How would a budget geared version would look like in the upcoming patch ?
The only expensive item will be enigma , what will be the rest of the items ( the very cheap ones ) ?
It works a lot worse now because you can't get 'free conviction'. You need conviction, you need sunder. RotW sunder was stupid expensive but LoD sunders kept it affordable because of the oversight that they existed alongside it, now codified into real drops. But its still 4 high runes + ist/mal as a hurdle instead of just 2 high runes.
blood boil in last ladder was pretty affordable, putting insight on merc and conviction urdar and enigma as only big expense, cta as the eventual upgrade, otherwise pretty bare bones stuff.
Without infinity the damage is gonna take a big hit. You could use a dreadfang a5 merc on a max tainted build, but without conviction the tainted can't scratch immunes and are heavily gimped vs non-immunes. If you use a bound demon with cursed + holy freeze, you don't get much out of a non-infinity merc.