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I've been really enjoying the witch doctor class, got myself not not too shabby gear now and the amount of effective different builds are staggering, im currently on a pet fetish build using firebats to pew pew while my 15 strong pet team tanks.. its fun!

I had a comparatively short-lived love affair with the witchdoctor, but what I didn't like was when all my dogs and garg were off screen attacking a white mob, I'd get overrun by elites. At the time I didn't see an easy way of resolving the matter as my admittedly under geared WD had no spell that would nuke something down when needed. I'd like to try the class again, but am also not hugely keen on the idea of fetish builds. Can the class function quite happily as a nuker and will it be more tanky than my DH?
 
I had a comparatively short-lived love affair with the witchdoctor, but what I didn't like was when all my dogs and garg were off screen attacking a white mob, I'd get overrun by elites. At the time I didn't see an easy way of resolving the matter as my admittedly under geared WD had no spell that would nuke something down when needed. I'd like to try the class again, but am also not hugely keen on the idea of fetish builds. Can the class function quite happily as a nuker and will it be more tanky than my DH?

With the correct gear the damage output is insane.

Mask of Jeram for +100% pet damage
Tasker & Theo for +50% pet attack speed

That's an insane DPS upgrade just from two pieces. I feel WD is the strongest class at the moment. Especially with 6 set Jades.
 
the game doesn't like me probably, I play WD alamost exslusively since RoS and I had all sorts of leg hats including green zunni and jade...but not Jarem. When I got Carnival I started using fetish army+darts. +60% poison from amulet, wrist and ring allows me to do bounty and rifts on t4. With 3 pieces of zunni I think i will be able to move to t5 and clear rifts quite quickly.
 
How do i make the best of this crappy Cindercoat roll?

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Re-roll 2 sockets to 3?
Re-roll 15% fire dam to 20? (currently +90% fire dam total)
Re-roll 15% life to vit? (322k life atm)
or re-roll LPK to Poison Res? (stacking poison res for One With Everything, 1149 atm).
 
Bust out your calculator.

What %age the extra 280 Dex from the socket equals in relation to your current dex?
What %age the extra 5% fire would give on your already 90%? (For ex +15% when you already have +150% is only a 10% increase)

If the damage increases you get from the above seem paltry, then consider the life% to vit. 322k is pretty low to be honest.
 
Rift it Forward is amazing. Got 1000 bloodshards last night and it only cost me 15 rift keys.

Not to mention those 1000 shards were collected in about 1 hour. Would recommend.

Even if you enjoy rifting solo, you can get your rifts opened for free and never have to worry about getting keys all the time.

Did you just go for games where it was lowest paragon opens or something as 1k shards is 20 rifts

I did a couple last night but since most of the stuff I want for dh can't be gambled I'm better off as a runner than an opener anyway.
 
Did you just go for games where it was lowest paragon opens or something as 1k shards is 20 rifts

I did a couple last night but since most of the stuff I want for dh can't be gambled I'm better off as a runner than an opener anyway.

I just joined any. 90% of people there advertising just say "lowest paragon opens" so at P415 I got a lot of free shards. Wasn't complaining.
 
Meh, just spent a few hours on the game on both my barb and WD and not had a single legendary/set drop. Didn't even find any decent yellow items either lol. Game hates me today it seems! :(
 
How do i make the best of this crappy Cindercoat roll?

Re-roll 2 sockets to 3?
Re-roll 15% fire dam to 20? (currently +90% fire dam total)
Re-roll 15% life to vit? (322k life atm)
or re-roll LPK to Poison Res? (stacking poison res for One With Everything, 1149 atm).

Dex, life and 2 sockets is not so bad. The resource cost reduction is good.

Re-roll LPK to poison res, a good roll poison res is far more valuable than anything else you could change.

EDIT :: FYI below is what i run for T3 atm for my fire monk. I have no res at all on rings chest or helm. +80% fire, +49% elite.

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Anyone else lagging like ****? Chat is fine, rest of my net is fine yet I can't play for ****. Frustrating this happens on the one night of the week I have time ti play.
 
Dex, life and 2 sockets is not so bad. The resource cost reduction is good.

Re-roll LPK to poison res, a good roll poison res is far more valuable than anything else you could change.

EDIT :: FYI below is what i run for T3 atm for my fire monk. I have no res at all on rings chest or helm. +80% fire, +49% elite.

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oh ok nice. i picked up a SoJ last night with 15% fire dam too, which puts me at 105%. Good place to stop?

My thoughness is a little low so im going to try to use shoulders legs and waist to bring it up. what are you rocking in those slots?
 
oh ok nice. i picked up a SoJ last night with 15% fire dam too, which puts me at 105%. Good place to stop?

My thoughness is a little low so im going to try to use shoulders legs and waist to bring it up. what are you rocking in those slots?

You need to get gnk spirit stone with that fire damage! It scales with fire, and is bugged to hit first target twice. That's 800% damage with max roll, more than the LTK itself

I have this in storage but use another with +life on it atm for higher torments

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I use Cain's set for legs + boots as the mats are so easy to farm. Makes crafting for OWE resist much less painful (i use poison also). And decent 2 set bonus. There are better sets obviously but the mats are harder to get. Waiting to get RORG.

Shoulder is just random burden of the invoker stuck there, vit & allres on it. Probably weakest piece i have. I have cdr on it also but will switch it to 15% life when i can afford it!

Hellcat waistguard with vit & poison res
 
I got the plans for the Cain set the other day. Do you think it is worth crafting the legs and boots on my Barb? I have the firewalkers at the moment which seem to tick for around 600,000 damage which is nice.
 
I've just crumbled and bought the RoS expansion but the "Adventure" mode is still greyed out!?!?!

I know it says you have to complete the campaign to unlock it but I have already done that both with my L60 monk as wel as my newer L49 Wizard!

Does this mean I have to complete the game, from the start after I've bought the expansion?? :confused:
 
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