This is faster than dark lancer because you don’t need to wait on her jab and the spread to line up. Also this has best sustain

Also you can’t accidentally consume your lancer that took an hour to farm

This post was edited by ahyp on Jun 25 2026 08:02am

Demons just aren't useful if you're spanking everything in a shot or two. As I noted, I think if you're going to do it, really lean into it and do whatever you can to buff the dps it puts out, and use it to buff your own dps. That means colossus xbow instead of demon xbow, and using might on the a2.

How quick is this build with high life bosses (t5 heralds, baal etc)? Or is it more about good density clearing?

I’m not sure how the interaction with 10% crushing blow works with arrows and mirrored blades.

Isn’t it half effective for CB on bows?

But you have 5% chance of CB per arrow?

Which means it’s actually 23% chance to crush a boss?

Either way it’s way more effective at boss killing than hex purge ES. It’s no charged strike, but it’s good enough.

Also
With 3% mana leech and life leech on gloves and no damage increase auras (holy freeze and insight merc) only
I am staying at full mana and leeching back any hits I take over time. Seems good enough

This post was edited by ahyp on Jun 25 2026 08:09am

Act bosses, maybe a few seconds. Some heralds can take a bit longer but overall it's pretty quick. If you're feeling up to it, you can swap to your void/book and go up and whack them and they die even faster.

Crushing blow is doing work actually I think

You're probably not getting much of anything from mana leech, rather it's the 6-12 MAEK you get from 2 opals and a hellwarden's that keeps you full. Mirrored blades costs less than you return from each enemy you kill. I would 100% drop mana leech from your build in favor of something else if you can, it's completely unnecessary!

It’s only on the glove. Probably overkill, especially with insight merc, but that’s better news for a budget build of this. Easy blood crafting rolls


Planning out maybe starting abyss next ladder and farming chaos until the most minimally viable version of this build I can go, and just keep farming chaos for wealth. Normally start blizz sorc meph spamming for big wealth but this might be a little more fun next reset

This post was edited by ahyp on Jun 25 2026 08:14am

So with 10cb gloves you get 50cb with mirrored blades if all hit right?

CB does verrrrry little on these bosses. Bane is just that good. I just made a video to show.