Hello again fellow d3'ers I'd like to first introduce myself before we begin, I am ControlledAnger and you may know me from my twitch, Twitch.tv/ControlledAnger, but you can call me Tom.
This is going to be a witch doctor build that consists of the full jade harvester set and allows one to faceroll T6 with the correct gear setup.Below you will find a complete list of everything you need to know about the build and how to play it as well as equipping the correct gear for it.If you ever have any questions about the build or anything wd/any class related feel free to ask at my stream, as I am always glad to give a helping hand.
GearHelm - Quetzalcoatl (This helm will give your dots double damage, thus doubling your harvest dmg completely[Ideal Int/socket/6cc]) Chest - Jade Harvester'S Peace - (Ideal - Int/vit/3soc/15% haunt) Pants - Jade Harvester's Courage - (Ideal - Int/vit/2soc/ armor or AR) Boots- Jade Harvester's Swiftness - (Ideal - Int/vit/armor/res, or MS for more dmg through paragon points) Gloves- Jade Harvester's Mercy - (Ideal - Int/cc/cd/cdr or vit) Belt- Harrington Waistguard/Witching hour/Hwoj wrap (Chest belt for zones with lots of clickables and rift bosses, WH for zones w/o clickables, and Hwoj wrap for solo so slow things down) Shoulders- Jade Harvester's Joy - (Ideal - Int/Vit/life %/ CDR or Haunt dmg) Wrists- Strong Arm's the knockback proc does work with piranhado (Ideal - 20% cold/int/vit/cc) Amulet- Any amulet with - 20% cold/Int/cc/cd Ring 1- Royal Ring of Grandeur (Ideal - Int/cc/cd/avg dmg or AS) Ring 2- Stone of Jordan or Unity for follower combo % dmg reduction in solo play (Ideal - 20% cold/Int/cc or cd/30 elite[Just remember you have controll of your crits in many circumstances so CD is just as good as cc and better in certain cases)
Weapon- Sunkeeper (Ideal - 2100+ 27+ elite) Other options are Mad monarchs Utar's roar and Azurewrath, just keep in mind lower speed harder hitting weps deal more damage then higher speed lower raw dmg weps since haunt dmg does not increase with speed at all. Mojo- Uhkapian serpent - (Ideal- int/vit/CDR or haunt) Mercenary - Don't underestimate a good mercenary. I choose to use the Templar as he adds a good amount of tanking support. Equip him with either support gear (unity/Thunderfury/etc) or magic find gear as your follower gives you 20% of his total magic find and xp gear.
Stats to shoot for with this build as aguidelineare as follows:
700k++ dps
50% + cold % dmg
50% + dmg to elites
7m++ toughness with serpent + life link dogs (up to 40% dmg reduction)
The idea of this build is to group up, apply your dots as a crit as fast as possible, and nuke with soul harvest, then re-apply as crits to whats left over, and nuke again. In a perfect world it takes 2 to evaporate any pack. The basics - Massive crits
Basically how this set works is that it dumps (roughly) 30 seconds of your haunt and locust swarm current ticking damage instantly upon soul harvesting. So the harder your ticking, the more damage the soul harvest will do. The best way to get more damage out
of your soul harvest is to get as much % cold and elite % in your gear as possible as well as critical hit damage. The crits can get upwards of 4-5 billion with a good party setup and the perfect situations, but normal solo crits range from 500-1.5b pending on your gear.
The way the set bonus works is when you soul harvest and it pulls 30 seconds off of your current remaining duration. With the Quetz helm this is 2.5 minutes (so a total of 5 harvests, though this is impossible with the harvest's cooldown). Once you apply a crit
the crit will NOT be removed upon soul harvesting, soul sit and wait for the next harvest (this is why CDR = Pure dps output with this build and to a pretty large degree considering all the downtime).
Offense
Upon entering a pack of mobs the first thing you want to do is piranhado first, apply locust swarm once, then apply 3-5 haunts depending on the size of the pack, and finally spirit walk into the pack and soul harvest. After this whatever doesn't die, you can re-apply as crits with haunt quickly since it should
be easier to see the numbers with a few less mobs. Depending on the pack size your soul harvest might come back up instantly after harvesting, so be careful not to double harvest (tapping the harvest furiously could waste it).
***Also there are certain mobs that will drop you dot's, this is because they are doing some mechanic that drops all cc's and haunt being cold damage is a cc. Goblins are one of the biggest problems here. Your best bet for killing a goblin is to run straight up and pirana, locust, haunt once and instantly harvest when they are not in their invulnerable state, then if it does not die instantly, let it walk a bit and namelock haunt it until he begins porting away, at this time you should be able to harvest a second time to finish him.
Defense With this set your off hand is mandatory as a serpent. The level of damage reduction this gives you is effectively turning you into a tank even with low sheet ehp. With life link dogs and a 30% serpent you effectively have 40% raw damage reduction to everything. As for play style, with this build you will be able to use siphon on your harvest rune to give you a lot of life return, so its possible to turn down all life regen and loh and go for pure ehp while using this as your heal (another reason CDR is very important and not just for dps).
Paragon Points
Tree 1 - Max move speed (to get to 25%) then a combo of int/vit or all int if you are a real man.
Tree 2 - CD first, CC second, and finally cooldown reduction
Tree 3 - Res/AR/Life% in that order, your sustain will come from using soul harvest, but depending on your play style regen may work better then life %
Tree 4- Area damage first, resource cost second, the rest is lulz (loh doesnt proc well at all with the skills used)
Video of exactly how to play this build. This was not a timed or speed run, just a straight up recording of one random run to give you an idea.
Hello again fellow d3'ers I'd like to first introduce myself before we begin, I am ControlledAnger and you may know me from my twitch, Twitch.tv/ControlledAnger, but you can call me Tom.
This is going to be a witch doctor build that consists of the full jade harvester set and allows one to faceroll T6 with the correct gear setup.Below you will find a complete list of everything you need to know about the build and how to play it as well as equipping the correct gear for it.If you ever have any questions about the build or anything wd/any class related feel free to ask at my stream, as I am always glad to give a helping hand.
Gear Helm - Quetzalcoatl (This helm will give your dots double damage, thus doubling your harvest dmg completely[Ideal Int/socket/6cc])
Chest - Jade Harvester'S Peace - (Ideal - Int/vit/3soc/15% haunt)
Pants - Jade Harvester's Courage - (Ideal - Int/vit/2soc/ armor or AR)
Boots- Jade Harvester's Swiftness - (Ideal - Int/vit/armor/res, or MS for more dmg through paragon points)
Gloves- Jade Harvester's Mercy - (Ideal - Int/cc/cd/cdr or vit)
Belt- Harrington Waistguard/Witching hour/Hwoj wrap (Chest belt for zones with lots of clickables and rift bosses, WH for zones w/o clickables, and Hwoj wrap for solo so slow things down)
Shoulders- Jade Harvester's Joy - (Ideal - Int/Vit/life %/ CDR or Haunt dmg)
Wrists- Strong Arm's the knockback proc does work with piranhado (Ideal - 20% cold/int/vit/cc)
Amulet- Any amulet with - 20% cold/Int/cc/cd
Ring 1- Royal Ring of Grandeur (Ideal - Int/cc/cd/avg dmg or AS)
Ring 2- Stone of Jordan or Unity for follower combo % dmg reduction in solo play (Ideal - 20% cold/Int/cc or cd/30 elite[Just remember you have controll of your crits in many circumstances so CD is just as good as cc and better in certain cases)
Weapon- Sunkeeper (Ideal - 2100+ 27+ elite) Other options are Mad monarchs Utar's roar and Azurewrath, just keep in mind lower speed harder hitting weps deal more damage then higher speed lower raw dmg weps since haunt dmg does not increase with speed at all.
Mojo- Uhkapian serpent - (Ideal- int/vit/CDR or haunt)
Mercenary - Don't underestimate a good mercenary. I choose to use the Templar as he adds a good amount of tanking support. Equip him with either support gear (unity/Thunderfury/etc) or magic find gear as your follower gives you 20% of his total magic find and xp gear.
Stats to shoot for with this build as aguidelineare as follows:
700k++ dps
50% + cold % dmg
50% + dmg to elites
7m++ toughness with serpent + life link dogs (up to 40% dmg reduction)
Here is a idea of what a end game product should look like - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Controller-1630/hero/35639240
How the build works
Skills
The idea of this build is to group up, apply your dots as a crit as fast as possible, and nuke with soul harvest, then re-apply as crits to whats left over, and nuke again. In a perfect world it takes 2 to evaporate any pack.
The basics - Massive crits
Basically how this set works is that it dumps (roughly) 30 seconds of your haunt and locust swarm current ticking damage instantly upon soul harvesting. So the harder your ticking, the more damage the soul harvest will do. The best way to get more damage out
of your soul harvest is to get as much % cold and elite % in your gear as possible as well as critical hit damage. The crits can get upwards of 4-5 billion with a good party setup and the perfect situations, but normal solo crits range from 500-1.5b pending on your gear.
The way the set bonus works is when you soul harvest and it pulls 30 seconds off of your current remaining duration. With the Quetz helm this is 2.5 minutes (so a total of 5 harvests, though this is impossible with the harvest's cooldown). Once you apply a crit
the crit will NOT be removed upon soul harvesting, soul sit and wait for the next harvest (this is why CDR = Pure dps output with this build and to a pretty large degree considering all the downtime).
Offense
Upon entering a pack of mobs the first thing you want to do is piranhado first, apply locust swarm once, then apply 3-5 haunts depending on the size of the pack, and finally spirit walk into the pack and soul harvest. After this whatever doesn't die, you can re-apply as crits with haunt quickly since it should
be easier to see the numbers with a few less mobs. Depending on the pack size your soul harvest might come back up instantly after harvesting, so be careful not to double harvest (tapping the harvest furiously could waste it).
***Also there are certain mobs that will drop you dot's, this is because they are doing some mechanic that drops all cc's and haunt being cold damage is a cc. Goblins are one of the biggest problems here. Your best bet for killing a goblin is to run straight up and pirana, locust, haunt once and instantly harvest when they are not in their invulnerable state, then if it does not die instantly, let it walk a bit and namelock haunt it until he begins porting away, at this time you should be able to harvest a second time to finish him.
Defense
With this set your off hand is mandatory as a serpent. The level of damage reduction this gives you is effectively turning you into a tank even with low sheet ehp. With life link dogs and a 30% serpent you effectively have 40% raw damage reduction to everything. As for play style, with this build you will be able to use siphon on your harvest rune to give you a lot of life return, so its possible to turn down all life regen and loh and go for pure ehp while using this as your heal (another reason CDR is very important and not just for dps).
Paragon Points
Tree 1 - Max move speed (to get to 25%) then a combo of int/vit or all int if you are a real man.
Tree 2 - CD first, CC second, and finally cooldown reduction
Tree 3 - Res/AR/Life% in that order, your sustain will come from using soul harvest, but depending on your play style regen may work better then life %
Tree 4- Area damage first, resource cost second, the rest is lulz (loh doesnt proc well at all with the skills used)
Video of exactly how to play this build. This was not a timed or speed run, just a straight up recording of one random run to give you an idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlmVNz8Mx8Y
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