I know it's very early in the season to have an opinion about a certain class, but I'm VERY happy with WDs right now. Just hit Paragon 100 and I'm doing T6. Yeah I know is nothing special since there's paragon 600+ already, but I had a late start and looting everything takes time with 4 accounts
For the first time in ... AGES?? I feel good about playing WDs. It feels like the right way of playing the class, not just pets doing everything or support only BS. It's a nice mix of pets, CC and damage done by your own skills. Pretty nice. I haven't finished a single set yet, just using 2 piece Helltooth + 2 piece Arachyr's + The Grin Reaper voodoo mask. The mimics do a TON of damage and CC a lot too. For the first time I can stop and loot not caring if I cleared the room. The mimics will keep fighting and kill stuff while I stop and loot on all 4 chars. Amazing!
Usiing very few Fetishes. 8 Fetish Army from 1 char and 15 more from another char from the Belt of Transcendence. 4 dogs from 1 char and 6 gargs from 2 chars using The Short Man's Finger ring. That's about it for pets and feels very good in terms of damage, tanking and specially FPS. Patch 2.3 + Windows 10 has done wonders for my FPS. I was concerned about this since I was gonna play WDs but so far its WAY WAY better than 2.2 + Windows 7. No lags, no dsync issues, nothing. It's very smooth.
Using Haunt as primary and Acid Cloud as main attack. Only have 2 Suwong Diviners, non ancient, but still doing very good damage. Round Robin for 3 Piranhas Piranhado + 1 Hex pretty much takes care of all the CC needs I have since Mimics casts these too so I can clear stuff fairly comfortable from range. My last WD uses de Cold Haunt + Ice Blink with a Wormwood with Pestilence rune + Bad Medicine passive which has the whole screen slowed. And on top of that, 3 BBV in round robin + Grave Injustice gives me perma BBV for every elite pack and boss in find (looking for SMKs).
Too soon to push GRs since I haven't completed a single set, but I'm feeling good about the class. Heard some bad stuff about Helltooth lagging pretty bad, hope that's not the case cause I'm aiming for Helltooth caster build. We will see.
PS: Something I didn't know was that Piranhado CCs even shielded elites and it's for quite a while. By the time the CC is off, the shield is off too.
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