You're using Focus/Restraint with a build concept that's predicated on running around in chicken form and ONLY stopping to kill elites, with trash melting in ~2 seconds (before you get 2-2.5 screens away and LS stops ticking).
There's a way around this and it's something I'm working on (750 paragon levels later), but it's a pretty steep gear requirement to be 'ultra efficient' in T7 group play. Basically you need about 2-2.5m sheet dps unbuffed.
I agree focus and retraint might not be optimal. I mostly keep them for boss kills but I'm sure there are more optimal alternatives.
Helltooth standart build bears/cloud with chicken is still the best option. Why you still trying to reinvent the wheel )
No way helltooth with chicken is best for t7 speedfarming. Arachyr gives +800% damage to chicken and to locust swarm. Combine that with a quetzalcoatl, wormwood and spec into pestilence and you can race through t7 only exploding on elite mobs and killing everything else with locust swarm. Helltooth is miles behind, your chicken does no damage so you have to get out of chicken, get the helltooth set damage bonus up by casting wall of death, and then you can start killing mobs with acid cloud, all of that while being static without moving an inch. Completely crap.
Acid cloud one-shots half of screen on t7, lol.
While swarm spreads you alredy have all mobs killed. I tryed both builds. And HT is better. That's my opinion. It's okay that you disagree — maybe your helltooth set is not good enough, IDK.
And one more thing - FROG_EATS_MOBS. It's annoying )
Acid cloud is an active ability that you need to stand still for to cast. You also need to get the helltooth bonus damage up by casting wall of death. Thats the whole flaw in the build.
The damage from the arachyr/locust setup is 100% passive. You cruise through levels and kill everything without ever stopping to cast except for popping out of chicken to explode on elites/very high hp targets and instantly go in chicken form again.
The concept is really simple, what do you prefer:
1) Cruise around in chicken, pop out of chicken on elite mobs (killing them by chicken explosion) pop chicken and instantly move along.
2) Cruise around in chicken, pop out of chicken on every single mob with an explosion that deals almost no damage and kills nothing, cast wall of death to get the buff up and cast acid cloud to kill everything around you, pop chicken and move along.
So ye, walking and passively autokilling everything is always gonna beat walking and actively having to stand still to cast. Talking about gear, the first option is far more gear dependent because its harder to reach a threshold where your locust swarm kills all white mobs before you get out of damage range running past mobs then it is for helltooth acid cloud to reach the threshold where it one shots everything. I'm currently 1300paragon level and only played WD this season, so trust me I have the gear.
Helltooth standart build bears/cloud with chicken is still the best option. Why you still trying to reinvent the wheel )
No way helltooth with chicken is best for t7 speedfarming. Arachyr gives +800% damage to chicken and to locust swarm. Combine that with a quetzalcoatl, wormwood and spec into pestilence and you can race through t7 only exploding on elite mobs and killing everything else with locust swarm. Helltooth is miles behind, your chicken does no damage so you have to get out of chicken, get the helltooth set damage bonus up by casting wall of death, and then you can start killing mobs with acid cloud, all of that while being static without moving an inch. Completely crap.
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Acid cloud is an active ability that you need to stand still for to cast. You also need to get the helltooth bonus damage up by casting wall of death. Thats the whole flaw in the build.
The damage from the arachyr/locust setup is 100% passive. You cruise through levels and kill everything without ever stopping to cast except for popping out of chicken to explode on elites/very high hp targets and instantly go in chicken form again.
The concept is really simple, what do you prefer:
1) Cruise around in chicken, pop out of chicken on elite mobs (killing them by chicken explosion) pop chicken and instantly move along.
2) Cruise around in chicken, pop out of chicken on every single mob with an explosion that deals almost no damage and kills nothing, cast wall of death to get the buff up and cast acid cloud to kill everything around you, pop chicken and move along.
So ye, walking and passively autokilling everything is always gonna beat walking and actively having to stand still to cast. Talking about gear, the first option is far more gear dependent because its harder to reach a threshold where your locust swarm kills all white mobs before you get out of damage range running past mobs then it is for helltooth acid cloud to reach the threshold where it one shots everything. I'm currently 1300paragon level and only played WD this season, so trust me I have the gear.