I want to start this post with a disclaimer - This build is great if you have a friend who is horribly overpowered and will kill everything very quickly.
I thought of this build while playing with a barb friend of mine, who after the patch, is now destroying everything in a matter of seconds. It got me thinking about wearing full MF gear, and what the best build would be to take advantage of the fact.
There is one slot open at this point for the skill of your choice. I was using acid cloud to spread bad medicine, but it didn't seem to make a very big difference. I would probably change it to something that gave you personally more survivability, as nothing is worse than dropping BBV then immediately dying and having it go away.
I went for a tanky approach, as Vit / MF / all resist / no main stat gear on the AH is usually very cheap. The idea was also to try to abuse Grave Injustice to keep those damage steroids going more often. Without too much trouble I got my pickup radius to 30 yards. All said the gear set ran me about 200K and I'm sitting on-
~50K life
~400 resists
~190% MF (still debating on picking up that WD set dagger with 30%MF. you can get low damage ones for about 400K)
~6K damage? something trivial basically
As far as the drops, sample size was small, so it's hard to say for sure, but I'd say 2 rares per group was probably the norm. Definitely had some 3, still had some 1, but I've had these results with no MF equipped, so I'm not sure if it would be better for me to just be doing damage as well. For the record I'd say duoing with this build is probably your best bet, as the MF is divided by less people. Blizzard has made some posts stating they are looking at MF swapping before elite pack kills, so I think it is still "working".
With Grave Injustice and a 30yard radius, Mass Confusion is coming off cooldown very often. BBV voodoo was also ready for every champion pack. The only problem I really ran into was that the cooldown is still long enough where I don't feel comfortable using it every time it's up and still having it available for elite packs. When I did drop it on elites things just melted (I think my friend said he was getting 500K melee crits with his cooldowns popped). The stars even aligned on Zultan Cool, and I had him hexed, in 20% confuse, and BBV radius. Toad confusion is also a fun little mini-game, and a way of doing damage without having it be playerbased.
Like I said, not a very serious build, but a nice break from the normal. I think I'm actually going to switch most of the gear over to my monk when it hits 60, as spamming the damage aura might be more beneficial in the long run.
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I thought of this build while playing with a barb friend of mine, who after the patch, is now destroying everything in a matter of seconds. It got me thinking about wearing full MF gear, and what the best build would be to take advantage of the fact.
After some testing last night, here's the build for the moment-
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#W.URjQ!VcT!Y.ZZYb
There is one slot open at this point for the skill of your choice. I was using acid cloud to spread bad medicine, but it didn't seem to make a very big difference. I would probably change it to something that gave you personally more survivability, as nothing is worse than dropping BBV then immediately dying and having it go away.
I went for a tanky approach, as Vit / MF / all resist / no main stat gear on the AH is usually very cheap. The idea was also to try to abuse Grave Injustice to keep those damage steroids going more often. Without too much trouble I got my pickup radius to 30 yards. All said the gear set ran me about 200K and I'm sitting on-
~50K life
~400 resists
~190% MF (still debating on picking up that WD set dagger with 30%MF. you can get low damage ones for about 400K)
~6K damage? something trivial basically
As far as the drops, sample size was small, so it's hard to say for sure, but I'd say 2 rares per group was probably the norm. Definitely had some 3, still had some 1, but I've had these results with no MF equipped, so I'm not sure if it would be better for me to just be doing damage as well. For the record I'd say duoing with this build is probably your best bet, as the MF is divided by less people. Blizzard has made some posts stating they are looking at MF swapping before elite pack kills, so I think it is still "working".
With Grave Injustice and a 30yard radius, Mass Confusion is coming off cooldown very often. BBV voodoo was also ready for every champion pack. The only problem I really ran into was that the cooldown is still long enough where I don't feel comfortable using it every time it's up and still having it available for elite packs. When I did drop it on elites things just melted (I think my friend said he was getting 500K melee crits with his cooldowns popped). The stars even aligned on Zultan Cool, and I had him hexed, in 20% confuse, and BBV radius. Toad confusion is also a fun little mini-game, and a way of doing damage without having it be playerbased.
Like I said, not a very serious build, but a nice break from the normal. I think I'm actually going to switch most of the gear over to my monk when it hits 60, as spamming the damage aura might be more beneficial in the long run.