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
Kanai's Cube
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The Furnace
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Tasker and Theo
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Ring of Royal Grandeur
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As far as the Life on hit on your weapon, it's very possible to drop this for Weapon % instead, but you'll need to fish for better rifts with this change. The Life on Hit gives you a lot of consistency, allowing you to fight potentially worse mob types.
Another option is to roll the Vitality off your bracers for Life on hit, and then going for the %damage on weapon, this is probably the most ideal set up.
CDR Gem in the helm unless you feel like you're getting 1 shot too much then life % gem.
Paragon Priorities
Core
Movement Speed
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Primary Stat
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Vitality
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Maximum Resource
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Offense
Critical Hit Chance
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Critical Hit Damage
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Cooldown Reduction
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Attack Speed
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Defense
Armor
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Life
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Resist All
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Life Regeneration
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Utility
Area Damage
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Life on Hit
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Resource Cost Reduction
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Gold Find
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Core
Movement Speed - Max this until you hit the 25% cap on sheet.
Intelligence - After movement speed you'll start maxing your main stat for damage and some All Resist.
Vitality - Only add Vitality if you're having issues staying alive/getting 1 shot.
Maximum Resource - Max Resource is never a good stat for this build.
Offense
Crit Damage - It's typically easier to get a lot of crit chance on gear, so go crit damage first. You always want to balance the two.
Crit Chance - Crit Chance second unless you are just overloaded with crit damage on gear but not much crit chance.
Cooldown Reduction - CDR is great for Piranhado especially, you want to me grouping mobs very tight for Area Damage.
Attack Speed - Attack Speed as a stat does NOT increase attack speed of pets for WD, but actually buffs the pets damage.
Defense
Life % - Life % first, especially if you're getting 1 shot.
Armor % - You get ALOT of Armor % from Soul Harvest but I still prefer it to All Res with how much Intelligence you have.
All Res - Intelligence gives you All Resist, so I typically max this after Armor.
Life Regen - By far the worst defensive stat, always max this last.
Utility
Area Damage - AD is working properly in 2.4.1 and pets now proc it, making AD an amazing DPS stat.
Life on Hit - Max this second for the Leeching Beasts for some nice sustain.
Resource Cost Reduction - This build doesn't use much resource but this stat is still better to max next over Gold Find.
Gold Find - No Gold dropping in GRs, obviously if you run this build in Torment, this stat gets better.
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.
- WALL OF DEATH: Communing with Spirits
Communing with Spirits proc's your 6 piece Helltooth and reduces incoming damage by 25% from affected enemies.
- ZOMBIE DOGS: Leeching Beasts
Most of your sustain comes from the Life per Hit from the Leechings Beasts. Getting Life Per Hit on your weapon is recommended.
- 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: Jaunt
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 is mostly to buff the damage of the Gargs but it also buffs the damage of the Zombie Dogs, as well as gives you 1 extra zombie dog.
- SPIRIT VESSEL
Spirit Vessel for a second life, the higher you go in solo GRIFTS, the more needed this is.
- GRAVE INJUSTICE
GI is mainly to reduce the cooldowns of Piranhado/Spirit Walk which will keep you alive. You also get more slows out of Soul Harvest Languish and Wall of Death.
- CONFIDENCE RITUAL/PIERCE THE VEIL
Either of these is fine. Confidence Ritual will give you more damage, but you have to be in melee range basically. Pierce gives you less damage but you're able to stay out of harms way.
I'll link because, as stated I'm new and literally have no idea how to PM someone haha
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/79436-zuni-helltooth-pet-dps-support-build-2-4-1-season
I am going to level another WD in the next few days to give your build a whirl!
Thanks!
hey jmac, follower of stream and big fan. currently at top 150 seasonal wd using this build. thank you. Question is.... i rolled int, vit, and area damage on wep (added socket), Im not sure if i should have AD or %damage on wep and i can only have one... which one would you use for this build. Would you get greater damage from the 24% AD or 10% damage to wep. Once again only choosing one or the other. Still working on getting wep with Int, LOH, AD.
Asking too becuase when i look at leaderboard everyone seems 50/50, everyone is not just using 1 or the other.
leaderboard doesn't have fully optimized gear yet. AD is best stat for garg next to actual garg dmg
Neat guide! Thanks!
Any advice for what follower/gear/abilities to use with this build? Thanks.
Heyas:
Just wanted to pop in and say thx for the build. Excellent write-up and your video is top notch. Also good to see this from someone who actually plays a WD.
Thxs very much!!! Love this build!!!
J_Macc:
here is an idea I have been toying with. I think if you tweak it a bit you can make it a strong contender for this build for solo GRifts.
Basically it is Zunis + Helltooth. Since you get defense from helltooth you drop the scared weapon and pick up SMK and use BBV.
Take a look please and let me know what you think. You can play with it, change it, and call it yours, I just think it might work really well but I dont have enough time to test like you.
here it is: http://www.diablofans.com/builds/79675-gills-wd-season-6
Thanks for the feedback! Love your builds!
Great stuff as always some gear alternative thoughts:
Offhand - Uhkapian Serpent
Wearing Tasker - Cubing Jeram
Keep up the good work!