Is there a budget build for this? I’m wondering how important is it to get to 20 demon mastery. Is that extra demon after consume necessary?
Ondals staff, authority armor, hellwarden's will, highlords, spirit shield, laying of hands, arachs, fcr ring, sorb ring, rare boots.
You won't be as high damage or tanky or able to teleport but you'll still do 'enough'
Agreed. With budget gear however (no torch, anni, etc..) it’ll be hard to reach 20 demon mastery and a decent levitation to equip say an eth CV. The question is whether or not having an extra demon is worth it by pumping hard points into demon mastery or is it better just to go blood oath.
you can build insight in any ethereal elite staff with 4 sockets for reasonable damage, archon staff being the good base but harder to get 4s but the 86.5 bases get 4 sockets from larzuk
But I'd recommend a 125 build anyway, unless you want to go stormshield with 75% fcr in which case once again ondals is still best because all it takes is ondals + hellwardens + fcr ring
Alternatively you can build around vipermagi + kiras I guess, though you'll lack some +skills
This post was edited by Goomshill on Feb 27 2026 07:45am