Build is insane. Tried it with the recommended runtime/prebuff gear and seems sooo good. Obsession Shako is great for mf and the qol is top notch.
I get that on mang Song / blood oath build you get some more damage but it’s super hard to cap resists/keep mana up.
But is it possible to build a mang Song Build that doesn’t have to use pots?
Like if you can get super bis stuff like a 2/20 2 socket rare circlet with mana/res , a sick 2/15+ amu with mana/res and some gg caster boots with high mana/res. Get mana roll on your sunder, depending on resist maybe on small charms. One 10fcr 100+ mana res ring + one opal.
Wouldn’t this be enough to keep your mana up even without obsession build ? Is this worth chasing or is the damage increase to minimal ?
The real problem becomes teleport mana cost. The more rares or crafts you use, trading +all skills for +warlock skills, you increase the mana cost of teleport. 8 mana per cast with obsession setup, but use mang song, rare circlet/ammy and its 14 mana per cast. You need 75% higher max mana to make it sustainable
Could it work? Maybe. Get super duper high mana rares and charms. You'd have lower level bo so its tough, but maybe possible. I felt good at 1000 mana on 8 cost, maybe 1750 mana on 14 cost would be the target. I mean, you could always stat energy. But then like you say, you also struggle to cap your resists. And you lose all that mf, gf, fhr, life, etc. And as you use fire facets you lose more sockets that could be cham, ist, ber.
The big takeaway from taintlock gameplay is just how little you actually need to use blood boil, or even when you do how it might not matter if its higher dps. For most of the game you can afk hold down teleport and never cast another spell. In areas like flayer jungle or WSK or other dense low hp mobs, you can speed up with blood boil but extra damage would be redundant. Its only against big packs of high hp high dr fire immunes like frenzytaurs or venom lords where blood boil becomes a dps bottleneck. And even then its working side by side with a jab demon killing p8 tz venom lords in 2 hits after amp. So when you have the option to deal about 80% of the blood boil dps of a more dps focused build, on a build that just skips 19 skill points in a synergy and maxes QoL and has 50% higher bound demon dps, its just better. I think the wise innovation a few pages back was the guy who used FRW skillers and nats boots just to move faster in town and picking up items- the HP was already stupid high and the cham + frw was the best QoL to speed up PvM even more
This post was edited by Goomshill on Jul 5 2026 04:21am