Haven't played in a few months and since I started again thought I might as well try HC with a class I've never played before.
I'm liking the WD. I use the blowgun triple shot attack, with zombie dogs and the eels for crowd control. Works pretty well. Use soul harvest and the horrify skill as needed. Into Act II, haven't really come close to dying yet. I upped it to MP1 to get more XP. I am dreading Belial -- always found him tough. Any advice on min level/stats to take him on safely? I remember he had some power attacks that could oneshot characters pretty frequently.
I could not find any guides for HC WD below level 60. Not really sure what to do. Recently got spirit barrage and it seems cool but don't really want to rock the boat with what is working. I am considering replacing the frighten skill with the spirit walk but not sure what is better for escape.
crafting is your friend in HC. Keep the difficulty lvl down and walk your character you will gear fast and be able to handle higher difficulties rather easy.
WD leveling is all about pets on HC, get dogs and garg, Acid cloud and fire bomb from a distance and let pets do all the work, you need jaunt to survive always.
The pets are not there to kill stuff >.>
They do tank quite well though, with decent defensive gear on. You MUST has Spirit Walk and at later levels Spirit Vessel, these 2 are the real life savers. For Belial I would recomend 45 for NM and 60 for Hell (but I not sure how it works now in 2.0). In normal if you have a decent AH weapon just nuke him to death (he is easy in normal at around 25 I think it was). He is scary in HC, do what I did, do him a few times on normal until you learn to dodge all his stuff. I did this after I had lost my first WD to him on NM and was leveling my second WD.
Personally I always run spirit walk, dogs and garg (rest of the skills as you choose). If you feel the need to give up one of them I would say remove the Garg, dogs tank better and neither of them do any really damage.
Then the only thing you have to avoid is getting stuck in a wall by a waller pack, that's the only thing that can really kill you. Belial and waller packs.
P.S. You main dps skills while leveling are Locust Swarm (pestilence rune), Triple bears, Acid cloud (rain or blob). For a bit of fun crazy single target dps try a Spirit bolt nuking spec with infinite mana or Cloud bats (best dps vs bosses in the game).
great info! I will keep this in mind. I will be rolling a WD tomorrow. I have never played one before ether.
Into Act II, haven't really come close to dying yet. I upped it to MP1 to get more XP. I am dreading Belial -- always found him tough. Any advice on min level/stats to take him on safely? I remember he had some power attacks that could oneshot characters pretty frequently.
This is funny because I have been leveling my second WD as my first HC character and I too was REALLY dreading Belial. I also started to panic when I started the fight because I had the difficulty upped to Expert ... I hadn't really encountered anything that scared me to that point, but then I noticed this right when I started the fight.
He was a cake-walk for me ... probably nerfed attacks in the 2.0 transition.
Anyway, I have been pretty much darts, grasp, bears, gargantuan, dogs, and soul harvest ... though I think I will switch to some spirit walk and acid cloud soon or at 60.
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I'm liking the WD. I use the blowgun triple shot attack, with zombie dogs and the eels for crowd control. Works pretty well. Use soul harvest and the horrify skill as needed. Into Act II, haven't really come close to dying yet. I upped it to MP1 to get more XP. I am dreading Belial -- always found him tough. Any advice on min level/stats to take him on safely? I remember he had some power attacks that could oneshot characters pretty frequently.
I could not find any guides for HC WD below level 60. Not really sure what to do. Recently got spirit barrage and it seems cool but don't really want to rock the boat with what is working. I am considering replacing the frighten skill with the spirit walk but not sure what is better for escape.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Time2Kill-1230/hero/23330792
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Time2Kill-1230/hero/23330792
He was a cake-walk for me ... probably nerfed attacks in the 2.0 transition.
Anyway, I have been pretty much darts, grasp, bears, gargantuan, dogs, and soul harvest ... though I think I will switch to some spirit walk and acid cloud soon or at 60.