Diablo III

Key Features

  • Pets

    Witch doctors are surrounded by hordes of things - mongrels, zombies, bats, fetishes, spiders and more. Many of these creatures stand beside their masters and fight until they are slain, serving as convenient targets in the meantime.
  • Destructive Magic

    Witch doctors command frightful magics that damage groups of enemies with clouds of acid, gouts of flame and swarms of locusts. They can even sacrifice the bodies of their pets to ravage their foes in a wave of bony shrapnel.
  • Curses and Hexes

    Weakening and slow-killing hexes can help soften and invalidate even the most terrible of the Burning Hells's minions. Witch doctors employ a number of these curses, including debilitating poisons and bolts of spirit energy that steal life and vitality.
  • Battlefield Control

    Those who battle witch doctors find their bodies and minds twisted, limiting their effectiveness in combat. The enemies of the Unformed Land are held in place by ghastly undead hands, transformed into chickens, and sent fleeing in fear or striking at their fellows in utter bewilderment.

Resource: Mana

Witch doctors’ inborn connection to the Unformed Land allows them to tap into a deep well of spiritual energy, called Mana.

Mana is a vast but slowly-regenerating resource; witch doctors must be choosy with their attack spells and hexes to ensure that they don’t leave themselves depleted of power and exposed to enemy attacks.

Since Mana returns ponderously, witch doctors conserve it by relying on semi-permanent additions to their arsenal, such as their summoned mongrels and the horrific gargantuan, which can offer protection and chew through enemies without any further mana cost.

Witch doctors have a sizeable reservoir of energy to call upon at once, and, when they need to, they can deploy immense blasts of destructive force and cut a swath across nearly any battleground in a short period of time.

Witch doctors are spiritual warriors who summon dead souls and crawling creatures to do their bidding. By surrounding themselves with conjured zombies and vermin, witch doctors are free to assault their enemies with exploding skulls, acrid poison clouds, and wasting curses.

The ability to infect, slow and terrify their enemies gives witch doctors unprecedented control over a battlefield. They can manipulate opposing attacks and movements with debuffs and crowd control spells, rendering enemies easy prey for hungry pets. Witch doctors can also lay down fields of fire and venom that slowly leech life from advancing foes.

Although some witch doctors avoid melee combat in favor of augmenting their pets and crippling their enemies from afar, they are also more than capable of slaying weakened foes with their own hands.

Background

“The spirits smile upon me.”

Only a select few men and women among the umbaru tribes can ascend to the hallowed role of witch doctor, for they must possess both a history of battle and a talent for communing with spirits. The latter ability belongs solely to those born with the touch of the Unformed Land – the invisible realm where the umbaru believe the spirits of the dead dwell once they have left Sanctuary behind.

When a man dies, witch doctors feel what they suspect is the breath of life leaving his cooling body. And, when calamity or genocide sends hundreds to their graves at once, witch doctors can sense their trembling and shrieking from beyond.

Witch doctors cannot cover their ears to the voices of the spirits. As the sounds of disquiet grow louder, their choice is made. They must restore the balance between their world and the Unformed Land, or watch the torment of generations past for the rest of their lives… and forever after.

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Equipment

Though witch doctors make use of a variety of weaponry, they boast several one-of-a-kind pieces of equipment. Mojos are fragile talismans held in the off-hand; instead of being used directly as weapons, they aid witch doctors in warding off the wrong dark forces…and calling out to the right ones. Witch doctors have also been known to carry enchanted ceremonial daggers. Unlike common knives, these blades are honed towards one purpose – human sacrifice – and so they are well-suited to ending lives.

Armor Progression

The paint covering novice witch doctors’ bodies almost serves as better protection than the fur and cloth they gird themselves with.
Experienced witch doctors are able to piece together superior defenses, augmenting their armor with fine metal plates and wicked-looking masks.
Well-girded witch doctors strike fear in the hearts of their foes with armor covered in ancient skulls, feathers and horns. They’re also hard to kill, thanks to sharp body plating and custom shoulder guards.
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PureCandy#2161
PureCandy
PureCandy
11 hours, 51 minutes ago
I love the witch doctors skills and how it works in general, but the fact that i want my character look good and sexy gets me thinking about choosing another class instead...
So sad, if the witch doctor would look at least half as sexy as the female demon hunter, i'd choose it without any doubts :'(
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Sangomas xD
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Witch Doctor needs less Necromancer hijacking for win.
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omg error 33
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yehh i m love error 33 love
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can any of I explain me what it is I should go after to get more mana for the da 't !@#$ mana and you could spend more one can explain a little about it?
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In my honest opinion i must say that i am truly disappointed at Blizzard for replacing the necromancer with this.... thing.... This is by far the most ugly chararcter i ever seen.
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My fukin WD can't hit with any two-handed weapon except the Poison Dart. Is there any keyboard trick or so that enables WB to hit enemy with swords, bows or axes? Sorry guys, I am just a noob scratching my way through D3.
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witch doctors can be crazy, but i love them a little. Without the woodo mask i dont like witch doctors
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i started a wd today . best class ever
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Raidden#2669
Raidden
Raidden
1 day, 6 hours ago
pls advice a good name for my new WD... :)
Something according to his story...
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It's seems that Witch Doctor need more EXP to level up than the other classes
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Robinson27#2890
Robinson27
Robinson27
1 day, 18 hours ago
vodoo,
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the witch doctor is amazing it is the best class
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Should I roll this?
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Roketfingaz#2919
Roketfingaz
Roketfingaz
3 days, 8 hours ago
day 3 of downloading the game... cant wait to play this char ¬¬
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Crucial
Dragonblight
Crucial
2 days, 15 hours ago
@Roketfingaz: what??? I used 15 minutes to download the game :P
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Celimbrimbor#2262
Celimbrimbor
Celimbrimbor
18 hours, 39 minutes ago
@Roketfingaz: Wow. Why even bother, are you on dialup or using your blackberry? Dude, get ADSL!
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@Crucial: :))
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Man im gonna play forever as Wicth Doctor...... :D
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Level 31 witch doctor here and loving every second of it. Hardcore gamers are using this as high damage dealers in inferno mode since you can heal allies, buff them, slow enemies... YOU NAME IT.
(by the way how can I change my display character name into my Diablo one for forums?)
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Valefor#2497
Valefor
Valefor
3 days, 14 hours ago
this class is awesome to play with my initial character i was going to choose was demon hunter, but this is my fav at the moment :D
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tried wizard in beta got bored so gonna play as this ^^
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QUESTIONMARK #961
QUESTIONMARK
3 days, 17 hours ago
what class u want me to play
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Blizz forgiving you i couldnt play because of full servers because of this char
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cant believe the dmg, I crit over 5k in level 40
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Celindia
Deathwing
Celindia
4 days, 1 hour ago
@Salamiak: what spells are you using?
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the onley thing i can say is that im in !@#$ing love ! -
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Mysterie
Burning Legion
Mysterie
4 days, 13 hours ago
OMG!!how cool is this char! glad i chose this 1 first,loving the game play,smooth like butter.love it!
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this is awesome. Just saying. :D
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bought it today and will start with this one first , seems awesome :D can't wait t'ill install is done :) see you all in game. gz
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Unipsycho#2610
Unipsycho
Unipsycho
4 days, 19 hours ago
that artwork has nothing to do with the actual saggy bewb ingame character. xD
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i have downloadet in 4 houres and it is still not ready yet :(
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2 Hours then install done any other download after btw?
Man this Witch doctor is facking cruel i was choosing the Baba actually, but hes friggin zombieGuy :D
See ya in game.
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Nightbring
Thunderhorn
Nightbring
5 days, 9 hours ago
necromancer+warlock=witch doctor?
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@Nightbring: my thoughts exactly i been playing mine for few days n he is pretty much a spell caster necromancer so fricking awesome hahah
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lvl 17 with this guy, lotsa fun
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DarkMitchell#2392
DarkMitchell
DarkMitchell
5 days, 14 hours ago
cant login..... I WANT IT SOO BAD
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They look so !@#$ING awesome, i have to make one :D!!!!!!!!!!