Witch Doctor - Builds/Discussion - Page 27

On June 05 2012 00:21 udgnim wrote:


my WD is in A3 and has transitioned from trying to obtain a balance of resist, HP, and DPS for A2 to all out glass cannon and is currently at 61K+ DPS.

I highly suggest sacrificing survivability (you already don't have much in A3) and just looking for gear that will up your DPS and attack speed, but keep the gear you completely A2 with because its a lot more convenient to be able to play and tank hits and A2 DPS doesn't need to be as high as A3 to make decent headway

one thing you should definitely get though is 12% move speed boots + gear that ups movement speed like Lacuni Prowlers because the run speed definitely becomes useful since Inferno WD for most people is a ton of kiting

get a weapon with attack speed though (preferably as close to 25% IAS as possible). it will up your attack speed significantly assuming you have other gear with IAS



your timing window for DPSing is wider. you have more chances to attack with higer attack speed whereas a lower attack speed might have needed more space to attack. this is especially important to me when dealing with elites/bosses

61K DPS @ 2.92 attack speed does plenty of Splinter damage albeit single target damage which is one the biggest issues with WDs in comparison to what Wizard/DH has imo since WD damage is 90%+ splinters (at least mine)



you can keep Zombie Bears if you want, but if your main DPS skill is Splinters, imo I'd give up Zombie Bears

On June 05 2012 01:33 Torte de Lini wrote:
Waht difficulty are you?

On June 05 2012 01:37 MugenXBanksy wrote:


i am about done with with nightmare soo i am worthless to the discussion as everyone in here is already farming on inferno. But was interested if anyone has really tried playing with rain of toads.

but the guy I saw using it was on inferno.

On June 05 2012 01:38 Charger wrote:


Are you talking about the video on the previous page?

On June 05 2012 01:09 Heh_ wrote:

I've already sacrificed a lot of vitality. When I started Inferno I had 45k hp, all from items that I picked up. I'm going to drop it further if I find items that have more intelligence/other damage boosting stats.

With my current 1.9 attacks/second, I can kite pretty efficiently. Getting hit is mainly due to slow reaction time and being greedy, I don't find my current attack speed to be a big hindrance. I plan to boost this further with an amulet or a couple of legendaries.

If you think about it, a WD standing still has much higher dps than what is written, due to splinters. My effective dps is 67.5k, yours is a mind boggling 110k.

On June 05 2012 03:53 Daozzt wrote:
Sorry, I haven't really gotten a response from the item worth thread, so I decided to post this here. I recently found a knife with high loh and attack speed, but I don't really know how much it's worth since I'm pretty clueless on witch doctor mechanics. I might end up giving this to a friend if it's not very sellable (on US server). I threw it up for 10m in the auction house for kicks, but that seems waaay overpriced.

On June 05 2012 04:03 Heh_ wrote:

WDs don't care about LoH. 1 hit and we're dead anyway. Intel boost is nice but there's many items out there with better stats. You can buy better weapons for 10k. Have fun waiting for 36 hours.

On June 05 2012 04:03 Heh_ wrote:

WDs don't care about LoH. 1 hit and we're dead anyway. Intel boost is nice but there's many items out there with better stats. You can buy better weapons for 10k. Have fun waiting for 36 hours.

On June 05 2012 04:19 Daozzt wrote:
Ah, so any rough estimates? I'd honestly be happy with anything more than 1m.