So I posted a video over a year ago about my build decisions and such that got featured on this site, which was pretty fun. But then blizzard changed how Vision Quest worked and it sort of destroyed my build and I had moved on to other games anyway. (old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hItesxJhDfM)
I went back to Diablo 3 about a month ago to see where the game sat and I was blown away by the improvements. I got a ridiculous legendary drop in my first play session and sold it on AH for 2 billion gold...which seemed like an unimaginable amount of gold back when I was playing the game before.
I did a LOT of research on gear and approaches to playing WD and I settled on a Zombie Bears build. I played around a lot of with cloud of bats and just didn't love it, as much as I loved Dire Bats before.
Here's the gear I got: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Yorric-2361/hero/37696441 (I have about 56k vitality, 680 all resist, and 240k dps unbuffed--please note I have a Skorn with lots of Life Steal for reflect dmg packs and a one-hander/mojo for everything else--if you see the Skorn it's becuase the last thing I killed before logging off had reflect dmg--the other arrangement is much better and faster!)
Basically the build is a combination of some other builds I saw online (I started with a bears+circle of life/0 dogs build and LOVED IT but would run out of mana on packs in mp10, so I switched to widowmakers). I spam bats and shoot out a widowmaker at the attack speed (basically, hold down right mouse button at all times and spamming left mouse button). I move for things like desecration and poison, and things like the sludge from Heralds and the impact from large mobs, but otherwise it's a very "steamroll" build.
It's extremely easy to spam bears and keep mana up while playing against pretty much any pack, but I'm not loving the build against mp10 (and maybe MP9, I tend to play MP8) bosses. Given the GEAR I have (I am not interested in substantially different gear because I haven't had another perfect drop like the Skorn I sold and don't have the money for great other gear) are there other builds I could explore that might work better on bosses? Please take into account my life steal and life on hit (which I very much need and cannot lose) and my pickup radius (which must also be 14 or more). My Scoundrel follow is almost ridiculously helpful, but I can still get screwed by bosses like The Siegebreaker (who I could kill before with ease).
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I went back to Diablo 3 about a month ago to see where the game sat and I was blown away by the improvements. I got a ridiculous legendary drop in my first play session and sold it on AH for 2 billion gold...which seemed like an unimaginable amount of gold back when I was playing the game before.
I did a LOT of research on gear and approaches to playing WD and I settled on a Zombie Bears build. I played around a lot of with cloud of bats and just didn't love it, as much as I loved Dire Bats before.
Here's the build: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#bfdUjQ!UYT!bccZYb
Here's the gear I got: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Yorric-2361/hero/37696441 (I have about 56k vitality, 680 all resist, and 240k dps unbuffed--please note I have a Skorn with lots of Life Steal for reflect dmg packs and a one-hander/mojo for everything else--if you see the Skorn it's becuase the last thing I killed before logging off had reflect dmg--the other arrangement is much better and faster!)
Basically the build is a combination of some other builds I saw online (I started with a bears+circle of life/0 dogs build and LOVED IT but would run out of mana on packs in mp10, so I switched to widowmakers). I spam bats and shoot out a widowmaker at the attack speed (basically, hold down right mouse button at all times and spamming left mouse button). I move for things like desecration and poison, and things like the sludge from Heralds and the impact from large mobs, but otherwise it's a very "steamroll" build.
It's extremely easy to spam bears and keep mana up while playing against pretty much any pack, but I'm not loving the build against mp10 (and maybe MP9, I tend to play MP8) bosses. Given the GEAR I have (I am not interested in substantially different gear because I haven't had another perfect drop like the Skorn I sold and don't have the money for great other gear) are there other builds I could explore that might work better on bosses? Please take into account my life steal and life on hit (which I very much need and cannot lose) and my pickup radius (which must also be 14 or more). My Scoundrel follow is almost ridiculously helpful, but I can still get screwed by bosses like The Siegebreaker (who I could kill before with ease).