Build Introduction
Your full summoner focused end-game Warlock beast of a build. The Abaddon Summoner Warlock build is all about getting a mass army of demons fighting for you as you plow through the battlefield.
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Strengths and Weaknesses
- Massive Burst Damage
- Safe behind an army of minions
- Cheap to build
- Not the fastest build
- Requires set-up gameplay
Build Requirements
The build does not have any specific aspects or unique items to function for the end-game!
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Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points
Sigil of Summons
Sigil of Subversion
Fiend of Abaddon
Bombardment
Wall of AgonyFollow the points allocated in the Skill Tree above for the complete 83-point build. 14 skill points are locked behind the Season Rank System.
Class Mechanic – Soul Shards
Soul Shards is the Warlocks unique class mechanic allowing you to bind yourself to a Soul shard Greater Demon that will fight beside you. They come with a variety of different effects as well as on-use-abilities to help you on the battlefield.
Below you’ll find the recommended Soul Shard Demon to bind for this build:
- Legion Shard – Grants the skill Summon Ae’grom who will consistently spawn Lesser Demons on the field for you and blow them all up with his on-use-ability for massive damage output.
- Spawn Fragment – This makes Ae’grom spawn Vile Child Lesser Demon every 1 second. When you summon a Greater Demon this increases the spawn rate by 50% for 4 seconds up to 150%!
Gear, Gems and Stats
The following sections cover the important systems that are essential to improving the power of your character in the endgame of Diablo 4.
Legendary Aspects
Each aspect is listed with its matching gear slot. Do your best to keep each aspect in the assigned slot. Aspects placement is planned with potential Unique and Mythic Unique gear upgrades in mind for easiest and cheapest transition. Obol gambling is a great way to try to obtain specific slot Legendary Aspects and even Uniques early. For exact Runewords suggestions, see here.
| Gear Slot | Gems | Aspect / Unique | Legendary Aspect / Unique Power |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helm |  Royal Sapphire |  Heir of Perdition | Succumb to hatred and earn Mother’s Favor, increasing your damage dealt by x80%. Slaughter enemies to briefly steal Mother’s Favor from surrounding allies. |
| Chest |  Nagu +  Que | Aegrom’s Schism | Allows you to summon a second Ae’grom! |
| Gloves | n/a | Calamity | Hex increases your critical strike chance. |
| Pants |  Neo + Prid | Heavenly Strength Aspect | By wielding a 2h weapon you gain #% damage reduction. |
| Boots | n/a | Malevolance | You gain Overpower for each # Wrath you gain while at Maximum Wrath |
| Weapon 2H |  Royal Skull | Scepter of Three | You can now equip all Ultimate Skills and gain 15 Ranks in them. Attacking enemies with no active Ultimate Skill builds up your Ultimate Skill damage by x%, up to 200%. After starting Ultimate Skills the damage bonus is reset once all have ended. |
| Amulet (50% Scaling) |  or Royal Skull |  Aspect of Inner Calm | While standing still, deal up to x [50 – 75%] increased damage. |
| Ring | or Royal Skull | Aspect of Reanimation | Your Summons gain increased damage while alive, up to x [60 – 90%] after 10 seconds. |
| Ring | or Royal Skull | Hellbent Commander | You deal x% increased summon damage. |
Affixes and Tempering Priority
- Affixes on gear are sorted in priority descending order.
- Bolded affixes are the most important targets for Masterworking upgrade. If multiple affixes marked – any selected is acceptable for case by case gear.
- Affixes marked by multiple “*” – indicate desirability of obtaining them as Greater Affix originally or with lucky Tempering.
Be sure to check our Tempering and Masterworking guides for more details about these topics.
| Slot | Affixes | Tempering Affixes |
|---|---|---|
| HelmetHeir of Perdition | * 1. Critical Strike Chance | ?? – Physical Resistance |
| Chest Aegrom’s Chism | * 1. Willpower 2. Maximum Life 3. Total Armor 4. Resistances | ?? – Resist Fire |
| Gloves | * 1. Critical Strike Damage Multiplier 2. Willpower 3. All damage multiplier 4. Maximum Life | ?? – Critical Strike Damage Multiplier |
| Pants | * 1. Willpower 2. Maximum Life 3. Total Armor 4. Lightning Resistance | ?? – Resist Fire |
| Boots | * 1. Willpower 2. Maximum Life 3. Movement Speed 4. Poison Resist |  Natural Motion – Movement Speed |
| Amulet | * 1. Critical Strike Multiplier 2. Willpower 3. Critical Strike Chance 4. Vulnerable Damage multiplier | ?? – Critical Strike Damage Multiplier |
| Ring | * 1. Critical Strike Multiplier 2. Willpower 3. Vulnerable Damage multiplier 4. All damage multiplier | ?? – Critical Strike Damage Multiplier |
| Weapon 2H Scepter of the Three | *** 1. Weapon Damage | ?? – Attack Speed |
For the dedicated page on Gear Systems and Itemization Overview, check the guide here.
Ancestral and Mythic Uniques
See below for information on useful Uniques and how to integrate them into this build:
| Unique | Category | Synergy | Source |
| Heir of Perdition | Mythic Best in Slot | – Extra large Critical Strike Chance affix – Extra large Lucky Hit affix – Sizeable damage multiplier from Unique Aspect | How to Farm Mythic Uniques guide |
Gems and Runewords
See below for a more detailed explanation of the best Gems and Runewords to socket into your gear.
| Weapon Gems | Armor Gems | Jewelry Gems |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Skull for increased damage |  Runeword and Royal Sapphire for increased Willpower. | Royal Diamond or Royal Skull for resistances or armor as needed. |
| Runeword Combination | Effect |
| Neo + Prid | You generate Offering after not taking damage for 2 seconds. Prid invokes the Warlocks Dark Prison ability tethering enemies together. |
| Nagu + Que | Maintain at least 1 active summon for 5 seconds to gain offering for each summon up to 5. Invoke the druids  Earthen Bulwark to generate a barrier. |
Paragon Board
Below you’ll find the entire end-game paragon board set-up for this build in detail!
It is imperative to level up all Glyphs to level 15 first to increase activation radius and then to level 46 to unlock secondary damage multiplier. More about paragon glyphs and how to level them, here.
Some paragon points are locked behind the Season Rank System.
Lord of Hatred (Season 13)
Season 13 does not offer any specific seasonal mechanic due to the release of the Lord of Hatred expansion. Instead we’re getting a ton of new features such as the Warlock and Paladin class, War Plans, Talismans, Horadric Cube, Echoing Hatred and reworked skill-trees!
For a complete overview of Season 12, mechanics and theme, new leveling activity, and other changes coming, please take a look at our comprehensive season hub here.
Talismans
The Lord of Hatred expansion introduces Talismans as a new character progression system. You get to equip a Seal and place Charms into its slots for a massive power boost. The recommended setup for the Demon Summoner Warlock build is listed below:
- Seal – 6 Charm slot with Critical Strike Multiplier is the best or with any other damage multiplier. Best set for this build is “Chains of Horazon”.
- Charms – Demonology Ranks, any defensive stats or All Stats should be the prio here. Make sure you get the 5 set pieces of the “Chains of Horazon” set and the last one is optimal as “Anathema of the Primes”
Mercenaries
During the Vessel of Hatred campaign, you will unlock Mercenaries to assist you. While you can choose freely early on, we recommend Raheir as your main merc:
For the reinforcement, stick with Varyana, utilizing her 
Bloodlust to trigger when any Skill is cast in combat.
Rotation and Build Mechanics
The build focuses on summoning a large army of demons to fight for you before overwhelming the enemies with our most powerful greater demon skills. This keeps enemies at bay allowing you to cast Bombardment freely from a safe position during a fight. Sigil of Demons will pop up a hellworm that will copy your casts further pushing the growing army playstyle.
Rotation and Playstyle
- Wall of Agony – This prevents enemies from getting to you.
- Sigil of Subversion– Applies Hex on enemies for better damage as well as suvivability.
- Sigil of Summons– Gives your Lesser Demons a damage boost and helps us keep demons actively rolling for paragon legendary node “Fathomless”.
- Fiend of Abaddon– All your Dominance should now be spent on this skill for his incredible damage output.
- Command Ae’grom – This guy needs to be on the field at all times to spawn your Lesser Demons and using his command skill to blow them up.
- Bombardment– At this point we’ll be spamming Bombardment as long as we are behind our army of demons. The Sigil of Demons will be mimicking the casts once it activates which is VERY quick and every 200 demon we get a free demon summon which goes straight back into the Fiend of Abaddon.
- Important note – Make sure to not waste your free demon casts on Wall. Abaddon is an expensive cast, and generally with a free cast you can get two out at once; once free, once at 30 Dominance. This doesn’t always line up but more often than not you’ll see this happen. Your Demon summon icons glow when you have the free cast available!
Season Updates
Since the Warlock is a brand new class coming to the world of Sanctuary there are no changes to be mentioned.
For a complete overview of Season 13, mechanics and theme, new leveling activity, and other changes coming, please take a look at our comprehensive season hub here.
Obol Gambling
Obol gambling is a great way to improve chances of finding Legendary Aspects or specific slot Uniques missing from your build. Most efficient obols farming methods can be found here. Check out the new tool guide from Icy Veins for gambling Obols in the link below.
