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Changed my Acid cloud to Firebats (dire bats). The mana costs are much cheaper, still a lot of damage!

Also got Tasker and Theo gloves.

I can finish now Grift 30 so fast that I get lvl 32 stone :)

My problem atm: typically I sit down in the evening, one finger of Lagavulin and play a bit D3.

But this build needs so much micromanagement that I really don't find time to drink during play!! :oops:
 
Bam! Finally got a socket on my amulet! Holy shit...finding the topas took forever...

Finished Grift 31 so fast that I got a lvl 33 stone...I am still not sure which legendary gem is the best for my amulet. Pain Enhancer atm.

I tried out this gem which boosts your damage when you kill an elite...but this seems to be inconsistent somehow, because when I finish a blue pack, it doesn't trigger the effect? Is this a bug? I always thought that blue pack counts as elite. Anyone knows when this effect is triggered?


I also found a stone of jordan ring...but it doesn't seem so strong!
 
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I am further fine tuning my WD. I can finish Grift 32 and even get a lvl 35 stone.

Still experimenting with the legendary gems. My choice atm:

1.) jewel of toxin
2.) pain enhancer
3.) wreath

Any idea which is the best legendary gem for WD at Grift 30+
 
Holy moly!!! I finally got the starmetal kukri for my wd...took forever!!

Now I have to rebuild my wd...bbv needs to be in if course...but I am still between tikiland or grin reaper mask...

I can basically spam bbv with slam dance...finished a lvl 33 Grift in time.
 
Ok, I completely rebuild my WD now and at the end I was surprised that I converged to a classic pet doctor:

SMK + MOJ+TMF+T&T+Uhkapian Serpent.

But I do use 3 pieces of Aughil and 4 pieces of Blackthorne to get both full set bonuses....especially BT 4 set bonus makes you imune against ground attacks.

I use Compass Rose instead of SOJ...it just seems stronger.

Pain Enhancer, Poison Jewelery and especially Wreath of Lighting.

With this setup, I can finish Grift 36 reasonable and have a shiny lvl 37 Grift stone...which is next :)

My gear is imo quite good, but I need a better Blackthorne amulet, this is a bit weak. Also my serpent could be better and my Blackthorne boots.

Other than that, I guess there is not much improvement now. I wonder what is the highest Grift level a wd pet doctor can reach?
 
My season WD hit 70 on the weekend and I'm still half rare items and can do T3. WD are ridiculous.
 
Malo said:
My season WD hit 70 on the weekend and I'm still half rare items and can do T3. WD are ridiculous.
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Yeah, and it is for me the class that is most fun to play! I also like the diversity it offers: Jade built (although super boring to play imo), Grin Reaper build (I like it a lot), Pet Doctor (also fun) and Tikiland lock down doctor (also quite fun and apparently the strongest build available), or mixtures of those.

I just wonder if there is a high Grift level built that uses Mana? I tried to build set ups with high mana use, but it seems that the damage of the high mana resources is just to low to compete in higher Grifts. T6 is easy though and there are a ton of ways to play the WD.
 
My current WD build uses mana through spamming Zombie Charger (bears usually) whilst raining down frogs, laying down piranhas and having a billion minions. I got the Grin Reaper at 61 and still using it of course as it has great stats and having the triple casting is just crazy, especially with the vortex piranhas.
 
Yeah! Finished a Grift lvl 37 in time!

@Malo: yeah, the Grin Reaper is super strong, especially with spiderqueen. But for me, Grift lvl 30 was the maximum with this build.
 
Finally leveled up my Gem of Ease to 25, stuck it in a leggy polearm I had in my stash and put it in the hands of my level 1 barb that has been sitting around on my character selection screen for a long time, waiting for this moment. Wish I'd had a mighty weapon to put the gem in (passive that gives rage for every hit is awesome for whirlwinding lots and lots!), but alas. They don't seem to drop for other character classes, so I'll have to wait. Hm. Maybe I have a recipe to craft one? *shrug* I probably wouldn't get a good randomization anyway! :p

I'm still not getting anywhere with any of my characters by the way. It seems the only way to truly proceed past say rift 25 reliably without dying repeatedly against certain combinations of boss pack affixes (like jailer/frozen/desecrator/poison for example) is by picking one of the OP cookie cutter skill builds based around certain item sets - except I don't have any of those item sets!

My witch doctor, which currently is my best character, has like four pieces of zunimassa set for example, but for starters I don't really know if that set is any damn good or not in the first place, second, one of those four pieces is the hat, so to even use the set I'd have to remove my leggy hat that buffs my minions' damage by 85%. Third, four pieces isn't enough to activate the final set bonus even with the stupid RROG equipped!

So I'm fucked. :-? It's really slow and gruelling leveling up gems past 20 when you get 1 or 2-shotted by some elite abilities in a level 29 grift. I can do it of course, it's just a matter of grinding it out, but it's super bad for my temper; I sit here yelling and screaming at my PC screen like a madman, and then I start hating the game. :(
 
Are you on EU? I could run some higher grifts with you to farm up some set items and level your gems. Set items are essential to progress at the point you're at now. I'm a little surprised you've gotten this far without them.

I don't know the intricacies of WD, but I do know that the Zunimassa's set is used at a high level.
 
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I'm a little surprised you've gotten this far without them.
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Heh, I do have Marauder equipped on my Demon Hunter, a nice ancient hand crossbow with monster DPS on him as well and the backpack quiver, so he kicks pretty big booty, however he has almost no toughness at all comparatively speaking (like, 2.5M?), so anything above tier 3-equivalent monsters hitting him and he collapses like a house of cards... Glass cannon in a nutshell! :LOL:

And yes, I'm on EU... Gametag:
Hexatomon#1809
 
I haven't played for a while, but Zuni is good for WD (my WD has 5pcs Zuni + 2pcs Aughilds with RoRG, cleared GR40 solo). If you don't have Aughilds you should craft some. However, over GR40 I think Carnevil + Dagger of darts seems to be more effective.
 
pcchen said:
I haven't played for a while, but Zuni is good for WD (my WD has 5pcs Zuni + 2pcs Aughilds with RoRG, cleared GR40 solo). If you don't have Aughilds you should craft some. However, over GR40 I think Carnevil + Dagger of darts seems to be more effective.
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Can you link your Zuni setup? I think I have a decent setup bit find it hard to push to GR40.
 
Malo said:
Can you link your Zuni setup? I think I have a decent setup bit find it hard to push to GR40.
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GR40! I haven't played in ages but the best Nick (who's demon hunter is insane) and I could do was ~30. I can't imagine going ten levels past that!
 
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