Hey guys I'm Debo, I Main the Witch Doctor class, ever since the beta for Diablo 3 Vanilla. Encouraging players to try out the Witch Doctor class, and enjoy Diablo 3 is my major focus. I started to do this by compiling my thoughts in guides, and streaming to provide information to those who seek it.
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Witch Doctor PTR Seasons GUIDE:
What is P.T.R Patch 2.1
A Test server, where Blizzard tests their patches before they are released
You can Import your characters from the main "Live Servers" over to the Test Realm
Any Items obtained while on this server do not carry over to "Live Servers"
There no separate servers for PTR, All players from NA, EU, Asia all login on the same server
What is Blizzard planning to introduce in the upcoming patch?
Tiered Rifts
Ladder Seasons
Class balancing
Legendary Gems
Introduction of new Seasonal Legendaries
Witch Doctor Meta for tiered rifts
Non Seasoned
Top Builds:
Rhen'ho Flayer
No surprise here, the harsh reality after pet HP scaling within greater rifts was removed, pets started dying left and right.
With The Rhen'ho flayer, consistent pet generation, with STRONG crowd control gives our pets a legitimate chance of not dying.If a monster is afflicted by confusion from addling toads, they will not be able to effectively deal damage to our pets.
Star Metal Kukri
In the last patch, this was the bread, and butter for all High tier ranking Witch doctors. The main thing that has changed, is the pets HP scaling.With pets dying so easily (mostly fetishes), you begin to start having issues around levels 30+. Fetishes die before they can get enough attacks in toreset the Fetish army skill, thus rendering Star Metal Kukri worthless. However with the inclusions of legendary gems the build will return to normal, oncea player can raise the pet Legendary gem to max level, to enable the secondary ability of the gem, in which all pets become un-killable.
Jade Set
Jade is still sought after greatly in parties, and performs fairly decent in solo play. It reaches a "wall" at floor levels 31-32. With the right legendary gems, and gear.I wouldn't be surprised if it could go higher. But in general Jade does just fine, in greater rifts.
Witch Doctor in Seasons
What is a seasons created Character?
Seasons is a competitive ladder in which players are ranked against one another
All season characters start at level 1
They do not start off with any, artisan levels, paragon levels, or gold
Time period for these seasons will last from 1 to 6 months (To be determined by Blizzard)
At the end of a season, all Items, Gold, and paragon levels will transfer over to your non-seasoned account
As an extra incentive to play seasons, each season will provide Season Only Legendaries
At the end of the season, These special Legendaries will become available for non-season play.
Witch Doctors from level 1-70 Here is a guide I did pre-PTR 2.1, that simulated season play:
On the PTR, Adventure mode was made available from the start of level 1, We do not know if this was intended by blizzard or a mistake. It was commonlyexpected a player would need to clear story mode first, before unlocking adventure mode. We will have to wait on Blizzard to see if their going to keep itset up this way.
If playing the normal intended way, Bounties/Rifts to level 70 is the sure fire way to go.
The Miser's will PTR 2.1 Seasons exploit Here is a link to what The quest actually is:
Players would set this quest to Torment 6, go inside open the correct chest completing the bounty
The player would receive a Enormous amount of Exp, Gold, and a chance for Legendaries
By using this exploit a player was able to level from 1-70 in a 1-2 hour Time frame.
At 70, if the player choose to do so, they could repeat the following process to obtain insane amounts of exp for paragon levels, and gold for crafting
In game play time to get from 1-70
Clearing story mode, then using adventure mode until Level 70
Normal: 12-14 Hours est.
Hard: 10-12 Hours est.
Clearing only in adventure mode until Level 70
Normal: 11-12 Hours est.
Hard: 9-10 Hours est.
Using: The Miser's will set on T6 bounty quest to 70
Torment 6: 1-2 Hours est.
Greater Rifts on PTR Seasons
Everything involving PTR seasons Greater rifts, relates pretty much the same, as non seasoned Greater rifts.
It was hard to gauge how long it took for what classes to start hitting GR's levels 20+, due tot he Miser's exploit
On the Witch Doctor I was playing, about 40-50 Hours in game time I started consistently beating levels 20-21
Players that did climb the ladder quickly usually obtained one of the following: Rhen'Ho flayer, Star Metal, or a complete Jade Set.
Greater Rifts on PTR Trial token Exploit What is a Greater Rift Trial token?
In previous builds, when you beat a rift you have a chance to get a GR Level 1 Token
In this PTR build, to allow players to skip early GR levels, you now receive "Trial GR Tokens"
When these Tokens are used, you have multiple "waves" of monsters, the highest Wave you complete determines your GR starting level.
Issues with the GR Trial token
The waves are suppose to directly relate to the difficulty of that GR
Example: Wave 1= GR level 1, Wave 2= GR level 2
However sometimes, the waves will scale off of Game Difficulty, which conflicts with completing the waves correctly.
Blizzard is aware of this issue, and stated that this was unintended
GR Token Exploiting
4 Person party is inside of the game
First party member uses the GR Trial Token, and when prompted the other players decline entering the Trial Rift.
The person inside the Trial Rift leaves, failing the GR Trial
After that player completes the Trial Rift quest, all players are rewarded with a GR token level 1.
Every player repeats this process until, all members have GR tokens level 1.
My Twitch Tag: spsDebo (http://www.twitch.tv/spsdebo)
My armory Profile:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Debo-1782/hero/1274676
Diablo Fans Link to where I keep the growing list of all WD information:
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/witch-doctor-the-mbwiru-eikura/87828-showcased-builds-debos-witch-doctor-guide
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Witch Doctor PTR Seasons GUIDE:
What is P.T.R Patch 2.1
Non Seasoned
Top Builds:
Rhen'ho Flayer
No surprise here, the harsh reality after pet HP scaling within greater rifts was removed, pets started dying left and right.
With The Rhen'ho flayer, consistent pet generation, with STRONG crowd control gives our pets a legitimate chance of not dying.If a monster is afflicted by confusion from addling toads, they will not be able to effectively deal damage to our pets.
Star Metal Kukri
In the last patch, this was the bread, and butter for all High tier ranking Witch doctors. The main thing that has changed, is the pets HP scaling.With pets dying so easily (mostly fetishes), you begin to start having issues around levels 30+. Fetishes die before they can get enough attacks in toreset the Fetish army skill, thus rendering Star Metal Kukri worthless. However with the inclusions of legendary gems the build will return to normal, oncea player can raise the pet Legendary gem to max level, to enable the secondary ability of the gem, in which all pets become un-killable.
Jade Set
Jade is still sought after greatly in parties, and performs fairly decent in solo play. It reaches a "wall" at floor levels 31-32. With the right legendary gems, and gear.I wouldn't be surprised if it could go higher. But in general Jade does just fine, in greater rifts.
Witch Doctor in Seasons
What is a seasons created Character?
Here is a guide I did pre-PTR 2.1, that simulated season play:
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/witch-doctor-the-mbwiru-eikura/89656-debos-100-hours-of-simulated-ladder
Leveling Seasoned WD on PTR
Here is a link to what The quest actually is:
http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/The_Miser's_Will
What cause, and effect did this have on seasons?
Clearing story mode, then using adventure mode until Level 70
Greater Rifts on PTR Seasons
What is a Greater Rift Trial token?
Witch Doctor Changes:
Taken from here:
[PTR Patch Notes](http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14569138/patch-210-ptr-patch-notes-updated-july-18-7-18-2014#witchdoctor)
Legendary Gem options (Patch 2.1/Current PTR)
Legendary gems are currently planned for future Patch 2.1, and are like on Test Server PTR
New Seasonal Legendaries
Krelm's Buff Belt
Video link to a conclusion on the State of Seasons, and the PTR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD720pSP_EU