for survivability, ESPECIALLY with low end powerscrolls, HLA and DCI are probably very critical.
One of the key factors early on in sampire evolution was durability over damage.
Would it be better to go whammy? Less need for phys, which may free up a couple armor attribute slots. Lower overall skill requirement. Call it 40 necro, rest into SS? focus on SS for jewels?
Low end must be elf to start.
Heart of lion, elf leggings, ancient sammy helm, quiver of infinity = 55 DCI dirt cheap on suit
armor with at least these stats
7 Mana increase (cheap w/o ingredient)
7 stam increase (cheap w/o ingredient)
woodland armor with HCI
Jewels with
DI
Fire
HCI
Necro / SS
Dex or int
Now our budget guy is at 15 HCI , +21 stam, +21 mana, 50 DCI.
Weapon is hard, but
50 HLD
50 HLA
40 DI
max mana & life leech
all cheap and easy to imbue near max.
In wraith form, with double mana leech, can depend on divine fury for stam refresh and 10% SSI / 10% DI / 10% HCI, PLUS our DCI offsets loss.