They’re not rly close tbh

30 stats is just 30% ed and a bit of life

That 50% deadly strike literally gives you 50% more total damage

So after that 30% ed calculation and 15% more ed death maybe does like 40-45% more final damage than botd

The crushing blow on death is useles, just the deadly strike works. Doom ALSO has 20% ds vs death‘s 45+%. But Doom in an eth thundermaul has a much higher base damage and +2 skills.
Especialy with 75fcr and highlords, Doom setup still reaches 60+ deadly strike. You also get ~30 crit from levitation mastery for both setups.

At this point I‘m pretty sure the much better base damage beats 25-30% extra deadly strike . Shame we cant put death in a thundermaul

If you go 125fcr death gets better, since you loose a lot of deadly strike on highlords, making the extra ds on death more valuable

But with 75fcr and highlords : Doom>Death when it comes to damage

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Feb 18 2026 07:54pm

Its the forti weapon my friend

ok thank god.

When it comes to echoing strike it is basicly exactly the same

Echoing strike scales with fcr Not ias. Just like hammers . So you indeed need fcr to atack faster with it, not ias.

Warlock and paladin have the same fcr breakpoints (and frames I think).

So talking about fcr tele speed and cast speed from echoing strike and feeling of the breakpoints it is indeed exactly the same as hammerdin.

Btw especialy when you oneshot everything, your Build would Benefit from faster Casting / tele

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Feb 18 2026 07:48pm

eh its gonna be more than that.. death has less ED unless u roll a perf which most ppl wont or wanna spend on imo also most ppl level 90 so 45 DS
then 30 to all stats means 30 less u gotta put in vit so u can actually get 60 str additional
idk just thinking. either way warlock damage is already way overkill this is just for the love of the game to compare haha

i mean ive been playing this build for the last 5 days and ive tried all the combos there are and really the difference is very small
maybe over 1000 games u would see a benefit of time saved xD

Use Doom. It can also be made in eth thundermaul has almost the same base damage as Botd,+ 2 Skills (wich is Great for the build) and also 20% deadly strike, only loosing 25-30% ds compared to death.

With 75%fcr build you still reach 65%+ ds with doom highlords and gores (also ~30%crit from levitation mastery)while using phoenix.

No way death does more damage than doom in an 75fcr setup, when both rolled good in good bases.

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Feb 18 2026 08:05pm

It’s less damage tho and I don’t need the aura either cos bind demon with holy freeze + cursed is already BiS

Death still does more dmg btw

Death basicly makes your levitation mastery crit useless

Doom can be 395ed eth thundermaul and has 20% deadly strike itself and + 2 skills.

Death only gives like 25% more deadly strike with a Lot less base damage.

With Doom you still get 65% deadly strike but so much more base damage and + 2 extra Skills.

And now the kicker: when you reach 90% deadly Strike with death , the 30+% crit strike from levitation mastery is basicly useless, since they are checked after each other.


So it is:

65% DS with 35% crit and Huge base damage and + skills

Vs

90% DS with 35% crit (wich is basicly useless) and a Lot less base damage

Taking into acount that death basicly makes your crit chance from levitation mastery useless, the 25% more ds on DEATH are in reality more like 10-15% more, while doom does a whole lot more base damage and also granting + skills.

Death beats BOTD but not doom in an eth thundermaul, no way

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Feb 18 2026 08:36pm