# Warlock's Ritualist Shard + Overwhelming Aspect turns Overpower into the build's primary damage multiplier via forced overstacking

The current top-tier Apocalypse Warlock build stacks Overpower to roughly 16 (well beyond either disputed baseline cap, see brk_overpower_stack_cap_dispute) using Command Volokh and the Hematite Stone, then converts each stack into 34% increased damage against Elites via the Overwhelming Aspect - reported as roughly 544% total bonus damage from this one interaction chain.

Diablo IV patch 3.2.1. Category: season15. Evidence: Community claim.

## Detail
This is presented by its own guide as 'multiplicative' damage, but 34%-per-stack summed across 16 stacks (34 x 16 = 544) is arithmetically an ADDITIVE summation before being applied as this Aspect's own bucket - a live example of exactly the kind of bucket-labeling confusion covered in mult_summed_multiplier_wording_trap. Whether Overwhelming Aspect's bucket then applies as a true independent Global Multiplier (multiplicative with the rest of the build) or feeds into the shared Additive Damage Multiplier bucket was not confirmed by the fetched guide text.

## Why it works
The Hematite Stone is documented as granting 200% increased potency to Command Volokh, the Ritualist Shard, and its Fragments - a force-multiplier on the whole Overpower-stacking chain, not just the final Aspect.

## Numbers
Command Volokh + Hematite Stone: up to ~16 Overpower stacks reported. Overwhelming Aspect: 34% increased Elite damage per Overpower stack -> ~544% at 16 stacks (34*16).

## How to use it
Before assuming this interaction is a clean x5.44 multiplier, verify in-game (or via a damage meter) whether Overwhelming Aspect's bonus sits inside your Additive bucket (subject to the diminishing-returns math in mult_crowded_additive_diminishing_returns) or is a true separate Global Multiplier - this changes how much further Additive investment is worth after taking it.