Try dire bats

You can try mass summon with acid rain + rain of toads.
It is very good for co op, if you have that wall of minions, 3 blobs, and fetishes, in 1.05 that skills is getting buffed too.
If mobs are blocked by your army, suddenly these skills deal a lot of damage, unlike trying to hit stuff with bears, if monsters run around all over the screen.
It works better vs high hp though, since if you overgear content, bears/acid cloud is just faster.

Id first upgrade your gems to at leats Star Topaz. Youll notice a jump in damage that way, and the gems can be taken out and set into any new armor you upgrade.
Do the same with your 70% emerald in your weapon. Get yourself an 100% its worth it, you can always put it in any new weapon you find.
Next upgrade your crit ring to a 4.5% crit, and crit damage (20%+) That and your weapon gem will be a minimum 50% crit dmg boost.

Otherwise keep farming and upgrading your regular gear, look into a cheap zunimasa set, that will help you a bunch damage wise plus get you ready to farm in 1.05

a Question ive got is, How does Attack speed scale to Crit damage or crit chance, when it comes to your dps?

obligatory..

Who dies to reflect? get better gear then

98% of the witch doctors in this thread. I don't always die to them, i run and kite spiders until walk is up and then spam bears and hide in walk / vq walk.. but the only ones i actually die to always have reflect.

very true. I usually die to rd only when i don't have spirit walk up due to using it to get to next room faster =P with grave injustice it's pretty simple spam 2-3 seconds, find few more mobs and bam instant spirit walk again.

i was thinking which piece of zuni set should i swap out when 1.0.5 comes out? I won't need the 10 mana per kil AS much and 20mana per second if i can get way more stats by replacing one piece, just not sure which piece to replace. What do u guys think?

If you have crit helm, new patch will drop 6 crit chance helms.
mojo also will have possible better roll in 1.05 with 10 crit, damage is unchanged agaik.

As for reflect.. get better gear? The whole problem with this shit is, better gear you got, more it hurts.
If you rape yourself with war cry, 50% all resist bonus, i dont think getting few more pieces with all res will make any difference.. (if 50% bonus doesn't).
I tried adding some loh, and use acid cloud. Loh proc is huge, you don't lose hp to reflect while using it.
But there is one "little" problem. It takes forever to kill high hp pack using this skill.. compared to bears. You hit for 115% weapon damage + dot, that doesn't stack. Bears hit for 700%+..
A lot depends on how many bears hit, it is same as with archon wizard. If beam goes through 1 elite with reflect, you don't lose hp thanks to life steal and loh, 2 elites? you start losing quite fast, and 3 elites, you instagib youself in 1 second. If you drop acid clouds, and then hit with bears, still instaowned, because ticks from cloud dot do heal, quite nicely, but bears dop your whole hp in 1 second if you hit right, It is just different scale of damage.
Same with bears, if there is pack of, let's say phasebeast, and you just cast bears that all hit reflect = owned instantly ;/
And spirit walk is not enough, if you want cast bears for 2-3 seconds and wait rest for reset of cooldown, you could as well sit there and spam acid cloud, since you at least don't have to stop, damage would be similar, or even better than with bears. In both cases fight takes 10x longer than a non reflect pack.
And funny thing about it is, that with worse gear, less damage, when reflect wasnt a problem, there was no difference between reflect and non reflect in terms of killing speed.
Also tried rain of tods, even better loh, but it takes eternity to kill let's say 15m hp elite with it.
Voodoo with life regen?, with items regen at 5-6k/s, still nowhere near enough, just dead in 1s. If you die so quick to reflect, any form of slow regen, either if it is loh or life regen, doesn't solve the problem, because healing rate is much weaker than rate at which you are losing hp to reflect.
Any other ideas how to deal with reflect, without slowing your build >10x vs rest of elite fights?

This post was edited by ae1337 on Oct 9 2012 06:17am