Witch Doctor Builds
Bears/Spirit Barrage Witch Doctor
Battle.net forum member rockon87 has posted a guide to a pretty recognizable Witch Doctor build that has been getting a good amount of positive feedback. The build is pre-expansion, but he has updated it for level 70 and is currently using it himself. The guide is very detailed so do check it out!
The "Angry Wet Bears" Witch Doctor
Artanix says he is farming T1 with his WD build and explains what he focuses on: "Damage (Obviously), Sustainability - Get the mana regen required to prolong the bear casting and Skill Synergy - Not having a massive mix of elements to maximize DPS off items."
Projax's Witch Doctor
One of the winners of our Guide competition last year - Projax, has a new guide up for his fellow Witch Doctors! It focuses on a big nuke ability with a good amount of Crowd Control. He also has a video up! Check out his guide on this link.
MyJoosBox's Fire Doc
MyJoosBox over on the official forums has made a nice Fire build for his Witch Doctor and created a pretty detailed guide on how yours can be just the same. In his topic he goes through the gear and stats needed for the build to work and gives a bit of thought on variations of it.
YoyoTanya's Immortal Witch Doctor
An Immortal Doctor has been created by YoyoTanya! The main idea behind this build is that... the character is pretty hard to kill obviously. To do that the author is using pets to distract the enemies while using a variety of other skills to unleash hell upon his foes. So far the guide has received some good feedback as YoyoTanya has actually gone through quite the detail in his explanation. Check out his topic hereba!
Aever's WD Control Build
Aever's Witch Doctor thread is another example of how great people on DIabloFans' forums are. He made a TL;DR version of his guide (it's not simply a build) that sums it up pretty well:
- Poison damage, whenever possible. This is just for make "+Poison damage" as effective as possible.
- As many snares as possible to help control large packs of mobs.
- Very good AoE damage.
- I wouldn't say "tanky", but able to take some hits.
- Fun to play, without "gimmicks" and cumbersome skills.
- Good for single player.
Boxsalesman's Starter Pet Witch Doctor
Yet another contribution that's aimed at heroes who don't have fabulous Legendaries yet! Boxsalesman's starter pet WD build uses a mix of physical and fire damage which leaves the player with a few more gearing options. As usual, you can see the build in action in his video.
Joebo's Pet Doctor
Now that pet builds are at their strongest, some very interesting ones emerge. This is the case with Joebo444's Witch Doctor build that he demonstrates in a Torment 6 Azmodan fight. It's not surprising that Azmodan is slain in 7.7 seconds - not only is the build extremely effective, but Joebo is Paragon Level 560 and makes sure he has summoned as many fetishes as possible while in town before going into battle.
1-http://diablonut.incgamers.com/skillPlanner/V2l0Y2hEb2N0b3IrNjArMTE3NDAyKzY3NjE2KzEwNjQ2NSsxMDYyMzcrMTAyNTcyKzEwMjU3MytSdW5lX0ErUnVuZV9FK1J1bmVfQitSdW5lX0IrUnVuZV9CK1J1bmVfRCsyMDg1OTQrMjA4NTYzKzIwODYwMSsyMTg1ODgrMQ==
2-http://diablonut.incgamers.com/skillPlanner/V2l0Y2hEb2N0b3IrNjArMTE3NDAyKzY3NjE2KzEwNjQ2NSsxMDYyMzcrMTAyNTcyKzEwMjU3MytSdW5lX0ErUnVuZV9FK1J1bmVfQitSdW5lX0IrUnVuZV9BK1J1bmVfRCsyMDg1OTQrMjA4NTYzKzIxODU4OCsyMDg2MDErMQ==
I just got done running a Torment 4 rift full group. Besides all my party members constantly DCing. I noticed an extremely significant drop in my overall survivability. However, this is ok because the Ancient Parthan Defenders will help strengthen the survivability you may lose since you do not have a 5th zombie dog to sacrifice. Also keep in mind I have only one Zunimassa piece I've found so far. It's the Zunimassa Pox. Meaning I have yet to even be capable of even striving and or testing putting these two together.
I had a total of 4-8 fetishes up usually. Two other WD's were in party with me one running the actual Fetish build with some gear requirements, and the other running a Bear Build. Lots of stuff everywhere lol. As soon as I make a video I will post up for all to see.
I would like to take a second to say great job Blizz. I'm loving this expansion, and love what direction this game is headed in! XD
Skills
Sacrifice
Big Bad Voodoo
Horrify
Spirit Walk
Soul Harvest
Passives
Gruesome Feast
Fetish Sycophants
Tribal Rites
Zombie Handler
Will post more information about this build as well as videos shortly
http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/dedmachine-1217/MeatGrinder/29435560
The Quetzalcoatl inspired me to get creative and it's working extremely well. Creeping death along with the Quetzalcoatl makes Haunt, Searing Locusts and Piranhado very effective. I start off spamming haunt to get the mana return from Rush of Essence over 10 seconds, then I can use locusts as many times as necessary to infect everything on screen. A well placed piranhado gives 15% extra damage plus the 30% damage from the strongarm bracers makes short work of most elite packs (it works with piranhado and my enchantress has access to all skills as well, she is also equipped with a knockback weapon). With paragon (335) and pierce the veil, my sheet damage just broke a million and my fire damage is at 99%. So with the Harringtons Waistgaurd boost of 135% to damage for 10 seconds, my sheet damage reaches around 2,150,000 + 99% fire skills + 28% damage to elites +15% damage from Piranhado + 30% damage from Strongarm bracers. I'm interested to hear your thoughts or if anyone has a similar build or can give me ideas to improve my own. Thanks!
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12091749472
WiP upgrading to RoS, since it's only been a week there's not much to say. I can definitely say it's still working. What will happen when we find zunimassa's set bonus? Hard to say. May transition to rockon's build.
Example build for farming:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#clQdUj!TVWe!ZbbcaY
Example build for bosses:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#clQeUj!SVWe!ZbbYaY
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/witch-doctor-the-mbwiru-eikura/83069-angry-chicken-the-next-wd-build
This build is amazing! Lots of mobility, dmg. and defense. No issues with mana. Spirit walk has almost 100% uptime as long as there are lots of things to kill. Alternating blows with angry chicken and soul harvest on large packs kills everything super fast. Spirit barrage hits like a truck for single target. With the passive Rush of Essence you can cast spirit barrage all day.
I could keep going, but if you try it you will see for yourself.
This build relies on the Fetish Sycophants passive to build a huge number of minions using Vampire Bats. Positioning is key, if you recast Vampire Bats over and over you will OOM yourself. If you do run out of mana, Spirit Walk will let you get started again.
An important note about this build: You don't need to be in melee range to summon more Fetishes. If the situation is to hot for you to be that close, stand at a safe distance and assault them with minions.
This build is very solid for solo play and it works well in groups with a lot of casters.
Primary: Firebomb [Flash Fire]
Secondary: Firebats [Cloud of Bats]
Spirit Walk [Honored Guest]
Soul Harvest [Vengeful Spirits]
Summon Zombie Dogs [Leeching Beasts]
Big Bad Voodoo [Rain Dance]