Any godly 3/3 10k fg obsession will suck vs 100fg self-infy.
Dont care about trash mobs who you 1-shot after static in 8p anyways, care about immunes. Since 1/5 effectiveness nerf for -res auras and skills obsession degenerated even more. It does not give you enough options to get -lr from items, which still work at full effectiveness, and additionally forces you to give up meditation.
In terms of ranking:
1 self infy @105fcr +0 skills -102% lr
2 cmoon+spirit @105fcr +2 skills -82% lr
3 hoto+spirit+soj @200fcr +6 skills -47% lr, more mana
4 eshuta 5/5+spirit+soj @200fcr +6 skills -52% lr, more dps
5 obsession @200fcr +7 nova/lm -47% lr
Self infy does literally full onscreen 5k damage on broken immunes, while obsession does ~1/2 of its onscreen 6k
Even hoto+spirit+soj, while loosing 1 skill and ~60str vs obsession, still outperform obsession in terms of massive 50% mana boost. You cant use soj with obsession@200fcr, each slot must be max fcr item. You will need uber godly 2/20fcr ammys and 10fcr rings and be still worse than hoto.
Nova is really mana hungry, maek cannot counter this enough. You need tons of mana and regen if you dont want to chug mana pots like mad. For regen you need insight on merc. Also if you go for 200fcr ES forget obsession completely. Now with the Cure rw and tripple Prayer on merc this combo is literaly immortal.
Nova is not for pvp, and so is nova obsession useless for pvp either.
Obsession works well in 2 niches where no immunes are involved: rushing ppl in normal and nightmare. Or doing cowruns. But even here 200fcr hoto+spirit/liddless+soj+waterwalk work better as they give you better mana pool to chug less on pots.
Tried all sorc builds in the last 22 yrs, and currently using something very similar to yours as best end-game build. 42fhr is enough. Just remove some FHR and go for life or +6str on skillers. The saved str you can invest in energy. 6ene x 2 x 1.55 x 1.8 = 33 mana! With telekinesis maxed this is equivalent to a 45 lifeskiller but costs 1k fg less!
And use 15+ life / 17 mana scs. I advise against staff on switch. It looses 1-2 bo levels and is a waste of fg. 95% es you can easily reach at lvl94 with your own skillpoints. Beside that its pretty useless if you play other chars and want to share or sell your godly 6/6 cta.
For reference, I end up with 3200 mana after self-bo
Also you can squeze 1 more skiller in your inventory. Just use 4 tp scrolls in your belt instead of tp book.
This post was edited by MozartMcLaus on Apr 24 2023 09:38pm
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