I found a pair of these pants and though it could be fun to build around them. I'm assuming they work well with whirlwind? What do you guys think of running these with WW or another spec?
Definitely works well with leapquake and whirlwind barb. Does NOT work well with jade doctor because wearing these pants would mean you have to wear jades helm and this not wueltz and queltz adds more damage than hexing pants. Its also not great with a pet build because using hexing pants you are forced to use Zunis rather than sychophants. If you stand still casting signature skills to build up fetish from the passive you are sitting there with -25% damage from the pants. These pants are good for barb not really for WD. I speak from experience. I cannot speak on behalf of the other 4 classes though.
I've heard different things about leap quake with hex pants tho. Although the 2nd and 3rd leaps shows decrease of dps on paper, the time it takes to register the dps debuff for hexing pants is greater than the time it takes to perform the 2nd n 3rd leap, so even though it shows less dmg, you are still getting the buff. I am not entirely sure about it but that is justwhat i've heard from Nubtro's analysis, ill see if i can find the source.
Definitely works well with leapquake and whirlwind barb. Does NOT work well with jade doctor because wearing these pants would mean you have to wear jades helm and this not wueltz and queltz adds more damage than hexing pants. Its also not great with a pet build because using hexing pants you are forced to use Zunis rather than sychophants. If you stand still casting signature skills to build up fetish from the passive you are sitting there with -25% damage from the pants. These pants are good for barb not really for WD. I speak from experience. I cannot speak on behalf of the other 4 classes though.
I have to disagree here about the pet WD. Hexing pants does work very well with pet wd - as I am using it myself. And I'm not using Zunis either cause of 15 fetishes is better than 8 even tho you don't have %FA and force armor. I'm using Rhen'ho weap with Toad - addling and getting maxed cap very easily. Doing T5 very easy - less than 10 min. T6 not good cause of the non exist Force armor on the sycos, which makes them die from 1 hit from big monsters. You just need to get used to move all the time with hexing.
I only half disagree with you. I personally think if you must pet build with hexing pants poison is a better option. You can have poison garg out 100% with 7 poison fetish from zunis + the poison garg dog with tall mans finger. This way you have 9 pets that all do serious damage and you don't have to use any signature skills so you can run the entire time. But this simply doesn't compare to other types of builds. Even your own build I prefer to not use hexing pants and just using either swamp waders with poison or set pants of some sort with better buffs.
I do strongly feel that they are great for leap barbs. The 3 leaps can be timed very easily. You jus tneed to do 1 full rift getting it down. But you can leap, walk leap, walk, leap and get all 3 leaps in with hexing buff before lut socks activates the cool down. Whilrwind is self explainatory. Run then WW and your good to go, But the barb does NOT have pants like Swamp waders that already give a pretty serious damage boost. So I think they feel more natural on a barb.
I hope other classes (like browntown with the DH post) chime in because I am very curious the other uses that are possible.
Well its just personal preference i guess. Dont forget the resource generation from hexing pants which allows you to strafe spam HotA a lot more. But yea it is difficult to use where magefist is just innate.
I found a pair of these pants and though it could be fun to build around them. I'm assuming they work well with whirlwind? What do you guys think of running these with WW or another spec?
Hexing pants also works very well with leap quake barb
I've heard different things about leap quake with hex pants tho. Although the 2nd and 3rd leaps shows decrease of dps on paper, the time it takes to register the dps debuff for hexing pants is greater than the time it takes to perform the 2nd n 3rd leap, so even though it shows less dmg, you are still getting the buff. I am not entirely sure about it but that is justwhat i've heard from Nubtro's analysis, ill see if i can find the source.
I do strongly feel that they are great for leap barbs. The 3 leaps can be timed very easily. You jus tneed to do 1 full rift getting it down. But you can leap, walk leap, walk, leap and get all 3 leaps in with hexing buff before lut socks activates the cool down. Whilrwind is self explainatory. Run then WW and your good to go, But the barb does NOT have pants like Swamp waders that already give a pretty serious damage boost. So I think they feel more natural on a barb.
I hope other classes (like browntown with the DH post) chime in because I am very curious the other uses that are possible.