Not sure I understand but if you are trying to solo with that WD you are missing the point. The link goes to a ZDPS WD which looks really good to me and you should have zero problems clearing 48+ grifts with the right party. Although maybe you could try a stormshield or homonculus for offhand. other than that your gear looks really good.
Keep this for jade build nothing else. Reroll attack speed for cooldown reduction. Considering the Furnace for pet build is just wrong. For that you need Flayer or SMK. But if you really want to to any kind of damage and survive past gr40, reroll to <insert any other class here> since the WD is completely gimped now. Well, except for zdps that is.
I felt with a Xephirian, you spirit walk into the mobs and start CC'ing them, not really needing more toughness/survivability from St Archew's. Having BBV off cooldown faster was useful for me, since I would pop 1 over at the DH's and 1 in the middle of the pack for the monk. But I guess it comes down to playstyle/preference/rolls on other items.
In this case it comes down to having the Xephirian or not I haven't been so lucky yet :/
I actually dropped T&T for a nicely rolled St Archew's and I really didn't notice a huge decrease in CDR. I mean im at 50% already and spamming BBV more than I need to the proc from St Archew's was more beneficial to me. Now I just need a fkn Xephirian...
w00t w00t. are you saying that T&T is useless for WD pets/FA? Can I get a source on that pls?
He does not say that they are useless, only that IAS does not apply to them. They do however scale IAS as additional damage. If T&T does not increase the attack speed of fetishes than it will increase the damage per hit.
Considering the build not getting the IAS for fetishes is quite useless... Can someone verify that it's actually so? I was under a completely different assumption.
Only had time to check out the first part of the video. Nice video, nice information on how the build works, but maybe a bit too beginner for the high gear requirement (SMK, lightning amu), while missing beginner information if aiming at people just starting the build.
- The build will prevent elites to proc "active" affixed. Fire chain, molten and electrified will still work. Fire chain you can avoid, blackthorn helps agains molten, making the lightning amulet mandatory for the electrified affix (got nerfed a bit, but still hits hard if you got 3 dh with high breakpoint in the party).
- I did not catch any information about legendary gems. You only really need 1 legendary gem: Efficacious Toxin gem (10% party damage buff). Swiftness can be useful as a 2nd, for the extra cooldown.
- If you do go with an SMK, I would go with taskers as well. The reason you use this weapon is for the cooldown reset, and taskers are the only thing that makes your pets faster. If you don't have the SMK, I would suggest to use the more commonly dropped "last breath". Without SMK, drop the fetish army for something like Hex-Jinx.
- Personally I'm not using the cooldown belt but the blackthorn belt, allowing me to go with the born shoulders and chest, a bit more cooldown and 15% life from set bonus.(and a bit more xp, nice to level faster). Without an SMK, I would look into Asheara's shoulders+gloves+(pants/boots). This will call your followers (with the relic so they don't take damage) with a 50% uptime, and they do have some nice damage buffs for the party and crowd control as well.
- I would use a homunculus. With taskers and SMK, you can drop tribal rites for fierce loyalty (movement speed). The dogs also help to block electrified affix for the party and (used to, not sure it still works) can take that thunderstorm/frozen pulse/jailer proc that might happen before you got the entire pack under control. On top of that, you can roll cooldown on a mojo, not on a shield.
PS: I saw you got a damage% roll on your SMK, I would reroll it to cooldown for this build. Try to max out cooldown, in high level greater rifts you want spirit walk up as often as you can.
PPS: I noticed you have been putting paragon point into life% first. While that might net in more "sheet toughness", it also makes your healing (life per second, life per hit, additional health for healthglobes) less efficient. I would try to max reduction rolls (all res/armor, in that order, ranged/melee reduction in secondaries, elite damage reduction on chest) first, before adding life% to items/paragon. Not only for WD/support, but for all classes/builds.
Zombie dogs survive approximately 0.00000001s in a 40+ grift so hoping that they will absorb any kind of damage from, let's say electrified, is just not happening.
My main problem with these changes is the damn net loss of veiled crystals. WTF are they talking about more mats from grift guardiands and so on? Yeah reusables and arcane dust and all that shit but only like 5 veiled crystals per boss? Makes rerolling a pair of pants or chest a once a day kind of thing. They don't need to shower us with mats but my only source before this patch was Kadala and now she's no good.
My guess is that the main reason for this change is just that they want to limit the rerolling (unless the mat drop is bugged).
I'm using vamp bats as the main damage spell. Not as a way to spam fetishes. Am I alone in doing this since everyone else seem to use fetishes as their dpser?
Seriously they done f***d up my bears... I'm truly hoping for some damage increase for the different skills as they have done with every other single class preview before this. I'm extremely sceptical towards the pets even though they say they've "fixed" it...
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My guess is that the main reason for this change is just that they want to limit the rerolling (unless the mat drop is bugged).
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