Introducing Diablo Immortal’s Newest Class: Warlock

Vizjerei summoners brought darkness to Sanctuary when they conjured demons from the Burning Hells to serve and empower them. For that offense, the Vizjerei were stripped of their titles, forbidden to practice demonology, and branded as the worst and vilest humans alive after the Mage Clan Wars. But the Mage Clan Wars were a long time ago, and Sanctuary's memory is as short as the lives of its people.

Though the Vizjerei no longer practice demonology, some of their tomes and writings survived confiscation by the Viz-Jaq'Taar Assassins. In the current, frightful age, lists of demons' true names and old clan practices are being discovered by hedge mages and upstarts. Those who wield the forbidden powers of demonology-summoning and control of the Burning Hells-share the Vizjerei tolerance for risk and earn the contemptible name "Warlock." In their ambition to make history and persevere in a devastated world, a Warlock compromises nearly everything about themselves.

As part of Diablo's 30th Anniversary and the upcoming Bloodied Jewel (Patch 5.0) Major Update, the Warlock joins the fray as Diablo Immortal's 10th class - a summoner of demons, master of portals, and wielder of Hell's dark power.

On June 16, we'll release a full content update with everything that will accompany the Warlock's rise on June 17, 2026, so stay tuned!

As this article is an early look at the Warlock, information conveyed in this article may be subject to change.

Codex

Origin of the Warlock: Power's Price

Embrace the Path of the Warlock

Fight Demons With Demons in Sanctuary

Wield Demonic Power Using Warlock Legendary Items

Warlock Class Gear Affixes

Warlock Offensive and Defensive Stances

Origin of the Warlock: Power's Price

"Power's Price" is a new origin quest accessible to any players interested in trying out the Warlock class before creating a new character or changing their class.

This quest will place you in the boots of a novice warlock and let you try out the basics of the class's summons and hellish magic. You'll race against a demonic adversary to recover lost knowledge from a ruined Vizjerei mage tower. Learn to command demons, hurl Hellfire, and even bind the mighty Soulgorger. But be warned: such dark power always comes at a cost.

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Embrace the Path of the Warlock

Players will be able to experience the Warlock in multiple ways:

• Roll Fresh or Switch: Create a new character or use Class Change and experience the Warlock.
• Warlock Origin Quest: Begin the journey of a Warlock in the Origin Quest, Power's Price, and learn to wield powerful demonic magics. Start the quest through the class change menu at the Shifting Flames in Westmarch, or through the Warlock Event Hub, Command the Hells.
• Fractured Plane: Play as a Warlock in the Fractured Plane event, a solo, roguelike limited-time event where you gain randomized Legendary essences and fight through the shifting corridors of your mind. This is a great place to try out all the Warlock's Legendary items, fine-tune your playstyle, and experience Hellish new essences.
• Warlock Trial Dungeon: Select from three pre-set builds and enter a trial dungeon based on Mad King's Breach with full stats and pre-selected gems to experience the full potential of the Warlock.
• Warlock Race: Engage in the limited- time speedrun event to master Warlock builds, with the opportunity to win exclusive speedrun portals.

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Fight Demons With Demons in Sanctuary

With demons, Hellfire, brimstone, and shadows at their command, Warlocks have the potential to become Sanctuary's greatest saviors or its worst nightmares unleashed.

Passive Ability

Primary Attacks

Lunatic Legion (Ultimate of Lunatic Rush): Enhance Lunatic Rush for a few seconds, causing it to open a larger rift that summons 3 Fallen Lunatics to rush enemies, exploding on contact, dealing damage to nearby enemies.

Rain of Chaos (Ultimate of Hellfire Bolt): Enhance Hellfire Bolt for a few seconds, causing meteors of Hellfire to rain from the sky around you, dealing damage to enemies they strike. Additionally, your Primary Attacks call down larger meteors at a target location, dealing damage to enemies in the area.

Other Skills

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Wield Demonic Power Using Warlock Legendary Items

Over 50 new Legendary items are being released for the Warlock! We wanted to give you a variety of items to tinker with so you can get a sense of what the Class can do upon release. We love to see the creative builds the community cooks up and can't wait for you to surprise us.

Main Hand

Mordscrape: Demonic Portal can now summon a Hellflyer that flaps its wings creating a vortex that follows enemies.

Clawing End: Siphon Life now binds your life in a ritual that accumulates each time you take damage. When the ritual is complete, you will be healed and gain increased Attack Speed and damage.

Pointed Respite: Demonic Portal can now summon a Fetish Chieftain, increasing the damage of nearby summons and healing them.

Torment Anew: Hellfire Bolt also Burns enemies, stacking.

Cavalier Cutter: If your Soulgorger would die, it instead goes into a blood frenzy, preventing its death for a few seconds while also increasing its damage and Movement Speed.

Harsh Discipline: Burning Ascent now empowers you with the demonic energy of a Hellflyer, breaking you free of total loss of control and silence effects while causing you to become untargetable and Dash forward, dealing damage to enemies in your path and granting you a shield when it ends.

Cruentation Razor: Siphon Life now reduces your Primary Attack damage to infuse your Soulgorger with its powers, increasing its Primary Attack Speed while also granting it additional powers based on your equipped Primary Attack.

Crash and Burn: Burning Ascent is now Channeled, allowing you to control the demon as it flies around the area unleashing blasts of wind below it, dealing damage to enemies within the area.

Bloody Surrogate: Siphon Life now sacrifices your Soulgorger to heal you and remove harmful effects and knockback effects.

Bloodfray: Lash of Pain also increases your Attack Speed for a few seconds when it Burns an enemy, stacking.

Off-Hand

Flensed Skull of Klavar: Demonic Portal can now summon a Doombound Cabalist that unleashes volleys of hellfire at enemies that explode on impact, dealing damage and causing them to Burn.

Cruel Destination: Spiteful Sacrifice's Critical Hit Chance is increased for a few seconds each time you take damage, stacking.

Shornhollow: Demonic Pact now sacrifices a portion of your Life to grant you and your summons increased damage and Movement Speed, but it also increases damage taken. Should any of your summons die, thier death will be briefly delayed.

Jawless Grin: Infernal Eruptions deals increased damage to Burning enemies.

Muse of Blasphemies: Warp Strike now commands your Soulgorger to leap through a portal, damaging enemies within the area and Stunning them with a follow-up tail sweep.

Iron Reins: Warp Strike now commands your Soulgorger to leap through a portal to a target location where it radiates demonic power, damaging, Stunning, and causing enemies within the area to take increased damage from you.

Master's Furor: Demonic Portal can now summon a Branded One at a target location that Stuns enemies before cloning itself, and then they all perform a dashing strike, damaging enemies within their path.

• Devour: Soulgorger's Primary Attacks are empowered, causing them to perform a dashing strike alongside 2 clones.

Shadowed in Light: Warp Strike now commands your demon into a portal. While inside the portal an echo of the Soulgorger strikes enemies whenever you deal damage to them.

Gorewyrn: Demonic Pact now heals you and nearby allies, purging loss of control and silence effects of those healed while also granting immunity to those effects and damage reduction for a short while.

Dirty Tactics: When one of your Fallen Lunatics explode and die, there is a chance it leaves behind a soul that is devoured by the Soulgorger, healing it and increasing its Attack Speed for a few seconds.

Chest

Legion's Leavings: Blood Offering now drains Life from your Soulgorger, creating a shadow copy of it with all the same effects it currently had active.

The Dark Trade: Spiteful Sacrifice's Critical Hits drain a portion of your current Life to increase its Critical Hit Damage. Cannot occur more often than once every second.

Winnow Wrap: Hellswarm also shatters the enemy's armor, increasing the damage they take for a few seconds, stacking.

Watch Them Writhe: Infernal Eruptions now conjures a sword that crashes down upon enemies and shatters the ground, dealing damage, knocking them up, and Burning enemies within the area.

Heretic Pride: Warp Strike also reduces the damage taken by your Soulgorger while also increasing its damage dealt.

Fetter's Gift: Spiteful Sacrifice's damage is increased and grants you Sacrificial Power if it is the only skill you have equipped that consumes Sacrificial Power.

Under Pressure: Blood Offering now empowers your Soulgorger for a short while, increasing its Critical Hit Chance and healing it periodically. If your Soulgorger is dead, you can also sacrifice a portion of your Life to summon it back immediately.

Ashes of Liberty: Infernal Eruption now conjures a ritual of flames around you that increases in intensity with your Movement Speed, dealing damage to enemies within the area and Burning them.

Painstaking Experiment: Lash of Pain's Critical Hit Chance is increased against enemies suffering from a continual damage effect.

Total Annihilation: Blood Offering now causes your summons to apply Oblation Marks to enemies they hit. When you hit a marked enemy, the mark detonates, dealing additional damage.

Legs

Tattertooth Chausses: Soulgorger's Devour also heals it and increases its Critical Hit Chance for a few seconds.

Measured Halves: Spiteful Sacrifice is now Channeled and can be cast while moving, causing you to conjure swords of dark energy that you hurl forward, damaging enemies in their path.

Pawn Lure: Blood Offering deals increased damage for each active summon, stacking.

Rivenrile: Lash of Pain also shatters the enemy's armor, increasing the damage they take, stacking.

Woe Beclaimed: Tyrant's Grasp now crushes enemies within a target location, damaging and preventing them from moving or attacking. All your focus is required, preventing you from moving or attacking as well.

Pyrestorm: Spiteful Sacrifice is now a Charge skill that drains your life. While charging it locks onto enemies within its range before releasing swords of dark energy at them, dealing damage and applying a Malignant Shadows curse that periodically deals damage.

Helltracker: Soulgorger deals increased Critical Hit Damage for each Devour evolution it has active.

Margin of Error: Infernal Eruption range is increased.

Flood the Flames: Infernal Eruption also Slows enemy Movement Speed for a few seconds, stacking.

Supply and Demand: Tyrant's Grasp now conjures a pair of demonic hands behind you that attack when you use your Primary Attack, dealing damage in an area in front of you.

Helmet

Ridicule the Flames: Soulgorger deals increased damage to Burning enemies.

Giltjagg: Siphon Life also increases your Movement Speed.

Offal on the Spire: Hellswarm now causes them to swarm around you. Periodically the Hellswarm will seek out nearby enemies, damaging and infesting them.

Diabolist's Dream: Brimstone Gateway now opens an unstable portal that teleports enemies trying to escape the area to its center, damaging and Stunning them.

Vilest Freedom: Brimstone Gateway now opens a portal that melds you with the shadows as you enter. You cannot be targeted or use attacks while melded, but you can use the skill again to exit the portal at a designated location.

Hellscourge: Hellswarm now empowers you, allowing you to swarm enemies with explosive locusts that apply harmful effects to enemies a second time when you apply them.

Together in Peril: Soulgorger takes reduced damage from players.

Scarred Memories: Burning Ascent's cooldown is reduced and restores energy based on the distance you travel.

Split and Fracture: Brimstone Gateway now allows you to place both portals down separately and at locations farther apart.

Close Combat: Tyrant's Grasp also reduces the damage enemies deal to you for a few seconds.

Shoulders

Battleweight: Soulgorger's Primary Attacks increase the damage enemies take from your summons, stacking. Maximum stacks are reduced against enemy players.

Unholy Domain: Devouring Darkness now drains your life to empower you for a short time, causing your damage to unleash blast waves of dark magic at your target's location, dealing damage to all surrounding enemies.

Repeated Sins: Soulgorger's summon cooldown is reduced and while on cooldown each summon that dies further reduces the remaining cooldown.

Poppet Fingers: Lash of Pain now conjures a demonic catapult that bombards enemies within an area, dealing damage and increasing the damage they take from Burning.

Pit-Burnt Paulds: Devouring Darkness now infuses dark magic into your Soulgorger, allowing them to shoot a beam across the ground that damages and knocks up enemy monsters. The knock up effect only affects monsters, not players.

Necessary Nutrition: Burning Ascent maximum charges increased.

Living Armory: Soulgorger's Critical Hit Chance is increased for a few seconds when taking damage, stacking.

Impassioned Misery: Burning Ascent's Critical Hit Chance is increased relative to your Movement Speed, stacking.

Mourplume Shackles: Demonic Pact cooldown reduced.

Brutal Lessons: Lash of Pain now empowers you, causing your Primary Attacks to swing molten chains that damage nearby enemies, knocks them back and Burns them.

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Warlock Class Gear Affixes

Blood Offering: Causes your demons to gain increased Primary Attack Speed for a few seconds when it is applied. Cannot occur more than once every few seconds.

Brimstone Gateway: Increases the Movement Speed of you or allies that use the portals for a few seconds.

Burning Ascent: Removes slow speed effects, then immunes the loss of control effects for a few seconds. Cannot occur more than once every few seconds.

Demonic Pact: Beneficial effects provided have their durations increased.

Demonic Portal: Has a chance to summon an additional demon that was not summoned.

Devouring Darkness: Range increased.

Hellswarm: Weakens enemies, reducing their Attack Speed for a few seconds, which stacks.

Infernal Eruption: Deals increased damage for each nearby Burning enemy or Burning summon you control.

Lash of Pain: Immobilizes enemies, preventing the use of Dash skills for a few seconds when striking them below a percentage of maximum Life. Cannot occur against the same target more than once every few seconds.

Siphon Life: Creates an aura of misery around the target for a few seconds that deals damage every second and Slows enemies. The same target cannot gain the aura more than once every few seconds.

Spiteful Sacrifice: Generates Sacrificial Power whenever it deals damage. Cannot occur more often than once every few seconds.

Tyrant's Grasp: Causes enemies to take increased damage for a few seconds after it inflicts them with a knockback or total loss of control effect.

Warp Strike: Cooldown reduced for each of your Soulgorger's attacks.

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Warlock Offensive and Defensive Stances

Command: Upon activation, you and your Summons' Attack Speeds are increased by 20% for 3 seconds. After the initial duration ends, the increase is reduced to 10%.

Restraint: Upon activation, all nearby enemies are Stunned for 3 seconds. Your Primary Attacks now reduce the Movement Speed of enemies they hit by 40%. (Player Movement Speed is reduced by 20%.)

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