Build Guide
Hey boyz!
HELLTOOTH GOT NERFED INTO THE GROUND LOL, In my opinion this is the best Witch Doctor build you can run for SOLO & GROUP (from my testing on the PTR)
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Basic game-play strategy:
- Maintain 10 Soul Harvest stacks & harvest enemies on cooldown
- Press Horrify every 8 seconds (for the armour buff)
- Locust Swarm everything! (Vile hive does most of the work - remember, you need to reapply LS after every 4-5 soul harvests if something lives long enough)
- Haunt debuff everything! and spam it when you have nothing else to press
- Use Pirinado to create density & debuff monsters
- Use spirit walk as damage mitigation!
There is a rotation to the build that makes it almost invulnerable with enough density, but it takes awhile to get used to. What you want to do is ONLY Soul Harvest WHEN the Spirit walk buff ends, Then grave injustice will instantly reset the cooldown of spirit walk, and you Spirit walk again <3
Rince and Repeat!
Skill variations:
- Zombie Dogs - Leeching Beasts (for massive healing boost, but huge utility loss)
Legendary Gem variations:
- Bane of the Powerful - Swap out Esoteric Alteration for max DPS setup (only recommended for super tryhards and speeds)
- Moratorium - Swap out Esoteric Alteration for slightly different damage mitigation (warning: only for advanced users!)
Kanai's cube variations:
- Henri's Perquisition - Swap out your Furnace for a HUGE survivability increase.
- Wormwood - Swap out your Furnace for an instant torment speed build. (also recommend swapping Sacred Harvester to In-Geom)
Hellfire Passive/Alternative setups:
- Confidence Ritual (swap out Swampland - 20% Multiplicative damage increase)
- Jungle Fortitude (swap out Swampland - Good early game when you have no pickup radius)
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R.I.P. Helltooth Dreams...
Long Live Jade
Nope.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/20747974816?page=1#11
Play like a man and go with CoE and Henri's, drop Swampland and use Confidence Ritual.
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95-105 appears to be the top 4 man meta this season, much lower than the GR126 people were doing.
If you lower all of your despair by 20 levels, that is 1300 main stat and if you lower the legendary gems b 20 levels, we are talking about a near 20% reduction to damage. Meaning HT is likely going to be in the 85-88 range, not 91-95 range of season 6.
is gem of effacious toxin good for this build since it's a dot dmg ?
The DoT from Toxin is so small in comparison to the rest of your DoTs that is almost negligible. I wouldnt use it. Unless they changed the mechanics for it, you used to have to apply a poison skill and then reapply that skill just to get the 10% bonus to kick in.
is area dmg good for this build ?
I admit that I am a bit of a new, but how are you using locust swarm and haunt?
Turn on Elective Mode in the settings. It will allow you to use all skills in all slots.
Why is JH good this season
just out of curiosity
The second setbonus of jade is that you get all runes at the same time of soul harvest
Is this 95+ in group or on the PTR or something? The highest season WD on ladder is 90 and they're using helltooth set along with most of the top.
Every single person I looked at on the leader board were all running Helltooth. I'm not sure what exactly makes this build amazing because surviving it in higher Grifts is damn near impossible. For the Helltooth to be "dead", you would think Jade would inhabit the top 10, since it is so amazing.
thanks for the reponse
Well, out of the top 20 in seasons, 1 person had Jade gear on, ranked 8th. So you're right in that regard. I didn't bother to look beyond the top 20. Still not a crazy majority that you would expect with Helltooth being nerfed and Jade being the best set now, supposedly.