This looks interesting. I am getting quite bored with my pet build, and have yet to get my jade boots. Unfortunately, the community tends to drive a BIS mentality, so if you are running something different than the BIS gear/Spec you are considered a substandard player and thus a liability to a group. It is clear when you sit in various communities, and see requests for specific specs, not specific classes, as people are more focused on clearing rifts in 4 mins, instead of having fun clearing them. Just my 2 cents!
Seriously, the elitist attitude in this community is ridiculously frustrating. It is RNG, what is the issue with making it easier? What is skillful about grinding a specific key type for weeks straight. Not sure about you, but i do not find mindlessly repeating the same quest for a chance to farm an item fun. You said so in your statement, that grinding for keys in boring, So why institute a mechanic which is ridiculously boring? To make it harder. This is a game built on RNG which makes things solely random. Isn't that hard enough? I have been playing my WD since day one of D3 and since day one of RoS, and have yet to get a full jade set, because the boots elude me, yet there are folks that have less than 50 hours of game play on a WD with a full jade set, SMK, TMF, and all of the other fancy acronymns. That doesn't make them more skilled, or any better at the game, it just means that they were lucky enough to get the drops they needed. Chill out and let blizz make the game fun! Isnt it fun to finally get that item that has eluded you? I know i will throw a party if I am ever able to get the jade boots!
I have been playing WD since vanilla, and 95% of my deaths have been because i was doing something wrong. I truly believe the game sometime decides that you have to die, (perfect storm of affixes, mob density, map configuration, and cd usage) and nothing you can do will prevent it. Each of the mobs have specific mechanics you must avoid, and it is specific to the class you are playing how you do that. Proper character movement allows you to utilize Soul Harvest and save Spirit Walk for a defensive CD. I agree with everyone here, link your profile and we can actually help other than make assumptions based on our opinions.
One last question (I will go with MoJ, TMF, SoJ, Totd).
Is it better to feed the FS passive with Physical Damage or Fire for the Mega Zombie Dog and the Gargantuan?
If I have enough fetishes, Physical >> Fire?
Or maybe split the elemental damage between both?
I think there's a crafteable weapon with +Fire damage...
I have very similar gear as you. It really depends on which direction you want to go. I personally prefer the +Fire Damage, because the Wrathful Protector rune lets the Garg hit like a truck. With BBV, Pirahnado and +63% fire damage, my garg is hitting for over 160 mil a crit. and my big dog hits for 70 -80 million, depending on how many dog passives I have equipped. For lower level speed runs, I run with Midnight Feast and Fierce Loyalty (dropping FS passive) for the speed, which makes the dog hit harder. I run Explosive toads to nuke the white mobs and pop my cooldowns for elite and champ packs which basically melt with one or two garg swings. Higher levels, I drop Fierce Loyalty and run with FS, for more meat shields as the fire aura of the dog and explosive toads melt stuff.
My recommendations are with the expectation that you are looking to improve damage and survivability to move into higher Torment Levels. First thing here is that you should have the Midnight Feast Passive as that is a flat 50% damage increase to your dogs and garg. Not playing with a SMK, I am not sure how quickly you are resetting the CD for BBV, so if you are rarely on CD, then I would look at swapping my gem to an Amethyst and reforging CDR. Depending on how often FA is off of CD, you may consider switching to Fetish Ambush as that is a 250% damage nuke, just an idea. You should work to get Crit Chance on your bracers, with a balance of Crit Chance & Crit Damage on your Ammy and rings. Not sure about your paragon level, but a general rule of thumb is to max out movement speed through paragons not gear stats. Finally, with the damage Garg - Wrathful Protector does, you might consider stacking some fire damage because he hits very hard with +fire Damage. You could even transition everything over from +physical to +fire and change the runes on your Fetish Army and Zombie dogs to compensate for that. Hexing pants are nice as long as you are constantly moving, which shouldn't be a problem with this being a pet spec and very little casting.
I have been playing around with several versions and was totally against Wrathful Protector Garg. Someone mentioned in a different thread that Garg placement is critical, which lead me to trying it out again. I started stacking +fire damage with a RoRG and TMF so i use big fire dog too. I run +49% fire damage with a MoJ. When I drop BBV + Pirahnado, Spirit walk into the pack, drop my garg, I am seeing 140 mil crits from my garg and 40-60 mil with my dog, which damn near 1 shots elites and two to three shots champs. As a side note, I am using the Harringtons belt which works on bodys, rocks, and armor/weapons racks, so that is +128% damage increase, which I strategically use to boost the damage of myself and my pets. Hope this helps.
PS - When a mob is surrounded with fetishes, the heavy hitters have no path to attack. The fetishes are great for shielding you from mobs, but they also stop your big boys from getting to their target.
Yea...because a kung fu panda hunting pokemon is extremely original... I never seen either character or game play (pokemon battles) any whereeeeee at all.
Doesn't matter if you and me like it or not. It brought back subscribers and the majority of the audience approves of it. It's a step in the right direction after Cataclysm.
lol well yeah most of them do. It's a casual game for garbage casuals to have evrything handed to them. So yeah they are gonna like it. That expansion was the reason alone why I left wow a year before even before it came out. Cataclysm was good when it came out but leave it to blizzard to nerf the game down to in to stupid mode for the casuals and we went south with it as usual. FL any one ? Let's not forget how they beat the dead horse with that patch alone with the nerfs for garbage casuals.
While i played WoW from BC and played at a high level even ranking at one point in time as a top 100 warlock based on WowProgress. I suppose I would be considered one of those garbage casuals to you. The reality is, I have a life outside of the game, and still enjoy playing. So while my passion is in HM Raiding and grinding for weeks on end, why should I be relegated to "Garbage" status because I have children that occupy more of my time. Generally speaking, the things that are wrong with WoW isnt necessarily the game play but more so the elitist attitude of a minority of the community. In the raid finder option, it was generally the elitist asses that would grief players and afk in the middle of fights then return for loot rolls. The casual player base doesnt generally have the knowledge base to make the type of decisions that tend to ruin the game. As far as D3, while it was not what I expected, I have enjoyed the game play with my friends and family. Would I like to have seen some changes, sure. But at the same time, if you have leveled one of each class, and geared them out. You have gotten your 49.95's worth of gameplay. The fact that Blizz continues to make improvements, when in essence they do not need to, is a plus in itself. Just my opinion, which matters for a whole lot of nothing.
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PS - When a mob is surrounded with fetishes, the heavy hitters have no path to attack. The fetishes are great for shielding you from mobs, but they also stop your big boys from getting to their target.
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While i played WoW from BC and played at a high level even ranking at one point in time as a top 100 warlock based on WowProgress. I suppose I would be considered one of those garbage casuals to you. The reality is, I have a life outside of the game, and still enjoy playing. So while my passion is in HM Raiding and grinding for weeks on end, why should I be relegated to "Garbage" status because I have children that occupy more of my time. Generally speaking, the things that are wrong with WoW isnt necessarily the game play but more so the elitist attitude of a minority of the community. In the raid finder option, it was generally the elitist asses that would grief players and afk in the middle of fights then return for loot rolls. The casual player base doesnt generally have the knowledge base to make the type of decisions that tend to ruin the game. As far as D3, while it was not what I expected, I have enjoyed the game play with my friends and family. Would I like to have seen some changes, sure. But at the same time, if you have leveled one of each class, and geared them out. You have gotten your 49.95's worth of gameplay. The fact that Blizz continues to make improvements, when in essence they do not need to, is a plus in itself. Just my opinion, which matters for a whole lot of nothing.