First of all grats, shard is a really cool weapon.
The Int version is really limited in terms of waht you can use it for unless you want to slap it on a barb without a main stat, which isn't recommended.
The poison nova sucks, our signature spells are fairly unappealing and imo zombie bears is going to get you killed a lot in higher torment.
I switched over to the cold proc, it's range is fantastic and it procs very often. At the end of the day though this weapon isn't going to be insane on any other class than monk/barb and maybe crusader. The lightning proc is just head and shoulders better than everything else.
With 14 a seconds my mojo I can keep Barrage up infinitely, this build has amazing single target dps and a ton of different damage sources for clearing trash. This also lets you stack %ele damage which is where you want to be.
I could recommend switching the zombie dog passive for jungle fort if you already have tanks in your group. Otherwise just let the dogs tank and blow stuff up. I contribute an amazing amount of utility and dps to t3 speed farming, way more than an equally geared wizard.
Restless Giant sucks IMO, it procs at the worst times and 120 seconds isn't consistent enough to be used in rifts, it does look cool however.
Fixing two rather major bugs is not the same as nerfing. And before you chime in with "semantics" let me clarify just what semantics actually means: "The wordsemanticsitself denotes a range of ideas -- from the popular to the highly technical. It is often used in ordinary language for denoting a problem of understanding that comes down to word selection orconnotation." Bug fix & nerf can in no way be confused.
Also, without the bugs in place, who can say if it will be good as compared to Odyn Son or TF, Just have to wait and see. Not bugged is not the same as being bad.
Fixing two rather major bugs is not the same as nerfing. And before you chime in with "semantics" let me clarify just what semantics actually means: "The wordsemanticsitself denotes a range of ideas -- from the popular to the highly technical. It is often used in ordinary language for denoting a problem of understanding that comes down to word selection orconnotation." Bug fix & nerf can in no way be confused.
Also, without the bugs in place, who can say if it will be good as compared to Odyn Son or TF, Just have to wait and see. Not bugged is not the same as being bad.
You know that and I know that, but for a lot of people if something isn't the best, even if the difference is tiny, it's "terrible" and should be sharded. If it's in line with other items that they've fixed, it will still likely be a fine weapon, still one of the better weapons. Right now it's amazingly broken, and that's pretty obvious for anyone who actually has one or has played with someone that has one. We haven't even seen how much of an impact the fix has yet and people are already declaring the item trash.
Was thinking maybe an acid cloud + spirit barrage(wos) + essence passive?
personally i think shard of hate isn't as strong for WD
However if you want the proc then go for zombie bears or plague bats
The Int version is really limited in terms of waht you can use it for unless you want to slap it on a barb without a main stat, which isn't recommended.
The poison nova sucks, our signature spells are fairly unappealing and imo zombie bears is going to get you killed a lot in higher torment.
I switched over to the cold proc, it's range is fantastic and it procs very often. At the end of the day though this weapon isn't going to be insane on any other class than monk/barb and maybe crusader. The lightning proc is just head and shoulders better than everything else.
This is how I've been using mine:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#geUlPT!TWfZ!ZZccZa
With 14 a seconds my mojo I can keep Barrage up infinitely, this build has amazing single target dps and a ton of different damage sources for clearing trash. This also lets you stack %ele damage which is where you want to be.
I could recommend switching the zombie dog passive for jungle fort if you already have tanks in your group. Otherwise just let the dogs tank and blow stuff up. I contribute an amazing amount of utility and dps to t3 speed farming, way more than an equally geared wizard.
Restless Giant sucks IMO, it procs at the worst times and 120 seconds isn't consistent enough to be used in rifts, it does look cool however.
Also, without the bugs in place, who can say if it will be good as compared to Odyn Son or TF, Just have to wait and see. Not bugged is not the same as being bad.