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Quote from DenkaSaeba25

I'd not say complete immunity to aoe effects like plagued, molten or arcane sentry, but a 90% reduction. This way you may still want to have a little control on pets without punishing you too much for not having a pet control feature.

I also would like to see (but the priority is much lower than pet's) reworked some stuff, like chicken hex.

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Quote from TheDFO

if I'm building a tank, why would I need the tankiest pets? Wouldn't I want damage pets? Or, if the only way to make them viable is to be a tank already, then again, what's the point?

I agree with everything you said except this.

Zombie Dogs, especially, is categorized as a "defensive" ability. And it's plenty clear that both Zombie Dogs and Gargantuan are supposed to give the DK a measure of control. They absolutely must scale with defensive stats (and I believe they already do). If you want to build a tank witch doctor then you'll probably not want to take pets. It's really not going to change much.

I just don't see a logical way to make pets scale on the opposite role you take. That's a ton of work for very little reward.

Quote from sp00n82

Caltrops with Jagged Spikes is probably the biggest LoH contributor, followed by Gas Grenades. Of course only if you can face tank the mobs and don't have to kite them around.

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Ok so I am bored this morning and i found a handbow with like 500+ something loh. I don't recall seeing anyone post about using bombs unless its with a huge crit damage setup. So this morning I switched all my monks gear to test it out. This is what I wanted my Dh to do when the game first came out but inferno in the later acts it was almost impossible. However I am now able to at least farm a1 with this setup.

So I cant post links yet.. sorry for the list of skills.

Bombs+cluster bombs, lots of hits for lots of loh
Cluster Arrow+Cluster Bombs with the passives I can get 4 cluster shots of and do a incredible amount of damage. With grenadier passive, my hatred comes back super fast also.
Smokescreen+lingering fog allows me to use it if i get in trouble and get some life back while not taking damage
Companion+bat rune which is a must to get up hatred for cluster bombs
Preperation+battle scars for a much needed heal.
Shadowpower+bloodmoon for a better chance of getting life back


Important stats atm are.
Resists 554
LOH 1490
DPS 18912
crit damage 122%

So what do you think I could add or do to make it better? Like I said I havent seen much out there besides the ranged builds so I thought it be cool to give bombs a try again. I love the bombs!

Get more damage as you have dmg of a DH that just hit 60 ....

Quote from TheDFO

I'll give you 1k gold for it.

But you'll probably get more for vendoring it (or, if that level unique can drop the unique mat).

Also, who at Blizzard thought reducing ZC mana cost by 3 mana was a good idea? It costs 140 some mana. Sure, it means we can cast 2% more in a given time frame, but since no one has enough mana to cast more than 15-20 at a time, it's not really worth it. Even the max of 7 mana is really not worth it, as that doesn't even get us up to 5% more. Also, reducing cost is boring. If it increased range or width, that'd be awesome, and not the exact same as every other skill modifier.

Quote from Rainbowdash

Seriously, people who think they're amazing at the AH (and perhaps even are) shouldn't be playing an hack and slash ARPG, they should fucking go play the stock market.

The game isn't "Wall Street Online" it's Diablo 3.

Quote from xiaosteven

i dont like the 1.03 change. where is the WD‘s pet buff?

Quote from Moralus

I dropped Elemental Arrow entirely. People are really stuck on the skill. Don't get me wrong..it has plenty of uses, but we have so many other viable options that hardly anyone even looks at.

http://us.battle.net...XPVh!aTe!bcZYcb

The build requires more precise play so is not for everyone, but allows you to use smoke screen as an aggressive ability alongside Fan of Knives to pull of some impressive nukes. In fact I can outright destroy all non-shielding champion packs in infinitely faster than I could with the IAS+Nether Tentacle pre-nerf build.

Grenadier as a passive is a great alternative for archery or sharpshooter depending on your gear. Additionally you can swap the Cluster Rune to something else like Loaded for Bear.

With sufficient vit+resist all you can drop SS for Shadow Power (Gloom) for a more efficient use of discipline.

How do I survive without caltrops or some form of slow? Use the scoundrel with Multishot and a cold weapon. It's more or less a permanent aoe slow. You also have enough burst to destroy reflecting mobs while SS is up (just make sure you read affixes before you fire off some huge damage and kill yourself)

There is huge burst potential with spike traps and you can set them up prior to pulling a pack. Afterwards simply Cluster->Evasive->Cluster->Smoke Screen/Run in for a FoK. If mobs aren't dead simply evasive fire out and they will die shortly after.

I totally changed my gear setup for 1.03 and am able to farm acts 1-4 as good if not better than I could prior to the "nerfs"

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Most people will hate this build, but hopefully a few enjoy it. Enjoy!

Here is a video I came across with the build in action:

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Quote from Kamiftw

sounds interesting but i'd like to make sure its legit before i click <.<

It's a google document, as indicated by the docs.google link. Google scans it for viruses before it is uploaded, and again before each user downloads it. I would post a link to this information, but I'm not sure you would be able to click it before making sure it was legit.