Never built one. What’s the BIS gear?

Do you need 125fcr?

Gear I had in mind.

Flickering flame
Mang songs
Phoenix

All the rest I assume is standard caster gear

Never made one either. But check out the new warlock book uniques. There’s some good fire ones there I would imagine would be better then Phoenix

Oh yeah I forgot about diabolos

i prefer obsession with ars al diabolos and flickering flame

Obsession is way better than mang songs for overall QoL. I use Obsession with Phoenix on mine, even though Mangs + Phoenix would probably be the most damage, but you give up a lot of the great stuff obsession adds for that extra damage.

Is the -res from Phoenix better than the +fire damage from Diabolos?

-res is always stronger than + damage. At least on most builds.

This post was edited by Emiliaaa on Apr 4 2026 09:53am

You can use a 4x facet shield too and the +20/-20 is better than -28 on phoenix, but ars diabolos is +2 flame wave, +7 apocalypse, +30% fire / -5%, which is just better overall than either a facet shield or phoenix.
With some resist and fcr on the shield it doesn't struggle to get 125 + max resists and doesn't have as much of a case for obsession, gear can be pretty identical to blood boil just with a swapped shield and charms and skimp some fcr slots

obsession will fix all your resist and fcr etc etc, you can have maras and 2x soj with it

diabolos is needed for fastest p8 tz - you want that 53 level Apocalypse, phoenix is slower
flickering flame
sojs, arach, wraithstep, eni, maras, magefist, max skillers gheed flame rift, sc's you can have mf


in tombs p8 tz you pop in room 1x apocalypse, 1x sigil death and spam ring of fire or wave, next room