Depends on gear. My WD is the best tank possible ) With mine 2400 life regen it's like having 5 automated immortal tanks ) Btw - i was leveling with Splinters too but then i tried Ghost Bomb... It was love on first click
Yea, leeching beasts are crap. I'm using burning dogs. Very nice addition to humongoid's damage. Soul link is the only useful alternative with pet-based builds.
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Uploaded 1 round of act 3 farm There's some problem with video (didn't have it till new version ov XSplit... Oh well, quality is @#$%! either way ) It's by no means any guide. Just a bit of demonstration of pet tanking with my stats. If only i had decent dps...
I'll be focusing on keeping this amount of defence with increasing crit/crit dmg/int. It should give me my ideal style of farming - without much running and so on. I'm not aiming for fast/effective farming or paragon leveling.
Chek out Arcane Torrent - Disruption. After the patch it's really good. As for Archon - i would use it only to burst down elites in 2 players. And one more thing - after 1.0.4 health pools are increased by 75% in all difficulties ) So with 2 player coop you'll have now 175% instead of 210% HP )
Well i always used 20 AP Blizzard rune variant to spam it. And you can't spam GotD. I was running a co-op with a WW barb yesterday. Everything that stood together and could be slowed got instantly crushed by us. Most of the time we were cleaning up lonely mobs running from us in every direction ) No point to try to slow them one by one )
As a co-op wizard i would go for Improved Archon, Force Weapon, Force/Prismatic Armor (depending on gear), Teleport+Fracture for defence. And with enough AP on crit i would go for a signatureless build with Arcane Torrent+Disruption. The last slot then goes to Arcane Hydra.
Passives are Glass cannon, Astral presence and Critical Mass/Evocation/anything else to your liking. Well, it's not mandatory. Completly my choice )
Don't think you'll need a slow at all ) But cause of Cold blooded you'll still need Blizzard so it's more logical choice.
As for why i don't use slow as a WD - 4 dogs+garga+enchantress (in a single player) is a small army and great meat shield. They're automatically tank everything in sight. So melee mobs are just attacking them in place untill you kill them ) Ranged mobs are more annoying but it's the same with or without slow And if you got some unwanted attention - just run half a screen back. Pets will teleport to you and redirect attention.
Well don't forget it's possible cause of life regeneration+resists. Well i'm running with a little too much of them in my opinion but it's more comfortable for me this way cause a) i'm more durable - don't have to dodge every singe lance or arrow don't need to watch pets The only reasons they can die are a) bugged charge/smash attack of some mobs. Hope they'll fix it kamikaze Fallen Lunatics c) Staying in act 3-4 in a Desecrator's pool for a while.
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Uploaded 1 round of act 3 farm There's some problem with video (didn't have it till new version ov XSplit... Oh well, quality is @#$%! either way ) It's by no means any guide. Just a bit of demonstration of pet tanking with my stats. If only i had decent dps...
I'll be focusing on keeping this amount of defence with increasing crit/crit dmg/int. It should give me my ideal style of farming - without much running and so on. I'm not aiming for fast/effective farming or paragon leveling.
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Passives are Glass cannon, Astral presence and Critical Mass/Evocation/anything else to your liking. Well, it's not mandatory. Completly my choice )
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As for why i don't use slow as a WD - 4 dogs+garga+enchantress (in a single player) is a small army and great meat shield. They're automatically tank everything in sight. So melee mobs are just attacking them in place untill you kill them ) Ranged mobs are more annoying but it's the same with or without slow And if you got some unwanted attention - just run half a screen back. Pets will teleport to you and redirect attention.
Well don't forget it's possible cause of life regeneration+resists. Well i'm running with a little too much of them in my opinion but it's more comfortable for me this way cause a) i'm more durable - don't have to dodge every singe lance or arrow don't need to watch pets The only reasons they can die are a) bugged charge/smash attack of some mobs. Hope they'll fix it kamikaze Fallen Lunatics c) Staying in act 3-4 in a Desecrator's pool for a while.
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Gear is far from perfect but it's enough to farm act 3 without dying