Posting a series of vids on my WD solo strategy for Infernal Machine encounters and key farming. First vid is Realm of Chaos - Ghom/Rakanoth at MP6. Currently editing/rendering vids for Siege/Kulle and SK/Maghda as well as efficient key farming routes. I'll update this post with them as I go.
Are you sure rain of toads is the best ability? I dont like that it aint AOE, but it might be the best due to life on hit proc?
RoT actually does AoE -- it's not like Acid Rain 24 yd AoE but it does about 8 yds or so. One of the big reasons I use it is definitely for the coefficient. If you were going for pure damage, Firebomb Ghost Bomb or Flash Fire would be better but RoT is better over all utility and not that big a drop in damage output especially in a summon build where packs tend to tight cluster around your pets.
I'll be posting an Act III key farm a little bit later this AM where you can see it working very effectively in a high damage, fast-speed farm run as well.
My question is also: do the über fights really just boild down to self heal?
Well, there's a good bit of damage going out that is just unavoidable in these fights -- it's coming from too many directions and even a 3 dog / garg build doesn't keep that off of you. Also, globes don't spawn with any great frequency in these fights. So with those two factors, only way I saw around it was to get high life return and my tests on PTR were showing LoH + RoT/Acid Rain were working the best for that purpose. All of that said, it's not impossible someone will come up with a better solo strategy. I have searched youtube for WD solos on these fights and there's really nothing to find at the moment -- but I'm sure we'll see some variants as time goes by.
great build overall. iam doing ubers in party with 2 DH and Wizard. My main role is to tank Ghom. Easily doable ond MP4 with 1200 LoH (did not try it on higher as other are not very well geared). LoH works great with toads and iam using it for farm as well (with different passives).
Naively thinking that any rune for Acid Cloud would have the same coefficient, I picked Slow Burn thinking that longer duration would equal more ticks and thus more healing.
Yeah, this is true, I tried to sub in Lob Blob for uber fights, because it would be better from a damage standpoint but it clearly does not retain the same coefficient. I would've thought it would keep the same from the parent spell but the rune does change it up.
Not realy. Did them on mp 5 without any LL or LoH.
My way is definitely not the only way and I'm sure a bears build can and will work. That said doing these fights with absolutely zero LL or LoH . . . that I'd like to see footage of. Sure Diablo fight or something you can completely avoid damage -- but on these uber fights, I'm not seeing a way to avoid all incoming and there definitely aren't enough globes to keep you full. I'm not going to say it's impossible to do without LoH/LL -- but I'd say it's very much encouraged to have Life return of some sort . . . and again, I'd love to see footage of a WD doing MP5 of these fights without a stitch of Life Leech or Life on Hit.
Realm of Chaos - Ghom / Rakanoth - MP6
Realm of Turmoil - Seigebreaker / Kulle - MP6
Realm of Discord - Skeleton King / Maghda - MP6
Act III Keywarden Farming
Act II Keywarden Farming
Act I Keywarden Farming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imIfRpc53k8
D3Progress: http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/emberos-1608/Emberos/51824579
RoT actually does AoE -- it's not like Acid Rain 24 yd AoE but it does about 8 yds or so. One of the big reasons I use it is definitely for the coefficient. If you were going for pure damage, Firebomb Ghost Bomb or Flash Fire would be better but RoT is better over all utility and not that big a drop in damage output especially in a summon build where packs tend to tight cluster around your pets.
I'll be posting an Act III key farm a little bit later this AM where you can see it working very effectively in a high damage, fast-speed farm run as well.
Well, there's a good bit of damage going out that is just unavoidable in these fights -- it's coming from too many directions and even a 3 dog / garg build doesn't keep that off of you. Also, globes don't spawn with any great frequency in these fights. So with those two factors, only way I saw around it was to get high life return and my tests on PTR were showing LoH + RoT/Acid Rain were working the best for that purpose. All of that said, it's not impossible someone will come up with a better solo strategy. I have searched youtube for WD solos on these fights and there's really nothing to find at the moment -- but I'm sure we'll see some variants as time goes by.
D3Progress: http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/emberos-1608/Emberos/51824579
great build overall. iam doing ubers in party with 2 DH and Wizard. My main role is to tank Ghom. Easily doable ond MP4 with 1200 LoH (did not try it on higher as other are not very well geared). LoH works great with toads and iam using it for farm as well (with different passives).
Here is my WD (not best geared) - http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Azri-2332/hero/6541172
Yeah, this is true, I tried to sub in Lob Blob for uber fights, because it would be better from a damage standpoint but it clearly does not retain the same coefficient. I would've thought it would keep the same from the parent spell but the rune does change it up.
D3Progress: http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/emberos-1608/Emberos/51824579
My way is definitely not the only way and I'm sure a bears build can and will work. That said doing these fights with absolutely zero LL or LoH . . . that I'd like to see footage of. Sure Diablo fight or something you can completely avoid damage -- but on these uber fights, I'm not seeing a way to avoid all incoming and there definitely aren't enough globes to keep you full. I'm not going to say it's impossible to do without LoH/LL -- but I'd say it's very much encouraged to have Life return of some sort . . . and again, I'd love to see footage of a WD doing MP5 of these fights without a stitch of Life Leech or Life on Hit.
D3Progress: http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/emberos-1608/Emberos/51824579