Mirrored blades is, I believe, 10 mana a shot, and you get half of that back for every enemy killed from hellwarden's. You'll never pot with an insight except if you just tele around aimlessly, even with 0% leech.

After some discussion and testing in this thread, I believe this is the best build for a "single license" char that doesn't use lvl 55 enchant sorc or BO barb
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/8f52300t

I will be gearing towards this on next ladder, and right now I am playing it on Nintendo Switch 2 single player absolutely shredding

wow dude this is sick thanks so much

Feel free to "export" the save file from there and try it out on P8 before comitting, but it's basically the new Nova Sorc/Javazon hybrid IMO lol

If you're not going to hork, you should really at least try sigil death on tough herald packs

yup will be doing that exactly lol

True, the only tradeoff is 3% defiler linked damage, but I CBA, I'm shredding tough heralds. I guess Magic Resist ones would be an issue to try out.

Again, as long as bane is fully synergized, you'll shred no matter what you do. It's all gravy. I wrote this because I saw everyone recommending purge, when bane is the absolute slapper regardless of what gear setup you use. I use death super rarely, but in a situation like you mentioned it is really nice to have.

For sure hex bane and pierce with defiler is very good, as I’m sure enchant + bane + explosions are

Still a way to min max it tho!

We should be able to use ars du mephistos in this shit too

You're missing out on quite a bit of damage (unless you're prebuffing) by not using Void and ars dul'mephisto on switch. You don't need CTA with this build because consume already gives you a lot of added health. You reach 125+% FCR teleport on switch by using Void and ars dul'mephisto, and void also gives you a lot more damage output (+2 to all skills and +15% magic skill damage). You then also use that to attack bosses, because you double dip on the Void magic skill damage, as well as lowering enemy magic resistances by an additional 20% with ars dul'mephisto. You then can also use laying of hands instead of worrying about fire resistance small charms.

You're also not getting any leech with this variant, which isn't a necessity with enough laek and insight, but it is super nice to have. You can get it in the ring slot instead of SoJ (which isn't the best ring choice either way for this build).

I created this a while ago and it has several different build variants in it, so you'll need to select the "Endgame" set from the dropdown menu for the best possible build, but this one does more damage and has 125% FCR.
https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/v1h7eh06

Some gameplay here:
https://youtu.be/QzART3cQHXg?is=ssnGXkItVEEho-y8

If you wanted to prioritize survivability (hardcore), I recommend using CTA and consume. Otherwise, CTA is not needed and is redundant for this build imo.

This post was edited by MattSax on Jul 7 2026 08:46am