To the other WDs: Where and how do you farm effectively?

[Holzroller]

Hey,

I have been botting my WD for 2 weeks now, about 8-10 hours a day. He has good gear because he is my main. His Paragon Level ist 82 now, I didn't get Hellfire ring or ruby for helmet.

Stats are:

Unbuffed DPS: 305k (around 500k buffed)
Resists: ~900-999
Life: 44k

He also has 36% MS but I didnt know it caps at 25%. The point is, I cannot farm high MP levels. And on lower MP levels, like MP2, the WD is not as fast as a wizard or monk I think. I dont get more than 35-40m EXP/h.

I found that Acid Cloud is the best farming skill, but on the other hand, Trinity doesnt make good use of it. It spams AC, not making use out of the DoT. Even on single targets, the bot will sometimes use all his mana for AC spam. If I add Spirit Barrage to my skillset, the bot will only that, but not AC. Also, he won't use Firebats. I have a perfect Uhkapian with also +13% (max) to Spirit Barrage damage, so it's a shame.

What skillsets / profiles / MP levels are the other WDs using for best efficiency? Or is the WD just not viable for this?

 

[feske]

rerolled another class, got tired of banging my head against the wall.

 

[striker123]

I switched to barb for botting and just use WD as main when I play with friends

 

[KiLLian]

We need a better WD combat routine

 

[Drakens]

Now i'm para 100 and I was, all the time, in MP3 w 45/60m (min/max) EXP/h.
I used ZB Hunterl from jlauffer88, and I keep using it for farming gold.
Try to use Zombie Bears as main skill, trinity works great with it! (My ZB build)

Unbuffed DPS: 190k (300k full buffed)
All Resist: -890/960+
Life:53k

NB: Trinity doesn't work well with 2 or more attack skill

 

[herbfunk]

Try using Funky Trinity -- URL in my Sig.
I run with skill set Skill Calculator Url
50k+ HP, 700+ AR, with about 100k+ DPS

I run A2, mp2 at level 90 paragon, and get about 25m XP without a Red Gem in Helm and 500k Gold per hour.
Gearwise I have Zumn Full Set Bonus with Manajumama Set Bonus, guessing around 200m+ Gold for the setup.

 

[robot]

spirit walk - mana rune
soul harvest - rune that makes it do weapon% damage
mass confusion - paranoia
big bad voodoo - slam dance

left click - grasp - rune that does the +400% weapon damage
right click - zombie charger - zombie bears

passives
gruesome feast
spirit vessel
grave injustice

trade down your ms gear for 2 pieces @ 12% for better rolls on other stats
you want to not worry so much about sheet dps or IAS, as the majority of WD spells are based on weapon damage%, raising your IAS only makes you burn mana faster

things you absolutely need, are thing from the deep off hand for the +20 yards pickup radius, manijuma carver with a slot, high weapon damage with life steal, and put a ruby in it

you would also be able to easily break 60m xp/hr if you had a hellfire/ruby in helm slot

you are going to want a 4 piece zuni set, focus on stacking int, cc, cd and mana regen in that order, when you bot plays use the runes I listed above, if you play opt out for a sb/cloud of bats build, also the bot reaches better efficiency on mid mp's with thing from the deep/carver,

if you would like to do higher mp runs on a WD, the bot will not be able to do this very efficiently for you compared to zombie bears on a midd mp (5-7), but you yourself can manually farm mp10 with a fair amount of efficiency, swapping your 1h/oh, for a 2h int skorn with 5+ to lifesteal (5 is needed since it breaks the cap on reflect damage), look for the higher low-high weapon damage you can find on the weapon rather then the dps listed at the top of the weapon, slower attack speed = less mana per second spent, higher the weapon damage = higher the ticks (this is especially important in a cloud of bats build)

 

[JustinWay]

I can't seem to get my wd to do anything, I tried a profile for weeping+queen. he starts up.. runs out, barricade breaks and he just stands there. Never attacks. I totally gave up on him and haven't touched him anymore. Tried a lot of stuff.