Echoing Strike Warlock Build BiS Gear and Runes for Diablo 2 Resurrected

Please be aware that Echoing Strike uses Faster Cast Rate and not Increased Attack Speed! This means you will want to focus on gear like Arachnid Mesh instead of Goldwrap to speed up your attacks.

Additionally, weapons for Echoing Strike do NOT use durability so finding good Ethereal weapons is helpful for getting that additional damage

Echoing Strike does not work with:

• On Strike
• On Attack
• Crushing Blow
• Open Wounds
• Knockback
• Added damage from Grief
• Monster Flee/Blind

Echoing Strike does work with:

• Deadly Strike
• Critical Strike
• Prevent Monster Heal
• Life/Mana Leech

This is a standard high Damage build for the Echoing Strike Warlock.

• Weapon: Arioc's Needle, Fortitude, Breath of the Dying
• Weapon Swap: Call to Arms and Spirit
• Shield: Phoenix
• Body Armor: Enigma for Teleport or Fortitude for Damage
• Helm: Guillaume's Face
• Gloves: Trang-Oul's Claws, Steelrend
• Boots: Sandstorm Trek
• Belt: Arachnid Mesh
• Ring 1: Raven Frost
• Ring 2: The Stone of Jordan, Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band, Rare Rings with Faster Cast Rate, % Life Steal and Life/Stats/Resistances
• Amulet: Highlord's Wrath
• Charm 1: Warlock Hellfire Torch
• Charm 2: Annihilus
• Charm 3: Eldritch Skiller Grand Charms
• Charm 4: Any combination of Max Damage, Resistance, and Life Charms
• Charm 5: 1x Physical Sunder Charm (optional)

This is a defensive Warlock build, helpful for Hardcore characters.

• Weapon: Breath of the Dying, The Reaper's Toll
• Weapon Swap: Call to Arms and Spirit
• Shield: Stormshield
• Body Armor: Fortitude
• Helm: Kira's Guardian, Crown of Ages
• Gloves: Trang-Oul's Claws
• Boots: Sandstorm Trek
• Belt: String of Ears, Verdungo's Hearty Cord
• Ring 1: Raven Frost
• Ring 2: Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band, Rare Rings with % Life Steal and Life/Stats/Resistances
• Amulet: Highlord's Wrath
• Charm 1: Warlock Hellfire Torch
• Charm 2: Annihilus
• Charm 3: Eldritch Skiller Grand Charms
• Charm 4: Any combination of Max Damage, Resistance, and Life Charms

This is a variety of cheap gear sets to get you started.

Note: Having 1 source of Cannot Be Frozen is extremely important on this build.

• Weapon: Insight, Oath, Honor, Black, Obedience
• Shield: Rhyme, Spirit, Ancient's Pledge
• Body Armor: Lionheart, Duriel's Shell, Duress, Treachery, Smoke, The Spirit Shroud, or Shaftstop
• Helm: Rockstopper, Guillaume's Face, or Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest
• Gloves: Magefist, Trang-Oul's Claws
• Boots: Waterwalk, Infernostride, or Hsarus' Iron Heel
• Belt: String of Ears, or Nightsmoke
• Ring 1: Raven Frost
• Ring 2: Nagelring, Rare Ring with Life/Stats/Resistances
• Amulet: The Eye of Etlich, Seraph's Hymn
• Charm 1: Any Hellfire Torch for stats, even if it is not Warlock-specific
• Charm 2: Annihilus
• Charm 3: Any Charm with Maximum Damage, Faster Hit Recovery, Resistances, or Life
• Charm 4: Any Warlock Eldritch or Demon Skiller Grand Charms

You can either hire a Defensive (Holy Freeze) or Offensive (Might) Desert Guard Mercenary in Act 2, Nightmare difficulty, depending on whether you want to slow monsters for added safety or improve the overall damage of your Mercenary. Note that Holy Freeze may shatter monsters on death, thus reducing the number of corpses available to you. As such, Might Desert Guards are typically preferred.

This is one of the best Mercenary gear setups across many characters, including the Warlock.

• Weapon: Ethereal Insight or Breath of the Dying
• Body Armor: Ethereal Fortitude
• Helm: Andariel's Visage socketed with a Ral Rune

This is a cheap gear set to get your Mercenary some easy Damage and Survivability.

• Weapon: Obedience
• Body Armor: Treachery
• Helm: Vampire Gaze