I'm farming MP4 comfortably and MP5 with a bit more attention, but I'm aiming higher. I can play both Acid and Zombie Bear builds, and I have no problem using CoB on higher MP. I also find 0dogs build a real blast and I'd love to use it (with the right gear, of course).
How could I improve my gear? I found out about "black weapons" after buying my current one. Even if it has Lightning damage, it's decent and I find myself unable to replace it for less than 200-300m, which are out of reach for me. Is a new weapon the way to go to push my dps a bit?
Another option could be buy a Zunimassa's Pox to complete the set bonus, but only the very best ones grant me a 2-3k increase in dps, which is not that much.
NOTE: I was really broken when I dinged 60 and used the gems I had at the time :/ Replacing them won't skyrocket my dps, tho.
Looking forward to hearing your suggestions and criticism!
Thank in advance.
Just like the previous poster said try to craft at least shoulders and amu and cross your fingers. Offhand-wise just switch to either string of skulls or Uhkapian serpent for DPS. TOD is pretty much useless for your current build. Tal Rasha's chest equals increased attack speed which could be a real mana drain in most cases. You have a pretty fast 1H so that in combination with other items with IAS is mana demanding.
Also, just upgrade your gems. If worse comes to worse, just buy the fattest gems off of RMAH where you get 3 gems for the price of a snickers bar.
I would go for better pants and drop the attack speed on the inna's (with bats you don't want attack speed). Just go for a yellow pair that has high armor, intel, vit, all resist, 2 sockets of course.
I am not trying to hijack this thread by any means, but I do not want to start another advice thread. Since I too am an average Witch Doctor in need of help, I hope the OP does not mind me asking, i too need help. I recently came back after a couple of month hiatus. Since about a month after Infernal Machines came out to be exact. I am running one of Projaxs builds from the sticky. And I do not know where to begin? I am currently grinding paragon so i will stick with that as a goal. I normally get 5 NV kill KW and rinse. Gear upgrades, MP levels, any help would be appreciated.
The more attack speed you have the faster you will go oom and you will go oom very fast. Zuni boots have 12 ms.
My attack speed is 1.08 and i can hold firebats forever and actually gain mana, if i switch my weapon to a 1.3AS then i start to loose mana fast, he is at 1.63 AS so he will go oom very fast.
I have to admit that I was thinking of switching Inna's pants to yellow ones with Vit and AR because I feel much more squishy now. I had to drop back to MP6 (from MP7) because I was dying too much (compared to 0 deaths per run when I had 150k dps).
Could it be related to my weapon? 2.3 LS only. Or should I just change my shoulders to a good Vile Ward and boost Vit and AR that way?
Moreover, I made a VOTA run and checked how many times I had Gruesome Feast buff on, and I have to say that it's not so necessary with firebats build. When it's time to DPS, I have to stand still.
I may drop that passive for Jungle Fortitude after all, and earn a lot of survivability.
you want as much attack speed as u can have without making u run out of mana,
That's correct. Problem is that when you have IAS on every single slot you can just to inflate your DPS and climb the top DPS on diabloprogress, you will run out of mana pretty fast regardless of build, gear and whatnot. And yes, that is a WD specific problem which is why so many WD's whine about it.
I have to admit that I was thinking of switching Inna's pants to yellow ones with Vit and AR because I feel much more squishy now. I had to drop back to MP6 (from MP7) because I was dying too much (compared to 0 deaths per run when I had 150k dps).
Could it be related to my weapon? 2.3 LS only. Or should I just change my shoulders to a good Vile Ward and boost Vit and AR that way?
Moreover, I made a VOTA run and checked how many times I had Gruesome Feast buff on, and I have to say that it's not so necessary with firebats build. When it's time to DPS, I have to stand still.
I may drop that passive for Jungle Fortitude after all, and earn a lot of survivability.
So many good inputs, thank you all.
I'm running Spirit Vessel instead of Gruesome Feast which, as you say, is pretty useless since you're standing still most of the time. Works fine.
I'm not the usual 400k dps WD posting. I have a humble 117,117 dps toon, Paragon 29, with 61m gold available. Link: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/guzacon-2777/hero/24374949
I'm farming MP4 comfortably and MP5 with a bit more attention, but I'm aiming higher. I can play both Acid and Zombie Bear builds, and I have no problem using CoB on higher MP. I also find 0dogs build a real blast and I'd love to use it (with the right gear, of course).
How could I improve my gear? I found out about "black weapons" after buying my current one. Even if it has Lightning damage, it's decent and I find myself unable to replace it for less than 200-300m, which are out of reach for me. Is a new weapon the way to go to push my dps a bit?
Another option could be buy a Zunimassa's Pox to complete the set bonus, but only the very best ones grant me a 2-3k increase in dps, which is not that much.
NOTE: I was really broken when I dinged 60 and used the gems I had at the time :/ Replacing them won't skyrocket my dps, tho.
Looking forward to hearing your suggestions and criticism!
Thank in advance.
I improved my toon quite a bit and I would like some suggestions about which piece of gear should I spend golds on to push higher numbers.
Cheers!
Also, just upgrade your gems. If worse comes to worse, just buy the fattest gems off of RMAH where you get 3 gems for the price of a snickers bar.
I managed to change a few pieces around, feel free to check again
Armory: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Poketrocket-1709/hero/2140313
The zuni set should be good enough for mana, you can drop attunement and VQ and pick up gruesome feast and grave injustice.
My attack speed is 1.08 and i can hold firebats forever and actually gain mana, if i switch my weapon to a 1.3AS then i start to loose mana fast, he is at 1.63 AS so he will go oom very fast.
you want as much attack speed as u can have without making u run out of mana,
as much attack speed as your playing skill lets u use
attack speed is awesome, its more dps, more sustain from life steal
if ure in the "special needs" deppartment u prolly have to use full zuni set that sucks dps wise and mana regen passives
as u progress in the game, getting to know how to play wd u will need less mana regeneration and pull more dps
its just like barbarians using full IK set for fury managment, now they dont even use a fury generator ability, only spenders like hota
as u get to know what ure doing u will need less vita, less resists, less pussy stats, so u can afford more rolls on the dps side
I have to admit that I was thinking of switching Inna's pants to yellow ones with Vit and AR because I feel much more squishy now. I had to drop back to MP6 (from MP7) because I was dying too much (compared to 0 deaths per run when I had 150k dps).
Could it be related to my weapon? 2.3 LS only. Or should I just change my shoulders to a good Vile Ward and boost Vit and AR that way?
Moreover, I made a VOTA run and checked how many times I had Gruesome Feast buff on, and I have to say that it's not so necessary with firebats build. When it's time to DPS, I have to stand still.
I may drop that passive for Jungle Fortitude after all, and earn a lot of survivability.
So many good inputs, thank you all.
That's correct. Problem is that when you have IAS on every single slot you can just to inflate your DPS and climb the top DPS on diabloprogress, you will run out of mana pretty fast regardless of build, gear and whatnot. And yes, that is a WD specific problem which is why so many WD's whine about it.
I'm running Spirit Vessel instead of Gruesome Feast which, as you say, is pretty useless since you're standing still most of the time. Works fine.