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Quote from fihnn

Hi,

My guess is you haven't searched very long then :-)

I have used a combination of these two - but I believe there are many more:

By Emberos - www.diablofans.com/topic/77966-acid-cloud-paragon-farming-70-mill-xphr/
By Projax - www.diablofans.com/topic/78375-projax-10mil-budget-wd-guide-50-mil-xphour-wo-hellfire-ring/

Regarding the gear, watch the guides and upgrade using the same principles.

Quote from IcepickD

As far as I know, and you should get another opinion Acid is not the way to go for higher MPs.
Acid is the best for lower MP I would say up to 3. But bears do start to shine much more at some point, depending on the gear, usually at higher MPs.

For Acid rain there can be many builds but I would give you some pointers. All depending on what your gear is and what MP do you want to play.

What you always need:
High LOH: over 1000 for higher MPs, for 0-2 I think 600 would do for gear around 120M.
High pickup radius: 20+, the more the better

Primary Skill: Poison dart: I use flaming darts when playing acid
Secondary skill : Acid rain, the one with larger radius, for faster farming
Pasive: Circle of life(this is where pickup radius steps in)
grave injustice, gruesome feast

Depending on survivability(it is best to try and see for your self, as it can depend on skill and playstyle):
If you are killing very fast and don't die often:
1)Sacrifice(pride for mana, and you need mana) MANDATORY
2)Spirit walk(either mana or increased duration, depending on your need)
3)Horify(stalker:for running faster)
4)Soul Harvest(either vengance for increased DMG output, or mana)

If you die more often:
1)sacrifice(pride) or take a defensive one here, sometimes I like Big Bad Voodo as I often die only if my mana runs out, or a defensive like dogs, gargantuan
2)spirit walk(3 secs duration)
3)you can go for whatever you like here that helps you, I like Gargantuan(humongoid or bad stinger are only viable), You can have Horify with armor or Mass confusion
4)Soul harvest(vengeance)

You can change some pasives here depending on your choises:
if you no longer have sacrifice remove circle of life and take jungle fortitude, or bad medicine
You can also remove grave injustice and take whatever you like if you don't need more mana
or remove gruesome feast and reduce dmg output, but get something defensive

NOTE:never take pierce the veil: DMG output seems bigger only on paper, but you can never makeout for the loss of mana
As for gear:
You will need at least 20 mana regen from items, at least 150 more mana, 500+ resist, 3.5k armor, 35k + life

Try not to use AS items, as they usually only get you paper DMG, and with your budget it is imposible to get everything else maxed out. You can have some AS items it is good for casting speed, but try not to get everything with AS, 2 items will do.
Zuni pieces are very good for WD, I would say the best.

Quote from Emberos

I would agree that a traditional Acid Rain build is not going to do well on higher MPs. You are probably going to want to go with a more Bear-focused build. I have an example of a Bears build that is working well for me at higher MPs in this thread:



I'm sure there are others. Really just depends on what your goals are -- if you are Paragon farming, I'd stick with low MPs and Acid Rain-oriented build. If you are playing higher MPs for fun, I'd probably go with a Bears-oriented build.