Tyvm sir

Stash prebuff is banned in GM PVM

so do Tainteds never die? no matter what, even on tier5 conc fana cursed packs?

Cause if 1 or both die - you'd have to go back to town and pre-buff cast them again. Does this happen?

They do die, sometimes when you use too many bbs before engorging, and then tough T5 heralds appear. Basically when you're lazy or overconfident. But if you remember to engorge, and kite against tough heralds, then they'll almost never die. You'll be far more concerned about your bound demon dying

This post was edited by xtraseal on Jun 14 2026 05:08am

They pretty rarely die. I don't think I've seen anything but heralds or ubers kill them, and they are way less tanky than the bound demon. Usually if there's any spread to your demons, the tainted stay back and spam from a range while the bound demon tanks at melee. They definitely don't die in normal sweeping zones, even if you're recklessly teleporting into souls and mass fire damage or whatever. I think diablo's fire hose could potentially kill them except diablo dies to them faster than he can cast it. And even against heralds, its pretty much only those archer+conc+might+cursed packs that you probably should be skipping anyway. If you deathmark into them, their missiles can hit the tainted with their larger size over a lancer. They still usually won't hurt a lancer much, but can kill a tainted. But that's also insanely risky because if any archers are closer to you they'll change targets, and if the demons were between you and the archers, any missiles in the air could pass through and hit you when you deathmark your demons out of the way. Since I'm impractical and enjoy it, instead of just skipping archer packs I just kill them by strafing them with teleports in a circle around them so all their shots miss while tainted pound them, and after a few shots the pack will be softened up enough to deathmark your demons in

I've definitely had tainted die on me a few times in fighting heralds, but I didn't have a bound demon die a single time from level 89 to 98

This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 14 2026 06:41am

could you show this build vs uber ancients/ubers?

This post was edited by Szymikkrt on Jun 14 2026 06:55am

So no insight in this build? ....

That is correct. A cheaper build can use insight, but the innovation here is using a +3 teleport base obsession and as many +all skills items as we can fit, to reduce the mana cost on teleport to a sustainable level. With obsession, enigma, ars baalos, shako, +2/20 crafted ammy, 2x soj, magefist, arach, anni, torch, sunder, cta buff, you get level 18 teleport with 7 mana cost, and at around 800-1000 mana and the regen enabled here, its enough you can just hold down teleport indefinitely.

Just here to give you shiz about using F1 - F5 to bound your skills

Uh.... I have up to F12 lol