Here's a question to all of you witch doctor pros.....
How can I have my 3x WD doing constant damage with keyboard slapping similar to my CM?
The plan is to have my CM wiz lock down ubers, and then have my WD spam and help the party by doing the DPS. I plan on facetanking the whole time.
To match my three spammed skills I'm using Soul Harvest, Hex:Jinx and Confusion:Paranoia. My "armor" spell is life leeching zombie dogs, and then my main attack to match wicked wind is rain of toads. To match my slow time I'm using pestilance.
Any ideas how effective I'm being, or suggestions on how to improve? Seems to work pretty well, but I feel I could get more DPS with better choices for the spammed skills.
How do I implement a firebats build with CM though? My wizard has essentially unlimited AP with her gear, but won't my WD run out of mana quickly with a firebats build? I'm interested if that's something I can account for. I'll be standing still hopefully, so how do I refill mana constantly? Mana rune on Soul Harvest? Jaunt? Passives?
So I did some more testing and the issue I'm running into, besides lag, is that Firebats requires a continuous cast, and I can't do that while using my CM wiz, spamming my skills.
Assign the skill slot you have assigned to firebats to a different key and just hold that down while you're doing your CM rotation. For example on my setup I spam 2,3,4 for EB, DS, and (the freeze spell). Change the "4" slot key on your setup on the WD accounts to something like "A" so that you can hold down A and spam 2,3,4 and then when you press 4 it just won't do anything on the WD accounts. Just make sure you don't have the "A" key bound to anything on the CM account. Firebats really is the way to go for best sustained DPS.
It's actually more complicated than this. I need to change the 3 keys that I spam for my CM, since those are the interruptions in firebats.
So casting would look like this: Cast all spells for WD in normal bindings. Hold down main attack (Wicked wind for CM, Firebats for WD) occasionally cast Pestilance and Slow time with right click.
Spamming 3 keys for CM. Using seperate 3 keys for WD Soul Harvest, Hex and Mass confusion.
A lot of battle commands to be sending, but is actually less complicated than it is to write.
^ that's a good point, I didn't think about those other spells breaking your firebats channel. Do you really need to use ALL of the WD abilities? Can you maybe break it down so that you just fire bats on the ww button? I'm only familiar with WDs from high level friends I play with, so I probably won't be any more help on the actual skills.
I figured it out last night. There's some gameplay vids at http://www.twitch.tv/thelayman/profile/pastBroadcasts. All I did was change all my CM spells (Diamond Skin, Frost Nova, Explosive Blast) to different keys than my WD skills. That way I can time the WD spells better. I got rid of Zombie Dogs because they weren't allowing me to group mobs, they would pull a lot of mobs away.
I'm still trying to decide how much I want big bad voodoo. A lot will depend on the length of the uber battle. That 120 second cooldown makes it almost a waste of a slot.
It's extremely efficient at downing keywardens, so I assume that will translate well to ubers. Just need to gear up the WDs, any advice or help would be appreciated.
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How can I have my 3x WD doing constant damage with keyboard slapping similar to my CM?
The plan is to have my CM wiz lock down ubers, and then have my WD spam and help the party by doing the DPS. I plan on facetanking the whole time.
To match my three spammed skills I'm using Soul Harvest, Hex:Jinx and Confusion:Paranoia. My "armor" spell is life leeching zombie dogs, and then my main attack to match wicked wind is rain of toads. To match my slow time I'm using pestilance.
Any ideas how effective I'm being, or suggestions on how to improve? Seems to work pretty well, but I feel I could get more DPS with better choices for the spammed skills.
I need something comparable for a WD.
I'm playing US.
Firebats is out. I really need bleed (damage over time) type damage to single targets. This is what I have: http://eu.battle.net...idjY!Ybe!baZcYb
However, rain of toads could probably be replaced. I get some great burst damage aside from my main attack though, which is what I'm looking for.
Here are the profile links:
Pauper - CM Wiz
Commoner - WD
Knight - WD
King - WD
It's actually more complicated than this. I need to change the 3 keys that I spam for my CM, since those are the interruptions in firebats.
So casting would look like this: Cast all spells for WD in normal bindings. Hold down main attack (Wicked wind for CM, Firebats for WD) occasionally cast Pestilance and Slow time with right click.
Spamming 3 keys for CM. Using seperate 3 keys for WD Soul Harvest, Hex and Mass confusion.
A lot of battle commands to be sending, but is actually less complicated than it is to write.
Thanks for the idea! I'll test this tonight.
I'm still trying to decide how much I want big bad voodoo. A lot will depend on the length of the uber battle. That 120 second cooldown makes it almost a waste of a slot.
It's extremely efficient at downing keywardens, so I assume that will translate well to ubers. Just need to gear up the WDs, any advice or help would be appreciated.