Hey what’s up guys, OraK from clan ZE (EU)! I’m back from a long break after Era3 ending and in the very first days, I realised that I needed something fast to farm cause of the work I had to do, mainly grift keys, some mats and grift to lvl up gems up to 80/85! So I’ve made this LoN Sprinter build which basically has the same concept of a LoN Walker but it is definitely more viable on torment 13 and medium tier grift like 70/75! Atm, for this kind of farming purposes I believe this is the fastest WD build because it relies on a lot of boostes from items and skills. Pay attention to 1 thing, to be the fastest wd build doesn’t mean it is the fastest between all classes, cause we can’t manage trashmobs like other classes, we must focus on elites only or we would end finishing 2-3 screens away in case you are in a party. Anyway my medium average clear time for a torment13 or gr70 is about 3mins which is good considering my low paragon and no augmented gear. So this being said, this LoN Sprinter is for players who mainly play WD and had time to gear up all the ancient pieces. This “gear up” part is the most hard one, cause it will take some time and seasonal players may have some troubles at the beginning.
Let’s make a backstep, as i said before, there are already some speedfarm builds for WD, the most known are LoN Walker, which is based on Locust Swarm + Gargs, then there is HT Gargs + Angry Chicken. Honestly, I don’t like the first one since blizz increased torments level. The HT Gargs in stead is the one that I use for bounties cause there are way less elites to proc the core item of every LoN speed build which is In-Geom, while the chicken is the right compromise to perform well for that kind of purpose. About the chicken, it has been excluded from this build for 2 main reasons, first of all cause manajuma set can’t be used with Legacy of Nightmare set and secondly because chicken form doesn’t allow us to cast other skills without interrupting our run and moreover it exposes us to dmg. LoN Sprinter, instead, it is all about refreshing our speed boostes without considering toughness thanks to perma Spirit Walk. Once you proc in-geom you will be refreshing your SW, Horrify and Soul Harvest over and over while haunting for the next elite pack and you only need to pay attention for 1 second when Spirit Walk gets ready again (for people new to the class you may have not noticed an internal cooldown between every SW cast)
Now let's focus on the other stuff, like skills gems and items..
Another useful skill is Piranhado which is very good to help Gargs in the their job. Piranhado is also very important to avoid a weird bug affecting our pets, infact they don't attack enemies if pets are not provoked which means you don't have to engage a pack with Horrify, but you need to cast Piranhado first. In case you notice Gargs not attacking your enemy then just cast Piranhado to interrupt the CC. So remember, once you have seen your next elite, stop for a moment in Piranhado range and cast it, then go in (see the video). To make your gameplay easier, especially during long session of farming, i suggest you to help yourself with minor macro to refresh what you prefer, absolutely don't use programs like AutoHot Key which will cost you a ban.
Now let's talk about the dmg boost. As shown in the video, LoN bonus is pretty much enough for t13, but anyway there are multiple way to increase your power through items, skills and gems. In a pet build you are obviously going to use a Mask of Jeram and Taskers and Theo. Your MoJ doesn't need to be capped at 100%, you only need it as ancient version, because the bonus granted by LoN is higher than the one given by the mask, especially considering that the Mask bonus goes into Elemental dmg calculation so it's not as shown on item description but is lower. Other items are Hexing Pants of Mr. Yang and the Harrington Waistguard for normal rift only. Other buffs will come from your active and passive skills which are Confidence Ritual, Gruesome Feast, Midnight Feast, Sacrifice, Soul Harvest and Piranhas ofc.
Your gems will be the Enforcer, Bane of the Trapped which is self procced by Gargs also and Bane of the Powerful. Im my video my gems are about lvl 100, don't worry, the moment you collected all the ancient gear, i'm pretty sure you are already farming your gems to 100 or more with another set, every LoN build takes some time to gear up especially if you are on Season as said before! Another cool gem is the Boon of the Hoarder in case you want more and more speed.
The belt is the Krelm's one, that will be always up thanks to our perma spirit walk. The bracers are the Nemesis to spawn elites and proc our In-geom, and also because you are probably going to be the fastest in your group and you don't want to lose time waiting for them. On the shoulders slot we use Homing Pads to come back to town quickly, you can use something different when farming speed grift because nobody will ever interrupt your recall.The chest is the Aquila Cuirass which is very good at the beginning of the game when you ain't procced your perma severance yet. The mojo is the Homunculus so we can Sacrifice (Provoke the pack) our dogs and gain dps, but keep in mind to do not sacrifice them while standing or you will incur in Hexing pants malus! You have to stutter step, so 1 step 1 sacrifice and so on...
In the cube we obviously gonna put the gargs ring and a sacred harvester to increase our benefit from Soul harvest (armor or more movement speed). For the armor slot you have 2 possible choices, during normal rift i run Harrington Waistguard and in grift i use Lakumba's bracers.
Ok guys, that's it. I know this is build is not that easy to gear up as said before, don't forget that every single item have to be ancient, your rings included. So until you don't fit every requirements i suggest you to play with a normal HT Gargs with Manajuma!
I hope you enjoyed the guide and the video, cya next time or on www.zeroempathy.net
@IvveP ye it would be very cool, but honestly i don't think a normal pet build without any "6th set bonus" would be enough to farm efficiently T8! Too bad i know...
Zuni is the only good for customization because of Ring + Mojo!
Some days ago i posted my Road to Rank 1 EU-NS (Carnevil) and i'm back again with Carnevil with some changes to make it a viable build for Death's Breath farming!
Premise: I like to work on more builds so people are not forced to play with just 1 and they can run their favorite, so i'm not stating that this is the BEST build for DBs farming, because you would probably prefer Arachyr/Manajuma. I'd say Sage Carnevil is the a very good compromise for DBs + GR keys farming.
So, I've made a different setup for Carnevil to farm Death's Breath on high difficulties, so we can equip Sage Set like other classes without losing efficiency and too much dps. Ofc we are not barbs, monks and DHs so the result isn't the same like other classes but i'm sure, with good practise, everyone can reach a good gameplay/efficiency for solo and group!
Before talking about the build, i'd like to remind you that the drop chance of DBs (Death's Breath) changes on every Torment tier! On t6 you have 77%/80%, on T7 90%, on T8+ you have 100% with the only difference that on T8 you have 5% more chance to drop a 2nd DB and on T9 15%, on T10 is 25% more.
So basically the most efficient way for a guaranteed double DB is playing on T8! Ofc on T10 you can get much more DBs, but tbh i don't think the 20% more chance is worth it as Witch Doctor! Go higher T if you are playing in group.
The gear is pretty much the same that you have been using on patch 2.2, so you are not gonna play Focus / Restraint, but in stead you go back to Convention of Elements and Zuni's Pox! That's the only way to fit Sage set inside a WD build without ruining the basic core of the spec, Z6 in this case. Don't worry about the loss of damage compared to F/R! Torment 8 is still an easy GR35, so you will be melting everything
In the cube you will go for Carnevil mask, Ring of Royal Grandeur and In geom (in the video i cubed DoD cause my in geom was better). The sword is so amazing for this build and every farming build in general, especially because you are going to free a slot for Angry Chicken replacing BBV so you can spam chicken and go much faster in your elite packs hunt!
I'm using only 1 spender skill but that's up to you and your gameplay, if you prefer to run a 2nd spender then just do it! The spender skills are free choice, i really like to play with Frozen Piranhas because it has short cooldown (compared to Piranhado), it buffs my deeps (debuff on mobs) and it also procs BotT gem! The other gems are simplicity strenght and enforcer.
Passive skills are pretty much mandatory, so Spirit Vessel, Pierce the Veil, Fetish Sycophants and one between Grave Injustice and Gruesome Feast, i suggest you to run Hellfire Amulet because they are both important for a better efficiency.
Well that's all guys, i hope you enjoyed the guide and the Sage Carnevil!
i'd like to share with you my rank 1 NS-EU telling you what i have done and changed during these 4 months! First of all i want to say a big GZ to all WDs around the world that took part to the leaderboards and also the ones that couldn't reach them, in fact i have pushed so high because we had a very fair and cool competition, so yeah thx, i hope we all had tons of fun first of all
So let's start...
Basically my Road to Rank 1 is composed by 5 GRs: 53-56-57-58-61! I recorded everything, because i usually watch my videos to understand my mistakes and luckily they are also good to show people what's going on! If you take a look at all my videos you will notice that i changed a lot of stuff from GR53 to GR61, i have always tried to evolve my gameplay GR by GR tier by tier. That's something really important that i'd like to share with players new to the GRs system.."Think out of the box"! Every tier is different and you have to adapt, all the classes have Pros and Cons, we are not perfect then we have to do our best with the gear and the skills.
In my GR53 my approach to Carnevil build was really basic. I was using the common build with 2 spenders, Aughild's set and Enforcer, Simplicity, Gogok as gems. Everything went fine, i probably spent just a couple of keys to clear it. I still think that this is the best way to start to play carnevil cause you can fully understand the mechanics of the build. Piranhado will help you to group up everything, Aughild's set gives you a lot of toughness and it helps a lot in killing the packs, moreover there is Gogok gem to reach 1-2 higher breakpoints for more damage. Here is the video.
In GR56 i made my first changes. First of all i used an immunity amulet to make the gameplay less "fishy", but tbh that's something that can still work in low tier, in fact i didn't use it anymore, but that was worth to try and in GR56 worked. I was still using Aughild's and gogok, the "new entry" was BotTrapped gem instead of Enforcer. I also put GotD as spender to proc the green gem and tbh it was a better choice compared to my previous Acid Cloud. The result was very good and there was nice synergy in the build, but it wasn't perfect..i needed to work on it.
After clearing GR56 i took a short period to focus on how to improve the build, i saw a big potential to push higher and higher so i decided that i had "to think out the box" to make the difference to climb the leadeboards. The result was sick and "drastic". No more gogok (replaced with Enforcer), no more Aughild's set, i was back to 5 passives (hellfire amulet), but mainly no more 2 spenders! I realised that dps from gogok was nothing compared to a high lvl Enforcer and also because my fetishes began to die quickly so a boost to their toughness was pretty much needed. Then i removed Aughild's because on high tiers you don't want to kill elite packs to do not waste your precious time and also because i thought that we could pretty much fix the loss of dmg vs elites just by reaching higher breakpoints with Lacuni's bracers and a good Zuni Pox, i was right. The real big change was the pass from 2 spenders to only 1! To do that i had to find the perfect mix between Piranhado and GotD, the result was Frost Piranhas! This rune is very nice because it has low cooldown and also because it procs my BotT gem, with some CDR on mask and shoulders i was able to use it every 5 seconds, perfect for Zuni bonus. Ess of Johan on follower worked really fine with his proc around every 10-12 seconds, so no need of Piranhado anymore. Another interesting point of this change was the brand new free slot on my skill bar! I decided to use Soul Harvest (Languish) to fix my lack of dps compared to higher paragons Witch Doctors and also because i was able to run more toughness, the toughness that i dropped from my gear to use 1 spender. That was my winning choice and i'm proud of it! From this moment i stopped uploading my videos on youtube because i really felt i had found something different that could have made the difference to let me reach rank 1.
I uploaded GR 57 and 58 yday, i apologize with my subscribers but i had to do it.
After GR58 i took another break, this time a bit longer. My build was working fine, but sadly i realised that my paragon lvl was not enough to compete for rank1, even if i don't think is needed (rng, mobs, map come first), i felt that i should have invest the last 90-100 days of Era3 in grinding paragons. Another good thing of speedgrifting was that i was able to gamble tons of stuff and that really helped me to make my gear perfect. I had what i wanted, trifecta Pox, nice Lacunis and pretty much better stuff in every slot. After my 90 days of grinding i felt i did a good job with my gear and also with my paragons (around 200 more, so 250k+ dps). I also had time to farm bounties and find a perfect Skeleton King shoulders (a must have, boys). I was ready to come back on the battleground!
I took a look at the leaderboards and in that moment rank 1 was Gr60. I trained so hard, i felt tier 60 was not the highest possible, so i decided to go ALL-IN and farm 61s keys only! That was a risky decision, by the end of the Era i could have been rank 20 or rank 1, but that was worth to try, better nothing than a rank 2.
With the help of my amazing clanmates and also some friends from friendlist i farmed a total of 250x61s and i spent them in around 15 days. I must say that wasn't that chilling. Sadly to reach rank 1 you are not free to open and play, you have to fish for the right Grift so the first days were really frustrating. I was looking for Unburieds, Summoners or Zombies mainly and obv the perfect boss. Actually WD doesn't have a "perfect boss", you just want to avoid Stonesinger (the worst), Crusader King, Rime, Bloodmaw, Voracity, Perdition and stuff like that. Well guys, during my first 180 keys i spawned only 3 bosses (yeah i got only 3 playable grift) and i got Stonesinger and Crus King x2. I got rekt, but i had no time to feel sad, i had to push, era was coming to an end and the guy on rank1 improved his rank clearing Gr61 in around 15 mins.
I still felt i could do it, i had eveything i needed.. gear, my personal build, and why not my ability to play the class (i've always played WD since day 1). I farmed 100 more keys for the last push.
I did small changes after failing those keys, i decided to go full glass cannon (like removing all res from boots, etc), i had 9m toughness unbuffed. Toughness wasn't an important thing for my build. Everything could 1 shot me and i have a short cooldown to fetish army (59 sec).
Well, 2 days before the ending of Era i had MY chance. I opened an arreat crater with godly density, i took a deep breath and i started to fight. Right at the beginning i had the worst possible nightmare, reflect dmg + ghosts pack! I decided to proc my Spirit Vessel for a double chance to skip it and i was right..proc + spirit walk and i disappeared from their radar. Since that moment i only had 1 thing in my mind, rank 1 and i did it!
In my GR61 i introduced a new kind of gameplay that really made the difference in terms of rift progress. I started playing MELEE so i was able to cast BBV against big groups and restore the cooldown for the next group. You basically have to play in 5 yards max from the mobs with fetishes bodyblocking for you. It's risky and a big gamble but this stuff makes the difference to reach higher tiers, yeah once again "think out the box". I mastered this gameplay during my 90 days break doing speedgrifts as boss killer.
I'm not so happy with my performance tbh, i could have done much better. I made a mistake on boss fight, i didn't have the perfect double rotation with BBV+CoE, but who cares now...the final result is what i prefer.
So guys, as you can see, my GR53 is really different compared to GR61 and that's what i enjoyed the most during these months. The evolution of my character and, first of all, of myself. I'd really like that more people will join us on the leaderboards especially now that trials are gone. I have big plans for Era 4, i can't wait to compete with you guys with our new carnevil (and HT as well).
WD is amazing, we are having hard times in 2.2 because of our lacks (no aoe skills, no burst dmg while running, slow mechanics and movement speed), but i would never change my class with anything else. I strongly prefer to play a grift and be alert 100% of the times, watching everywhere because everything can 1 shot you. That's why we play, we want fun and adrenaline. I love my class
I hope you guys enjoyed my road to rank 1, i wish you good luck for next Era and the game in general.
I want to show you a build that i’ve been trying to make focusing on how to fix all WD’s issues at the same time! Obv the build is not meant to perform in low/high grs, but for T6. Why T6? Because, even if boring as hell, sometimes we still need to farm mats, keystones, horadric caches, and we will want to make it in the fastest possible way
So mainly i want to give another option to players that are bored of usual builds and especially to players that are new to the class and want to run smoothly without preying for a rare cerimonial knives.
Jade, first of all, and Carnevil are good builds for T6 but nothing compared to other classes that can clear a rift (till boss) in around 100-140 seconds in solo! WD has awful movement speed, dmg mechanics are slow (we need to trigger something else to proc set bonuses), no real AoE in main builds.. all these factors put the WD far behind other classes in an average clear time of 170+ sec with average mobs density. So you can still do it with well known builds but you have to sacrifice other important slots on your skillbar
With this build, the result is better than I expected, obv not like a monk or a barb but it's Fast, Offensive and so damn Funny
I have an average clear time of 150 sec in Solo and moreover I’m able to play in fast groups without falling deeply behind!
[2.2] Fireworks Doc
The build is called “Fireworks” because it’s based on explosive AoE skills, that put together make a really nice result!
Here it is the build from diablofans tool and my Youtube video:
So, as you can see, we have Sacrifice as main AoE dmg dealer (damage is tripled with TMF ring) and 3 more AoE offensive skills for trash mobs(Hex, Spirit Walk, Soul Harvest)! Fetishes will perform as finishers!
We have a huge and costant buff to movement speed with Spirit Walk, Hex, Horrify and Fierce Loyalty! This is possible thx to Grave Injustice + CDR on gear (I’m using shoulders, diamond on helm, Vigilante, Born’s set, but you can have way more).
The gameplay is really easy to manage! Basically you run like crazy looking for medium/big groups (4+ mobs) to restore your skills through Grave Injustice! Try always to stack your Soul Harvest buff to 5 so gain A LOT of dps! Every time you see an Elite Pack, just engage as Angry Chicken and finish it with Sacrifice!
2 little things about Sacrifice:
You have to use Big dog, you can’t perform this build with normal zombie dogs
You have 2 rapid “shots”! The dog next to you and the one insta summoned by your Homunculus (no need to wait 2 secs)
That’s a Physical build so pump your dmg with %ElementalPhysical + %Sacrifice + %Fetish Army.
The most important items are MoJ, T&T (not mandatory), Homunculus, Tall Man’s Finger and Doombringer! Yes Doombringer! You don’t need rare ceremonial knives You don’t even need a complete a 6pieces set, just boots and pants from Zuni! The rest is really easy (Born’s set is craftable) to get, bracers are free (I prefer another boost to MS, but Nemesis are also fine in T6). If you can't find a Doombringer, i'd reccoment to run Envious Blade for massive 100% AoE crit, which is also easy to farm in act 3 bags (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/envious-blade-3FoG39)
Gems are pretty much mandatory:
BotT ( a bit tricky on boss, but basically 100% uptime in rift)
Enforcer (even if you are using MoJ and %Physical on your gear, this gem is still one of the best)
BotP (huge, fast buff to dps)
Passive Skills:
As mentioned before, Grave Injustice is mandatory, and then i'm using Fierce Loyalty for the movements speed buff, spirit vessel to reduce CD on spirit walk, horrify and Soul Harvest by 2 sec and at the end PtV for a dmg buff. If you have a good hellfire amulet to run a 5th passive or you just don't like one of the ones i'm using, then Tribal Rites is a good choice to reduce cd on hex!
PROS
No need Kukri, DoD
Easy gear
Fastest MS possible
No slow mechanics
Perfect for all types of density
No Maps layout dependent
Playable in group
Funny
CONS
Need perfect MoJ (cc+Sacrifice)
Half gear should be ancient for best performance
9 mandatory pieces
That’s all guys, I hope you can enjoy this build in your speedy sessions. Patch 2.3 is not that far, but in the meanwhile we can still take advantage of what we have.
sry guys i just got back home aftera little vacation
@Sharpy:
You should put some Life% on your gear (shoulders, chest) to improve Pets survivability on higher grifts; reroll dmg into 7%IAS on your DoD and possibly improve your RoRG and immunity amu
Both FA and PD influence Fetish Army dmg when spitting darts. All WDs are running FA on mojo cause it is so hard to get a well rolled anc mojo with %Elites... in that case it would be better to reroll FA into PD
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@TomIcy:
countess julia, xephirian, azkharanth are more useful especially the first 2 to avoid unpredictable dmg, i use the best i have (julia).
i skip every single yellow, not worth atm! RD are skipped as well, TS it depends on mob type, density and map layout... need open area to not get "in trap". That's why i highly suggest to run Julia or Xephyrian, those really make difference.
I cleared a 50 a while ago and tried some attempts on 52-53 but failed... There was one attempt where i missed a 53 by about 30 seconds which sucked... Anyway i might try going for grasp of dead and frozen piranhas with bott as you showed. What rune on grasp of dead are you using? Desparate grasp i assume?
Just play ranged (TS has a range) and have a good reaction time mainly Once you see it, get ready to be hit from first ts and then don't move, just cast spirit walk! TS will be ended before SW so u can keep doing dps
The good thing about this build is the fact that there are a lot of nice combinations!
Personally i cleared gr53 with the setup shown on diablofans tool (and on video), but now im using a completely different version to push higher (skills and gems)! This because the higher u go the more different your gameplay will be..for example im using Haunt like u do, but this skill doesnt fit fine on T6 cause the gameplay is faster. They look all good and efficient, it's a bit hard to say what is better on a simple tool, atmyou should see it like that..gr53 has been cleared with this setup!
I'm gonna update build and tool once i have new gameplay to show
hey Almex i always skip Yellow RD because atm it's a waste of time
In case of blue pack, i usually take a look at other affixes before taking any decision.
You can avoid RD with right timing of spirit walk (RD has a cooldown like every affixes) and don't forget that you won't take any damage while your pets are attacking melee, so take your time don't risk too much.
Trifecta is Always your best option (IAS, CHC, CHD, Socket), but in your case i would always go CHC+CHD even if IAS is very important in that build (less overall dps compared to other stats)
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Build: www.diablofans.com/builds/87126-lon-sprinter-speedfarmi-build-for-t13-and-mid-tier
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZedsiyUHiw
Hey what’s up guys, OraK from clan ZE (EU)! I’m back from a long break after Era3 ending and in the very first days, I realised that I needed something fast to farm cause of the work I had to do, mainly grift keys, some mats and grift to lvl up gems up to 80/85! So I’ve made this LoN Sprinter build which basically has the same concept of a LoN Walker but it is definitely more viable on torment 13 and medium tier grift like 70/75! Atm, for this kind of farming purposes I believe this is the fastest WD build because it relies on a lot of boostes from items and skills. Pay attention to 1 thing, to be the fastest wd build doesn’t mean it is the fastest between all classes, cause we can’t manage trashmobs like other classes, we must focus on elites only or we would end finishing 2-3 screens away in case you are in a party. Anyway my medium average clear time for a torment13 or gr70 is about 3mins which is good considering my low paragon and no augmented gear. So this being said, this LoN Sprinter is for players who mainly play WD and had time to gear up all the ancient pieces. This “gear up” part is the most hard one, cause it will take some time and seasonal players may have some troubles at the beginning.
Let’s make a backstep, as i said before, there are already some speedfarm builds for WD, the most known are LoN Walker, which is based on Locust Swarm + Gargs, then there is HT Gargs + Angry Chicken. Honestly, I don’t like the first one since blizz increased torments level. The HT Gargs in stead is the one that I use for bounties cause there are way less elites to proc the core item of every LoN speed build which is In-Geom, while the chicken is the right compromise to perform well for that kind of purpose. About the chicken, it has been excluded from this build for 2 main reasons, first of all cause manajuma set can’t be used with Legacy of Nightmare set and secondly because chicken form doesn’t allow us to cast other skills without interrupting our run and moreover it exposes us to dmg. LoN Sprinter, instead, it is all about refreshing our speed boostes without considering toughness thanks to perma Spirit Walk. Once you proc in-geom you will be refreshing your SW, Horrify and Soul Harvest over and over while haunting for the next elite pack and you only need to pay attention for 1 second when Spirit Walk gets ready again (for people new to the class you may have not noticed an internal cooldown between every SW cast)
Now let's focus on the other stuff, like skills gems and items..
Another useful skill is Piranhado which is very good to help Gargs in the their job. Piranhado is also very important to avoid a weird bug affecting our pets, infact they don't attack enemies if pets are not provoked which means you don't have to engage a pack with Horrify, but you need to cast Piranhado first. In case you notice Gargs not attacking your enemy then just cast Piranhado to interrupt the CC. So remember, once you have seen your next elite, stop for a moment in Piranhado range and cast it, then go in (see the video). To make your gameplay easier, especially during long session of farming, i suggest you to help yourself with minor macro to refresh what you prefer, absolutely don't use programs like AutoHot Key which will cost you a ban.
Now let's talk about the dmg boost. As shown in the video, LoN bonus is pretty much enough for t13, but anyway there are multiple way to increase your power through items, skills and gems. In a pet build you are obviously going to use a Mask of Jeram and Taskers and Theo. Your MoJ doesn't need to be capped at 100%, you only need it as ancient version, because the bonus granted by LoN is higher than the one given by the mask, especially considering that the Mask bonus goes into Elemental dmg calculation so it's not as shown on item description but is lower. Other items are Hexing Pants of Mr. Yang and the Harrington Waistguard for normal rift only. Other buffs will come from your active and passive skills which are Confidence Ritual, Gruesome Feast, Midnight Feast, Sacrifice, Soul Harvest and Piranhas ofc.
Your gems will be the Enforcer, Bane of the Trapped which is self procced by Gargs also and Bane of the Powerful. Im my video my gems are about lvl 100, don't worry, the moment you collected all the ancient gear, i'm pretty sure you are already farming your gems to 100 or more with another set, every LoN build takes some time to gear up especially if you are on Season as said before! Another cool gem is the Boon of the Hoarder in case you want more and more speed.
The belt is the Krelm's one, that will be always up thanks to our perma spirit walk. The bracers are the Nemesis to spawn elites and proc our In-geom, and also because you are probably going to be the fastest in your group and you don't want to lose time waiting for them. On the shoulders slot we use Homing Pads to come back to town quickly, you can use something different when farming speed grift because nobody will ever interrupt your recall.The chest is the Aquila Cuirass which is very good at the beginning of the game when you ain't procced your perma severance yet. The mojo is the Homunculus so we can Sacrifice (Provoke the pack) our dogs and gain dps, but keep in mind to do not sacrifice them while standing or you will incur in Hexing pants malus! You have to stutter step, so 1 step 1 sacrifice and so on...
In the cube we obviously gonna put the gargs ring and a sacred harvester to increase our benefit from Soul harvest (armor or more movement speed). For the armor slot you have 2 possible choices, during normal rift i run Harrington Waistguard and in grift i use Lakumba's bracers.
Ok guys, that's it. I know this is build is not that easy to gear up as said before, don't forget that every single item have to be ancient, your rings included. So until you don't fit every requirements i suggest you to play with a normal HT Gargs with Manajuma!
I hope you enjoyed the guide and the video, cya next time or on www.zeroempathy.net
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hey ty guys!
@IvveP ye it would be very cool, but honestly i don't think a normal pet build without any "6th set bonus" would be enough to farm efficiently T8! Too bad i know...
Zuni is the only good for customization because of Ring + Mojo!
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Hey what's up guys! OraK from Zero Empathy
Some days ago i posted my Road to Rank 1 EU-NS (Carnevil) and i'm back again with Carnevil with some changes to make it a viable build for Death's Breath farming!
Premise: I like to work on more builds so people are not forced to play with just 1 and they can run their favorite, so i'm not stating that this is the BEST build for DBs farming, because you would probably prefer Arachyr/Manajuma. I'd say Sage Carnevil is the a very good compromise for DBs + GR keys farming.
Click here for Sage Carnevil on Diablofans Tool
In this written guide i'm gonna explain again what it's described in the video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGsbpb_EhGw
So, I've made a different setup for Carnevil to farm Death's Breath on high difficulties, so we can equip Sage Set like other classes without losing efficiency and too much dps. Ofc we are not barbs, monks and DHs so the result isn't the same like other classes but i'm sure, with good practise, everyone can reach a good gameplay/efficiency for solo and group!
Before talking about the build, i'd like to remind you that the drop chance of DBs (Death's Breath) changes on every Torment tier! On t6 you have 77%/80%, on T7 90%, on T8+ you have 100% with the only difference that on T8 you have 5% more chance to drop a 2nd DB and on T9 15%, on T10 is 25% more.
So basically the most efficient way for a guaranteed double DB is playing on T8! Ofc on T10 you can get much more DBs, but tbh i don't think the 20% more chance is worth it as Witch Doctor! Go higher T if you are playing in group.
The gear is pretty much the same that you have been using on patch 2.2, so you are not gonna play Focus / Restraint, but in stead you go back to Convention of Elements and Zuni's Pox! That's the only way to fit Sage set inside a WD build without ruining the basic core of the spec, Z6 in this case. Don't worry about the loss of damage compared to F/R! Torment 8 is still an easy GR35, so you will be melting everything
In the cube you will go for Carnevil mask, Ring of Royal Grandeur and In geom (in the video i cubed DoD cause my in geom was better). The sword is so amazing for this build and every farming build in general, especially because you are going to free a slot for Angry Chicken replacing BBV so you can spam chicken and go much faster in your elite packs hunt!
I'm using only 1 spender skill but that's up to you and your gameplay, if you prefer to run a 2nd spender then just do it! The spender skills are free choice, i really like to play with Frozen Piranhas because it has short cooldown (compared to Piranhado), it buffs my deeps (debuff on mobs) and it also procs BotT gem! The other gems are simplicity strenght and enforcer.
Passive skills are pretty much mandatory, so Spirit Vessel, Pierce the Veil, Fetish Sycophants and one between Grave Injustice and Gruesome Feast, i suggest you to run Hellfire Amulet because they are both important for a better efficiency.
Well that's all guys, i hope you enjoyed the guide and the Sage Carnevil!
gl and hf during your DBs farming
cya in game
OraK
www.zeroempathy.net
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ty guys
@KadMan: it's called yolomouse, google it
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Hey what's up guys, OraK from Zero Empathy
i'd like to share with you my rank 1 NS-EU telling you what i have done and changed during these 4 months! First of all i want to say a big GZ to all WDs around the world that took part to the leaderboards and also the ones that couldn't reach them, in fact i have pushed so high because we had a very fair and cool competition, so yeah thx, i hope we all had tons of fun first of all
So let's start...
Basically my Road to Rank 1 is composed by 5 GRs: 53-56-57-58-61! I recorded everything, because i usually watch my videos to understand my mistakes and luckily they are also good to show people what's going on! If you take a look at all my videos you will notice that i changed a lot of stuff from GR53 to GR61, i have always tried to evolve my gameplay GR by GR tier by tier. That's something really important that i'd like to share with players new to the GRs system.."Think out of the box"! Every tier is different and you have to adapt, all the classes have Pros and Cons, we are not perfect then we have to do our best with the gear and the skills.
In my GR53 my approach to Carnevil build was really basic. I was using the common build with 2 spenders, Aughild's set and Enforcer, Simplicity, Gogok as gems. Everything went fine, i probably spent just a couple of keys to clear it. I still think that this is the best way to start to play carnevil cause you can fully understand the mechanics of the build. Piranhado will help you to group up everything, Aughild's set gives you a lot of toughness and it helps a lot in killing the packs, moreover there is Gogok gem to reach 1-2 higher breakpoints for more damage. Here is the video.
GR 53: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2UCF7GbSMM (rank 4)
In GR56 i made my first changes. First of all i used an immunity amulet to make the gameplay less "fishy", but tbh that's something that can still work in low tier, in fact i didn't use it anymore, but that was worth to try and in GR56 worked. I was still using Aughild's and gogok, the "new entry" was BotTrapped gem instead of Enforcer. I also put GotD as spender to proc the green gem and tbh it was a better choice compared to my previous Acid Cloud. The result was very good and there was nice synergy in the build, but it wasn't perfect..i needed to work on it.
GR 56: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMsvZuCdn-E (rank 4)
After clearing GR56 i took a short period to focus on how to improve the build, i saw a big potential to push higher and higher so i decided that i had "to think out the box" to make the difference to climb the leadeboards. The result was sick and "drastic". No more gogok (replaced with Enforcer), no more Aughild's set, i was back to 5 passives (hellfire amulet), but mainly no more 2 spenders! I realised that dps from gogok was nothing compared to a high lvl Enforcer and also because my fetishes began to die quickly so a boost to their toughness was pretty much needed. Then i removed Aughild's because on high tiers you don't want to kill elite packs to do not waste your precious time and also because i thought that we could pretty much fix the loss of dmg vs elites just by reaching higher breakpoints with Lacuni's bracers and a good Zuni Pox, i was right. The real big change was the pass from 2 spenders to only 1! To do that i had to find the perfect mix between Piranhado and GotD, the result was Frost Piranhas! This rune is very nice because it has low cooldown and also because it procs my BotT gem, with some CDR on mask and shoulders i was able to use it every 5 seconds, perfect for Zuni bonus. Ess of Johan on follower worked really fine with his proc around every 10-12 seconds, so no need of Piranhado anymore. Another interesting point of this change was the brand new free slot on my skill bar! I decided to use Soul Harvest (Languish) to fix my lack of dps compared to higher paragons Witch Doctors and also because i was able to run more toughness, the toughness that i dropped from my gear to use 1 spender. That was my winning choice and i'm proud of it! From this moment i stopped uploading my videos on youtube because i really felt i had found something different that could have made the difference to let me reach rank 1.
I uploaded GR 57 and 58 yday, i apologize with my subscribers but i had to do it.
GR 57: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auPYrZi48GQ (rank 7)
GR 58: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTouCQMTGvk (rank 3)
After GR58 i took another break, this time a bit longer. My build was working fine, but sadly i realised that my paragon lvl was not enough to compete for rank1, even if i don't think is needed (rng, mobs, map come first), i felt that i should have invest the last 90-100 days of Era3 in grinding paragons. Another good thing of speedgrifting was that i was able to gamble tons of stuff and that really helped me to make my gear perfect. I had what i wanted, trifecta Pox, nice Lacunis and pretty much better stuff in every slot. After my 90 days of grinding i felt i did a good job with my gear and also with my paragons (around 200 more, so 250k+ dps). I also had time to farm bounties and find a perfect Skeleton King shoulders (a must have, boys). I was ready to come back on the battleground!
I took a look at the leaderboards and in that moment rank 1 was Gr60. I trained so hard, i felt tier 60 was not the highest possible, so i decided to go ALL-IN and farm 61s keys only! That was a risky decision, by the end of the Era i could have been rank 20 or rank 1, but that was worth to try, better nothing than a rank 2.
With the help of my amazing clanmates and also some friends from friendlist i farmed a total of 250x61s and i spent them in around 15 days. I must say that wasn't that chilling. Sadly to reach rank 1 you are not free to open and play, you have to fish for the right Grift so the first days were really frustrating. I was looking for Unburieds, Summoners or Zombies mainly and obv the perfect boss. Actually WD doesn't have a "perfect boss", you just want to avoid Stonesinger (the worst), Crusader King, Rime, Bloodmaw, Voracity, Perdition and stuff like that. Well guys, during my first 180 keys i spawned only 3 bosses (yeah i got only 3 playable grift) and i got Stonesinger and Crus King x2. I got rekt, but i had no time to feel sad, i had to push, era was coming to an end and the guy on rank1 improved his rank clearing Gr61 in around 15 mins.
I still felt i could do it, i had eveything i needed.. gear, my personal build, and why not my ability to play the class (i've always played WD since day 1). I farmed 100 more keys for the last push.
I did small changes after failing those keys, i decided to go full glass cannon (like removing all res from boots, etc), i had 9m toughness unbuffed. Toughness wasn't an important thing for my build. Everything could 1 shot me and i have a short cooldown to fetish army (59 sec).
Well, 2 days before the ending of Era i had MY chance. I opened an arreat crater with godly density, i took a deep breath and i started to fight. Right at the beginning i had the worst possible nightmare, reflect dmg + ghosts pack! I decided to proc my Spirit Vessel for a double chance to skip it and i was right..proc + spirit walk and i disappeared from their radar. Since that moment i only had 1 thing in my mind, rank 1 and i did it!
In my GR61 i introduced a new kind of gameplay that really made the difference in terms of rift progress. I started playing MELEE so i was able to cast BBV against big groups and restore the cooldown for the next group. You basically have to play in 5 yards max from the mobs with fetishes bodyblocking for you. It's risky and a big gamble but this stuff makes the difference to reach higher tiers, yeah once again "think out the box". I mastered this gameplay during my 90 days break doing speedgrifts as boss killer.
GR 61: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03HqSpsco8I (rank 1)
I'm not so happy with my performance tbh, i could have done much better. I made a mistake on boss fight, i didn't have the perfect double rotation with BBV+CoE, but who cares now...the final result is what i prefer.
So guys, as you can see, my GR53 is really different compared to GR61 and that's what i enjoyed the most during these months. The evolution of my character and, first of all, of myself. I'd really like that more people will join us on the leaderboards especially now that trials are gone. I have big plans for Era 4, i can't wait to compete with you guys with our new carnevil (and HT as well).
WD is amazing, we are having hard times in 2.2 because of our lacks (no aoe skills, no burst dmg while running, slow mechanics and movement speed), but i would never change my class with anything else. I strongly prefer to play a grift and be alert 100% of the times, watching everywhere because everything can 1 shot you. That's why we play, we want fun and adrenaline. I love my class
I hope you guys enjoyed my road to rank 1, i wish you good luck for next Era and the game in general.
cya in game!
OraK
www.zeroempathy.net
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ty for sharing your build
Ofc it won't be that easy to get immediately all the gear needed for my version, so it's nice for me to see a different way to approach this gameplay.
I hope it works fine and you are having a good time with it
i noticed is a lot different from mine
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Last Update: Added reccomendation about Envious Blade in items section
Reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo3witchdoctors/comments/3a28yd/22fireworks_doc_fast_and_competitive_t6_build_for/
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Introduction
Yo guys, OraK from Zero Empathy
I want to show you a build that i’ve been trying to make focusing on how to fix all WD’s issues at the same time! Obv the build is not meant to perform in low/high grs, but for T6. Why T6? Because, even if boring as hell, sometimes we still need to farm mats, keystones, horadric caches, and we will want to make it in the fastest possible way
So mainly i want to give another option to players that are bored of usual builds and especially to players that are new to the class and want to run smoothly without preying for a rare cerimonial knives.
Jade, first of all, and Carnevil are good builds for T6 but nothing compared to other classes that can clear a rift (till boss) in around 100-140 seconds in solo! WD has awful movement speed, dmg mechanics are slow (we need to trigger something else to proc set bonuses), no real AoE in main builds.. all these factors put the WD far behind other classes in an average clear time of 170+ sec with average mobs density. So you can still do it with well known builds but you have to sacrifice other important slots on your skillbar
With this build, the result is better than I expected, obv not like a monk or a barb but it's Fast, Offensive and so damn Funny
I have an average clear time of 150 sec in Solo and moreover I’m able to play in fast groups without falling deeply behind!
[2.2] Fireworks Doc
The build is called “Fireworks” because it’s based on explosive AoE skills, that put together make a really nice result!
Here it is the build from diablofans tool and my Youtube video:
http://www.diablofans.com/builds/56320-2-2-fireworks-doc-fast-and-competitive-t6-build
link video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Kvjtl0JHs&feature=youtu.be
So, as you can see, we have Sacrifice as main AoE dmg dealer (damage is tripled with TMF ring) and 3 more AoE offensive skills for trash mobs(Hex, Spirit Walk, Soul Harvest)! Fetishes will perform as finishers!
We have a huge and costant buff to movement speed with Spirit Walk, Hex, Horrify and Fierce Loyalty! This is possible thx to Grave Injustice + CDR on gear (I’m using shoulders, diamond on helm, Vigilante, Born’s set, but you can have way more).
The gameplay is really easy to manage! Basically you run like crazy looking for medium/big groups (4+ mobs) to restore your skills through Grave Injustice! Try always to stack your Soul Harvest buff to 5 so gain A LOT of dps! Every time you see an Elite Pack, just engage as Angry Chicken and finish it with Sacrifice!
2 little things about Sacrifice:
You have to use Big dog, you can’t perform this build with normal zombie dogs
You have 2 rapid “shots”! The dog next to you and the one insta summoned by your Homunculus (no need to wait 2 secs)
That’s a Physical build so pump your dmg with %ElementalPhysical + %Sacrifice + %Fetish Army.
The most important items are MoJ, T&T (not mandatory), Homunculus, Tall Man’s Finger and Doombringer! Yes Doombringer! You don’t need rare ceremonial knives You don’t even need a complete a 6pieces set, just boots and pants from Zuni! The rest is really easy (Born’s set is craftable) to get, bracers are free (I prefer another boost to MS, but Nemesis are also fine in T6). If you can't find a Doombringer, i'd reccoment to run Envious Blade for massive 100% AoE crit, which is also easy to farm in act 3 bags (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/envious-blade-3FoG39)
Gems are pretty much mandatory:
BotT ( a bit tricky on boss, but basically 100% uptime in rift)
Enforcer (even if you are using MoJ and %Physical on your gear, this gem is still one of the best)
BotP (huge, fast buff to dps)
Passive Skills:
As mentioned before, Grave Injustice is mandatory, and then i'm using Fierce Loyalty for the movements speed buff, spirit vessel to reduce CD on spirit walk, horrify and Soul Harvest by 2 sec and at the end PtV for a dmg buff. If you have a good hellfire amulet to run a 5th passive or you just don't like one of the ones i'm using, then Tribal Rites is a good choice to reduce cd on hex!
PROS
No need Kukri, DoD
Easy gear
Fastest MS possible
No slow mechanics
Perfect for all types of density
No Maps layout dependent
Playable in group
Funny
CONS
Need perfect MoJ (cc+Sacrifice)
Half gear should be ancient for best performance
9 mandatory pieces
That’s all guys, I hope you can enjoy this build in your speedy sessions. Patch 2.3 is not that far, but in the meanwhile we can still take advantage of what we have.
Cya in game!
OraK
www.zeroempathy.net
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20 yards to proc the effect is a bit risky tbh, not a bad idea but i'd rather stay safe and don't lose a useful gem for boss fight
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sry guys i just got back home aftera little vacation
@Sharpy:
You should put some Life% on your gear (shoulders, chest) to improve Pets survivability on higher grifts; reroll dmg into 7%IAS on your DoD and possibly improve your RoRG and immunity amu
Both FA and PD influence Fetish Army dmg when spitting darts. All WDs are running FA on mojo cause it is so hard to get a well rolled anc mojo with %Elites... in that case it would be better to reroll FA into PD
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@TomIcy:
countess julia, xephirian, azkharanth are more useful especially the first 2 to avoid unpredictable dmg, i use the best i have (julia).
i skip every single yellow, not worth atm! RD are skipped as well, TS it depends on mob type, density and map layout... need open area to not get "in trap". That's why i highly suggest to run Julia or Xephyrian, those really make difference.
To record i use Xsplit (not free version)
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ty mate
yes i'm using DG rune!
gl for your GRs!
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Btw guys i just updated my OP and build from diablofanstool with my new setup i'm running atm!
GR56 cleared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMsvZuCdn-E
i've changed 1 gem (BotT over Enforcer) and a couple of skills! Check it out
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Just play ranged (TS has a range) and have a good reaction time mainly
Once you see it, get ready to be hit from first ts and then don't move, just cast spirit walk! TS will be ended before SW so u can keep doing dps 
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The good thing about this build is the fact that there are a lot of nice combinations!
Personally i cleared gr53 with the setup shown on diablofans tool (and on video), but now im using a completely different version to push higher (skills and gems)! This because the higher u go the more different your gameplay will be..for example im using Haunt like u do, but this skill doesnt fit fine on T6 cause the gameplay is faster. They look all good and efficient, it's a bit hard to say what is better on a simple tool, atmyou should see it like that..gr53 has been cleared with this setup!
I'm gonna update build and tool once i have new gameplay to show
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hey Almex i always skip Yellow RD because atm it's a waste of time
In case of blue pack, i usually take a look at other affixes before taking any decision.
You can avoid RD with right timing of spirit walk (RD has a cooldown like every affixes) and don't forget that you won't take any damage while your pets are attacking melee, so take your time don't risk too much.
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Trifecta is Always your best option (IAS, CHC, CHD, Socket), but in your case i would always go CHC+CHD even if IAS is very important in that build (less overall dps compared to other stats)