Honest question: does this build do reasonable damage without an enchantress?
hey! depends what you call reasonable damage!
if you mean kill in the same speed a full gc/prebuff hex bane version would do, then no way!! this build reach its peanacle with an enchantress! thats for sure!
the best thing about this build is being flexible, the inventory is free! i can run 500+ mf version killing as fast as a full hex bane ( with enchantress) and not needed an insight, having an tank/dps demon with 2 defillers i can switch up inventory for a full fire damage scs and bring the damage up without enchantrss
all in all as i said this is not the fastest or strongest build without bo barb/ enchantress is just confortable can reach high mf and still do p8 without fear of dying
thats all said is about a p8 game, if we go down, like p3-5 there is no need for the hex bane/ enchantress kind of damage anyway
i did alot of chaos without enchantress for testing, thats the worst place to go without becouse the "little" fire damage you have and there have alot of imunes, but again if you dont run an enchantres you want your merc to go with pride, so you get more damage and your demon will sky rocket
to have a good speedclear without enchantrs you need to use alot more mark of death on fire imunes , the non imunes you just explode with arrow + sigil death
PS: the 500+ mf is using shako chances nagel war travel all that basic mf stuf even ist on demon machine, the confort and speed kill wont go down that much
hope this clarify your question!