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[Projaxs]

Hello everybody this is Projax and this is my updated guide for patch 1.0.6 with 3 main section MP1-3 , 4-6, 7-10. Every section allow us to use different builds, because we have alot of great passives to create realy nice synergy of our spells.

I did alot of testing there and you can see Ive made alot of videos to actualy show you how I do it and how you should propably play the spec.

If u are new wd you should stick with mp0-mp3 atleast until you get 100k dps unbuffed. There is also a budget wd guide (10mil budget) on my youtube channel so you can check it out if you want to reroll.


MP0-MP3

This difficulty is like "the entrance" to diablo - Its mainly for new players, but at this point of time - its the most effective difficulty range for farming (xp/legendary). The reasons are clear - our most op passive skills are based on fast killing and thats why we farm low mps. In videos bellow you can see it yourself. because you kill more mobs in less time then let say in MP6 you will get better chances to get legendary. Because mf scaling is constant but hp scaling is increasing by each mp level.

Build: Acid Armageddon
link to the build:
http://eu.battle.net...XdUV!YZT!YaZcab

Complete video guide:



Build explanation:
Build is based on 1 mandatory stat - its Pick-up radius. This stat can be easily obtained just by having thing of the deep which is prety cheap.
Pick-up raidus affect all our passives in the build - Grave injustice, gruesome feast and circle of life

Gruesome feast - every globe we pick will give us 10% mana and increase our intelligence by 10% for 10sec (stack up 5 times)
Grave injustice - every enemy that die within raidus will gives us 2% mana and life + reduce our cds by 1sec.
Circle of life - every enemy that die within radius has 30% chance to sumon zombie dog

Point in this build is fast kill fast move. You should be able to oneshot or two shot every white mob in the game. If u are not then go for lower mp.
Then there is ability called sacrifice (pride run) which will sacrifice the dogs (deal huge amount of dmg) and refill our mana. so that is the spell that is used to gain mana back. Its also great dps output for elites.
Flaming darts are strong single target spell to snipe elites or bigger mobs with more hp.
Spirit walk and Horify are spells just to increase our movement speed to make farming more efficient.
Soul harvest is also great output for elites + dps boost cause it increased our intelligence aswell.

Here is video how it works in action:



MP4-MP6

This is "middle" when you can decide to stick with acid rain spec or go and get some bears to pwn demons. Here you will learn that our best passives dies in these difficulties and you have to find something else. With extremely great gear you can play Acid armagedon on mp4 but as soon as you hit mp5+ you should swap Acid rain with Zombie bears.

So i post 2 build and you can choose yourself what you would like to play and keep in mind that you can improve the builds as you like.

Build 1

Build: the Acid king.
link to the build: http://eu.battle.net...YdUT!aTY!YaccaZ
note: this build is one of my old that prove its worth in mp4-mp5 during key farms but later it was succeded by SpiderBear build

Build Explanation:
This build is similar to Acid armageddon but its more focused on survival and pets to tank your enemies. Gargantuan do extreamely great dmg, but in general you will lack mana because you dont have sacrifice. But ofc you can upgrade your build and replace summon zombie dogs with sacrifice and then go for Circle of life instead of Jungle fortitude

video:


Build 2

Build: SpiderBears
Link to the build: http://eu.battle.net...YdjU!TcU!bcbcYa
note: This build is main build for MP7-10 but works greatly in mp4-6 aswell. Its propably the most known build by players.

Build Explanation:
This build is based on Vision quest and Corpse spiders(widowmakers) which gives you mana regen that you need for spaming zombie bears. As you propably know Zombie bears are propably our greatest dps ability but its manacost is realy high and thats why we use VQ and Blood ritual*.
Paranoia is our only CC ability which also increase our dmg output by 20% for 12second. It should be used as soon as you engage combat with elite pack. You can even use it to break fire chains.
Spirit walk and Zombie dogs are our "def" abilies to actualy be able to play more offensive. Dogs tanks and spirit walk allow us to "stay in frozen" or "molten"
If you have mana issues you can swap SW-jaunt rune with honored guest.

video:


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MP7-MP10

For this secion Ive made 2 builds. One is introduces above but if you skipped that ill post that again. The other one is made by myself and its not so know and its not that great for farming but its extremely great for long boss fights (uber bossed etc.)

Build 1


Build: SpiderBears
Link to the build: http://eu.battle.net...YdjU!TcU!bcbcYa
note: This build is main build for MP7-10 but works greatly in mp4-6 aswell. Its propably the most known build by players.

Build Explanation:
This build is based on Vision quest and Corpse spiders(widowmakers) which gives you mana regen that you need for spaming zombie bears. As you propably know Zombie bears are propably our greatest dps ability but its manacost is realy high and thats why we use VQ and Blood ritual*.
Paranoia is our only CC ability which also increase our dmg output by 20% for 12second. It should be used as soon as you engage combat with elite pack. You can even use it to break fire chains.
Spirit walk and Zombie dogs are our "def" abilies to actualy be able to play more offensive. Dogs tanks and spirit walk allow us to "stay in frozen" or "molten"
If you have mana issues you can swap SW-jaunt rune with honored guest.

video:


Build 2


Build: SpiritBomb
Link to the build: http://eu.battle.net...XQUT!caf!acYbaZ
note: this build is great for long term fights like uber bosses, no that great for farming.


Build explanation:

Build is based on 2 mana regen passives that will allow us to spam spirit barage to gain insane mana regen and then cast acid bomb to cleave some bosses and aoe ads.
It also contains gargantuan to offtank and also to deal high amount of dmg.
Horrify with armor rune is there to be able to ignore some of high dmg stuff to be able to deal more dmg - very usefull on higher mps to actualy avoid enrage timers.
Big bad voodoo is great party cd that should be used carefully on place where you can stay with your party for atleast 20sec. It will dramaticly improve your party dps and can be used up to 5 times on every encounter.
Spirit walk is another cd to avoid some of deadly abilies.

If your ressistance are more then 750 you can swap jungle fortitude for Tribal rites

video:



GEARING:

So bellow this section ill post my budget guide. But lets get started out there.

Its basicaly same for all 3 "diff" sections. The main dps stat for us is intelligence , Crit chance and crit hit dmg. Optimal ration between Cchance and Cdmg is 1:10 (f.e. 40crit and 400 crit hit dmg). Once you reach that value (40cc and  400cdmg) you should aim for IAS.
Allress and Lifesteal is our def stats. You have to get alteast 2% lifesteal if you want to have no problem with any pack in game. Because reflect dmg is real pain in the ass (ofc on low mp you can avoid it throu spirit walk but for higher mp its a must have stat)
About allress  - you should aim for about 400allress (+-450 phys ress) to actualy be able to beat mp10. its the minimum range. If you are begginer you should aim for 600+ if you just cant avoid stuff that easily.

here is budget guide
AH


Actual Run mp0


note: ive made 10 mil budget wd and i was able to keep more then 50 mil xp/hour.


PVP

This section is under construction but here is some information that i gathered.

the most common build for pvp is this one: http://eu.battle.net...UiXj!cWe!aYaZbb

Gameplay of that build will be seen in future duel videos so you can see. WD is atm one of the best pvp class but to play it correctly with current system you need to trick ur oponent. You can never face the enemy in "fair game" you need to kite - cast your spells over the wall and make some tricks with CC.

why? because everybody is oneshoting everyone - if i am not talking about Bilion gears.

video:






THE END

Thank you for reading my guide I hope it was helpful and now you know what would you like to play and how. If u have any interesting build suggestion leave me a PM or write me ingame. And share this guide to the world to make the wd comunity to grow

PS: If u want to support me or be in touch with new build etc just go to my youtube channel and subscribe to it Everyweek 1-2 videos.

Edited by Projaxs, 23 January 2013 - 09:36 AM.

[Projaxs]

reserverd spot for future updates

Comming soon:

PvP
Special builds by other known WDs.

Edited by Projaxs, 22 January 2013 - 07:24 PM.

[Ryude]

I made a build similar to your spider bears that I use for uber farming as well as mp8 farming.

http://eu.battle.net...UdYT!abU!acZYba

It leverages damage reduction as well as mana regeneration in order to sustain long fights while still dealing high damage.

[Phonsi]

What do you think about The Grin Reaper? Prices of these are skyrocketing in America's and Asia. Will you use it for pvp?

[Projaxs]

New pvp video is up (wd vs monk).
about the grin reaper  -  its very interesting indeed. I should try that out

[curumtiny]

What would you recommend for a new 60 WD in Hard Core for a build and farming once the patch 1.07 comes out?  I have about 11 mil gold budget for gear.  Would your build for mp0 work well for Hard core?

Thanks.

[Projaxs]

there is my hc wd gameplay with about 600k budget gear mp1 - so go for 600+ allress 450 Loh 2-3%ls - 60k hp and you should be about 40-50k dps then you will have no problem with farming

https://www.youtube....h?v=vdOtwhUDi2U

Edited by Projaxs, 05 February 2013 - 12:14 AM.

[zuluslayer]

Nice read.

[houserhythm]

Great guide, Projax, thanks for the effort.

I would like to add one more build though, which for me has yielded the best results.
http://eu.battle.net...UdXi!YTW!acacZb

This build is all about speed - you use SW+horrify to move between groups of mobs, SH as many as possible and ideally 1-shot most trash by doing so, finish off with some bears. If the group was large enough your SW & horrify cooldown should be reset and you can repeat. If not (or if distance to next mobs is longer), use angry chicken for the small movement speed gain and explode on them, again hoping to 1-shot. Use splinters to get those annoying succubi and shamans that are quite a pain to kill with bears. Never bother to pick off stray mobs and never backtrack.
Only thing that can kill me are reflect minions, but those will get fixed in 1.0.7. Those i usually kite with splinters.

Gearing for this build is also really cheap, since the focus is only on average damage - minimum damage in particular. While getting crit chance & crit damage will boost your paper dps by a lot, the aim is to 1-shot as much as possible with SH, so that you don't have to use another skill but move on to the next group. To achieve this your lowest damage needs to 1-shot. Look for low APS/high average damage black weapons (spear, mace), get at least 100 min dmg frog, high average damage on all jewels and as much INT as possible. Some attack speed will help stutter-stepping with bears, but isn't really necessary
You can effectively do this on MP2 with under 10mil budget.

With higher budget going into cc/cd (on top of the initial average dmg, never give that up) and survivability this build remains viable up to MP5-6. You won't 1-shot as much, but can still have great speed.

EDIT: forgot to mention 2 things
- 4 piece zuni set and mana regen zuni helm really help when using PtV passive. Haven't tried this w/o the 4 piece, but I don't think it works.
- the build can also work with a high dmg/high int 2-hander, if you can get the 20 PU radius on other items

Edited by houserhythm, 09 February 2013 - 03:50 PM.

[Morkai]

Hey guys,

I just wanted to drop in an interesting find I discovered last night.  

The new red gems in "some" weapons will be higher dps than that of a green gem.  

For example if you currently own a manajuma with 100% cd gem then if u put a radiant ruby in your dps will be higher...

The new Marq gems are really quite costly but in case of daggers and non black damage weapons they can be awesome well not the green one.  

I gained a 4ok base dps upgrade from the 160 min/max gem over putting in a 110% emerald.  

100 mil for 40 k is def worth it...

I've looking at the numbers and it looks like red gems increase your base crit dam and the green ones increase your top end potential...

Used d3up.com to calculate these but it's not showing the new content in slots...

Any how check out my profile for my manajuma which is now

1275 base
98cd
2.8 life steal.
50% damage
160/160

Was a tiny 939 before and now it hits like a truck.  

Weapons like echo gain more from the green gem.  I think it might be to do with it being a "black weapon"

Happy for the new dagger upgrade =) at this stage it's just a huge buff to witch doctors.

Someone else take a look and comment = )

Edited by Morkai, 16 February 2013 - 07:29 AM.

[rehle]

Thanks for all the work you've put into the Witch Doctor.
Started with D3 a few weeks ago after a long break once again as a Archon Wizard and got some lucky drops,
but somehow it wasn't that entertaining.
Your Acid Armageddon WD is a blast to play, tried a little one with ~10m budget and it's such a wonderful
and entertaining class, I guess I should put the rest of my gold into it, too. Works like a charm AND is awesome to play.
Nice videos, nice guide, thumbs up.

Edited by rehle, 17 February 2013 - 04:03 PM.

[deleo]

Dont see it mentioned in this guide, but could add a note to the behaviour or zombie bears. Placing yourself in a corner or against a wall will affect the route your bears take.

ie; If youre in a corner with 2 walls left and right (from your characters pov) from where you fire your bears, they will move in a straight line rather than in 3ish lanes like they normally do. This pretty much destroys most (melee) elites incredibly fast.

[Morkai]

Projax,  and all

I have a build that is incredibly fast on mp7+
Granted it is quite gear dependent but more on the mana regen side

Primary attack - spirit barrage - well of souls
Second attack - z bears
Spirit walk - life or mana regen (this is dep on ur gear and base mana)
Soul harvest - siphon
Dogs - life - if u have more life regen u could swap this for garg for more damage but I like the distraction of 3 pets over 1 vs damage
Last rune is change able I like to use voodoo simply because I dnt need it but when I do use it the time on elites is cut in half.

Passive - spiritual attune, rush of essence, g-feast or blood rites
Last rune depends on what ur doing.  

I prefer feast as with my gear setup mobs die so fast that the health globes give more than enough resources back

If u don't have the base mana blood rites will keep me 100% manna up with out s-walk and in fact if I just cast well of souls I'm gaining mana due to higher regen rate I only start to loose mana when I throw bears in

I only have 29k health which if I had more I would be godly with this build do working on it.

But this build allows if u attack rite to cast bears and spirit barrage at the same time due to cast animation timers.   And not loose much mana.  Rush of essence paired with these runes puts me over 130 mana/s then if I really need swalk is there.

Basically I clear mp 7 as fast.  Very fast.  Bears I hate never wanted to use it lol but you just can't avoid it... This build isn't easy as some times on the brink of death but thanks to life steal and crazy dps I can stay up.  

I'll work on a vid later this week check out my build on d3.com

This in my opinion is the strongest WD build and with blood rites on can be used in übers for crazy damage I've long fights never loosing mana...

Love the WD so any info I can add on my play experience helps me and the community.  Take a look and let me know what u think.  

For bears and well of souks to be cast same time:

Start channelling with Right click or left holding shift.  Then while holding it down spam click well of souls watch as the animations over lap allowing the cast of both same time.  

450% souls
708% bears same time.  Per second

Happy hunting guys,

Morkai.

http://us.battle.net...19/hero/6743514

Just swapped rain dance rune for slam dance rune.   Bears uses more mana here but if u just cast well of souls the damage increase is huge due to how well of souls benefits from ias.  = )

Edited by Morkai, 22 February 2013 - 09:22 AM.

[taro]

Quote

Build: SpiritBomb
Link to the build: http://eu.battle.net...XQUT!caf!acYbaZ
note: this build is great for long term fights like uber bosses, no that great for farming.

What's the point of using acid bomb over bears? Acid bomb doesn't reflect damage or what?

[vidrith]

Morkai, on 20 February 2013 - 07:55 AM, said:

Morkai wrote

Thanks allot!!!! this kind of stuff we need on diablo forums more regulary!! New specs that are refreshing new and actually works.

I'm all over testing new  WD spec now, just at the time i feelt the bore starting to crippling.

[Morkai]

vidrith, on 23 February 2013 - 07:28 PM, said:

Morkai, on 20 February 2013 - 07:55 AM, said:

Morkai wrote

Thanks allot!!!! this kind of stuff we need on diablo forums more regulary!! New specs that are refreshing new and actually works.

I'm all over testing new  WD spec now, just at the time i feelt the bore starting to crippling.

Glad you like it!

I've been crafting and I got lucky with a 9.5cc,88cd int Ammy so It motivated me to look at the other crafts and lead me to some very interesting findings!

If you already have the cash and decent gear and your rolling for that 1% roll it's def worth the gamble and roll gloves of vitality over int.  it may take a lot more rolls but by rolling vit gloves you have a much higher potential to roll vit and only loose 30int in the long run...

Gloves of vitality = int 300 / vit 330
Gloves of intellect = int 330 / vit 200

Max main stat possible roll.  

A trifecta in vit gloves with int would be sexy...

I'm actually gonna drop Zuni chest for the new craft chest due to the vitality rolls on the archon of int pattern.  

I'd loose 20 mana/sec but my base is 90.6 so 70 isn't much of a loss if I gain 7k dps and 15k life...

Basically the new crafts look like they have the potential to put a WD at 80k health with over 230k unbuffed dps. My long term goal.

Diablo.incgamers.com has an indepth article on the crafts front page just scroll down a bit.  

Happy hunting G/L

Morkai,

[Kodachii]

This thread has helped me greatly.  I've been farming a bunch of portal devices on MP6 using the spider+bears combo, but I am reluctant to use them because I can't really do mp10 ubers worth a darn.  I'd rather not risk doing them on mp 6/7 and not getting the item, because the last 7 or so wardens I've killed (even on mp6) have not dropped keys, so you just never know.

Here is my profile: http://us.battle.net...77/hero/4092215

I recently finally found a few decent items and have ~230 million gold to spend on upgrades.  If anyone could help me make the most of the gold I have, and suggest a build for mp10 ubers, please do so.  I'll be doing the ubers with my brother's CMWW wizard, who has a relatively low damage output ("~110k").

[Projaxs]

Hello Morkai - I would be glad to meet you on Team speak to discuss your build I realy would like to test it out and Highlight it in the guide. or you can make video

[Goldroger_82]

I am running with acid armageddon on MP1 with my WD, doing great

[glikas]

nice guide mate well done