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On December 13 2012 17:12 Grovbolle wrote:You could probably get a better offhand for dirt cheap
If you run only bears, I guess you run out of mana real fast with that gear.
If that's a problem switch the ring, amulet and gauntlets for IAS to CC and CD.
But you will need to get a weapon with a socket or CD first I guess. Both is better obviously, but I don't know if you will find one with enough dps in your budget.
You will still run out, but slower 
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As corak said, you want to get ride of all your IAS and get CC/CD.
- Rings : Zuni pox (no CC with your budget but try to get one with average damage) + Hellfire
- Amu : Average damage, CC, CD + int/vita/%life. I personally like getting a talrasha amulet because one with Average damage + 200int + 200vita + 60CD is fairly cheap. But if you get one, you should change your weapon too. %elemental damage only applies to the physical damage of your weapon. Cheap black weapon : Butcher's sickle.
- Shoulders : If you want to upgrade -> Vile wards BUT you really need vita right now so I would keep yours for now.
- Gloves : Any rare with Int, CC, CD and allres or vita.
- Belt : Int , vita, allres
- Chest : I like tyrael armor but only with sockets and they don't go well with your pants.
- Pants : Like your chest, you don't have any vitality on them. 20k hp is not nearly enough ! so I would probably buy rare pants with Int, vita, Allres. (High vita).
- Offhand : thing of the deep is awesome and cheap.
other valuables stats are : Pickup radius, Armor, Strength, 2nd resistance (physical, fire, arcane)
Pickup radius from your gear increases the range of grave injustice and gruesome feast.
When I first geared my WD, I spent 5M for 35k hp, 750/800 allres, 60k dps (without IAS). So with 30M, if you buy smart, you'll have a pretty good character !
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Gloves : Remove attack speed, get more CC and CD.
Ring : CC on your zuni and average damage if you want more dps. armor/vita is pretty neat tho.
Mainhand / Amu : When you run talrasha+zuni boots, you want a black weapon. But again, your weapon is good so I would probably get a rare amulet with Avrg damage, Int, Vit/AR, CC, CD. You can use d3up to calculate your stats.
The other problem is : you have no pickup radius. I see 3 solutions.
1°) Thing of the deep as an offhand. Cheap and do the job.
2°) Get pickup radius on other pieces of gear but you're pretty well stuffed so...
3°) Change your skillbuild because you make little use of two passives. (do you use jinx for low mp farming ?)
I personally went for the 2nd option so I could get a zuni offhand and a visage of Giyua with acid cloud critics (still looking for one)
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On December 13 2012 05:56 RoMGraViTy wrote:Show nested quote +On December 10 2012 06:43 travis wrote:
so im using zero cooldown zombie dog build now
goin tanky with massive life recovery and im pretty sure this has to be the strongest WD build no doubt would u mind linking your profile?
i already sold it all! if u want ideas about what gear u need/what skills ican help with that
and i can tell u total my gear costed about 150mil to be able to do mp5+ very easily(i have no idea if thats efficient spending)
but i respec'd because as the other guy said it's annoying. it's strong but it's really not fun and no matter how i build mp.. say 8+ was either really slow or really dangerous
so i just rebuilt for acid rain now to build up paragon levels and my eventual plan is to gear for bears/corpse spiders with like insane dps and jungle fort + bad medicine. i think that could be interesting at mp10
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Not really. Was it ever?
For Paragon level farming you obviously want to kill stuff fast, so you need damage. For ubers you need a lot of dps or the bosses enrage, so you need damage. Survivability obviously still nice, but we have a reached a point where you don't really have to decide between damage and survivability any more. You can have both. (and you need movespeed on boots + 1 legendary with movement like Lacuni or Inna's pants)
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On December 14 2012 04:35 Soulmate wrote:Gloves : Remove attack speed, get more CC and CD. Ring : CC on your zuni and average damage if you want more dps. armor/vita is pretty neat tho. Mainhand / Amu : When you run talrasha+zuni boots, you want a black weapon. But again, your weapon is good so I would probably get a rare amulet with Avrg damage, Int, Vit/AR, CC, CD. You can use d3up to calculate your stats. The other problem is : you have no pickup radius. I see 3 solutions. 1°) Thing of the deep as an offhand. Cheap and do the job. 2°) Get pickup radius on other pieces of gear but you're pretty well stuffed so... 3°) Change your skillbuild because you make little use of two passives. (do you use jinx for low mp farming ?) I personally went for the 2nd option so I could get a zuni offhand and a visage of Giyua with acid cloud critics (still looking for one)
awesome feedback thanks!
what is the sweet sport for cc and ch? 35% cc + 350%ch?
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On December 17 2012 01:04 sCArtemis wrote:So after reading your comments, I've spent roughly a little under 10 mil to gear my WD up. My WD's gear currently looks as follows: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Artemis-1853/hero/3208884Do you guys have any other suggestions as to what to upgrade? Thanks!
I would say get more vita :D
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On December 17 2012 01:04 sCArtemis wrote:So after reading your comments, I've spent roughly a little under 10 mil to gear my WD up. My WD's gear currently looks as follows: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Artemis-1853/hero/3208884Do you guys have any other suggestions as to what to upgrade? Thanks!
Yes, your life pool is awfully low. Also, while attack speed does wonders for your sheet DPS, it's almost a detriment to a WDs efficiency, especially since you use zombie bears, those drain mana fast, instead of casting faster, you want harder hitting bears. In that light, I'd change your Andy visage and Thasker and Theo pieces. Also, 4 piece zuni bonus is really good and I'd recommend getting it, try for a zuni ring with +damage (cc ones are very expensive) and swap the helm for a zuni also. CC on zuni mask is pretty expensive too, so try to get one with pickup radius. Also, since your Int is already high, I'd recommend a thing of the deep for the extra pickup radius. For reference, here's my WD: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/m00nchile-2990/hero/22946755
His damage is a bit on the low side, I don't quite one shot trashmobs every time, but he's great for mp0 farming.
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I'm bad and like ias with echoing fury (darts instead of bears) but been having a ball with Fetish Sycophants. Nothing like having a perma army of 5-10 of these little buggers stabbing shit hehe.
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Is a build around Darts (my favourite single-target spell) and Poison Cloud (my favourite AE) viable at all?
I was thinking of getting back into Diablo 3 and create the only char I haven't played yet.
So here's a build I thought might work:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#aRUTXQ!TeY!aaaYZa
My gameplan is to gear around pickup-radius, so I can get as many procs of Grave Injustice as possible and burn through the mobs to keep the CD of Spirit Walk and Horrify low.
Do you reckon that works?
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On December 19 2012 21:21 kafkaesque wrote:Is a build around Darts (my favourite single-target spell) and Poison Cloud (my favourite AE) viable at all? I was thinking of getting back into Diablo 3 and create the only char I haven't played yet. So here's a build I thought might work: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#aRUTXQ!TeY!aaaYZaMy gameplan is to gear around pickup-radius, so I can get as many procs of Grave Injustice as possible and burn through the mobs to keep the CD of Spirit Walk and Horrify low. Do you reckon that works?
There is no reason not to have soul harvest with vengeful spirit on. Really good and really useful.
I would drop BBV and Gargantuan and take soul harvest and zombie dogs instead. That's just me though
Like me: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Grovbolle-2191/hero/677297
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On December 19 2012 23:55 Grovbolle wrote:Show nested quote +On December 19 2012 21:21 kafkaesque wrote:Is a build around Darts (my favourite single-target spell) and Poison Cloud (my favourite AE) viable at all? I was thinking of getting back into Diablo 3 and create the only char I haven't played yet. So here's a build I thought might work: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#aRUTXQ!TeY!aaaYZaMy gameplan is to gear around pickup-radius, so I can get as many procs of Grave Injustice as possible and burn through the mobs to keep the CD of Spirit Walk and Horrify low. Do you reckon that works? There is no reason not to have soul harvest with vengeful spirit on. Really good and really useful. I would drop BBV and Gargantuan and take soul harvest and zombie dogs instead. That's just me though Like me: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Grovbolle-2191/hero/677297
Does Soul-Harvest benefit from Pickup-Radius? It doesn't say so in the spell-description, and as it is, I found the spell rather a nuiscance to keep up when I leveled a WD to ~40 in late May.
Maybe they changed it, but as it were, I had to get to the mob very closely, then use the spell and when it only had a few seconds left and I wanted to refresh it by hitting only one mob, I would only get 1 stack. Is that still the case?
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It does not benefit from pickup increase. But it still an awesome spell. It gives you so much damage, no cooldown with grave injustice and you kill an entire pack of trashmobs with it.
I would use the cleave rune for gargantuan.
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During the last few days, I played a fresh level 60 Witch Doctor through Inferno with the following build:
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#afUVdT!ZTY!YcaZcZ
It's a synergistic Circle of Life / Sacrifice / Zombie Bears build. I started with the premise that I wanted to make good use of Circle of Life. That means I need to get close to enemies, and I need a large pickup radius. If I need to get close, I might as well use Zombie Bears and Soul Harvest. If I have a large pickup radius, that makes Gruesome Feast and Grave Injustice very good.
For the pickup radius, I strongly recommend Thing of the Deep. It's very good and dirt cheap. I got mine for 29k in the auction house. The rest of the equipment is standard stuff. The build dishes out plenty of damage, but at close range, so don't skimp on defensive stats. Some life leech and extra healing from orbs don't hurt. In my playthrough, I bought only the Thing of the Deep, and the rest of my equipment was what I found along the way.
Poison Dart and Gargantuan aren't required for the build to work and can be changed to your liking. I like these two because they shore up a few weaknesses, but one might also want to go all out on the "combo" and try Zombie Dogs - Final Gift.
I find this a fun build to play. Blowing up so much stuff with Sacrifice that you end up with enough zombie dogs to do it again is reminiscent of a necromancer chaining corpse explosion in Diablo 2. Like an Archon wizard, this build is at its strongest against large numbers of weak trashmobs. It depends on lots of enemies dying to generate healing orbs and zombie dogs, so it's not really suited for a high monster power setting.
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so does circle of life finally work without zombie dogs as active skill?
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