With the Provoke the Pack rune active you will also get an additional 5% damage for 30 seconds. This is a fantastic way of clearing large groups of baddies. The damage caused by Sacrifice is huge! Each dog’s explosion deals 275% of your weapon damage. With the combination of Zombie Dogs and the Sacrifice perk, your poor puppies essentially function as suicide bombers. The Zombie Handler perk gives you an additional Zombie Dog and increases the health of your Shrek and your pups by 20%. Very effective in clutch situations where you might need to fall back and regain some health.

The Bruiser perk allows your big ol ogre buddy (Shrek, as I like to call mine) to stun enemies with a powerful smash move. He is designed to take damage and draw aggro away from you while you stand behind him and launch frogs. The two pets play a crucial role in this build. With the Pierce the Veil passive skill adding an additional 20% to your damage, you can see how quickly your DPS will rise.

I usually enter the center of a mob, cast Soul Harvest, and then escape to the outskirts to engage the enemy. With the cooldown on this skill under a minute, it is very important to monitor how much time you have left and keep your eyes peeled for mobs of enemies. The Soul to Waste rune doubles the length of this buff, making it last for one minute.

With my current build this nearly doubles my DPS. This is an AOE buff that increases your Intelligence by 118 points for every soul captured and this can stack up to five times. The most powerful skill in the Witch Doctor’s arsenal is Soul Harvest.

Passive: Spiritual Attunement, Zombie Handler, and Pierce the Veil.

Slot 1: Summon Zombie Dogs (Leaching Beasts).

Mouse 1: Plague of Toads (Toad Affinity).

I’m going to post my current level 60 build of the Witch Doctor and hopefully this alters the opinions of the anti-Witch Doctor movement. While it definitely has the hardest learning curve, it by no means is the worst class. Secondly, I believe the average Diablo player doesn’t truly understand the complexities of this class. How dare you belittle the only African character class in the entire Diablo series. From what I’ve seen in recent Diablo 3 forums, it seems the general consensus is, “the Witch Doctor is the worst class in the game.” First off, that is just completely and absurdly racist. So there have been some unfortunate rumors festering around the interwebs.

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