Titanexe here, I have finally decided to make a post on the witch doctor forum. This will be a somewhat informative guide on the purposes and strengths of the Pet doctor build. The pet witch doctor utilizes his great friends the fetishes, zombie dogs, and gargantuan to do most of the killing and aggro. Now in plain sight you may think well what can these "summons" do for me. Answer: A LOT. I have to first start with the passives and items that make the build. Fetish sycophant passive will call upon fetishes from I do not know where to fight alongside against the minions. You can have a maximum of 15 fetishes at once.
The ability most commonly used to summon fetishes is plague of toads. With this ability there are 2 mainly used runes Number one is Addling toads for their ability to confuse enemies and make them attack each other. Another one is rain of toads that makes toads fall from the sky on a single target. Addling toads is excellent for group play and rain of toads is great for solo. An item that synergises well with Addling toads is the Rhen'ho Flayer Affix: Plague of Toads now seek out enemies and can explode twice. Excellent to make the toads more accurate and possibly deal more damage per second.
I use piranhado to group up some enemies and deal some extra damage.
Spirit Walk gives you an get me out of this fight ability to walk away or out of a dense mob and continue destruction as see fit.
Soul Harvest Vengeful spirit is a double edged sword. Soul harvest gives you more damage from the amount of enemies in your area when cast max of 5 stacks of 2% intelligence and Vengeful spirit rune does 630% physical damage to the enemies you cast it on.
You can go 2 ways with the gargantuan you can go with restless giant or wrathful protector. Wrathful protector does more damage but is limited to 15 seconds of play time. The restless giant gains increased bonuses to stats when elites are nearby.
For zombie dogs a strong combination is the life link dog. He is my best friend. Life link absorbs 10 percent of damage done to you and also attacks the enemy at the same time. Pretty awesome right. If you are lucky enough to find an uhkapian serpent mojo that makes your zombie dog absorb up to 30% more damage you can have your pals taking 40% of damage for you. I am not done yet Mwuahahahaha.
The tall mans finger makes your zombie dog unstoppable by increasing its size and damage and merging the amount of dogs into one rabid killing machine. Now that ring is completely optional so results may vary.
Passives:
Fetish sycophants: You call upon free buddies to do damage this is what makes this build.
Pierce the veil: You do not use much mana at all so the increased damage is highly welcome
Fierce loyalty or midnight feast: The first gives you move speed when your pets are active and the latter boosts their damage.
Gruesome feast: Pick up those health orbs each one of them you get increases your int and mana by 10% stacking at 5 for an astonishing 50% max stack. Lets add Soul harvest which at full stack adds 10% int, Piranhado gives you 15 percent increased damage and you have some fantastic buffs.
Stats and Paragon points.
Intelligence is number one
Critical hit damage
Critical hit chance
Pet damage does scale with attack speed so do not be afraid to get some
A diamond in the mask will do just fine for cooldown reduction.
Enough vitality for at least 400k life.
Required items:
Mask of Jeram: This mask boosts your pets damage up to a whopping 100%
Tasker and Theo: More attack speed for your babies.
Useful weapons:
Rhen'ho flayer as mentioned above
Starmetal khukri: This weapon unlocks another build path utilizing the fetish army(legion of daggers) and big bad voodoo(slam dance)
For each enemy damaged by your fetishes you reduce the cooldown of the above mentioned skills. FANTASTIC for group buffs.
Armor:
Blackthorne set is extremely useful and I give much props to Rambling soul for giving me the idea.
Aughild shoulders and bracers will boost your survivability and damage against elites.
Cain set is new for me but has been working great. I crafted the pants and boots to gain the 2 set bonus of 8% increased attack speed.
Zunimassa set is ok but I would hold off until the new 2.1 patch comes out.
Rings:
Ring of royal grandeur works pretty decently if you want the reduced set requirements
Tall mans finger is strictly preferential towards your build.
Stone of jordan: More elite damage is goooood.
Belt:
Witching Hour,Hellcat, or Harrington.
Witching hour: Increased attack speed and critical damage. Attack Speed Increased by 5–7%
Critical Hit Damage Increased by 26–50%
Hellcat: increased attack speed and damage against elites
Harrington: Every time you click on a body,open a chest,or anything on the ground you get a massive increase in damage per second Opening a chest grants 100-135% increased damage for 10 seconds.
This build utilizes PHYSICAL damage so you can stack it on any amulet,stone of jordan,and bracer.
I will update this later on when The next patch comes out to add the new legendary gem preferences.
If you are just starting craft
Aughilds set: Chest shoulder physical bracer
Cain set pant and boots
Any belt is good
Use a high attack speed weapon
Keep gambling for Tasker and Theo / Mask of Jeram
Edit 1: I forgot to mention boots
Blackthorne
Cain
Ice climbers is a strong choice
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The ability most commonly used to summon fetishes is plague of toads. With this ability there are 2 mainly used runes Number one is Addling toads for their ability to confuse enemies and make them attack each other. Another one is rain of toads that makes toads fall from the sky on a single target. Addling toads is excellent for group play and rain of toads is great for solo. An item that synergises well with Addling toads is the Rhen'ho Flayer Affix: Plague of Toads now seek out enemies and can explode twice. Excellent to make the toads more accurate and possibly deal more damage per second.
I use piranhado to group up some enemies and deal some extra damage.
Spirit Walk gives you an get me out of this fight ability to walk away or out of a dense mob and continue destruction as see fit.
Soul Harvest Vengeful spirit is a double edged sword. Soul harvest gives you more damage from the amount of enemies in your area when cast max of 5 stacks of 2% intelligence and Vengeful spirit rune does 630% physical damage to the enemies you cast it on.
You can go 2 ways with the gargantuan you can go with restless giant or wrathful protector. Wrathful protector does more damage but is limited to 15 seconds of play time. The restless giant gains increased bonuses to stats when elites are nearby.
For zombie dogs a strong combination is the life link dog. He is my best friend. Life link absorbs 10 percent of damage done to you and also attacks the enemy at the same time. Pretty awesome right. If you are lucky enough to find an uhkapian serpent mojo that makes your zombie dog absorb up to 30% more damage you can have your pals taking 40% of damage for you. I am not done yet Mwuahahahaha.
The tall mans finger makes your zombie dog unstoppable by increasing its size and damage and merging the amount of dogs into one rabid killing machine. Now that ring is completely optional so results may vary.
Passives:
Fetish sycophants: You call upon free buddies to do damage this is what makes this build.
Pierce the veil: You do not use much mana at all so the increased damage is highly welcome
Fierce loyalty or midnight feast: The first gives you move speed when your pets are active and the latter boosts their damage.
Gruesome feast: Pick up those health orbs each one of them you get increases your int and mana by 10% stacking at 5 for an astonishing 50% max stack. Lets add Soul harvest which at full stack adds 10% int, Piranhado gives you 15 percent increased damage and you have some fantastic buffs.
Stats and Paragon points.
Intelligence is number one
Critical hit damage
Critical hit chance
Pet damage does scale with attack speed so do not be afraid to get some
A diamond in the mask will do just fine for cooldown reduction.
Enough vitality for at least 400k life.
Required items:
Mask of Jeram: This mask boosts your pets damage up to a whopping 100%
Tasker and Theo: More attack speed for your babies.
Useful weapons:
Rhen'ho flayer as mentioned above
Starmetal khukri: This weapon unlocks another build path utilizing the fetish army(legion of daggers) and big bad voodoo(slam dance)
For each enemy damaged by your fetishes you reduce the cooldown of the above mentioned skills. FANTASTIC for group buffs.
Armor:
Blackthorne set is extremely useful and I give much props to Rambling soul for giving me the idea.
Aughild shoulders and bracers will boost your survivability and damage against elites.
Cain set is new for me but has been working great. I crafted the pants and boots to gain the 2 set bonus of 8% increased attack speed.
Zunimassa set is ok but I would hold off until the new 2.1 patch comes out.
Rings:
Ring of royal grandeur works pretty decently if you want the reduced set requirements
Tall mans finger is strictly preferential towards your build.
Stone of jordan: More elite damage is goooood.
Belt:
Witching Hour,Hellcat, or Harrington.
Witching hour: Increased attack speed and critical damage. Attack Speed Increased by 5–7%
Critical Hit Damage Increased by 26–50%
Hellcat: increased attack speed and damage against elites
Harrington: Every time you click on a body,open a chest,or anything on the ground you get a massive increase in damage per second Opening a chest grants 100-135% increased damage for 10 seconds.
This build utilizes PHYSICAL damage so you can stack it on any amulet,stone of jordan,and bracer.
I will update this later on when The next patch comes out to add the new legendary gem preferences.
If you are just starting craft
Aughilds set: Chest shoulder physical bracer
Cain set pant and boots
Any belt is good
Use a high attack speed weapon
Keep gambling for Tasker and Theo / Mask of Jeram
Edit 1: I forgot to mention boots
Blackthorne
Cain
Ice climbers is a strong choice