Hey guys, today I discuss the viability of a Witch Doctor pure pet build that doesn't use Carnevil/Dagger of Darts. I show some gameplay using a Legacy of Nightmares setup and talk about some limitations/considerations. I hope to soon test both Helltooth and Zunimassa variants, all of which are close to each other and have pros/cons based on the set used. Enjoy & discuss!
Now that they nerfed the dog from trippled to doubled dmg, im not even sure this build can pull 70 with good gear.
LoN pure (combined with some free mana spenders, of course) pet build with my below P1000 is viable for sure. Especially with augmented gear. And, one dog does almost the same damage like the 3 gargs combined, so that is more or less the same. I even think the dog has a bit the upper hand in that regard as he has 3 passives that boost his damage, garg actually only one.
I did multiple 65 runs in 7-8 minutes, problem is to get the build I was trying out to full potential is that I didn't have ancient MoJ and/or ancient Aquilla Cuirass, so my survivability was just to low on my 70 test runs on PTR.
Now that they nerfed the dog from trippled to doubled dmg, im not even sure this build can pull 70 with good gear.
LoN pure (combined with some free mana spenders, of course) pet build with my below P1000 is viable for sure. Especially with augmented gear. And, one dog does almost the same damage like the 3 gargs combined, so that is more or less the same. I even think the dog has a bit the upper hand in that regard as he has 3 passives that boost his damage, garg actually only one.
I did multiple 65 runs in 7-8 minutes, problem is to get the build I was trying out to full potential is that I didn't have ancient MoJ and/or ancient Aquilla Cuirass, so my survivability was just to low on my 70 test runs on PTR.
Isn't even 70 kinda low compare to what people doing these days? What's the highest solo record on GRs at the moment (Highest among all classes that is)
Now that they nerfed the dog from trippled to doubled dmg, im not even sure this build can pull 70 with good gear.
LoN pure (combined with some free mana spenders, of course) pet build with my below P1000 is viable for sure. Especially with augmented gear. And, one dog does almost the same damage like the 3 gargs combined, so that is more or less the same. I even think the dog has a bit the upper hand in that regard as he has 3 passives that boost his damage, garg actually only one.
I did multiple 65 runs in 7-8 minutes, problem is to get the build I was trying out to full potential is that I didn't have ancient MoJ and/or ancient Aquilla Cuirass, so my survivability was just to low on my 70 test runs on PTR.
Isn't even 70 kinda low compare to what people doing these days? What's the highest solo record on GRs at the moment (Highest among all classes that is)
70 is a leaderboard tier. If you consider top 1% of 1% low, sure. This is also without much time spent optimizing/fishing.
Pure pet build is decently viable, so far ive cleared 73 with helltooth with garg and dog using smf and tmf, theres also an 80 on the leaderboard using the same build as me with better gear of course.
73 without ancient rings, mojo and a crappy ancient dagger suggests if you wanna run pure pets with only 2 spenders (pirannas and gotd) you will be fine. Its also pretty damn tankty thanks to soul harvest with dagger and bracers.
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Hey guys, today I discuss the viability of a Witch Doctor pure pet build that doesn't use Carnevil/Dagger of Darts. I show some gameplay using a Legacy of Nightmares setup and talk about some limitations/considerations. I hope to soon test both Helltooth and Zunimassa variants, all of which are close to each other and have pros/cons based on the set used. Enjoy & discuss!
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Now that they nerfed the dog from trippled to doubled dmg, im not even sure this build can pull 70 with good gear.
LoN pure (combined with some free mana spenders, of course) pet build with my below P1000 is viable for sure. Especially with augmented gear. And, one dog does almost the same damage like the 3 gargs combined, so that is more or less the same. I even think the dog has a bit the upper hand in that regard as he has 3 passives that boost his damage, garg actually only one.
I did multiple 65 runs in 7-8 minutes, problem is to get the build I was trying out to full potential is that I didn't have ancient MoJ and/or ancient Aquilla Cuirass, so my survivability was just to low on my 70 test runs on PTR.
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Well, I mentioned that already, too. Pure pet builds might come up to GR75 (even with LoN), while LoN Carnevil will hit 80+.
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Pure pet build is decently viable, so far ive cleared 73 with helltooth with garg and dog using smf and tmf, theres also an 80 on the leaderboard using the same build as me with better gear of course.
73 without ancient rings, mojo and a crappy ancient dagger suggests if you wanna run pure pets with only 2 spenders (pirannas and gotd) you will be fine. Its also pretty damn tankty thanks to soul harvest with dagger and bracers.