Quote (UncleBens1650 @ May 28 2026 04:28pm)

is this farming p8 tz fast?

Quote (Goomshill @ May 21 2026 07:01pm)

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/3e4geb0w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2j1i1YM6qI

The best taintlock setup is now the best S tier above ES or other slower builds. The solution to the issue of tainted being weak to immunes, and bind demon having weaker boss DPS, was to simply combine both: Use 2x summon tainted and 1x bound demon with amp.
So now we've got the best of both worlds.

Skills:

• 20 Summon Tainted
  
• 20 Blood Boil
  
• 20 Blood Oath
  
• 20 Engorge
  
• 20 Demonic Mastery
  
• 1 Bind Demon
  
• 0 Consume (can get it from Baalos anyway, if you ever did cast it)
  
• 1 Hex Siphon
  
• 1 Sigil Lethargy

DPS setup:

• Mang Song's Lesson (Defender's Fire)
  
• Enigma
  
• Ars Tor'Baalos (Facet)
  
• +3 Demon / 20 FCR / 2x socket magic circlet (2x Facet)
  
• +2 Warlock / 15 FCR crafted amulet
  
• Magefist
  
• 2x Opalvein
  
• Arachs
  
• Resist Boots
  
• Fire sunder, torch, anni, life/res scs, skillers in desired open inventory/cube amount
  
• CTA+Spirit swap (eth monarch)
  
• A2 prayer or might merc with infinity, cure and either CoH or greyform/skin of the flayed one + protector's stone

Swap gear to prebuff (optional):

• 2x Sojs
  
• +3 ammy
  
• Extra skillers to fill inventory
  
• +6 tome (measured wrath is an easy +4 substitute)
  
• +6 dagger (just use the +5 mang song unless you're nuts)

The critical setup is to bind a trash mob white venom lord in a P8 TZ96 game, in a 'cursed' TZ. Then simply roll him until he's holy freeze + cursed. This only needs +19 skills from items and 1 soft point into the skill, no need for a unique/superunique. While multiple shots and lightning enchanted would be nice, they aren't worth the skill points needed, and even 1 point demon is not only effectively immortal, but could be hitting for 15-20k physical.

Summon tainted with this setup hit about 26k fireballs without prebuff, about 36k with prebuff. You lose 1/3 of their damage by using a bound demon of course, but this is very important to help the kill speed vs fire immunes. Amp damage alone winds up being +70% or so DPS against fire immunes. For contrast, consuming a tainted might only give ~10% dps vs non-immunes, ~27% vs immunes. While significant, and with the nice QoL of max life and movespeed, consume simply isn't worth it compared to the power of 2x tainted, nor the necessary amp vs fire immunes. And since the bound demon itself can attack for a big chunk, it also helps kill immunes.
I've tested setups with 3x tainted, or no tainted and 1 consume 1 bind 1 defiler, or 2x tainted defiler, or so on.
The 2T1B is definitely the superior taintlock setup, and has none of the weaknesses. You can kill bosses, even ubers or immune heralds, something pure boil/bind struggles without corpses. You can clear immunes quickly, something pure tainted struggles.


This build should be something you can work towards with poverty gear pre-enigma. I ran P8 chaos games last ladder with a boil lock by just shopping a tele staff and recharging it every game, burning through my farmed gold. With some blade warps its not too tough. It will be more crucial for a non-infinity build to have the amp merc, because if all you have is basic sunder no conviction, tainted will only hit immunes for 5% damage: you NEED to be killing them with amp+boil. Leaf staff or something better like ondals, authority armor, measured wrath, any +1-3 helm/ammy options, magefist, are all pretty easily obtainable gear that would put you online.

Quote (Goomshill @ May 29 2026 01:56am)

nope, fire sunder is pretty small impact until you get some -% fire gear and maxed blood boil synergies so when you're level 97 and have defender's fire in mang songs + facets in helm, its a pretty big impact
leveling up with mediocre gear you can do without sunder entirely, just using phys from blood boil + bind dps + bind amp to kill immunes and its quite fast

A half finished char might hit ~3200 phys on blood boil and deal 4800-6400 per cast against immunes after amp and have a bound demon that hits for 10-15k on its own (before amp). A finished char might hit as high as ~6000 fire / ~4800 phys with 40% pierce and deal 9900-12300 per cast against immunes after amp and have a bound demon dealing 20-25k before amp. So maybe the damage on blood boil gets doubled overall against immunes when you bring in sunder and fire pierce
when you don't have fire pierce and have a lower level synergy/boil you're getting a 5% fire damage from boil and 5% from tainted and doing nothing. Although lesser monsters might still die to 5% damage on tainted, you can see it happen with weaker immunes

Quote (Onyxdian @ May 28 2026 09:40pm)

thanks for sharing, gonna reset my lock when river of flame is tz-ed

Quote (Goomshill @ May 29 2026 11:09am)

Shards drop like candy now, easy to burn one to bind a monster. Its a lot harder to find cursed p8 games, only really viable by dipping into 20 games in a row / following baal runs while afk. Should only take ~5 minutes to make a p1 cursed game though

I saved some footage of TZ farming on current ladder but connection too ass on mobile to upload it atm
But definitely not kidding about the "just teleport around and stuff dies" part for areas without immunes

Quote (jebuschristo @ 29 May 2026 06:50)

Any suggestions for a helm other than a 3/20? Imagine a basic 2/20 circ or something like hellwardens is probably best to hit 125fcr.

Quote (jebuschristo @ May 28 2026 10:50pm)

Any suggestions for a helm other than a 3/20? Imagine a basic 2/20 circ or something like hellwardens is probably best to hit 125fcr.