The idea of the obsession build in case you missed it is to just get teleport to a high enough level the mana cost is low enough you can infinite teleport without insight. Since obsession can be made in a +3 teleport war staff, which gives +7 teleport overall (it works). Hence also trying to use +all skills on shako / maras, or coven / maras / sojs, etc. Getting your max mana high enough you offset your mana usage in teleport just from base regen + magefists / other small %regen sources
I find that it only takes around 900-1000 max mana and you've reached essentially infinite even if it still drains slightly per cast, since you walk / pick up items / click on shrines / exits a bit and recover rapidly.

So a setup like shako / maras / rare fcr / sling wants some +mana on that ring and maybe even some +mana charms. I used 5x +mana scs on ladder and it did just fine

What would you consider kinda the low end of the build gear wise? Something where I can test it out and see if investing is worth it for me vs investing into another build. While also considering the QOL to me of not having to pot a lot is important to me. Im willing to buy a setup, just concerned with dumping a ton into it yet before I see how it compares. If you have a d2planner of it, I can try it offline and that would be very nice.

Use a 3 tele insight staff and aim for 75fcr, that’ll give you a good idea if you like it or not. I maxed out the build and personally didn’t like the playstyle and find that it suffers on fire immunes especially in a tz full clear use case.

On a new ladder you can get away with using some real trash gear to level up like tele staff, authority, leaf->ondals, rando tome -> measured wrath, lore->+3 circlet, any ammy -> +3 ammy, magefist. And getting arachs/sojs is a bigger investment early on. But the obvious hurdles are enigma -> infinity and to a lesser extent CTA. That's the bare minimum runeword to reach the functional state where you sweep TZ quickly. And frankly, once you do have enigma+infinity+cta, everything else has very minor benefit and can be done cheaply with no real difference in payoff. You can use plain skillers, low roll boots, plain +3 ammy/circlet, low roll mang songs. Optimizing around obsession was just a way to improve the QoL in a decked out build, I went up to level 98 with a 75 fcr insight staff setup and had no troubles

If you aren't going to be able to get an enigma in a reasonable time, sorc is always going to be better than any other build, that's just a fact of D2

Highest summon tainted possible level: 65

With sunder 64

Most damage 63 mang song


https://imgur.com/a/Lx4SIsS

This post was edited by fuzzy0681 on Jul 17 2026 04:51pm

Thanks for the write. I need to look through and read all the posts. I need to see what the best demon is now as im still fresh back and not familiar with the process of even acquiring the demon so ill have to find out and educate myself. My main concern with the build is fire immune monsters and its clear speed dealing with those.

- Constant mana potting
- really does quite terrible in chaos sanc
- probably has low MF and low Goldfind



i think an abyss lock with 11k damage 280 mf > this by quite a bit

2 alternatives
Bowlock hex bane with elaborate tedious prebuff
Full demon 2 defiled
Full abyss Full bind demon
Fire lock

Ok 5x alternatives

The most practical BiS for players prebuffing is mang song, enigma, +3 circlet, +3 ammy, +2/3 tome, magefist, 2x soj, arach, wraithstep, 8x skiller, sunder, torch, anni, cta buff for level 56 tainted / 52 mastery
the most possible +skills would be a +6 tome, +6 dagger, 9x skillers, skill shrine and consume hephasto, which is of course both less damage than mang song and totally impractical, but gets you 65 tainted / 58 mastery



Properly built this has no mana usage at all and 300%+ mf. You can't even use mana unless you spam blood boil without hitting anything. Teleport costs no net mana over regen, and blood boil gives you excess mana from hex siphon
It does better in chaos than pretty much any build short of java or mosaic. Your blood boil spam is faster than a nova sorc in chaos, but why bother with chaos when other TZ areas are faster and more rewarding


If you think an abyss lock matches up to it, does that mean I have to make a new version of this video, with abyss lock in the top?
I think it would be about half the speed of a demon lock in p8 tz

wrong on all 3 fronts. Abyss lock doesn't come close to this. This is the premier warlock MF build.