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I am not sure what I am going to roll when I get to play with.
 

Raven

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I might do down the line but I generally play archers, tanks or healers.

Maybe a change is in order!
 

Mabs

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got mine to 13 so far, loving it, very varied style

most important thing for me, having played necro + druid in D2 is ALL the pets do a % of your weapon damage rather than a fixed amount, so they scale well

plus summing a zombie that charges down a hallway never gets old :D
 

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Can you do corpse explosion though? It is a must!
 

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Can you do corpse explosion though? It is a must!

Can do Sacrifice! send your pet dogs in and watch them go boom when you press the detonator!
 

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Got my Gargantuan he's awesome add the 3 dogs, queen spider and companion and i have my own army!
 

Mabs

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i just got the lvl 20 pet, the "perma" tank pet, Behemoth

is very nice, and takes a lot of the aggro, and can soak a lot, helps loads
 

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Loving mine, but I'm struggling to find uses for some of the Primary attacks where the original Poison Dart attack (with the Splinters rune) seems to beat the altogether much cooler Spiders and Toads attacks. Secondary I'm a big fan of the Dire Bats and then it's Rabid Zombie Dogs, Sacrifice and Zombie Charger.

I guess as I get further into the game and unlock more runes (and need more tactics for fights) I'll find uses for the other stuff!
 

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Pretty much what i'm experiencing there isn't a whole lot of use for the other primary skills when Posion Dart is just brilliant.

Also i've tried things other then the Dire Bats but after around 5mins i go back to the Bats because they are great.
 

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currently using :
Dogs + rabid upgrade
AOE confuse
Poison cloud
Gargantuan + Cleave upgrade
burning skull
swarm of locusts

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oh and the Templar with the heal + regen buffs <3
and "you + pets -20% damage taken" and "+20% mana + 1% mana regen"
 

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the pets do a % of your weapon damage rather than a fixed amount

Didn't know that was the case. Interesting.

Can you not also melee? I got me a nice big knife but end up spamming spiders and bats whilst occasionally detonating my dogs for teh fun big explosion action, but I'd like the option to actually USE my weapon :)


Posion Dart is just brilliant

Really? But but but my pets???!!!
 

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Yeah I'm running darts w/ splinters, fire bats w/ dire bat rune ( in combination with soul harvest....zomfg the damage )
zombie dogs, soul harvest w/ lifetap, grasp of the dead and gargantuan.
 

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I'm loving my wd and poisoned splinter darts are awesome, the other primary options I don't like as much.
 

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currently using :
Dogs + rabid upgrade
AOE confuse
Poison cloud
Gargantuan + Cleave upgrade
burning skull
swarm of locusts

/edit
oh and the Templar with the heal + regen buffs <3
and "you + pets -20% damage taken" and "+20% mana + 1% mana regen"

+ poisoned enemies deal 20% less damage = win....

Started having issues after clearing normal with mine though. My AE setup seems to be having random issues for no apparent reasons on trash zergs... Might actually have to start using that templar again. Ditched him after getting the enchantress...
 

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You should definitely be using the templar, I'm now on inferno w/ WD.

I used the 300% mana regen passive in nightmare and used spirit walk ( heal rune or mana rune ), soul harvest ( heal rune ), big bad voodoo, fetish army, gargantuan and acid cloud+acid rain for most of nightmare - hell difficulty i ran pretty much the same but swapped acid cloud back to fire bats w/ dire bats because the damage is so high.
 

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I found Fetish Army had an annoyingly long CD :(
 

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I'm having real issues with Direbats, yes it deals good damage but fuck me it's mana cost is high... I'm running with almost nothing but int gear and still can't use that skill all that much. And certainly not that plus something else that is mana costly. Even with mana regen passives/runes i destroy my own effectiveness if i use it...

Fetish army is dodgy to say the least, it only does 20% of your weapon damage. So i'm not all that sure it's effective enough to use...
 

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lvl 20 wd now and still liking the class

there was a certain cannibal i had an issue with and had to mess around with me specs to get it down other than that fine :)
 

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Mana spiders for the regen.
locust swarm (2 affected instead of 1 rune).
Gargantuan with cleave.
Snare pit thing with the 20% extra snare rune
pbaoe heal with int buff
Exploding bears

Before the bears I used spirit barrage with phantasm...the ground target aoe for 5 seconds

Passives are 20% extra mana, jungle fortitude and I think the one which uses 15% life instead of mana. You never notice the health loss as its regenerating so quick.

Pretty much raping on nightmare with that. Also use the reduction to level stat on auction house weapons for extra POW!

I have mediocre armour but a nice weapon. At 43 I have 1960 damage
 

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I found Fetish Army had an annoyingly long CD :(
I'm having real issues with Direbats, yes it deals good damage but fuck me it's mana cost is high... I'm running with almost nothing but int gear and still can't use that skill all that much. And certainly not that plus something else that is mana costly. Even with mana regen passives/runes i destroy my own effectiveness if i use it...

Fetish army is dodgy to say the least, it only does 20% of your weapon damage. So i'm not all that sure it's effective enough to use...


The reason you use fetish/Bigbadvoodoo/gargantuan is not really for their own sake it's so you can have 4 spells on CD as soon as you use spirit walk or soul harvest and get the sick mana regen going - passives are important as well.
You can literally 1-2 shot entire packs with firebats w/ dire bats, the DPS output is absolutely sick.

For some boss fights later zombie bears do higher damage than firebats you still have to spam them to a high degree for that to work and they have a really limited range in comparison.

I can only imagine how slow some people are going with some of the builds here :p
 

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The reason you use fetish/Bigbadvoodoo/gargantuan is not really for their own sake it's so you can have 4 spells on CD as soon as you use spirit walk or soul harvest and get the sick mana regen going - passives are important as well.
You can literally 1-2 shot entire packs with firebats w/ dire bats, the DPS output is absolutely sick.

For some boss fights later zombie bears do higher damage than firebats you still have to spam them to a high degree for that to work and they have a really limited range in comparison.

I can only imagine how slow some people are going with some of the builds here :p

Tried your spec and it's awesome hehe. Using the bat's over the bears and they're better.
Just got into Hell and I'm raping the mobs lol
 

Moriath

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will try that on my wd when i get to knightmare and get all the skills i need :)
 

ECA

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Tried your spec and it's awesome hehe. Using the bat's over the bears and they're better.
Just got into Hell and I'm raping the mobs lol


Yeah I found Hell very easy with the exception of Rakanoth ( had to go buy some more vit gear ) and some silly combinations of blue mobs.
 

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