Items
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Head
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Shoulders
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Amulet
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Torso
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Wrists
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Hands
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Waist
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Legs
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Feet
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Rings
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Weapon
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Offhand
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Cooldown Reduction: 40%+
Vitality on almost every Item (Occulus ring impossible, Royal ring also since we need a socket and CDR)
Physical Resistance on the secondary rolls, or Allresistance on the main rolls.
Reduces damage from ranged attacks on Chest, Shield, Bracers, Necklace (perfect case)
Reduces damage from elites on Shield, Chest (Occulus Ring, fixed roll, BT setbonus)
Allresist gems in Chest and Pants, Cooldown Reduction gem in the Headpiece
Stun on Hit on Gloves, Freeze on hit on Belt, Immobilize on Hit on Boots (additional crowd controll, we could roll Chill on Hit(Shoulders) or Slow on Hit(Pants) but they are both pretty useless since it doesn't lock down the boss)
Reduces the duration of control impairing effects 40%+, below it might get troublesome on Electrified/Nightmarish Elitepack affix combos (Possible slots: Rings, Headpiece)
Str/Dex instead of Int as Mainstat: I would recommend rolling some of your Gear on a Dex/Str based class. This two mainstats will provide Armor and increasing your thoughness. (I only had Str on my Shield, that's because I ran out of Crafting Materials, and allready had nice rolls on the gear)
Potions: Armor or Kulle-Aid (I used Armor-Potion on the 70 clear)
I described the perfect rolls here, just try to get as close as possible to it.
Please take a look at the pictures I posted below, they might answer some question that you have.
My gear used on the 70 clear PTR:
Follower Gear used on the 70 clear:
(Thanks @ HaKache for pointing out a mistake I made earlier, it's not corrected.)
Stats & Details (with/without active gem and followers):
DROPBOX LINKS:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sjkd5uiko2dvl07/zDPSgearPTRbig.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x8dc2xnazvrr2ii/followersPTRbig.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbks4qayj6sj1js/zDPSdetailsbig.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bwrpbvtcdfl4g9h/occulusPTR.jpg?dl=0
Paragon Priorities
Core
Vitality
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Movement Speed
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Primary Stat
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Maximum Resource
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Offense
Cooldown Reduction
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Attack Speed
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Critical Hit Chance
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Critical Hit Damage
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Defense
Life
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Armor
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Resist All
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Life Regeneration
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Utility
Life on Hit
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Resource Cost Reduction
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Area Damage
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Gold Find
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Core: Max out Movement Speed, everything else goes into Vitality
Offense: Cooldown Reduction, Attack Speed, the other stats don't really matter
Defense: Life, Armor, Resist All, Life Regen
Utilty: Life on Hit, Resource Cost Reduction, the other stats don't really matter once again
Build Guide
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Basically not much has changed considering the gameplay of this build. We are still able to lock down every mob with the Tiklandian Visage and Horrify, expect the Boss of course, for that we got Rush of Essence as a Passive Skill so we can spam Haunt and hopefully procc the secondary stats on our Gloves, Belt and Boots. It doesnt lock the Boss down guarantueed, but it provides a chance for some additional crowd control.
Reduces the duration of control impairing effects is a stat we going to need to be at around 40% or higher, below it might get troublesome on Electrified/Nightmarish Elitepack affix combos (Possible slots: Rings, Headpiece), since you cant interupt the Electrified casting (this cast also proccs Nightmarish on you) and that's the reason why we run the Xephirian Necklace as a mandatory item.
This is a SMK version of the build. Depending on how much the DPS needs Health Globes we can switch back to the 2.1.2 Solanium setup. That would mean we would have to switch to gear that gives us 50+ Critical Hit Chance in the best case, that means that we are going to lose thoughness though.. Everything else will stay gearwise.
Skillchanges would be -> removing "Fetish Army" and picking "Plague of Toads", with the "Rain of Toads" rune on the active Skills, and -> remove "Jungle Fortitude" and pick "Tribal Rites" instead
But let's get back to the actual changes.
One of the new Items coming in Season 3, the Occulus ring, is an amazing Supporter Item.
On top of the Reduces damage taken from Elites (12-16%), it has a new secondary skill, which provides a damage buff (35-40% increased damage).(please see Item section for tooltip, screenshot there)
That effect occurs not only on kill, but also on assist. Thats the reason why it is so good for a Support Char, and why Asheara's set is a viable option once again. I equipped all 3 Followers with the Occulus Ring, Testresult below.
Occulus Ring Effect (Followers up, 3 buffed areas/circles):
So the Followers now also provide a damage buff and not only some additional crowd control, which helps out a lot, especially on Bosses.
Good luck on the high Tiers, may RNGesus be with you.
Cheers
Ace aka BadBeatGaming
I really really really wanted to play zDPS in season 2, but after close to 90 hours of play time, majority of which has been on T6 and GRifts in the upper 20s, and spending around 15k shards on helms, I still have yet to find a Tiklandian Visage. I feel like I basically wasted all of season 2 because I absolutely hate solo WD play. And now in season 3 I don't want to risk another 90+ hours so I'm planning on playing a Barb (a class I've never played since D3 launch (no wizard either yet)).
Nice In depth guide BadBeatGaming! got 3 questions:
1- Could you please upload higher resolution pictures of your gear/follower setups?
2- Can you please elaborate a bit on why ranged reduction its an important defensive stat to stack?
3- What purpose does fetish army little guys serve (never played WD) is it because they can proc your secondary gear stats? freeze, stun etc?
Yo that shit seems intense. Grats, and thanks for the guide/ breakdown.
You're right, it does only make sense to procc Cull the Weak from DH.
I don't understand followers give you some all res?
I've heard that dex or str instead of int is better for support wd, is that true?
Did I miss it in the OP, I apologized for so; but why exactly are you using the 4 piece bonus for ashearas? I apologize if it is obvious.
Right, but the follower is only for solo right? I guess what I am asking is if the 4 set bonus to Ashearas is necessary for group play as that's all I use my WD for anyways.
Okay sweet, I play on ps4 and will be trying this soon. And keeping my st archews gloves as I don't think the affixes are retroactive for console other than set item bonuses. Thx for the info
Just wondering about the Maximus on the enchantress, do you think the demon tanking/distracting abilities are better than the extra crowd control brought by others weapons (Azurewrath, Thunderfury) ? And also, are the followers a real source of DPS on a full GR run to consider running BK Wedding Band or even Arcstone ? Wyrdward with TF could bring a lot of stun especially since the ring has been buffed.
Your followers' gear seems to be quite shared between crowd control and DPS choices, so I wonder what is your real point here, even if I guess that the purpose of running Ashaera is a lot of distracting/CC on the run and especially on the RG, as well as more proc from Oculus Rings (Which seems great for Barb but not that much with DH).
I'll appologize ahead of time if this seems like a dumb question since I haven't played D3 in awhile but how do you achieve 4 piece set bonuses with just 3 pieces?
Thanks BadBeat, already tried zooming in beforehand although the pictures are really difficult to read since they are 180x102 pixels wich is barely any higher than most web icons, this is how it looks at 500% zoom :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/295740725/toBoG/2015_03_26_18_55_32_z_DPSgear_PTR.jpg_Visualizador_de_fotos_de_Windows.jpg
I recommend using dropbox for sharing pics like these, its free and you can quickshare files of any resolution without problems
Any aditional comments on ranged reductions vs elite reductions vs melee reduction?
Thanks for the insight man!
Btw you may want to look at the pic issues because prolly you may bee seeing a different web page than most of us (prolly because the pics are on your local system) on both mozzilla and chrome guide pics looks like this :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4827494/D3/Bannedofgamers/Shoutbox/2015-03-27 08_12_33-2.2 zDPS Lockdown SMK Version (Grift 70 tested,PTR) - Witch Doctor - Diablo III .png
At least Follower gear pic just got bigger today yay , hope that info helps
Quote from BadBeatGaming
@mango98: That's what we use the Ring of Royal Grandeur for, it's special stat is to reduce the amount of set pieces required by one to get the bonus.
@Diggertyp: Well assuming that the latest PTR patch will be the live patch (after bugfixes ofc) the meta for 3man still would be WD/Crus/DH, maybe WD/Wiz/DH, since the Wizard (Ransloors Folly, the new Energy Twister Bracers, and the Slow Time set) has some nice new items which can help out gathering and controlling mobs while dealing damage. Barb could be a choice also, since they can do DPS and still provide some utility (Ground Stomp, Ancient Spear). The leaderboards on PTR are getting wiped soon, so we will be able to try new group constelations and see how high they can go up on the leaderboards, what was impossible before because it was Barbs all over the place, obviously with rankings before the IK nerf.
Ohh crap I totally missed that. Thanks for the response.
This setup requires so much gear its insane not only do you have to have your gear in line but all of your followers as well. Just insane amount of gear required. lol I like though! lol
Does this actually work on live? I've never seen a follower proc an Occulus circle.
With the Ring of Royal Granduer. Which stat is better? Life Per Hit or Attack Speed?