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Diablo III (2012)

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LoN (Legacy of Nightmares) Spirit Barrage build is currently the best WD build for rifting. The build makes use of the interesting finding that Spirit Barrage: Phantasms benefits from pet damage. (May looks buggy. Fortunately, Blizzard reassured that they are not going to change this.) Together with damage buff from LoN, Gazing Demise and The Barber, as well as Ring of Emptiness, it can deals amazing damage!

Build: https://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#egUlhd!eTfi!YYabbb (also Confidence Ritual on Hellfire Amulet)

Gear: (Equipped or as Kanai's cube powers)
Essential:
- LoN rings (Litany of the Undaunted, The Wailing Host), The Barber, Gazing Demise, Mask of Jeram, Ring of Emptiness: for the damage buffs they provide.
- Lakumba's Ornament, Sacred Harvester: for the amazing damage reduction.
- Frostburn: the ability to freeze mobs provides huge survival benefit. Also the cold damage buff.

Recommended:
- Belt of Transcendence: Fetish Sycophants are good off-tank, especially for solo player.
- Witching Hour (equip, not cube): for the damage.
- Aquila Cuirass: good damage reduction.
- Swamp Land Waders (equip, not cube): for the cold damage buff.
- The Grin Reaper: for the crowd control provided by the mimics. Unfortunately, the mimics do not deal much damage so do not rely on them to kill things for you.
- Andariel's Visage (equip, not cube): for the cold damage buff and attack speed.

The remaining slots are optional:
- Hellfire Amulet, Pauldrons of the Skeleton King, Illusory Boots, or any good ancient alternatives. (The shoulders and boots in this video were just some random handy ancients in my stash. :P )

Legendary gems: Enforcer, Bane of the Stricken, Bane of the Trapped

Gameplay: Piranhado group of mobs. Locust Swarm, Soul Harvest, Haunt (make sure you have Haunt on the elites), then start spamming Spirit Barrage. Because of the effect of The Barber, you will find the Spirit Barrage is not doing damage initially, then suddenly deals huge amount of area damage. You may need to stop spamming Spirit Barrage time to time for the Barber explosion.
You are very squishy at the start of a Greater Rift. Once you have 10 stacks of Soul Harvest and 15 fetish off-tanks, stay close to the group of mobs for extra damage from Confidence Ritual.
Always keep 10 stacks of Soul Harvest. Remember to refresh it before confronting Rift Guardians.

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