The Angry Chicken #162
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Play Your Way - Kingdudman's "Raining Dead" WD
This week's Play Your Way build focuses on burying your enemies under undead corpses. While not the strongest top tier build, it's definitely a fun concept worth exploring towards the end of Season 6 and while we wait for Patch 2.4.2. Check it out!
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Literal death from above. Grasp of the Dead (Rain of Corpses) drops a cadre of cadavers onto your unsuspecting enemies. In this week’s Witch Doctor edition of Play Your Way, Kingdudman#1375 capitalizes on this horrifying display of gravitational destruction to flood your screen with the chaos of death and destruction that only a master of voodoo can bring.
About the Build
This is definitely a piecemeal build that works via the Legacy of Nightmares bonus, boosting damage and survivability across the board. As for the actual skills and mechanics, expect to be dropping Grasp of the Dead left and right by wielding Wilken’s Reach for that cooldown removal, Deadly Rebirth for the free Rain of Corpses rune, throwing out Zombie Dogs via Sacrifice(Provoke the Pack) for even more corpse-tastic fun (and a nice DPS boost), and some hybrid pet support for crowd control, defense, and supplemental damage.
♫ It’s raining dead, hallelujah, it’s raining dead! ♫
There is more than sufficient damage and survivability to not only reliably farm Torment X, but to climb moderately high into Greater Rifts. Kingdudman has taken this up to Greater Rift 65, and there’s something to be said for the pure joy that is decimating your enemies by chucking corpses at them.
The Skills
Here’s a closer look at this build in the skill calculator. Active Skills:Passive Skills:
- Grasp of the Dead (Unbreakable Grasp)
- Sacrifice (Provoke the Pack)
- Gargantuan (Humongoid)
- Soul Harvest (Languish)
- Spirit Walk (Jaunt)
- Piranhas (Piranhado)
The Items
Required Items: Recommended Items:Recommended Legendary Gems: Recommended Kanai’s Cube Powers: Recommended Stats:
- Tasker and Theo
- Mask of Jeram
- Lakumba’s Ornament
- Hellfire Amulet
- Suggested Passive: Midnight Feast
- Offense: Attack Speed, +% Cold Damage, +% Physical Damage, Critical Hit Damage
- Defense: Armor, % Life
- Other: Gold and Health Pickup Radius
Tell Us What You Think!
What are you running on your Witch Doctor? Do you enjoy the death and decay side of voodoo, or are you instead a master of pets? Have you rained corpses from above with great success? Let us know in the comments or be sure to send us your build! Next time, we’ll take a look at the deadly and agile Demon Hunter. See you in Sanctuary!
"Kingdudman has taken this up to Greater Rift 65,"
So it wont be completing a Season Journey then~ Play your way indeed.
51 level gems... Scrub your way
Seriously, i am fine with "not the meta" builds, i am creating a lot of such builds myself, but at least they work, and they are not "put all random gear on yourself and do gr65". 65 is like t1 now. You can do up to 70 in absolutely ANY lon gear or any set.
I'll always remember back when T6 was the max, when the frenzy Barb build was posted:
"WhateverHisNameWas is currently tackling Torment III with ease!"
Then I knew to never take Play Your Way even remotely seriously ever again.
It's sad because I like the idea of this build but knowing it's not strong enough to really do anything with is disappointing.
*faceplam* blizzard is trolling us, I swear... If 'play your way' doesn't matter what you do with it drrr then strap on your stock beginning weapon and go nuts! gr0 but its ok cause it's 'play your way' dont bother realizing that you'll instantly reach your end game potential. This game by now should be to where each character set has at least one build with it that puts it on the leader boards as well as a build or two with LoN that are for sure high gr builds, but no....its less than half of that.
It’s raining dead, hallelujah, it’s raining dead! lol