IMO, the witch doctor might as well be the best support class for inferno. One might suppose that the best way to beat the highest difficulty will be to maximize group DPS. In that regard, the witch doctor is king. These are the two builds I came up with depending if the team comp has a wizard for heavy AoE or not.
Not quite sure that CC will be effective in inferno. Elites, champions and bosses will have alot of CC reduction. But if it still is effective i guess I'll just have to swap Hex for GotD.
I think you misunderstood my post. I'm talking about an area effect damage skill that you can spam. Poison cloud is the closest thing you have and it's only 100% instant damage... which is.... really low.
I don't know where you found that, but thank you; that chart is one of the most useful pieces of information pre-release I've seen since the announcement of the Barbarian and Witch Doctor. Seriously... awesome.
Comp without a wizard will want the WD to have a AoE / support role:
http://us.battle.net...RjQU!heW!caaYbc
Comp with a wizard will need a WD focusing on a single target / support role:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#geRjQU!hWU!YZaYbc
The damage buff / debuff of Big Bad Voodoo and Mass Confusion adds up to 56% additionnal damage taken by hells minions. Any thoughts?
Not quite sure that CC will be effective in inferno. Elites, champions and bosses will have alot of CC reduction. But if it still is effective i guess I'll just have to swap Hex for GotD.
general -
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#eSZRTk!aWT!ZYaZca
pure (group) survivability/support -
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#cZWRXj!cVT!baZaaa
heavy support -
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#aSXRPQ!cTh!ZYaaZb
raw single target dps -
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#aeSbdQ!WeT!abcZab
raw AoE dps -
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#cSVYdQ!dWT!bYcYab
http://diablo.incgam...istance_Map.jpg
Was very happy too when someone on the us.btlnet forums post it. Auto-bookmarked.