Witch Doctor - Builds/Discussion - Page 64

On March 13 2013 23:18 matiK23 wrote:
Which works better on the Gruesome Feast/Acid Rain spec: LoH or Lifesteal?

On March 14 2013 06:21 Pokebunny wrote:

Depends on your DPS, but the LoH proc coefficient of acid rain is pretty good, so LoH should be sufficient.

On May 13 2013 23:26 WakaDoDo wrote:
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5644164388 A guide with builds. EU WD forums are really active btw.

Short 'omgwtf how do I WD?' by me.

stats are very simple, get as much as poosible.
int
vit
AR
crit dmg/chance


Gear:
Craft gloves, shoulders, bracer and amulet ---- they are just so good.
skorn with LS ---- much cheaper then equally good 1h+mojo, and cost effective mana-use.
4p zuni(helm, chest, ring and boots) ---- good bonus' and good stats.

This leaves you with a ring spot and the pants. Crit dmg/chance on ring and as high stats as possible on the pantalones.

Builds:
Choose zombie bears, cloud of bats or both. With bats you stand there and tank. WIth bears you have to aim. Personally I use both.
To counter low resource regen we choose to hit slow, but hard. Skorn is excellent in this case and gives us much more LS then a 1h would. The lack of frog mojo forces one to get pick-up radius elsewhere. The reason we want pick-up is to grab globes. But more importantly in higher mp we want to extend GI so it reduces the cooldown of Voodoo, mass hallucination, SW etc etc.
WD have excellent dmg buffs and they should be used as much as possible.

summary:
Trash mobs are only there to proc LS and reduce CDs. Thats all they are.
You want to pack the mobs/elites as tighly as possible and nuke them with bears/bats while standing in voodoo, hallu;paranoia and maybe hex,jinx the elites.

If you cant kill an elite before you run out of mana. Then its too high of a MP for your dmg/mana ratio.
If you cant kill an elite because it hurts you too much. First take a look at your passives if you have room for Jungle Fortitude. Secondly, think about your approach on the mobs, could you bring more trash mobs to the fight? Should you use jinx or paranoia?(use both if possible)

glhf WDs are awesome :D

On May 14 2013 02:30 crappen wrote:
Cheers wakadodo :D http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/crippen-2563/hero/1695717

I just bought the most essential, I have no paragon or MP yet, so I'll see how this gear holds up, and tbh I haven't even checked my own stuff. Only had about 3-4mill to spend. Damn these traits and abilites are awesome, it wasn't like this when I left my WD, then it was horrible VQ with spamming 4 abilites on CD all the time, and I still have that habit hehe.

If you see any apparent lack let me know. I think maybe Globe radius should be increased a bit as the guide you linked recommended 20, I have only 7. My problem right now is that I dont even know the AH and its prices, or what kind of stuff sells or not, I think that is the learning curve I need to take on. That is part of the fun, when it drop gears you know sells for a lot.

Black Gun, how is 200mill quite affordable lol? Did prices change a lot?

On May 14 2013 21:40 Doko wrote:
Once you don't die horribly to melee mobs at your current MP level of choice poison bats bats + grasp is pretty insane, After getting tired of aiming bears hugging walls it feels awesome to give 0 fucks about where you are standing.

You basically set up a kill zone in front of you and every trash mob crawls into your poisonous breath that ticks for 550ish weapon damage.