It's pretty lame, I know, but a little crit will go a long way for you. I wanted to build IAS, machine gun mode sounds more fun to me then a 3 second reload cannon. However, that's just not how this game works. You get better mana efficiency and way more dmg from stacking crit and crit dmg. I know you said you know that, but even a hit to int to gain crit would probably be worth it. To make it worth it you almost HAVE to have a crit dmg/socket weapon with crit dmg gem.
The other thing I would sugest is drop Acid cloud and go for a bears build. Acid Clouds strength lies in it's really high proc coefficient. That means that if you have LoH, or other on hit procs, it procs at a higher chance and higher value. Bears is lower, but better dmg. Since you have 0 LoH from what I can tell, you shouldn't need to high proc ability, and should get more dmg instead.
I disagree on switching Acid Cloud for Bears only because of 0 LoH. I run 0 LoH/LL and don't use Bears.
I'm at 55k dps with Pierce the Veil and Enchantress, and PtV makes Bears essentially unspammable. So I use a skill that has a nice DoT, cast it every ~3.5 seconds (or spam a bit depending on mob positioning), with an absolutely huge hit radius in Acid Rain. Granted, Bears does a lot more damage, but if you don't gear up for mana regen, things get tricky and you might end up with 0 mana to cast Spirit Walk when you need it and that's a bummer to say the least.
Things are not set in stone.
If you don't have a lot of gold to spend, I say get tankier and then go for an awesome weapon. I first went for ~80k HP, 30k+ dps with some +armor and all res gear to make my pets very tanky. This helped immensely as I was able to consistently farm Act 3, albeit a little slow due to low dps. You don't need to effectively stack a lot of crit to get a nice dps boost, getting to a mid 20's chance is fine along with some IAS and high int.
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I can pretty much handle A2, and usually in a group of 4 but act 3 is really rough
I know I need to get more crit, but AH has been slacking at best as of late and only have $5M
any help from the wise WD's in here?
The other thing I would sugest is drop Acid cloud and go for a bears build. Acid Clouds strength lies in it's really high proc coefficient. That means that if you have LoH, or other on hit procs, it procs at a higher chance and higher value. Bears is lower, but better dmg. Since you have 0 LoH from what I can tell, you shouldn't need to high proc ability, and should get more dmg instead.
I'm at 55k dps with Pierce the Veil and Enchantress, and PtV makes Bears essentially unspammable. So I use a skill that has a nice DoT, cast it every ~3.5 seconds (or spam a bit depending on mob positioning), with an absolutely huge hit radius in Acid Rain. Granted, Bears does a lot more damage, but if you don't gear up for mana regen, things get tricky and you might end up with 0 mana to cast Spirit Walk when you need it and that's a bummer to say the least.
Things are not set in stone.
If you don't have a lot of gold to spend, I say get tankier and then go for an awesome weapon. I first went for ~80k HP, 30k+ dps with some +armor and all res gear to make my pets very tanky. This helped immensely as I was able to consistently farm Act 3, albeit a little slow due to low dps. You don't need to effectively stack a lot of crit to get a nice dps boost, getting to a mid 20's chance is fine along with some IAS and high int.