Ok this opened my eyes on not only how to achieve an early ladder build, but on how to abuse an even bigger death zone.
Replace enigma by viper.
sure you lose 1 skill, but you gain 30fcr
This makes it possible to replace the 20fcr amy by a rand mara, and 1 of the 2 sling ring by a soj/bk.
So this ends up with +1 to portal, at lvl 11, still 200fcr to be able to glitch them.
But you can also keep the 20fcr amy, the 2nd sling ring, and instead, replace the 2 suicide branch by 2 hoto for another whooping +4 to portal.
Initially I thought the radius of the death zone created by glitched portals was just scaling linearly. But it’s exponential.
I just tried it with max lvl and now the death zone covers an area as big as entire lvls of cata/wsk or even full tombs.
And with a bit of practice, I can glitch portals with a single double cast, resulting in full area clears in less than 0.5s (but you still need to tele around to pick up drops)
Its true after a few seconds of holding down portal I'm effectively seal popping in chaos in any area. Everything dies, but keep in mind you're still doing this with enigma- enemies are only instantly dying to ~3 screen radius at the same time which is huge, the rest are dying as soon as they (attempt) to load in as you teleport around the map. Which is great for farming heralds now, but without enigma it will be slower
but also like I said I already found a Jah AND Ber this ladder among numerous high runes and thats not counting trading. And I didn't grind almost at all. I think if you did cow runs with the glitched drops you'd have an enigma on day 1-2 of ladder and not need to care about the budget telestaff setup
and if you do trav like I said I maxxed out gold in my stash in a couple minutes so about 4 runs. Telestaff is basically infinite, but limits you to chaos, baal, cows, etc smaller areas