Hey guys I'm Debo, I Main the Witch Doctor class, ever since the beta for Diablo 3 Vanilla. Encouraging players to try out the Witch Doctor class, and enjoy Diablo 3 is my major focus. I started to do this by compiling my thoughts in guides, and streaming to provide information to those who seek it.
Changes I hoped would happen, and what Blizzard decided to do
Adding additional Set pieces to allow for Tasker & Theo Use
* This didn't Happen, but hey it's not the end of the world, in a group setting, or T6 solo, you can still run Zunimassa pox, which allows for Tasker & Theo use.
**Increases the 6 Piece set bonus from 150% to 300/400%**
* Wasn't to far off with this prediction! We got a bump up in Damage, from 150% ----> 275%. I don't believe Blizzard is going to increase the damage any higher, but I honestly believe this is more than enough to give Zunimassa the potential to push to AT-LEAST GR 50.
**Allowing for pets to have a small chance to proc "Area Damage" ( 2 Piece set bonus)**
* This hasn't happened, and may never will, but for now the increase in damage to Zuni will more than make up for it.
**Allow fetishes to have a cleave that does 10%- 15% of the damage they deal**
* We didn't end up getting cleave, but Blizzard made an excellent change to "Fetish Sycophants" Passive Skill
**"Fetish Sycophants" Passive Skill**
* At the time of a Fetish "Proc'ing" / "Spawning" The property of that Fetish is Whatever your current highest elemental Damage is.
This is a wonderful example of when the quality of life gets improved for your class. I couldn't of done it any better, and I tip my Hat off to Blizzard doing this, good job on revamping this skill.
**CarnEvil + 6 Piece Zuni**
With the Buff to Zunimassa Set Bonus damage, using Zuni with CarnEvil is a no brainier. The tricky part is utilizing a Mana Spender that won't interrupt to much with our Dagger Volleys. BUT this Mana spender needs to be an A.O.E to hit multiple targets, and be available for use when Piranhas "Parinado" is on cool-down. Now the "Meta" for this might end up changing in the future, but I find Spirit Barrage "Phantasm" fits into this build solidly, and accomplishes everything we need out of a spender. To make it so that we won't Out of mana ourselves using this skill, Belt of Transcendence will allow for us to drop the Passive Skill "Fetish Sycophants", and replace it with "Rush of Essence". By doing this we won't have any mana issues, and will be able to have a skill to activate our Zuni 6 Piece Set, whenever we want.
*Here is a List of the "New Items" That we will be using:*
Zunimassa Gloves
* Allows for us to Build a 6 Piece zuni Set
Zunimassa Pants
* Allows for us to Build a 6 Piece zuni Set
Zunimassa's String of Skulls(Off Hand)
* Allows for us to Build a 6 Piece zuni Set
* *NEW* Now rolls +20-25% Fetish Army damage as a fifth primary affix
I still have to test out, to see if you will be able to have this affix, and still run Increase Poison Dart Damage. But either way it is a very solid addition to this off hand mojo.
Belt of Transcendence
Very solid new item for Witch Doctor. It will provide many different options to passive skill usage due to Fetish Sycophants not being needed, and allowing fetish generation not requiring you to worry about proc co-efficient of skills. Most Witch Doctors are using Haunt, as a mana spender to trigger the effect of the pants.
* Allows for us to drop Fetish Sycophants passive, and run an alternative one
* Opens up options for 2 Hander's to generate Fetishes in a more reliable manner.
* Multiple builds for Witch Doctor, have flexibility in-regards to what pants we use.
* Works extremely well with Zunimassa's new 6 Piece set bonus.
*Just for a side note, the fetishes are the same ones from "Fetish Sycophants" Passive, meaning if you ran the passive with the pants you could only have "15" "Fetish Sycophants" at one time
**Zunimassa 6 Piece + Carnevil**
With the 150% ---> 275% buff, it is fully worth it to incorporate Carnevil build with the new 6 Piece Zuni set. Poison will still be our major elemental Damage choice. The only conflict that may occur until enough testing is done with this build, is what is the best mana spender to use, that works well with the build. In the breakdown of the build selection below, I will incorporate what I used to get to GR 45 fairly comfortably with this build.
Lets us go over some strengths, and weaknesses of this Build.
Pros
* High End pet damage, with Zuni Set proc in effect
* Great at Taking down Rift Guardians
* Great AOE damage potential
Cons
* Very Weak to Shielding, and Waller Enemies
* Requires Good Positioning, by the player
* Damage output suffers dramatically when the Zuni set proc isn't active.
* Base Effect: Increases the damage of your pets by 15%
* Upgrade rank grants: 0.3% more pet damage per level.
* Rank 25 unlocks: Your pets take 25% reduced damage.
Straight forward choice here, will increase all damage done by all 23 fetishes in the build.
* Simplicity’s Strength
* Base Effect: Increase the damage of primary skills by 25%.
* Upgrade rank grants: +0.5% damage.
*Rank 25 unlocks: Primary skills heal you for 2% of maximum health on hit.
The darts are a primary skill, and with the changes to Increase Poison Dart damage effecting fetishes Damage while shooting darts, this is now standard in all CarnEvil builds. Not to mention the secondary skill allows for precious Life on Hit without compromising important Toughness/Damage Stacks on our gear.
**Gogok of Swiftness**
* Base Effect: 50% chance on hit to gain Swiftness, increasing your Attack Speed 1% for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 15 times.
* Upgrade rank grants: +1% chance.
* Rank 25 unlocks: Gain 1% Cooldown Reduction per stack of Swiftness.
Attack speed by far is one of the most important stats in CarnEvil Build, pretty straight forward decision here.
Hey guys I'm Debo, I Main the Witch Doctor class, ever since the beta for Diablo 3 Vanilla. Encouraging players to try out the Witch Doctor class, and enjoy Diablo 3 is my major focus. I started to do this by compiling my thoughts in guides, and streaming to provide information to those who seek it.
My Twitch Tag:
http://www.twitch.tv/spsdebo
My armory Profile:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Debo-1782/hero/1274676
Diablo Fans Link to where I keep the growing list of all WD information:
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/witch-doctor-the-mbwiru-eikura/95384-debos-2-1-witch-doctor-compendium
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Zunimassa 6 Piece Set + CarnEvil Build
First in foremost if you haven't checked out my initial testing with Zunimassa 6 piece Set Check it out here:
Zunimassa 6 piece Set Initial Review
Changes I hoped would happen, and what Blizzard decided to do
Adding additional Set pieces to allow for Tasker & Theo Use
**Increases the 6 Piece set bonus from 150% to 300/400%**
**Allowing for pets to have a small chance to proc "Area Damage" ( 2 Piece set bonus)**
**Allow fetishes to have a cleave that does 10%- 15% of the damage they deal**
**"Fetish Sycophants" Passive Skill**
This is a wonderful example of when the quality of life gets improved for your class. I couldn't of done it any better, and I tip my Hat off to Blizzard doing this, good job on revamping this skill.
**CarnEvil + 6 Piece Zuni**
With the Buff to Zunimassa Set Bonus damage, using Zuni with CarnEvil is a no brainier. The tricky part is utilizing a Mana Spender that won't interrupt to much with our Dagger Volleys. BUT this Mana spender needs to be an A.O.E to hit multiple targets, and be available for use when Piranhas "Parinado" is on cool-down. Now the "Meta" for this might end up changing in the future, but I find Spirit Barrage "Phantasm" fits into this build solidly, and accomplishes everything we need out of a spender. To make it so that we won't Out of mana ourselves using this skill, Belt of Transcendence will allow for us to drop the Passive Skill "Fetish Sycophants", and replace it with "Rush of Essence". By doing this we won't have any mana issues, and will be able to have a skill to activate our Zuni 6 Piece Set, whenever we want.
*Here is a List of the "New Items" That we will be using:*
Zunimassa Gloves
Zunimassa Pants
Zunimassa's String of Skulls(Off Hand)
I still have to test out, to see if you will be able to have this affix, and still run Increase Poison Dart Damage. But either way it is a very solid addition to this off hand mojo.
Belt of Transcendence
Very solid new item for Witch Doctor. It will provide many different options to passive skill usage due to Fetish Sycophants not being needed, and allowing fetish generation not requiring you to worry about proc co-efficient of skills. Most Witch Doctors are using Haunt, as a mana spender to trigger the effect of the pants.
**Zunimassa 6 Piece + Carnevil**
With the 150% ---> 275% buff, it is fully worth it to incorporate Carnevil build with the new 6 Piece Zuni set. Poison will still be our major elemental Damage choice. The only conflict that may occur until enough testing is done with this build, is what is the best mana spender to use, that works well with the build. In the breakdown of the build selection below, I will incorporate what I used to get to GR 45 fairly comfortably with this build.
Lets us go over some strengths, and weaknesses of this Build.
Pros
Cons
**Skill Build**
Zunimassa 6 Piece + CarnEvil
**Why Did you choose the skills you did?**
*Active Skills*
**Sprit Walk "Jaunt"**
**Fetish Army "Legion of Daggers"**
* 8 Physical property Fetishes
* Damage will be converted over to poison, even though base property is physical (Because of CarnEvil)
Hex "Jinx"
**Piranhas "Parinado""**
**Poison Darts "Snake to the Face"**
**Spirit Barrage "Phantasm"**
*Passive Skills*
**Pierce the Veil**
**Spirit Vessel**
**Grave Injustice**
**Rush of Essence**
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**Gem Choices**
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**Enforcer**
Straight forward choice here, will increase all damage done by all 23 fetishes in the build.
* Simplicity’s Strength
The darts are a primary skill, and with the changes to Increase Poison Dart damage effecting fetishes Damage while shooting darts, this is now standard in all CarnEvil builds. Not to mention the secondary skill allows for precious Life on Hit without compromising important Toughness/Damage Stacks on our gear.
**Gogok of Swiftness**
Attack speed by far is one of the most important stats in CarnEvil Build, pretty straight forward decision here.
**Gear That I used**
Zunimassa 6 Piece Set + CarnEvil Gear
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**Video of build in action:**
Zunimassa 6 Set+ CarnEvil Build Break Down, Trial & GR 38
Zunimassa 6 Set+ CarnEvil GR 42 & 43
Zunimassa 6 Set+ CarnEvil GR 45
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