Witch Doctor - Builds/Discussion - Page 20

On May 30 2012 23:22 Heh_ wrote:
God I hate A2 inferno. I'm getting a bit bored of farming the warden and butcher. Spent 4 hours to get to the terminus (quest just before killing Zotun Kulle) after dying ~50 times.... I need to get to A3 somehow......

On May 31 2012 04:16 Corvi wrote:
when i do coop games, i feel like my dmg is a fucking joke. it's not like i rarely meet people, who do considerably more dmg, but fuckin everyone seems to do at least twice my dmg. worst with demon hunters and sorceresses.

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in short, i feel my equipment is alright and i also do alright in solo (except some elite packs obviously). i dont know how to do much better without spending ridiculous amounts of gold in auctions, but as of now, coop playing my doc makes me very sad.

On May 31 2012 05:03 wintergt wrote:

Have someone invite you to act 3, or use the exploit where you make a game in hell for act 3, leave, then join a public game for this quest and you will be there in inferno. Then clear a quest there (siegebreaker is super easy) and you will have this difficulty available forever.

Or if you want to clear act 2 normally, do it in group and body-hop past everything, that is how a lot of people are doing it. Belial will be a serious roadblock though, his phase 2 is insanely hard to beat on inferno. I have given up on him for now until I get better gear and am doing act 3 now.

On May 31 2012 04:16 Corvi wrote:
i seem to have a major misunderstand on how to equip witch doc. im act2 inferno.

when i do coop games, i feel like my dmg is a fucking joke. it's not like i rarely meet people, who do considerably more dmg, but fuckin everyone seems to do at least twice my dmg. worst with demon hunters and sorceresses.

all of my armors are with int/vit, having the highest i can get for under 200k per item focussing on int of course. gloves also have atk speed. then i have 2 20dmg/int and 1 atkspeed/int ring/amulet. my weapon is 700 dps, which isnt quite high, but with decent stats and anything i consider better costs at least 1,5-2 million. unharvested i'm at ~17000 dps at 34000 hp and my primary attack obviously is splinter poison darts.

in short, i feel my equipment is alright and i also do alright in solo (except some elite packs obviously). i dont know how to do much better without spending ridiculous amounts of gold in auctions, but as of now, coop playing my doc makes me very sad.

On May 31 2012 11:40 udgnim wrote:
bought an A3 waypoint to the start of the Siegebreaker quest for 100K because I wanted to get the fuck out of Keep and killed Siegebreaker

WD DPS is 39-40K and it still feels lacking against A3 elites

reflect damage is hilarious to fight against though having transitioned to glass cannon. never really had an issue reflect damage in A2 when I was still wanting to maintain a combination of VIt & Resists

On May 31 2012 11:58 Coolness53 wrote:


How are you faring with Vit and Resists then instead of the glass cannon builds?

On May 31 2012 15:23 ihasaKAROT wrote:
Or a sorting by date end... Anyway, my damage is starting to get quite good, just gotta grind out till lvl60 now

52, using acid rain/grasp combo for the damage, while having some ias for splinters. havent died yet, shud have made HC character

On June 01 2012 01:24 Charger wrote:
I modified a build I found a couple weeks ago and it seems to be doing well for me, but I did just start Act II Inferno so maybe I will change my tune soon. Anyway, here is the build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#aZeRUk!XWV!aabacZ

Poison Darts as the main DPS. Grasp of the dead and wall of zombies for CC, haunt is amazing when kiting (which you will be doing A LOT of), hex is just amazing vs champion packs, and of course spirit walk. Passives are blood ritual, ptv, and spirit vessel.

I played MUCH differently all the way through hell using gargantuan, firebombs, and so on but once I hit inferno it didn't work at all.

My gear still leaves a lot to be desired but here are my stats atm:
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Any constructive criticism or other thoughts?

On June 01 2012 01:35 Heh_ wrote:

Good luck dealing with jumping cats, things coming out of the ground, and invisible snakes. I had a ton of problems dealing with them, and it seems your survivability isn't much better than mine (you have more resist/armor but less hp). I would take the jaunt rune instead, 1 extra second is so important. I don't like haunt; feels like a waste of a skill slot because splinters deals so much more damage even while kiting. Vision quest doesn't seem useful either; you don't have a huge mana sink like zombie bears.

On June 01 2012 01:38 Charger wrote:


I don't have vision quest :p

I am concerned about the same things you are. I used jaunt basically exclusively since I got it until the last couple weeks, I still can't decide which I like better - the healing is so nice too. What would you think about instead of haunt in the current set up?

On June 01 2012 02:03 Heh_ wrote:

Sorry I'm blind. Dunno why I thought I saw vision quest...

This is my build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#afZXUP!XWV!acabcb

I prefer zombie bears over haunt. I know some people skip zombie bears altogether, but I like it for bursting down stuff that surround me. Cast spirit walk, spam bears, hope stuff die before spirit walk ends. You will probably need some AoE when 3-4 of those invisible snakes suddenly appear in your face.

The one extra second of spirit walk is really useful. It's amazing how far you can run (away) with 6 seconds in spirit realm. That extra 14% heal isn't gonna matter so much when your hp is either at 100%, 40-50%, 10% or 0%.

For tougher elites, fetish army keeps them really busy while you can spam away poison darts. For even tougher elites (invulnerable minions, or fast accurseds), lure them into a corner and suicide...

On May 31 2012 21:17 BurningSera wrote:
so i decided to proceed my game (after some hours of farming in other act), now i am kiting all day like a dh in act2.

i feel like i am forced to play as a subpar dh in inferno. with 40k hp, 30k dps (mostly pure damage, only have 30% attack speed added in, can go up to 40k+ if i soul rape 5 enemies), 350-400+ on elemental res, 500 phy res, 3k+ armor, i can kill most normal mobs in 2-5 hits in act2, more so with 1-2 hit if i do firebat but there is simply no way to kill half of the elites. shield/invulnerable elites will trigger enrage timer most of the time. One bomb from lacuni huntress still 1 shot me, well, i have 300hp left i think. with the same level of gears a dh would have no problem to clear act3 (a mate proved that and he barely has any res/vit obviously).

we are supposed to be nukers, but we cant nuke them down fast enough and without pets tanking us further expose the design flaw in wd. we need to buy dps AND vit+res, tell me this is intended. I do not enjoy being wd in inferno at all (at least from act2 on). The class is so much fun up until Hell but thats it. at this point i really feel like they didnt even test wd in inferno at all.

i am so regret that i missed the big exploit of that replenish chest may be that was intended............

my gears/stat:
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On June 01 2012 03:17 Charger wrote:


I only briefly used zombie bears, the range is just so short TT but they do so much damage.

Fetish army seems interesting actually - I just haven't used that yet so I don't know what to expect.