Diablo® III

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#SdYVkT!dTY!cZZccb

Would appreciate any comments on this build, its a pve/pvm build perhaps not inferno difficulty but its an aiming to survive whilst doing damage build.

Hello.

No single target dps.
What do you do when yur dogs are dead? Sacrifice seems....I do not like it personally. To much setup for one big hit every 60 seconds.

I also feel like Rhaloz. Sacrifice has a hidden cooldown. If you blow up your dogs and the summon is on cd then you actually have two spells on cd.

You might combine "Circle of life" with sacrifice instead of getting zombie dogs themselves, but I don't know how good that will be in the end. From my experience in beta it can take quite a while before you get a spawn from circle of life.

I also thought the "Next to kin" rune for sacrifice used to give you a 52% chance on a respawn, now it's only 35.

Sacrifice also takes out all the benifit of your Zombie handler passive if the summon is on cd.

Still if you only use sacrifice if your summon is off cd, then it might work.

Anyway, best thing to do is to just ignore us and try it once the game is out. It's all a bit speculation right now :)

I would advise going with jungle fortitude the 20%dmg red for you and your pets if you plan on going with them dogs. ;)

Thanks for your comments, I was relying on the grave injustice passive to reduce the cd on my summon dogs ability and other skills, hopefully allowing me to get the most out of the wrathful protector gargantuan. I did think about the jungle fortitude passive but I thought with the gargantuan only lasting 15 secs and the dogs being blown up Id be better off with Gruesome feast combined with final gift. The build will require some gear that increases my gold pickup find to get the most out of grave injustice though.

Imho on any kind of WD build I would take a primary skill because you need to have something to spam at all times, for your build I would suggest the Corpse Spiders, more minions at your disposal. I would personally take it instead of the Sacrifice, since I don't really like the idea of sacrificing my minions for some mere damage, that way you could benefit more out of Jungle Fortitude, anyways, game is not out yet so, I hope you find the best way to slay as many foes!

I agree with Abigar, that you need a low cost spell to spam, since the build hasn't got much mana recovery locust swarm would be to expensive to cast all the time. There might be the possibality to achieve all the mana recovering you need from gear but for that we will have to wait and see when the game launches.

I think I'd skip sacrifice and go for something like poison dart. Would also swap passives for Jungle Fortitude / Bad Medicine / Zombie Handler.