The setups do get kind of close on tradeoffs of QoL and stats so I don't necessarily put any of them as BiS, especially where attainability is concerned. Using craft ammy + shako + sojs means losing the 30% resist on maras, so you could get resists and +mana on an ammy but they are mega expensive. Shako setup is better than coven, but coven is dirt cheap and still has 40% mf and can be +1 teleport compared to other setups for extra mana reduction, even if its missing the ~145+ life/mana and CBF / 10% dr, its still plenty usable. And the tradeoffs stay similar with rings: Using 2x soj means you don't need to swap them for prebuff, but using sling means you don't need to swap a tome of town portal in/out of your inventory or put scrolls in belt, so its saving at least some clicks and town visits (but you still need ID tome and refills).

Any of those setups works and they're all pretty similar. Coven+maras+sojs is cheapest, cham shako+maras+sling+fcr rare/craft ring is probably strongest per slot if not more ornery prebuff, while cham shako+craft ammy+sojs is a good balance at a high cost

I use shako + maras + sling + fcr rare ring with lots of mana
Sling is amazing, never take it off

no Cham, dont really feel the need for CBF here. And if I did - Horazon Boots exist

I think the cham for CBF is the smallest tradeoff, since the opportunity cost is 15% resist jewel/um, 8% dr, 25% mf or some 5% max resist. Not the case for fire setups where you need facet of course
Since boot slot could be 30-40% triresist and up to 25% mf and 80% gf, or 25 cold/light and 10% more frw, or -5% frw but 50% mf travs, or even hotspurs if you're all-in on hardcore survivability.
I found these greaves named greaves so I stuck with them because redundant boots are lucky



The thing is, about 1/4 of all unique mobs will be cold enchanted and will explode for 869 damage / 101 second cold duration frost nova when you stomp them, and even with 75% cold resist that would be 20.25 duration. You can honestly just neglect cold resist because this is the only source of major cold damage/duration in the game in normal PvM, and once you have CBF its just a minor damage source. I have 65% all resists with my 66 obsession / 17 torch / 19 anni / 30 maras and 3@ sc, and max out fire/light because of those boots and get the missing poison from a single charm slot. Better gear I'd have incidentally maxed cold resist, but I wouldn't bother even if it was 50%, its not like the ~300 hp lost per frost nova is killing me now. But 20 seconds of cold duration slows you down while walking in town or picking up items or just dodging herald archers.

Cham sounds good on phys build. With obsession shako you don’t need more res or dmg reduction .. guess with good rolls on Amy /obsession/torch/ani you can keep wraithstep on from prebuff to get one extra skill level on blood boil. Just need some res small charms to max out.

This would also skip one more prebuff swap.

Shako + 2/20 Amy + 2soj + wraithstep setup would be bis if you roll high res on all slots. This also keeps the most + skills for minimal prebuff time. Would also be best for short runs where full prebuff isn’t worth the time.

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Jul 5 2026 10:44am

with Obsession I dont think you need to worry about res on boots at all. 60-70 all-res is huge
I just use WT

though I do have Um in my Ars'Baalos

Yeah you could use wraithstep for blood boil but eh, honestly the potential MF/GF alone is worth more imo. It does come down to that aspect of really not needing blood boil for most of the time, or the mang songs build might even be better
If you had 70% obsession, 40% anni+torch and 30% maras, you're already at 75/70/70/70 resists before any items. So yeah you could use a single sc, though it might leave you vulnerable to a conviction burning soul pack or something
You already get fire resist overcapped from resist fire aura on tainted, even the flame rift builds get offset. And then lightning and poison should be maxed, but it doesn't take much, and CBF really negates any point in additional cold resist but its still free off @ resists.

With some high roll gear you could actually just use crafted caster boots that are
>frw, MF, gold find, mana
and the implicit mods (2-5% max mana, 4-10% regen, 10-20 mana)
but those would be super hard to obtain, and just getting the right affixes alone is 1:89652 before you look at the rolls. you'd be lucky to get 2/4 affixes

You could definitely get away with using war travs or basic rare mf/gf/frw boots with no resists though
I wouldn't sacrifice much of anything for +1 skills alone

With good rolls on gear you can max out res pretty easily:

70 obsession + 20 torch + 20 ani . Get a 2/20 10@ + amu + sc’s with 7/mf and 5@ and you are maxed out . Boots are free for wraithstep/wt.

Then you can run 2x soj, Shako with Cham and wraithstep for best qol, mf , highest blood boil level , highest mana pool. Rest of the small charms 7mf/mana . Skillers a mix of life/frw for faster town speed and prebuff. Guess that’s bis setup and does it all

I just like wraithstep cause this + 2x soj means the least swapping for prebuff gear

Edit: since fire res is capped with tainted, going for a 2/20 amu with just light res would be enough even without small charms. Could go for 11 cold or poison res scs then .

This post was edited by Junglist69 on Jul 5 2026 11:24am

Can it clear ubers + uber ancients?

I tried and had to gear up a smiter.

Uber ancients would definitely wipe all the summons in my experience. Maybe if you constantly tele'd tho and let the tainted shoot?

This post was edited by BdizzleD2 on Jul 6 2026 07:36am