Build Guide
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Now that the formalities are out of the way:
Rhen'Ho Flayer Guide Patch 2.1.1
General Witch Doctor Build Questions/Info about the build
What element does This Build Benefit the most from
- Poison, and Fire
What is the Dps prioritization?
- * Int > Crit Chance > Crit Dmg% > Attack Speed > Avg Dmg
- * Increase to Fire/Poison Damage
What set pieces/item make the build work better?
- * Zunimassa 4 Piece Set, to make Summon Fetishes Army Last forever, and also to offer an alternative in-case you haven't been able to find a Tall mans finger.
- * Aughild's Power + Aughild's Search + Royal Ring of Grandeur, Defense and increase Dmg to elites
- * Cain's 2 Piece Set, to gain a 8% Attack Speed
- * Swamp Land Waders: 20% Increased Poison Dmg
- * Mage Fist: 20% Increased Fire Damage
- * Cinder Coat: 20% Increased Fire Damage
- * Unity Ring- For solo play, used with your follower allows for 50% Damage mitigation
Skill build breakdown:
The only really skills that I can see that can be altered are as follow:
Piranhas "Frozen Piranhas" ---> Piranhado
- * Can offer additional Crowd control, but I don't feel its necessary unless, your running it with Strong arm Bracers, and Grave Injustice passive
Gargantuan --> Big Bad Voodoo/Summon Fetish Army
- * Strong Dps increase, in both cases
- * Would definitely consider this in combination with the Piranhado option above, if I were able to obtain a well rolled Hell Fire amulet to grant me additional passive to run Grave Injustice
- * Grave injustice would help immensely with CDR for these spells
Zombie Dogs "Rabid Dogs" --> Zombie Dogs "Fire Dogs
- * Pretty Straight forward decision if your going for the "fire" variation of this build.
The fire variation of this build, utilizes Fire dogs, and explosive toads. Provides a good amount of flexability if your lacking Task and Theo, Aughild set plan, or Swamp Land Waders (Due to Mage Fist, and Cinder Coat high drop%).
Their is a lot of variations that can go into the Rhen'Ho Build, with being said I believe these skills are non Negotiable:
Skills
- * Exploding Toads/Addling Toads
- * Spirit Walk
- * Piranhas
Passives
- * Pierce The Veil
- * Fetish Sycophants
- * Midnight Feast
Active Skills:
Spirit walk- "Jaunt"
- * Extended time in the spirit realm by 3 seconds, sounds, straight forward choice here no surprise
- * Will give us the flexibility, when we go against mobs, with jailer, frozen, waller etc.
Zombie dog- "Rabid Dogs", "Leeching Beast", "Fire Dog"
Rabid Dogs
- * Poison Dot (3 second Duration) that Stacks
- * Poison Dog hits an enemy two times in a row, each attack places its separate stack of the dot on the monster.
- * Works well with Swamp Waders (increased Poison damage)
Fire Dogs
- * Strong AOE damage, per second to all enemies around the Zombie Dog
- * Really good way to add AOE into this Pet Build, and get faster Trash clears
- * Triggers Efficacious Toxin Gem
Horrify "Frightening Aspect"
- * 35% Armor Increase, will provide us additional toughness
- * Provides us additional Crowd Control vs Elites, and trash mob packs
- * Triggers Bane of the Trapped Gem
Pirahnas- "Frozen Pirahnas"
- * Provides us Crowd Control, Damage Amp of 15%, and a chill effect to keep enemies away from us
- * Only on a 8 second cool~down, since were not running grave injustice
- * Triggers Bane of the Trapped Gem
- * Triggers Efficacious Toxin Gem
Gargantuan- "Big Stinker"
Here me out on this one guys......
- * He triggers Efficacious Toxin Gem
- * Provides a constant AOE poison damage that will keep a uptime on the Toxin Gem
- * Another monster to tank for you, and scales well with Increased Poison Dmg, Mid Night Feast, and Jeram
Plague of Toads- "Addling Toads"
- * Combines with Rhen'Ho Flayer, and Toads have a 15% chance to confuse enemy targets. Poison Property
- * The Addling toads CAN confuse Elite mobs, however they can't confuse Rift Guardians.
- * With Swamp Waders, Damage increases fairly, and makes trash mob clearing much easier.
Plague of Toads- "Explosive Toads"
- * Combines with Rhen'Ho Flayer, and deals massive fire damage.
- * Highest damage dealing toad rune, synergizes well with Burning Dogs, and Wrathful Protector
- * Very easy to obtain fire elemental gear that will increase the toad damage.
- * Triggers Bane of the Trapped Gem
- * Triggers Efficacious Toxin Gem
Passive Skills
Pierce the Veil
- * 20% increased damage, Everyone pretty much runs it,
- * Plus increase mana cost, won't affect this build what so ever.
Zombie Handler
- * Increases HP of our Zombie dog, Gargantuan, and personal HP by 20%
- * +1 To Zombie dogs = More Dps for our Gargantuan Dog.
- * Toughness, and damage increase for the Poison Damage IMO make it a must have passive
Fetish Sycophants
- * Generates Fetish up to 15 additional fetishes that will increase our Damage Dramatically
- * Proc co-efficient with Plague of toads, will ensure we can maintain a high amount of Fetishes
Midnight Feast
- * 50% increase Damage to Gargantuan, and Zombie Gargantuan Dog.
- * +1 To Zombie dogs = More Dps for our Gargantuan Dog.
- * You will pretty much always have this while running any build that uses Tall mans Finger.
Legendary Gems
For the gem Selection I will list only the most common Gems that Witch Doctors use with this build.
For the Rhen'ho Flayer Build I have my own personal setup, and the more commonly used by Most Witch Doctors.
My Top 3 personal Gems
- * 3.Bane of Powerful (However I have switched to Bane of The Trapped most recently)
- * 2.Simplicity
- * 1.Efficacious Toxin
General Top 3 Gems used by most Witch Doctors
- * 3.Bane of the Trapped
- * 2.Enforcer
- * 1.Efficacious Toxin/Pain Enhancer (Depending on the element your using)
Gem of Efficacious Toxin
- * Base Effect: Poison all enemies hit for 2000% weapon damage over 10 seconds.
- * Upgrade rank grants: +50% weapon damage over 10 seconds.
- * Rank 25 unlocks: All enemies you poison take 10% increased damage from all sources.
Bane of the Trapped
- * Base effect: Increase damage against enemies under control-impairing effects by 15%.
- * Upgrade rank grants: +0.3% damage.
- * Rank 25 unlocks: Gain an aura that reduces the movement speed of enemies within 15 yards by 30%.
Enforcer
- * Base Effect: Increases the damage of your pets by 15%.
- * Upgrade rank grants: 0.3% more pet damage per level.
- * Rank 25 unlocks: Your pets take 25% reduced damage.
Simplicity
- * Simplicity’s Strength
- * Base Effect: Increase the damage of primary skills by 25%.
- * Upgrade rank grants: +0.5% damage.
- *Rank 25 unlocks: Primary skills heal you for 2% of maximum health on hit.
Pain Enhancer
- * Base Effect: Critical hits cause the enemy to bleed for 1200% weapon damage as Physical over 3 seconds.
- * Upgrade rank grants: +30% weapon damage.
- * Rank 25 unlocks: Gain Blood Frenzy, granting you 3% increased Attack Speed for each bleeding enemy within 20 yards.
This gem starts off a little slow, but by the time it begins to rich the higher ranks, is where this gem truly shines. The physical damage dot scales with Increase Physical% property items, and can be triggered by pets critical attacks. The secondary effect is a little lackluster, but is solid in builds that put you in close proximity of the enemies that you are fighting. Any pet build can benefit from this gem, but it may not always be the best option depending on what pet build it is.
*I would only advise this if, your going with a 23 Fetish Based Rhen'Ho flayer Build with Zuni Massa*
Video of build in action:
Rhen'Ho 2.1 Guide Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yalhIl8bLNM
Rhen'Ho 2.1 Guide Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=059Xno0h0Eg
Rhen'Ho 2.1 Guide Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBTpMYIZscE
Rhen'Ho 2.1 Guide Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IVX-CeuCYQ
These Videos are outdated, but interesting to see if you want to see pre-patch 2.1 Builds of Rhen'Ho
Rhen'Ho End Game Build (Out dated): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWwYt9tbJO8
Rhen'Ho Zuni Build (Out dated): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Onmlpd-G_o
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