Diablo 3 Area Dmg
What are the best Diablo 3 builds? I’ve been playing a lot of Diablo since Reaper of Souls released back in March. Having accumulated many shiny legendaries since then, I’ve put together my favourite builds for each of the six classes in Sanctuary. They’re all certified for the hardest difficulties Diablo has to offer and will work in both standard and hardcore.
1% attack speed increases pet damage with 1%; Crit does not affect pet damage; Pet damage is mostly crit damage (may only apply on the big dog from Tall man's finger) There's the obvious direct effect's that state pets in their text, so obviously they work with pets. But can someone give clarity about exactly what stats on the hero increase pet. This area damage doesn't itself crit, but if your initial hit that caused area damage was a crit, then the area damage will crit (without the yellow numbers). You can increase this area damage by x% amount with paragon levels and stats on items. The chance to cause area damage stays at the base flat rate of 20% and cannot be changed.
- HotA Raekor Barbarian Build Diablo 3 Patch 2.6.4. Diablo 3's Patch 2.6.4 brought significant changes to Raekor's Set bonus damage which now increases the damage of Fury spenders by up to an astounding 27500%!
- If you look on Reddit many people have tried this and from my own experience playing a WD i can concur with the following information. Al tho from one patch to another they change how pets behave interact with sets and set bonuses, this is a pretty accurate indication as to what stats actually affect your pets beside the legendary affixes and set bonuses/buffs.
- Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls Crusader Holy Damage Skycutter Build. After a long time of Barbarian play, I would like to use this skill as Hammer of the Ancients. Now AOE damage skills Fist of the Heavens: cost 30 Wrath 'Call a lightning bolt down from the sky, dealing 440% weapon damage to any enemy within 20 yards.
Each Diablo build has a link to their skill calculator in the build name, as well as links to any key legendary items. All you need to do is go find them, which is the easy part… right?
Crusader
This build is reminiscent to playing a pinball machine. It relies heavily on two key legendary items: Gyrfalcon’s Foote and the Jekangbord. The former is a flail that removes the resource cost of Blessed Shield – the primary damage dealer in this build – allowing infinite use. The latter is a shield that allows Blessed Shield to ricochet to 4-6 additional enemies. Combined, they will obliterate groups of enemies with an endless torrent of shields to the face.
You have a bit of freedom with the rest of your items to tailor to your style of play. The only suggestion is that you stack Holy Damage as well as % Blessed Shield Damage. Your skills all complement controlling and weakening clusters of enemies. Shield Glare and Judgement provide a pretty chunky source of extra damage. Phalanx with the Bowmen rune is for your one weakness: single target damage. With no other enemies around to trigger your bounces, your single target dps pales in comparison.
As for your passives, we want to increase your block chance due to the damage scaling from Blessed Shield. Hold Your Ground and Towering Shield fulfill that quite nicely. Fervor and Finery are just flat dps increases, enough said.
Here’s a great demonstration of the build in action:
Wizard
This is actually a work in progress build that relies on some of the rarest legendaries in Diablo III. Rimeheart is a legendary sword that gives you a “10% chance to instantly deal 10,000% weapon damage to frozen enemies”. While it doesn’t sound that impressive on paper, you just need to increase your chance to freeze enemies. Winter Flurry, The Magistrate and the most important item, Frostburn’s all increase your instances and chances of freezing your enemies.
Unfortunately Winter Flurry, Rimeheart and Frostburn’s are among the hardest to find legendaries in the game.
Once you do get all the required items however, it will work a treat. Ray of Frost with the Sleet Storm rune and Ice Armor with Chilling Aura will give you a huge AoE coverage. For huge clusters of enemies you can pop your Blizzard for a guaranteed freeze on hit. Your Hydra will be spitting out cold damage while also periodically casting it’s own Frost Nova, which in tandem with your own and that coming from your Winter Flurry, should keep your foes locked in place.
Although it doesn’t go with the theme of the build, don’t forget about your Electrocute / Arcane Dynamo interaction. Use Electrocute to quickly refill your Arcane Power, and also get your Arcane Dynamo buff to five stacks. After when you cast your Ray of Frost, its damage will be increased by a whopping 60% of the entire channeled duration.
Good luck getting the items though: I’ve yet to see a pair of Frostburn’s in over 300 hours of play since Reaper of Souls launched.
Demon Hunter
This is the build I used back in the Reaper of Souls beta and I’ve been dying to recreate it in the live game. The new Marauder set enables you to have every single Companion animal out at once, and also allows your Sentries to fire your Hatred spenders.
You’ll only need five pieces of the set, as we’re going to be using the Royal Ring of Grandeur to allow us to equip Tasker and Theo’s while still retaining the six piece set bonus. The 50% pet attack speed affects both your Companions and Sentries, so it’s a pretty no brainer. Although some of the damage is fire due to rockets, this is primarily a cold build.
Where it gets a little blurred is the rocket damage. The rockets from your Cluster Arrow and Elemental Arrow will deal cold damage. However the rockets from the Ballistics passive as well as the rockets for Multishot will deal fire. Since Ballistics doubles your rocket damage, this turns the three rockets from Maelstrom into 900% weapon damage, which is huge. When you’ve got seven Sentries all spamming this skill, the damage quickly adds up.
Other notable items include Calamity, Helltrapper, Etrayu, Bombardier’s Rucksack and Countess Julia’s Cameo. Calamity will apply the Mark of Death ability to anything you or your pets hit for an easy 20% damage increase. Helltrapper has a 10% chance to spawn an extra Sentry, up to a maximum of two, which is pretty easy to achieve. Bombardier’s Rucksack adds another two Sentries to your maximum, but you should switch it to another hand crossbow once the two are out on the field. If you’d rather have a two-handed bow, Etrayu is the best one for it’s innate cold damage amplification. Finally Countess Julia’s Cameo gives you much needed Arcane immunity to keep your squishy Demon Hunter safe from elite mobs with Jailer – which is unavoidable damage and prone to oneshotting you on Torment VI+.
Barbarian
If you’re the sort of type that likes to jump around the battlefield while crushing your enemies under your mighty boot, this is the build for you. It’s another build that relies on another set bonus, this time from Might of the Earth: a set that augments the Earthquake ability. Firstly it reduces the cooldown of Earthquake by two seconds for enemy it kills, and it also causes Earthquake to automatically cast when you land using Leap.
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Leap is another integral part when you throw the legendary boots Lut Socks into the mix. When casting Leap, Lut Socks give you a two second window to cast Leap again for free before the cooldown begins. You can usually get between two or three Leaps off during this window, which when combined with the aforementioned set can easily flood the screen with Earthquakes.
To maximise this builds potential, we need to stack Cooldown Reduction to a minimum of 40% to put Leap on a six second cooldown, down from ten. More Leaps equals more Earthquakes which equals more damage. Fury generation isn’t a problem thanks to the Earthen Might passive which grants you 30 Fury upon every Earthquake activation. The rest of your items, skills and passives can be moulded to your personal playstyle, but I would emphasis on taking plenty of defensive abilities. You’re going to be in the thick of things quite often, but that’s where a Barbarian feels most at home.
Here’s a video of the build doing a Torment VI Rift in only eight minutes:
Witch Doctor
Most players peg the Witch Doctor as a pet class, but they’re all very wrong. Damage over Time effects – otherwise known as DoTs – are another weapon in the Witch Doctor’s arsenal. Thanks to a new passive introduced in Reaper of Souls, Creeping Death, some of those effects can last for five minutes.
“OK that’s good and all, but that doesn’t kill things any faster”, I hear you saying. Well with the Jade Harvester’s set bonus, your Soul Harvest ability consumes the entire duration of your DoTs and deals their remaining damage instantly. Naturally, the amount of damage is more than capable of insta-gibbing your unlucky foes, even of the hardest of difficulties.
Now you’ll need a few more key items to make this more effective. Quetzalcoatl is a legendary voodoo mask that enables Locust Swarm and Haunt – the two primary DoTs you’ll be using – to deal their damage in half the duration, doubling their damage output. You’ll also want a Harrington Waistguard: a belt that increases your damage by 100%-135% upon opening a chest for ten seconds. It should be noted that this effect works on not only chests, but many other interactable objects such as weapon/armour racks and dead bodies.
To set up the combo, you’ll want to find yourself a nice pack of mobs. Drop your Piranhas for the crowd control and damage amplification, followed by your Locust Swarm and Haunt. Once they’re both ticking away, run into the middle of the pack and use Soul Harvest to consume the DoTs and deal massive damage. Rinse and repeat until everything is dead.
Monk
This build is more of a support build, but it’s also every groups best friend. Crowd control is a very powerful asset in high difficulties, as it keeps the bad guys stunned and clumped together, making them easier to dispatch. Using both Cyclone Strike and Exploding Palm, this build can provide that crowd control while also dealing considerable damage for such a defensive build.
The good news is, this build doesn’t require any must-have items to make it work. Just by following the skill build above and having defensive itemisation, you can fulfill this role perfectly. There are however some items that will increase your effectiveness and buff your allies considerably.
The First of Az’Thurrasq increases your Exploding Palm’s on-death explosion to 75%-100% of the enemies maximum life. Since you’re enemies will be clumped together thanks to Cyclone Strike, this will most likely one-shot everything in the area of effect, especially on higher difficulties where the enemies health is in the millions. The set bonus from Inna’s Vast Expanse will also allow you to equip all four of your Mantra buffs at all times, which extend to your nearby allies.
Focusing on defensive stats as well as spirit generation is the key to this build. You need to be able to take/dodge a lot of punishment, and also maintain multiple applications of Exploding Palm which is your primary source of damage. Aim for around 20 million toughness total, but don’t be afraid to stack more.
These are my favourite builds, but what are yours? Share yours in the comments section below.
Helltooth Gargantuan is the strongest Pet build in Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls. This build may feel a little bit slow - it has nearly no area damage, Witch Doctor has one of the worst movement skill (Spirit Walk without high cooldown reduction is just bad compared to other classes) and sometimes Gargantuan are slow getting close to the target and require to be resummoned. However, Gargantuan's single-target DPS and the pace at which they finish off bosses and hard Elites should compensate for the lack of mobility
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Table of contents
- General information
- Recommended items
- Recommended skills
General information
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The entire build is based on the Helltooth Harness set which provides the following bonuses:
- Enemies hit by Primary skills, Acid Cloud, Firebats, Zombie Charger, Zombie Dogs, Gargantuan, Grasp of the Dead, Piranhas, or Wall of Death are afflicted by Necrosis, becoming Slowed by 60% and taking 1500% damage per tick for 10 seconds (2/6)
- After applying Necrosis to an enemy, the Witch Doctor takes 60% reduced damage for 10 seconds (4/6)
- After casting Wall of Death, gain 4400% increased damage for 15 seconds to all primary skills, Acid Cloud, Firebats, Zombie Charger, Zombie Dogs, Gargantuan, Grasp of the Dead, Piranhas, and Wall of Death (6/6)
Helltooth Gargantuan build is easy to play. Your pets do the job, while all you have to do is cast buffs and defensive spells, and recast Wall of Death once in a while to keep the Helltooth's 6 part bonus up. The tricky part is staying close to monsters, so that you can get all 10 stacks of Soul Harvest and keep them up at all times, and at the same time you have to position yourself in a way that allows you to remain stationary - when not moving the damage buff from the Endless Walk set can reach its' peak.
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Recommended items
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| Head - Helltooth Mask Stat priorities: 1) Critical Hit Chance 2) Socket 3) Intelligence 4) Vitality 5) Secondary res. Socket: Can be replaced with Mask of Jeram, and then Tasker and Theo have to be cubed, while you need to wear Helltooth Gauntlets as the 5th part of your set | |
| Chest - Helltooth Tunic Stat priorities: 1) Intelligence 2) Vitality 3) Increased Gargantuan damage 4) Secondary Res. Sockets: | |
Pants -Helltooth Leg Guards | |
| Gloves- Tasker and Theo Stat priorities: 1) Critical Hit Chance 2) Critical Hit Damage 3) Attack Speed 4) Intelligence 5) Secondary res. Special power: Increase attack speed of your pets by 40–50% Can be replaced with Helltooth Gauntlets, and then Tasker and Theo have to be cubed, while you need to wear Mask of Jeram instead of Helltooth Mask | |
| Boots - Helltooth Greaves Stat priorities: 1) Intelligence 2) Vitality 3) Armor 4) All Elemental Resistances | |
Pauldrons- Rathma's Spikes | |
| Bracers - Lakumba's Ornament Stat priorities: 1) Critical Hit Chance 2) Cold damage% 3) Intelligence 4) Vitality 5) Secondary res. Special power: Reduces all damage taken by 6% for each stack of Soul Harvest | |
| Amulet - Traveller's Pledge Stat priorities: 1) Socket 2) Critical Hit Damage 3) Critical Hit Chance 4) Cold damage% 5) Intelligence (Part of the Endless Walk set) Set bonuses:
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| Ring - Compass Rose Stat priorities: 1) Socket 2) Critical Hit Chance 3) Critical Hit Damage 4) Attack Speed 5) Intelligence 6) Vitality (Part of the Endless Walk set) | |
Ring - The Short Man's Finger | |
| Belt - The Witching Hour Stat priorities: 1) Intelligence 2) Vitality 3) Critical Hit Damage 4) Attack Speed 5) Secondary res. | |
| Weapon - Sacred Harvester Stat priorities: 1) Socket 2) High average damage 3) Damage% 4) Attack Speed 5) Intelligence Sockets: Special power: Soul Harvest now stacks up to 10 times | |
| Off-hand - Uhkapian Serpent 1) Critical Hit Chance 2) High average damage 3) Increased Gargantuan damage 4) Intelligence 5) Chance to deal area damage Special power: 25–30% of the damage you take is redirected to your Zombie Dogs | |
| Kanai Cube powers | |
| The Furnace Increases damage against elites by 40–50% | |
| (either of the two)Tasker and Theo Increase attack speed of your pets by 40–50% | |
| (either of the two)Mask of Jeram Pets deal 150-200% more damage | |
| Ring of Royal Grandeur Reduces the number of items needed for set bonuses by 1 (to a minimum of 2) | |
| Legendary Gems | |
Bane of the Trapped
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Bane of the Powerful
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Enforcer
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Recommended skills
Diablo 3 Area Dmg Code
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| Piranhas Summons a pool of piranhas that deals 400% damage as Poison over 8 seconds. Affected enemies also take 15% increased damage Piranhado Decreases damage and duration 200% as Poison over 4 seconds, and increases the cooldown to 16 seconds. The pool becomes a tornado that pulls in enemies. This effect counts as Knockback Provides decent crow-control effect, and increases the damage enemies take from your pets by additional 15% | |
| Spirit Walk You leave your physical body and enter the spirit realm for 2 seconds. While in the spirit realm, your movement is unhindered, allowing to pass through enemies. Your movement speed is also increased by 50% while spirit walking Severance increases the movement speed bonus by additional +100% Your main mobility skill. It should be also used as a defensive mechanism to avoid death | |
| Soul Harvest Feed on the life force of up to 5 enemies within 18 yards. Gain 3% Intelligence for each affected enemy. This effect lasts 30 seconds Languish Slows the movement speed of harvested enemies by 80% and increases your Armor by 10% per stack for 5 seconds Core Witch Doctor skill for pretty much every build. Provides amazing defensive and damage reduction bonuses. Also gives a slight DPS boost | |
| Gargantuan Summon a Gargantuan zombie to fight for you. The Gargantuan attacks for 450% damage as Physical Frozen Lands Damage type changes to cold, and base damage increase to 585%. In addition, Gargantuan can now cleave (180 degrees arc AoE attack) The core DPS skill used in this build. All of the legendary and set items in this build are used to amplify Gargantuan insane damage | |
| Zombie Dogs Summon 3 Zombie Dogs to fight by your side. Each dog deals 120% weapon damage as Physical Leeching Beasts Zombie Dogs' attacks now benefit from Life on Hit, healing both the Witch Doctor and themselves Zombie Dogs are used as meatshields in this build. They mitigate a lot of incoming damage and grant decent Life regeneration through their Life on Hit bonus | |
| Wall of Death Raise a line of zombies 28 yards wide from the ground that attacks nearby enemies for 1200% damage as Physical over 6 seconds Communing with Spirits Changes damage type to Cold. Also slows and reduces the damage of all enemies within range Mandatory skill for this build. Without it, you will not gain the amazing damage bonuses provided by full Helltooth set bonus | |
| Passive Skills | |
| Spirit Vessel Whenever you would suffer fatal damage, you do not die, but instead, you enter the spirit realm for 2 seconds and are healed to 50% of maximum Life. Entering Spirit Realm has the same effect as Spirit Walk. This effect may occur once every 60 seconds and is unaffected by the cooldown reduction | |
| Midnight Feast Increases the maximum number of their Zombie Dogs by 1. In addition, all damage done by Zombie Dogs and the Gargantuan is increased by 50% | |
| Pierce the Veil All damage dealt is increased by 20%, but also increases Mana cost of spells by 30% | |
| Confidence Ritual Increases damage dealt by 25% to enemies within 20 yards | |
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We hope you will enjoy this build as much as we did. And see you soon in the world of Sanctuary.
If you have any ideas on how this build could be improved, or if you have suggestions for other Witch Doctor Guides we should make, please let us know in the comments below.
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