Build Introduction
This build focuses on staying hidden by being in stealth whilst your demons do all the dirty work! One of the most unique builds to ever have existed in Diablo 4. You’re able to remain completely invisible at the same time as you’re doing all your damage.
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Strengths and Weaknesses
- Amazing damage output
- Relatively safe thanks to invisibility
- Most unique build, ever
- Not immune to ground effects
- Takes a second to ramp the damage
Build Requirements
The build does not have any specific requirements to get off the ground and work!
Quick Navigation
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Skill Bar and Skill Tree Points
Sigil of Subversion
Wall of Agony
Metamorphosis
Blazing Scream
Command FallenFollow 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 – Soulshards
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:
- Mastermind Shard – Grants Summon Laalish Skill making Recast Skills no longer break Shadowform Stealth at the cost of 2 stacks of Shadowform per Cast. While you have Shadowform, Abyss Skills deal x30% increased damage, and you gain 5% increased Movement Speed per stack.
- Blashphemous Fragment – Recast Skills Hex enemies on hit and increase the damage they take from your Abyss Demonology Skills by x20%.
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 | Heavenly Strength | By wielding a 2h weapon you gain #% damage reduction. |
| Gloves | n/a | Peril | Making an enemy Vulnerable increases the damage you do to them by #%, up to #% |
| Pants |  Neo + Prid | Deeper Shadows | Increases your maximum Shadowform stacks. |
| Boots | n/a | Malevolance | You gain Overpower for each # Wrath you gain while at Maximum Wrath |
| Weapon 2H (Mace) |  Royal Amethyst | Overwhelming Aspect | Each hit against Elite enemies deals x% increased damage but requires and consumes 4 stacks of Overpower. No stacks are consumed if the enemy is hexed. |
| Amulet (50% Scaling) |  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 | Calamity | Hex increases your critical strike chance. |
| 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 | * 1. Willpower 2. Maximum Life 3. Total Armor 4. Any Resistance | ?? – Lightning Resistance |
| Gloves | * 1. Critical Strike Damage 2. Willpower 3. All damage 4. Maximum Life | ?? – Critical Strike Muliplier |
| Pants | * 1. Willpower 2. Maximum Life 3. Total Armor 4. Lightning Resistance | ?? – Physical Resistance |
| Boots | * 1. Willpower 2. Maximum Life 3. Movement Speed 4. Poison Resistance |  Natural Motion – Movement Speed |
| Amulet | * 1. Critical Strike Multiplier 2. Willpower 3. Vulnerable Damage 4. All Damage | ?? – Critical Strike Multiplier |
| Ring | * 1. Critical Strike Multiplier 2. Willpower 3. Vulnerable Damage 4. All Damage | ?? – Critical Strike Multiplier |
| Weapon 2H (Sword) | * 1. Weapon Damage 2. Willpower 3. All Damage 4. Maximum Life 5. Critical Strike Multiplier | ?? – Critical Strike Multiplier |
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 see below for equipping instructions | 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 Amethyst for increased damage. |  Runeword or Royal Sapphire for increased Willpower. | Royal Diamond or Royal Skull for resistances or armor as needed. |
| Runeword Combination | Effect |
| 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. |
| Neo + Prid | Deal damage after not taking any damage for 2 seconds to gain massive Offering. Prid invokes the Warlocks Dark Prison ability tethering enemies together. |
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 – A 6 charm slot seal with Critical Strike Multiplier or any damage multiplier is the best here. The best set to use here would be “Shadow of Harash” (5 pieces)
- Charm – Demonology Ranks, all stats or any defensive affixes is preferred. Make sure you get 5 of them to be of the same set as your Seal and the last charm should be of “Night Terror” for optimal Talismans.
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
Sigil of Subversion is what gets the ball rolling by providing Shadowform stacks rendering you stealthed. Metamorphosis allows you to attack whilst being stealthed and therefor not break your stealth keeping you invisible to the enemies at all times. It might sound confusing but it is considerably easier than you might think as Shadowform provides a ton of damage on top of the defensive aspect.
Rotation and Playstyle
- Metamorphosis – Keep this on Cooldown to activate Shadowform and other damage multipliers.
- Sigil of Subversion – Cast this first to gain Shadowform stacks, this also Hexes enemies.
- Wall of Agony – Taunts enemies and pulls them in.
- Blazing Scream – On the enemies inside the walls. Make sure to press it before it runs out to refresh the duration. This also applies vulnerable as well as Hex on enemies.
- Command Laalish – Cast it when things are grouped up. Does good damage but not our main source of damage. Can be cast on yourself for Shadowform stacks but don’t really need to. This applies both Vulnerable and a Slow effect.
- Command Fallen – With the above skills used you can now cast Command Fallen to get 3 of them out.
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.
