Also I'm not convinced %mf even applies to deathbox because you get some truly weird results from the initial kills, like dropping multiple runes way too frequently, or all non-magic, or I had one where they seriously dropped like 7 simultaneous amulets. Its messing with the actual item bases chosen and whether items upgrade. That baal kill had all socketed items, I don't think that's even possible in a normal kill is it. But %mf clearly applies to hork kills which are just normal drops. I wonder if people farming with portal barbs will deflate certain items and inflate others, because it seems like there's a limited slice of items that can drop from the glitched kills and high runes and charms of all kinds will become totally worthless, sunders especially. But it might even be worse for finding uniques, YMMV

i haven't tried to use hork with it because i found it somewhat hard to stack %mf while keeping the rest of the built.

Yeah to be clear same setup sins listed except 2x ali baba on swap and coven, hence the mf for hork

2x suicide branch (using 1 with protector's stone 5% xp / high mf/gf and low other stats, got it cheap, since %dr and damage doesn't matter. Other just has a 15% resist jewel with life
enigma
coven crown
+2 barb / 20% fcr crafted ammy (you could cheap out with griffs + 15 ammy, or just a +20 ammy with no barb skills since its really just BO
trangs gloves
arachs
2x sling
resist boots
2x ali baba on swap with ists
merc with insight, dream, coh
20 bo, 20 find item, 20 find pot, 1 leap 1 inc speed, 1 battle command, did a mix of shout & natural resist, and I put 1 point warcry but its not necessary


And yes I know coven can be made in a +bo helm. I should make one, I haven't found a base yet actually, and crown style >>>

This post was edited by Goomshill on Mar 11 2026 05:06pm

i got this almost exact setup with double sling ring, it's a real killer. but would a fort armor work instead of enigma to get that fcr without a 2nd sling ring? then rock harmony on switch to get to places? it would make the build cheaper since now that sling ring and suicide will get expensive

this is the theorycrafting we need. i'm already starting to see movements on the sling and sb prices. people still think this is a troll or a bit so we have a few more days before the real price movement happens and everyone learns how to bportal glitch to setup the build.

if you don't have an enigma you can go vipermagi and not need the craft ammy either, lots of cutting possible, but you use staff of teleportation on swap.
its enough for baal or chaos runs but you won't be TZ'ing without enigma

I did all kinds of pre-enigma runs this ladder and even had an optimal war staff with no +skills for cheapest repair

i just saw this. great breakdown on the mechanics behind this build. +rep

Ok this opened my eyes on not only how to achieve an early ladder build, but on how to abuse an even bigger death zone.

Replace enigma by viper.
sure you lose 1 skill, but you gain 30fcr
This makes it possible to replace the 20fcr amy by a rand mara, and 1 of the 2 sling ring by a soj/bk.
So this ends up with +1 to portal, at lvl 11, still 200fcr to be able to glitch them.

But you can also keep the 20fcr amy, the 2nd sling ring, and instead, replace the 2 suicide branch by 2 hoto for another whooping +4 to portal.

Initially I thought the radius of the death zone created by glitched portals was just scaling linearly. But it’s exponential.
I just tried it with max lvl and now the death zone covers an area as big as entire lvls of cata/wsk or even full tombs.
And with a bit of practice, I can glitch portals with a single double cast, resulting in full area clears in less than 0.5s (but you still need to tele around to pick up drops)

i feel like i should give credit to , he shared this build privately and knows way more than myself. For any questions I would PM him for sure.