Just won a wd tournament against some with upwards of 1m ehp, so its very possible if you play right to still dominate with high dmg.


It's more about using your spirit walk cooldowns at correct times as sad as that is, because pvp is broken.


1 bat is vessel'd, 1 haunt is vessel'd, so land either of the 2 two times and the duel is pretty much over.


If you have high ehp, you can stay more offensive, if you have low you need to start heavy and kite while cooldowns are down.

This post was edited by ]GS[ Controller on Apr 19 2013 07:20am

Sold my wd for $175

After some testing, holy shit, they buffed cloud of bats hard.. this thing actually does 1000% weapon damage when charged (500% and 100% bonus after 5s). Damage is ridiculous.
Don't bother with mana reduction gear, it isn't really needed/worth it.

Here example of random mp10 ghom run (same hp as azmodan) killed in.. 14 seconds.



With this skill, wd can beat barb in azmodan mp10 challange, just some more luck with 5 stacks of gruesome feast, better gear, easily doable under 10s. With pierce the veil you can hit 10 MILLION crits

vota:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSe3wECWoWk

This post was edited by ae1337 on Apr 19 2013 10:19am

Is that skill going to be good skill for main pvm build? instead of bears? I didn't play much of my WD yet, but getting a little bored with the bear build.

I'll probably play more WD from the next patch.

This post was edited by jinshin85 on Apr 19 2013 11:08am

hehe i just recorded one too lol, didnt really try my luck with globe spawns but here it is


same time 14 seconds flat.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv6vWlFYy4A


been testing the bats in mp10 for the past 20 hours on stream though XD

about to keel over at this point.

but still lovin it

This post was edited by ]GS[ Controller on Apr 19 2013 11:14am

This

Did a lot of testing and it comes down to this.


For a still target (either a elite not champ, or a set frozen by cm) it is great, but you cannot move. Using plague of bats is also an option with more range andaimability. However for efficient farming you are going to still need bears.

Reason being, the initial cost is 220 mana so even after blood rit reduction its too much to studder step with, your mana is gone quickly.


For essence farming, its unbeatable though, so im praying they don't nerf it :S

This post was edited by ]GS[ Controller on Apr 19 2013 11:19am

looks good not ever one was 200+ k dps , i have done some testing with cloud of bats on the PTR , the problem with this skill you have to very close , the life return proc cofficientys is good @ 25% better than bears 11%,
you can still run into mana problems, if the pack is spread out,and the larger initial cost of 220 can be a problem,since the range is very small so skorm/spear-mace if one hand. I still had to use vq , with" rool the bones"-fire bomb skill since it has the
highest proc rate of that skill of 22%. like you said this a OP skill for single targ , but can have its down side vs packs that are spread out- MANA WIZE

so my skills are and tested @ mp 8 and face rooled mp-5

left firebats/cloud of bats
right fire bomb/roll the bones
bbv/slam dance
spirit walk/mana rune
soul harvest/languish
gar/resless giant

passives

grave injustice
vq
grue feast

@ 150 k dps 90 k hp /skorn 5 ll/ 750 unbuffed res all

edit* also used the templar for the 4 extra mana regen and -8 reuce bats soj

This post was edited by jaydo111 on Apr 19 2013 11:24am

There we go, wasnt letting me post the link :S

Did you use pierce the veil?
There are some tricks you can do to get better score though.
It is better to blow up dogs before even touching boss, so you dont start timer untiil you're fully buffed. And then cast voodoo, remove bow from merc, so first damage tick will be with cob already.
Also if you don't get 5 stacks of GF after 2 sacrifices, restart, cause it is already ruined
From what i heard, channeled skills share "snapshot" mechanics, so if you start channeling with 5 stacks of gruesome feast, you gonna keep that bonus, infinitely, untill you stop channeling (even if buff icon expires).

This post was edited by ae1337 on Apr 19 2013 11:45am