eth warpike botd 75fcr setup OR eth fortitude weapon 125fcr setup

for the best efficiency in end games dungeons farming mfing etc.

This post was edited by wub111 on Feb 19 2026 07:57pm

I think the dual leach from ebotd gives you the best efficency to spam as much you want

Just made a Long post thinking about weapon setups, so I‘Ll Just paste it in 😄 :


Thought a lot about echoing strike weapon choice for an Bis setup at 125 fcr

For me it comes down to:
BOTD, Doom, Death, Fortitude, (insight, Tomb reaver)

Since the damage is so high , I‘m kinda sure that in endgame
more speed will make you more efficient than even more sheet damage. When you oneshot most stuff there is no difference in adding another 500k damage. If there aren‘t any significant nerfs to damage, I‘m sure 125fcr will be the best endgame setup.

You can achive 125 with every weapon I mentioned, so lets look at the setups with different weapons:

1. No fcr on weapon: BOTD//Doom//death

For 125 fcr you need:

Mage/to gloves 20
Arach 20
Rare/magical circlet 20
Ring 10 fcr
Ring 10fcr
Amu 15+ fcr
Mephisto tome 30 fcr
Gores
Enigma

You could also run spirit shield, then 10 fcr from amu would be enough.

The main things you are loosing is a lot of deadly strike from using an fcr amu instead of highlords. Also you can‘t use phoenix, but the new tome gives ed% and + Skills, wich may not be much worse when it comes to damage.

BOTD: Highest possible base damage, but only 15% deadly strike (from gores)
death:you loose a lot of base damage but keep high deadly strike 60%+
Doom: almost same damage as BOTD, but also +2 skills and 20% deadly strike on weapon. Seems like the best of both worlds.

Besides high base damage the only thing BOTD has going for it is dualleech, wich we can get from Rings instead when running Doom/Death.

So for me:

Doom>Death>BOTD


Now lets look at Fortitude Setup(s) with 125FCR:

2.1 With phoenix

Fortitude 25fcr
Mage/to gloves 20
Arach 20
Rare/magical circlet 20
Ring 10 fcr
Ring 10fcr
Amu 20 fcr
Phoenix
Gores
Enigma

Fortitude has a lower base damage than BOTD or DOOM (Not even that much if no god ed% roll on botd or doom). But with the added fcr, you can free up your shield slot and run phoenix. Also it has 20% deadly strike, just like doom

I‘m no expert in d2 Math … but would forti + phoenix maybe give more damage than BOTD/Doom + mephisto tome?

2.2 fortitude with highlords

Fcr:

Forti weapon 25
Mage/to gloves 20
Arach 20
Rare/magical circlet 20
Ring 10 fcr
Soj/Bk
Highlords
Mephisto tome 30 fcr
Gores
Enigma

If we keep the tome instead of phoenix, we are able to drop the fcr on the amu and use highlords.

This way we would achive 60%+ deadly strike, just like the death setup, but with bigger base damage since we can still use a thundermaul.

Looking at this i‘m pretty certain that Forti>Death with the Right setup


3. Insight setup

Insight 35
Mage/to gloves 20
Arach 20
Rare/magical circlet 20
Soj
Ring 10fcr
Amu 20 fcr
Phoenix
Gores
Enigma

For the low price insight is insane for warlock. The + crit strike + levitation mastery makes deadly strike nearly useless, so dropping highlords doesn’t hurt that much. The fcr on insight allows us to use Phoenix just like with the Forti setup.

Overall this might be a bit less damage than forti setup, but Not that much consdering the ~70% critical strike you can get with the insight.


4. Tombreaver

This is purely for MF and could use the same setup as BOTD/Death/Doom for 125 fcr.

Damage cant compete with those but if you want to Go for max mf , an 75fcr setup with chancies, Wt etc and a 3xist toombreaver will give Huge amounts of of magicfind.


I‘m not an expert on d2 math 😄 but looking at the 125fcr setups, my conclusion would be:

DOOM > Forti+Phoenix > Forti+highlords > Death > insight >BOTD

75fcr (only worth for big mf farm build): Tomb reaver for max mf setup


Final thoughts/Questions:

BOTD seems way weaker in a 125 fcr setup, since you end up with only 15% ds from gores. The only thing it has going for it is dualleech , wich we can easily get from Rings.

DOOM has almost the same damage , but also +2 skills and 20%DS.

Death has a good chunk less base damage but 50% ds, wich is worth even more without highlords.

Forti beats Death, since it can still run highlords and reach the same deadly strike % while having more base damage.

Insight is by far the best value for its price.


Final qustion for you math people: will Doom+Mephisto tome do more damage than forti+ Phoenix? Guess one of those two will be the fastest killing build in a 125% fcr setup

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Feb 18 2026 06:49am

https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=107786783&f=87 Link to the topic I pasted above

Does the critical strike from levitation mastery and the critical strike from the +6 to critical strike on insight add to a final value, or are they checked separately (like it is vs deadly strike)?
The +6 to critical strike from insight is further improved by +x to all skills that the character has on the other gear pieces? So a +6 is 46% and a +16 would be 65%, if this works.

I also saw that the warlock skill Blood Oath has linear scaling, so one could reach "99% of damage taken goes to demon". What does this mean, these demons seem to be nearly immortal? Mine for example is immune to physical and immune to fire and also has a lot of resistances himself. Could we completely ignore defensives on the warlock by just getting a good demon and investing in the relevant demon talents, unless they mean physical damage only, that is transferred to the demon?

This post was edited by XMD7007 on Feb 18 2026 09:28am