Build Guide
SKILLS
- GARGANTUAN: Humongoid
This is your main damage dealing ability, the Gargs deal massive damage and also cleave for some AoE clear. You always want to be buffing the gargs with gear, for example, Garg damage % on chest/Cold damage on bracers. The AI on the gargs isn't the greatest, the best way to maximize your damage is to recast them right in the middle of a group of mobs that you've gathered together with Piranhado.
- FIRE BATS: Plague Bats
Plague bats does a decent amount of damage but it's really there for the damage/damage mitigation from Mantle of Channeling, the sustain and damage reduction from Coils of the First Spider, and to stack both Taeguk and Bane of the Stricken.
- BIG BAD VOODOO: Rain Dance
Rain Dance in conjunction with the Belt of Transcendence/SMK combo allows you to always channel Plague Bats while keeping your mana topped off for the Aquila Cuirass.
- PIRANHA'S: Piranhado
Piranhado is very important to the build, paired with Grave Injustice, you're able to group mobs close together to maximize the damage from the Cleave from the Gargantuan's and also the Area damage proc'ing from the pets.
- SOUL HARVEST: Languish
Languish is pretty mandatory to stay alive, paired with the Soul Harvester and Lakumbra's Ornament, you're getting 100% armor, 60% damage reduction, as well as 30% more Intelligence.
-SPIRIT WALK: Severance
This will save you against nasty champion and elite affixes as well as give you a bit of movement speed when moving inbetween groups of enemies.
PASSIVES
- MIDNIGHT FEAST
Midnight Feast to buff the damage of the Gargs
- SPIRIT VESSEL
Spirit Vessel for a second life, the higher you go in solo GRIFTS, the more needed this is.
- GRAVE INJUSTICE
GI to reduce the cooldowns of Piranhado/Spirit Walk which will keep you alive. You also get more slows out of Soul Harvest Languish.
- SWAMPLAND ATTUNEMENT
Toughness per enemy within 20 yards, this effect gets amplified by pick up radius on gear, making it a very valuable secondary stat.
- CONFIDENCE RITUAL
Confidence Ritual will give you more damage, but you have to be in melee range basically, which you are a lot of the time while channeling Plague Bats anyways
Any chance for a Video to see how it goes?
Sweet, Can't wait to see it in action!
Hi,
A few questions regarding this build :
- which follower are you using for solo perf ? how do yo stuff it ?
- Why using plat bat instead of the cloudsof bats ?
- As a wep you recommend the SH, but you also recommend the socket and % dmg. So it would be better to get a SMK with % dmg CHD and the socket no ?
Thanks for your answer and thanks for the post where you've regrouped all these build !
Friendly,
Nazgu
Any word on how this build will work with Taeguk being re-designed? I'm considering WD next season...
Amazing build! Thank you for this. This build is super tanky, and does major damage. Arcane, Electricity and bombs are still a problem, but duck and run, let gargs handle the problem. =)
Even with Level 0 gems, I was able to run GR 50.
Now that my gems are lvl 50, I can solo run GR 65 comfortably.
This is my new goto build for WD.