One of the reasons why grief is so powerful, especially compared to botd, for pvm, is the Ignored Target Defense mod. Which basically maxs your hit rate vs most monsters.

Making AR prettt irrelevant except for vs act bosses, in particular.

Then coupled with the fact grief does more damage. And then multiplied by the fact that grief has a high % ED to demons modifier, on top of the life and mana after kill, and then the fact that grief has 20% deadly strike (deadly strike is double damage. There is a formula for deadly strike + critical strike from axe/sword mastery. But without boring you with the details, the deadly strike gives you essentially a 15% increase in average damage)

Wirh grief, you don’t need to go out of your way to stack AR. While AR will be helpful vs act bosses and super unique monsters, you will generally have high enough AR to hit them a good amount.

But you do want your rings to have AR on them. And charms with AR are good as well

yeah i have my inv already stacked up with max / ar / life and ar / life charms

For pvm, I would refer you to this guide:
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=65947351

I only looked at the gear section, so I can’t comment on anything other than that.

The only thing I would change is:
String of ears instead of dungo
If you are using item find (which I suggest to do on super unique/act bosses), I don’t suggest to use raven frost, as mentioned in the first few comments after the original post. You can use a rare ring with life leach or mana leach or life or attack rating or strength or dexterity or resist or mana.
Then when you need to teleport a lot, you can swap over to your spirit weapon side to teleport at faster frames.


Again, just skimmed it and looked only at the gear section.