i want to also point out that using the setup you described, durs mephistos is going to better than spirit, meaning it will be even more crucial for the gloves to have 20% fcr, since the durs mephistos can be like ~200% ED (150 from the shield and + 50 from the new facet)

I guess but its pretty minor difference since its just +2 skills 30% fcr 115% ed 25% mf+ socket and "you MUST have 20% fcr on your crafted amulet to hit 125"
vs +2 skills 35% fcr +0/35/35/35 resists +112 mana +66 post-bo life +8 magic sorb

you've got flexibility to hit 125 fcr with less than perfect gear since you can spare ring slots, ie you could use a +3/10 amulet with hellwarden's will and 1 fcr ring and you'd still be at 125 with laying of hands on, or hell use 2x fcr rings and use highlords too, but as I say the overall damage buff isn't too big from it

which is why its much easier to use 20% fcr gloves, because you can just do insight, enigma, arach, trang gloves, mephistos. if you use just the most basic griffons, your mephistos only needs to be 25%, and u will gain 200 ED over spirit. if you find a 2/20 circlet, then you will need a 30 fcr mephistos. you can wear dual BK rings. this is my current setup and it works great

this has to be the most polite AND sophisticated argument I’ve ever seen on jsp

I still want to finish my full magic one, with azurewrath. Most the crap that is physical immune is undead, so lul.

Agree - good food for thought here. Appreciate everyone’s input

This is how I run it:

GEAR:
Shako (guardian light currently in it)
Dul meph book 30fcr -20mr (currently um’d’)
Obsession
Nigma
Crafted 2warlock 10fcr 5ml ammy
Soj and bk
Arach
War trav
LOH GLOVES

6skillers torch anni gheeds and 5@res scs (have room for a renewed cleft sunder but haven’t found th one i want yet)

Merc: cure CoH and pride

Skill distribution:
20echoing strike
20mirrored blades
20hex bane
20consume
15purge
1 lethargy

1pt all in demon tree (I have a lvl 20 demon mastery with only 1pt invested) you can technically take off the soj to put on a sling ring for Grushes and still have a lvl20 mastery when you battle command.

I only max echo for its uber grief-like base damage and mirrored for the extra blades (and it’s a hex bane synergy)

I have 9k magic damage per projectile at -40 enemy magic Resistance. I consume defiler and have an extra one out. So a direct hit with all blades is 45k magic damage before the negative resistance.
I have 125fcr 86fhr. Max res 5k health(all my skill Gcs are plains) and 312magic find.
Literally everything on p8 melts instantly WITH ZERO DEADLY STRIKE. I’ve tested all the builds and this one runs the most smooth to me. You get great mf while retaining your speed and power. Technically you don’t even need loh gloves lol you can just wear chancies or crafted mf maek leech caster gloves. The beauty of achieving 125fcr with open glove slot.

This post was edited by Hecka_Nice on Feb 28 2026 03:52am

Does anybody know if walock can use the life tap from Draculs with echoing strike

Does not proc

Do we know for a fact that % damage against demon works?
I use on my HCL echoing: https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/mw3dz0l7

I could potentially go Phoenix Monarch + LoH. Going from 125fcr to 75fcr
Could even get 85/74/80/30 res with Phoenix.