Quote (gmLNyx @ May 20 2012 07:27am)
Hello hello!
I've had several request to reveal my gamestyle together with my talents.
First of all, WD is supposed to be a burst and a CC class. However, it can be played by a lot of other playstyles, but the efficiency will be worse compared to the other classes.
I'll represent my talents whereafter I reveal how you play it and survive:
Talents:
Primary spell:
Zombie charger - Zombie bears -> This will be your main damage
CC(Crowd Control:
Grasp of the dead - Unbreakable Grasp
Hex - Hedge magic(Life) or Jinx (20% more dmg to the hex)
Mana regain:
Spirit walk - Honored Guest(Mana rune)
Soul Harvest - Swallow your soul(Mana rune)
Optional:
Big Bad Voodoo - Rain Dance(Mana) or Slam Dance(30% dmg)
Passives:
Spirit Vessel
Vision Quest!
Grave Injustice(optional)
How to play it:
The essence in this spec lies within Vision Quest, whenever 4 or more spells are on cooldown, you'll regain 300% mana which means that the expensive spell, Zombie charger, can be used at almost all times.
It is important that you keep the 4 or more on cooldown, so you'll sometimes have to waste Big Bad Voodoo on trash/white even though it seems useless, but your damage will be dominating compared to the others!
It is also important that you use Spirit walk to run into groups of 4+ to gain the buff which gives you more int. This will make the damage of zombie charger incridably insane!
When a large group of packs are dying, you'll reduce the cooldown of all your spells, which means that you can keep Spirit walk up. Spirit walk gives a lot of mana and should be used as soon as it is off cd. Except if you are on a fight where you have to use spirit walk to avoid several abilities.
When Big Bad Voodoo is activated, you can spam your zombie bears, this will clear up your path really quickly, so you want to stay as far ahead as possible. This is where Spirit walk come handy!, use it wisely.
Survival:
When you are using the zombie bears, make sure to keep the Grasp ahead of you, so they wont reach you in time, if they should, you'll have Spirit Vessel to protect you. Make sure not to overextend the next 90 secs if this activates.
If you have survival problems, change the Big Bad Voodoo for fear or mass confusion depending on your preferances. But if this is played correctly, you shouldn't have any problems.
When creeps has vortex, you can simply Spirit walk away if it's on cooldown or prepare to use hex.
Survial is a big deal because this spec needs you to hang in low range. But no worries! your enemies will Perish!
I've soloed act 1 and 2 inferno boss already, and haven't tried further. If you are soloing as this, you'll be running into packs with spirit walk -> soul harvest -> grasp -> move a bit back and then spam the bears. Even rare and blue packs will lose half their life doing this process.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in this topic.
-Nyx
I've been using explosive bears/zombie bears + vision quest for the last couple days and it's far and away the highest damage output build for witch doctor. Spirit walk with mana rune is incredible imo.
when im in a group I play around with a more supportive/cc role with grasp of death and acid cloud + bad medicine (I'm a huge fan of bad medicine)
my current build with zombie bears is the following.
passivesVision quest (this is an insane passive btw. anyone who hasnt tried it really should)
bad medicine (bears do poison and so do my dogs. this is optional)
blood ritual (really helps with the mana.)
Left click = zombie bears
right click = spirit walk with mana rune
Q = Wall of zombies with additional slow rune (basically your grasp with a longer cooldown and more damage + ability to block choke points)
W = Fetish army with reduced cooldown rune
E = Zombie dogs with poison rune
R = Gargantuan with whatever rune you prefer
summon all your shit and lay down your wall. spam zombie bears at the mob while they stand still and hit your summons.
I can not wait to have enough mana regen gear to use pierce the veil + vision quest + zombie bears.
This post was edited by ROFLmanMAN on May 21 2012 05:25am