I've been looking at the witch doctors forums recently and they have a few builds based on items with -cooldown or -mana cost of skills, kinda prompted me to look into our gear:
There are a few sources that could reduce Arcane Torrent build:
2 legendary rings have -5 AP cost
Legendary amulet has -5 AP cost
Rare helms have -5 AP cost
Getting all 3 might be a bit too much DPS to drop normally, but using only 1 item with -5 AP cost of arcane torrent makes it cost only 11 AP, furthermore add in
prism -7 AP cost of skills
power of the storm -3 AP cost of skills
That combined could bring AP cost of Arcane torrent to 1 AP.
Arcane torrent has a 20% coefficient per missile and fires 3 missiles on each cast. Following that, stack up high attack speed, the AP cost will be easily covered by the pure AP regen even at the highest possible attack rates - that means you do not need any APoC gear at all to run this.
Arcane torrent alone has a very high weapon damage compared to many other skills, it hits fast and it's an AOE attack.
Could one of the more math savvy guys please help me out and do the math on the prism / nova uptime & CD from CM based on lets say 50% crit rate (which is quite easily achievable with OH) and say 2.0 / 2.5 / 3.0 APS?
Once again stacking in cold blooded + arcane disruption rune + may be slow time for a total of 20% + 15% + 20% damage bonuses for a skill that could be easily spammable non-stop as well as having a strong base weapon damage.
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Because of a few posts about Arcane Torrent, I've been looking into some of the statistics behind how the spell works, namely the spell coefficient, the number of missles, and how attack speed affects each. I'm still sorting through the information though, but I'll post the results when I better understand my numbers.
There are a few sources that could reduce Arcane Torrent build:
Arcane torrent has a 20% coefficient per missile and fires 3 missiles on each cast. Following that, stack up high attack speed, the AP cost will be easily covered by the pure AP regen even at the highest possible attack rates - that means you do not need any APoC gear at all to run this.
Arcane torrent alone has a very high weapon damage compared to many other skills, it hits fast and it's an AOE attack.
Could one of the more math savvy guys please help me out and do the math on the prism / nova uptime & CD from CM based on lets say 50% crit rate (which is quite easily achievable with OH) and say 2.0 / 2.5 / 3.0 APS?
Once again stacking in cold blooded + arcane disruption rune + may be slow time for a total of 20% + 15% + 20% damage bonuses for a skill that could be easily spammable non-stop as well as having a strong base weapon damage.
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