At the moment I'm running with an amethyst gem in my helmet (the + life% gem), but some of my friends say that a diamond gem would be much better (the cdr gem). Seeing how my pets get tougher too with an amethyst gem, I don't think they're right (but I might as well be wrong, being a not too experienced WD).
So my question is, is it better to use an amethyst or diamond gem with my build?
At the moment I'm running with an amethyst gem in my helmet (the + life% gem), but some of my friends say that a diamond gem would be much better (the cdr gem). Seeing how my pets get tougher too with an amethyst gem, I don't think they're right (but I might as well be wrong, being a not too experienced WD).
So my question is, is it better to use an amethyst or diamond gem with my build?
Thanks in advance.
To make it easier for us to comment, can you link us your gear profile too? We can't really get a good idea until we know the rest of your stats from your gears. Looking at your current skill setup, the only skill that really benefits from CDR are spirit walk, pirahnado and BBV. Looking at your build, you are most likely a pure pets build and stacking physical (since there is no rune on your garg). If you want more survivability for your pets, you can do a switch out of your Grave Injustice for Jungle Fortitude. Grave Injustice will be more effective if you have a Thing of the Deep to extend your pick up radius. Without thing of the deep, 20 yards is not very large. So, if I were you (taking a guess), I would swap out Grave Injustice for Jungle Fortitude (assuming you want more pet survivalbility) and swap your amethyst for a flawless royal diamond for the 12.5% CDR.
Gear isn't really that good (gotten quite some set pieces, but all were either from various sets or duplicates) and a good Legendary Mojo/MoJ still refuses to drop. Seeing how I'm only running T1/T2 at the moment, I can stay within 20 yards for Grave Injustice to take effect. And survivability for me or my pets ain't a problem at the moment, but I assumed that 11% cdr wasn't worth losing 20% life over
I switched out my socketed helm this morning for the Carnevil that's currently showing (it was worth 10% more sheet dmg at the cost of a few % toughness), with the socketed helm being the Jade Harvester helmet (the Jade helmet only has 684 int and a socket for damage purposes, the other stats are either for toughness or healing). I'll try to get a socket on the Carnevil helmet once I get some more Forgotten Souls (TandT is using them at the moment in hopes of getting crit chance % on them).
In my opinion, for a pet build, the Amethyst is better. Reason being, you should not be in a state of constantly summoning the pets. Grave Injustice should be plenty enough CDR for you to have Spirit Walk and BBV up enough for you to go through up to T4.
One thing you will want to do, in addition to the socket in the helm, is getting sockets in your chest / pants. The amount of Intelligence you can get having 5 additional, +280 gems will far outweigh the other dmg bonuses you have on those pieces right now.
Mediocre, that was exactly what I was thinking, but due to my friends being persistent that they were right, I started to have my doubts. And I was indeed planning on enchanting the chest and legs for sockets, but the old Forgotten Soul crisis is back. Getting crit chance on TandT and a socket on my Crusader's weapon are costing me all my souls at the moment.
Would the sockets on the chest and legs outweigh getting crit chance on TandT?
And I'm first trying to get Mask of Jeram before going higher than T2 solo. Without it my killing speed is a bit slow.
Reroll the resist all on the pants for 2 sockets and the armor from the chest for 3 socket imo. Crit chance will outweigh yes and keep in mind to try and keep a 1:10 ratio for the chc to chd. also try to replace the main hand since the lil fetiches dont do much in all honesty but isnt a bad starter wep. Since you got half the battle done for pet build try to focus on physical dmgaffixes, weapon/damage affix since both these will greatly affect how much dmg your fetishes from fs will do. Also on your helm you can drop the loh fora socket for life% since this will give you a lil more comfort and so pets also have lil more health. imo you are definately on the right track with pursuing pet build but builds also can change drastically dependin on gear of course. Also since you have T&T AS isnt a huge factor on gear, yes it helps some but in the pet build its not a big stressor. On the pet build i run on my wd my stat priority has been chc,chd of 1:10 or around that>int>vit> life%> armor/resist. All in all its just getting the pieces but not impossible to do t2 smoothly with your gear if you can reroll some of your items. Not sure if this helps but if you need an idea of end game options you can check my wd, btag is-Kyruk#1286...........Happy hunting
WDKyruk, I'm planning on rerolling chest/pants, but lately my Forgotten Soul farming has been having bad luck (going 3 hours without a single legendary and so on). My previous weapon was a voodoo knife without any useful stats or affixes at all, so this one was at least, as you already put it, a not too bad starter weapon. Since I'm gambling for Mask of Jeram, it seems to me that it'd be useless to spend precious Forgotten Souls on my current helmet.
Is AS really not important in a pet build? A WD I play with every now and then swears by AS over Crit chance/dmg.
Ty for taking the time to help me
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On my Witch Doctor I'm running a pet build (http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#WlTUQY!VRWT!bb.abc) which includes Gargantuan and Big Bad Voodoo and Grave Injustice to shorten the cooldowns (with Zombie Dogs being a summon, it not important for my question).
At the moment I'm running with an amethyst gem in my helmet (the + life% gem), but some of my friends say that a diamond gem would be much better (the cdr gem). Seeing how my pets get tougher too with an amethyst gem, I don't think they're right (but I might as well be wrong, being a not too experienced WD).
So my question is, is it better to use an amethyst or diamond gem with my build?
Thanks in advance.
Gear isn't really that good (gotten quite some set pieces, but all were either from various sets or duplicates) and a good Legendary Mojo/MoJ still refuses to drop. Seeing how I'm only running T1/T2 at the moment, I can stay within 20 yards for Grave Injustice to take effect. And survivability for me or my pets ain't a problem at the moment, but I assumed that 11% cdr wasn't worth losing 20% life over
I switched out my socketed helm this morning for the Carnevil that's currently showing (it was worth 10% more sheet dmg at the cost of a few % toughness), with the socketed helm being the Jade Harvester helmet (the Jade helmet only has 684 int and a socket for damage purposes, the other stats are either for toughness or healing). I'll try to get a socket on the Carnevil helmet once I get some more Forgotten Souls (TandT is using them at the moment in hopes of getting crit chance % on them).
One thing you will want to do, in addition to the socket in the helm, is getting sockets in your chest / pants. The amount of Intelligence you can get having 5 additional, +280 gems will far outweigh the other dmg bonuses you have on those pieces right now.
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Would the sockets on the chest and legs outweigh getting crit chance on TandT?
And I'm first trying to get Mask of Jeram before going higher than T2 solo. Without it my killing speed is a bit slow.
Is AS really not important in a pet build? A WD I play with every now and then swears by AS over Crit chance/dmg.
Ty for taking the time to help me