Thursday, October 02, 2014

Diablo 3 - Leeching Beasts is surprisingly good

As mentioned in the title, Leeching Beasts is surprisingly good for sustain, allowing me to run the Enchantress for more CC instead of the Templar. I ran a full physical build this time:

Rain of Toads
Zombie Piranhas
Jaunt
Legion of Daggers
Slam Dance
Leeching Beasts
3 Dog Passives
Pierce the Veil (from Hellfire amulet, semi decent roll with no socket)
Fetish Sycophants

Was able to clear reliably from GR32 to GR36, failing GR37 due to some ridiculous elite spawn at the entrance. This is a good sign, means that the build is stable and not so RNG dependent.

Enchantress with Thunderfury procs slow relatively well, so I went ahead with RoT for more fetish generation and hence DPS.

I was using a HF with no socket, so I dropped Pain Enhancer and could feel a slight slowdown in kill speed. Still feel that it is a toss up between PE and Bane of the Powerful. 10m ticks per monster compared to a 20% dps boost across the board? Tough decisions.

Was running Tal Rasha Chest with Steady Strikers as well, ended up with 2.1m sheet DPS and 10m toughness. Aughilds with no HF will give me 1.9 sheet DPS and 12m toughness, but with the power of 1 gem. Since it's largely attack speed increases, maybe Pain Enhancer might not be so good with the Tal Rasha setup, since the ticks don't scale with attack speed. Will try and see how it goes.

Slowly creeping towards 600. Another 26 to go.

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