Mod for 12s.	1	1s	4
Bolt of Darkness	Fires a bolt that deals 20 Dark Magical Base Damage (100% Scaling) to the target. The bolt can be shot down by other projectiles, detonating it early. Projectile Speed: 16m/s	1	1s	4
Curse of Pain	Curse the target, inflicting 15 / Hybrid Magical Base Damage(50% Scaling) over 8s. Additionally, if the target was not already cursed, they instantly receive 15 Evil Magical Base Damage (100% Scaling).	2	1s	4
Bloodstained Blade	Target gains 5 Physical Buff Weapon Damage for 20s. When the target swings their weapon, they take 3 Evil Magical Base Damage (0% Scaling). Self cast if no target is found. This counts as a Debuff, not a Buff, and thus it is not affected by Spell Predation.	2	0.75s	4
Spell Predation	Consume all removable magical Buffs on the enemy and for each status removed, gain 1 Darkness Shard and deal 3 Evil Magical Base Damage 100% Scaling. Darkness Shards	3	1s	4
Evil Eye	Channel, Summons a pilotable "Evil Eye" Monster that the player controls by Channeling for 30s. While controlling the Evil Eye, the caster is left standing still and vulnerable. Effectively acts as a remote flying camera. Can be cancelled at any time. The Evil Eye has 150 HP and can be killed.	3	1s	5
Ray of Darkness	Channel a dark beam for up to 5s (), dealing 12 Dark Magical Base Damage (100% Scaling) per second in .1s ticks to any target the beam touches. Moving and aiming are possible while channeling. The beam stops upon hitting a target or object, and so will only hit one target at a time.	4	1s	5
Life Drain	Channel for up to 7.5s (), dealing 5 Evil Magical Base Damage (25% Scaling) to the target per 1s (). Convert 100% of the damage dealt into health for the caster. If the channel would deal damage to a corpse, it will automatically cancel instead.	4	1.5s	5
Hellfire	Create eternal hellfire and blasts it towards the target. Deals 60 Fire Magical Base Damage (50% Scaling) per second in 0.2s ticks with 12 Impact Power to any target within the area of effect. The hellfire does not dissipate when it reaches a target and can travel through walls.	4	2s	6
Flame Walker	While active, gain the ability to leave a trail of Hellfire for 6s. Each step leaves a trails that lasts 4 seconds. Targets that enter the flame area will burn, taking 5 Fire Magical Base Damage (100% Scaling) per second in 0.2s ticks, per stack. (max 2 stacks) The caster is not affected by the burn and can freely walk over the flame area without taking damage from it. Needs further testing! Seems to output considerably more than more than 5dps, but less than 25dps Contribute by joining the Spells & Guns discord!	5	1.25s	6
Eldritch Shield	Grants the target a 25 Magical Base Shield (0% Scaling per 1s) for 15s. When the shield absorbs its maximum damage, gain 30% Dark Power Bonus and 50% Spell Casting Speed towards the next dark spell cast within 6s. This works with Spell Predation, and allows the user to get up to 3 darkness shards by casting the shield on an enemy and consuming it with spell predetation.	5	0.75s	6
Summon Hydra	Summon a Hydra, which inhabits a 0.75m area, that spits fireballs dealing 10 Fire Magical Base Damage (100% Scaling) with 4 Impact Power to enemy targets for 10 seconds. The Hydra can also detects hidden targets. The Hydra has 150 health and can aggro Monsters. It cannot move from its summon location but can turn freely. Summoning a Hydra while another is still alive kills the old Hydra. Unlike most spells, attempting to cast this spell without a valid target does not incur the health cost. The Hydra will spit fireballs at an upward or downward angle if necessary, though it seems to have trouble aiming at Skeletons which are lying unassembled on the ground, waiting to be aggroed.	6	1s	12
Abyssal Gateway	Cast once to mark the destination, then cast again to mark the entrance. All successful placements cost health. Once the entrance is marked, a one-way gateway forms over 3s and stays open for 30s. Players, monsters, and projectiles that enter the entrance are sent to the destination. Bosses cannot pass through, and touching the gateway destroys it. Marking a new destination closes your current gateway.	6	1s	6
Hellguard Glaive	Consume all your Darkness Shards and transform the Magic Stuff item you are holding into a Hellguard Glaive for 20s. Glaive attacks deal weapon damage plus additional Dark 16/20/24 magical damage based on the number of Darkness Shards consumed. If no Darkness Shards are consumed, glaive attacks deal no additional damage.	7	0.9s	10

These Stats do not include starting armor.

Stat Name	Base Stats
Strength	11
Vigor	14
Agility	14
Dexterity	15
Will	22
Knowledge	15
Resourcefulness	14
Health	96.5
Memory Capacity	15
Utility Effectiveness	0
Luck	0
Health Recovery Bonus	-3%
Spell Recovery Bonus	65.5%
Move Speed	298 ( 99.33% )
Action Speed	-0.25%
Manual Dexterity	-5%
Spell Casting Speed	-25%
Equip Speed	0%
Regular Interaction Speed	-3.75%
Magical Interaction Speed	49%
Persuasiveness	14
Buff Duration	7%
Debuff Duration	-6.5%
Armor Penetration	0%
Magic Penetration	0%
Headshot Reduction	0%
Projectile Damage Reduction	0%
Physical Damage Reduction	-22%
From Armor Rating	0 ( -22% )
From Bonuses	0%
Magic Resistance	14%
From Resist Rating	51 ( 14% )
From Bonuses	0%
Physical Power Bonus	-8%
From Physical Power	11 ( -8% )
From Bonuses	0%
Magic Power Bonus	21%
From Magic Power	22 ( 21% )
From Bonuses	0%
Primary Weapon	0
Secondary Weapon	0
Impact Power	0
Primary Weapon Impact Power	0
Secondary Weapon Impact Power	0

- Warlocks don't rely on spell counts and instead cast spells by paying a fixed amount of health depending on the spell. Health management will play a bigger role for this class than for others.

- Any health spent to cast spells will leave behind Recoverable Health, allowing for restoration via Resting, Bandages, or a friendly Bard.

- Torture Mastery will heal you when dealing damage with Curse of Pain and Power of Sacrifice, and will benefit from Magical Healing on your gear.

- Power of Sacrifice can be used as a party buff or as a damage-dealer. Be wary that granting enemies additional Strength will give them more max HP as well, mitigating some damage dealt.

- Blow of Corruption is very powerful in both PvP and PvE. In PvP, it can be used to prevent enemies from burst-healing.

- Phantomize will protect you from most sources of damage, however active floor spikes, AoE spells (Holy Strike, Fireball, Lightning Strike), Zombie poison clouds, and any linger DoTs will still hurt you.

- If Hellfire is cast again whilst the Warlock's first Hellfire effect is still active, the first Hellfire will be deleted after the second one has finished casting.

All bolded numbers are automatically updated; however, non-boldened phrasing/numbers are written manually by the community. See Class Ability Documentation for more.