Yea, it is a real shame that Blizzard did not ban these exploiters. What strange message does that send? At least they could have done a roll-back or something..
I bet you get banned real quick if you would use maphack or similar, if there is one. And a cheat like that does not give you a big advantage compared to those exploits.
As for the 4-p Zuni bonus it only affects the Fetish Arty, NOT the Fetish Sycophants spawned from the passive skill. There is also a bug on live server where your Fetish Army gets overwritten by Sycos, which in not good as the Fetish Army ones does much more damage.
I swapped my gem from ruby->emerald and I have not done any serious testing, but it feels like my DPS is a lot higher. My gear is not even close to end-gamish but my fetishes crits for about 6mil with no buffs on them.
I also changed my paragon points from attack speed to CHD and CHC.
I have seen this with the dogs as well, when they just park at your side until you move. The fetishes seems to have better AI and is not affected by this bug what I can see.
I personally will wait and see and keep my gear as is it is, no way things will stay as they are now. I might resocket my weap but will not reenchant my gear for CHD. I would like a buff to dogs, but with this change fetishes and garg looks to powerful.
Hmm, this sound rather worrying as my Fetishes already felt very powerful and I do not want to see a nerf on the little buggers. However if this is an intended DPS increase for WDs I will not complain
Wanted to jump in and say I had a very similar question. Currently have a Mempo of Twilight worth about 8% more damage but between MoJ and Tall Man's Finger I am not sure where the point of improvement needs to be to move away from pets.
It might look like a mana starved build at first, and it can be if you need to move a lot or facing mobs with fear. The key is Grave Injustice that gives me 1% mana per kill and also reducing my CD on Spirit Walk which gives me 20% mana per use. The key is to stay close to the action which basically removes the CD on Spirit Walk = very good mana management.
My normal play-style is this:
Spawn my permanent army.
Find a good sized group of mobs, cast Piranhas with the Piranhado rune, grouping them very tight an increases mob damage taken with 15%
Run in and blow them up with Soul Harvest, criting for easily 3-4M per mob and gives me 10% int buff for even more damage.
Run out and let the fetishes to move in and start casting Firebats till all are dead. Repeat
I totally agree that dogs and Garg is close to useless when you can have the awesome fetishes. The other pets just does not add enough DPS to be worth it. My little dudes just melts everything so far in torment 2-3. Single target DPS in incredible. For boss fights like Maltheal I swap soul harvest for leeching Dogs for more heals.
I am also using the 60 MoJ with great success, and the only replacement is the 70-version as I really enjoy my current build. I am also using the 60 Tasker and Theo and 4-p Zuni (some 60, some 70s) resulting in insane Fetish DPS, MUCH higher then my sheet DPS. T6 Manglemaw goes down in ~15 sec
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I bet you get banned real quick if you would use maphack or similar, if there is one. And a cheat like that does not give you a big advantage compared to those exploits.
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I also changed my paragon points from attack speed to CHD and CHC.
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My normal play-style is this:
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My char:http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Slug-2396/hero/91253