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Well, i tested reworked Gazing Demise. Does it even stand a chance to be useful?

See the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTJT9GS_RyM

This is almost all "news" for Witch Doctor on PTR right now. Homunculus is pretty much useless even with the buff

yeah, the main contradiction here is the Spirit Barrage is NOT a channeling skill lol. How stupid is that

Unfortunately it looks like new mojo is broken.

i tested and it is indeed a bug.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/20745246010

look like soul harvest consumes manitou "dots" although manitou dots should not be dots by all means.

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Unfortunately it looks like new mojo is broken.

i tested and it is indeed a bug.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/20745246010

look like soul harvest consumes manitou "dots" although manitou dots should not be dots by all means.

No. The offhand is buffing your damage by 2500%. Its bugged and instead of only buffing Spirit Barrage its buffing all WD dmg(not pets).

Yeah it's something like that. Will be fixed soon for sure

So, Spirit Barrage is nerfed and only adds up to 120% damage now to itself.

• Gazing Demise - Spirit Barrage gains the Phantasm rune. Each active Phantasm increases the damage of Spirit Barrage by 40%. (reworked)

Spirit Barrage

• Phantasm : Summon a spectre that deals 750% (up from 675%) weapon damage as Cold over 5 seconds to all enemies within 10 yards. / You can have a maximum of 3 Phantasms out at one time

Well, if i understand correctly:

it was 675+2500= 3175 weapon damage per sec.

now 750 by 120%=1550 weapon damage per sec with 3 phantasms.

useless anyway. Yeah, they just gor rid of the mechanincs and did what they are best at: MULTIPLIERS.

I can't remember if mimics even cast Spirit Barrage? Even if they do.. damage is shit

It's all crutches.. crutches guys.. LON: crutches for a useless,under-performing, no damage skill.

When you have all ancient LON you will still go Gargs/Firebats/something else

Not sure what mediocrity you mean. Now that its fixed people can finally start playing proper jade. Which is a lot of fun and will also compete with ht gargs

Yeah its absolutely on par with s6 heltooth gargs now. I doubt about ht gargs using ring of emptyness though,since noone pushed this setup to the limits now. So its hard to tell. If ht gargs with roe and wormwood outperform ht gargs with rorg,tnt and furnace, then they will ouperform jade as well

Jade has no damage reduction though and its much harder to play then ht.. so only enthusiasts will play it, if it goes live as is. But if more tweaks will happen then jade has the chance

ROE is a very "pain in the ass" controversial ring. It was like this since previous previous PTR when it was introduced. Now it's even worse.

Most problems are

1) you need to cast two spenders. And Locust is 300 mana per cast. It's just bad from all perspectives.

So you are wasting time casting two no damage skills just to get massive DPS boost "for something else"

2) having these skills on skill bar.

Those who play WD, know that Wd's skill are all "built in stone". It's almost impossible to remove piranhado, leeching beasts for HT.. And very hard to remove Horrify for jade (-50% armor is no joke for squishy jade)

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1) you need to cast two spenders. And Locust is 300 mana per cast. It's just bad from all perspectives.

This is somewhat circumvented by Wormwood, though? I'm not saying Wormwood is better; but there are ways around it. I guess the next problem is Wormwood LS application and out-of-screen damage.

It is. And it's the reason why i use Wormwood in my Jade build as well.
The whole idea to "cast two spenders that do no damage" is flawed at it's core. There's is no viable spender build since Suwong Diviner days.

Yeah, zombie bears too

So, to sum up, the most interesting build at this point would be:

...

?

Jade is most interesting.

A lot of people play HT + ROE. I think that might be the top build

I came up with a cool Gazing Demise build, but it does no damage

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There is no space for EW, you need short man´s fingers, RORG and ROE.

Dropping RoRG and Taskers for EW gives you more DPS.
Taskers which increases garg attack speed by +40% that is available 100% of the time.
EW gives you +100% but isn't always available.

So, not much has changed then... That's really unfortunate. If Blizzards would make all sets more or less equally good to use, things would be more interesting to play. For example, I like those lightning things from the Crusader, but there's probably no build that does sufficient damage with it. I hope they will improve this in D4. It's just math.

I've played with zuni in the beginning of this season. I noticed that HT was a lot easier.

Indeed HT is much easier. And people always play what is easier. Zuni has all the old problems since like.. forever. You need to build up an army or you die from everything. You need to tag enemies with your mana spender or you do no damage