I mean if you had infinite budget and the only consideration was hero editor affixes, sure, 4/40/450 ed javas can give you more mana leech on fury than tstrokes. And instead of just MAEK and a large pool and some minor leech, you get a pretty major leech. But you lose a considerable % of overall damage because you miss the -15% resists on tstrokes. Maybe it enables an easier %ias bp but eh, even if you ignored the 10 million fg cost I think the higher damage build is still better. You pretty much cap out on mana when you can use wizspike swap to teleport, cube cta, MAEK on silks/gloves. You can sacrifice 1 skills on gloves over 3/20 for mana, you can sacrifice 1 skiller for cube to have cube cta and wizspike. Then you sacrifice 15 -res to have mana from insanely expensive java over merc. At least sacrificing a ring slot to fcr makes sense to lose 1 skill to get -1 bp on teleport, while using spirit means sacrificing huge amounts of damage to have faster teleport.
but phoenix on swap means really slowing yourself down, it should never be triggering. And arachs means losing a HUGE amount of dps on fury as you no longer have 100% pierce.
There are tradeoffs that are worth it, and tradeoffs that aren't
just go simple
tstrokes, griffs, enigma, craft ammy, 20/20 shield, razortail, fcr ring, raven, 3/20 gloves, silkweave, 7 skillers, light sunder, cube.
swap wizspike/spirit with cta in stash
a2 holy freeze merc with infinity, COH, flickering flame
best to get mana leech / MAEK on the crafts/rares but you get what you get
This post was edited by Goomshill on Dec 28 2025 11:20am