So I was powerleveling my WD in MP10, reached 60 and just killed Butcher at Hell level.
Still 3 more acts in Hell MP10 before Inferno (MP0 haha).

Once I reach 60 the DPS advantage from reduced level weapon is gone and I feel that my DPS is kind of suck at 17k, although it is still sufficient to handle Hell I think.

Being a newbie WD I am compelled to ask there...................do I need attack speed for my Acid Cloud/ Acid Rain build?

I am looking forward to upgrade some gears. I would like to retain the 3 piece Cain's Set for the +30% bonus XP, and my Hellfire and Leoric Signet rings. Hence, 5 pieces of my gears are not replaceable for now. I figure I can sacrifice a bit of raw weapon dps and load in a little bit more CD. It doesn't hurt to start looking at some BiS too for Inferno farming later.

Any advice? Btw 30m budget.

Take a look at my witch doctor. Its not uber or anything but didn't cost to much and is fun to play.
Avoid attack speed like the plague cause it will eat up all your mana.

My Stats
38k life
80k dmg with soul harvest
800 ar a decent chuck comes from high amount of int
3 life steal is good enough you dont really get hit to often.

I think the most important stats have to be Mana Regen / Pickup radius. The more the better, you get a good return if you use blood ritual and grave injustice.

@mantice

For some reasons I can't access your profile. The link will say your profile is not available. Could you please post the link?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/HoneyMonkey-1666/hero/1497821 here you go idk why it doesnt link right.

Just use it as a guide im sure you could do better in some spots.

Main couple of pointers I can give you is don't stack attack speed. You'll just end up spending more mana for the same amount of damage pretty much for most stuff. Sort of like stacking attack speed for Strafe on a DH.

Also don't get or use a Manajuma's knife. They're incredibly over priced and just not worth it.

Posted by NightCrawler9 at 02/03/2013 06:42 PM

Main couple of pointers I can give you is don't stack attack speed. You'll just end up spending more mana for the same amount of damage pretty much for most stuff. Sort of like stacking attack speed for Strafe on a DH.

Also don't get or use a Manajuma's knife. They're incredibly over priced and just not worth it.

Yea I was looking at the marijuana......I guess I still need some sort of ceremonial knive with mana/ mana regen?

Posted by douvinsky at 02/03/2013 06:51 PM

Yea I was looking at the marijuana......I guess I still need some sort of ceremonial knive with mana/ mana regen?

Yeah, the marijuana knife isn't worth it. I have one and if it wasn't for my other gear, I'd be underclassed.

Posted by douvinsky at 02/03/2013 06:51 PM

Yea I was looking at the marijuana......I guess I still need some sort of ceremonial knive with mana/ mana regen?

Yeah, the best would be a black damage one with crit damage, socket, mana regen and life steal. Int and vit too if possible.

I dabble only a small bit in WD, so I'm not the expert, but for raw DPS mojo, go for the uhkapian serpent and then stack some pickup radius on other slots. Shoulders, belts and chest pieces are good candidates for pick up. I myself use a thing of the deep, but eventually I'd like to go to a serpent and still keep around 20 pickup radius. For reflect damage right now, I'm stacking physical resists, helps a bit and spirit vessel passive is my "training wheels" for when I mess up and would normally die, vessel saves me.

BTW, I just picked up a really good deal on a ceremonial knife for 5m (gem not included):

Posted by mantice at 02/03/2013 06:23 PM

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/HoneyMonkey-1666/hero/1497821 here you go idk why it doesnt link right.

Just use it as a guide im sure you could do better in some spots.

It doesn't link as you still have "HoneyMoney-1666" in your profile missing the "k" in Monkey. Time to remake your profile link in account settings here on D3RMT

Same boat as @douvinsky here, @Nightcrawler9 rushed me to 60 on my SC WD over the weekend - I think i might build a PVP WD, should i be stacking defenses? What stats should i be focusing on?

It really depends on your build & what MP you're striving for but like @NightCrawler9 said don't worry about attack speed much.

You should get mana reg on your weapon, helm and mojo. You can go for 4 zuni set pieces for more but I didn't as it was too expensive to get a CC helm and CC pox ring. Take a look at Visage of Giyua which can roll Acid cloud & CC - they're not actually too expensive. Zuni Trail and Marrows both have nice fixed affixes and are pretty cheap to boot but you're going to want 24 movement speed so you may look at Tyraels or Lacuni's.

I got my black weapon for 1M which was perhaps a bit of a snipe but it has no life steal. For Acid cloud builds, LoH works well so I went with Blackthornes belt/pants for a bit more survivability as I was dying a bit too much in the early days and it has MF and this is my speedfarmer :)

Sorry for the rant :) Goodluck!

Posted by ninjax at 02/04/2013 08:59 AM

You should get mana reg on your weapon, helm and mojo. You can go for 4 zuni set pieces for more but I didn't as it was too expensive to get a CC helm and CC pox ring. Take a look at Visage of Giyua which can roll Acid cloud & CC - they're not actually too expensive. Zuni Trail and Marrows both have nice fixed affixes and are pretty cheap to boot but you're going to want 24 movement speed so you may look at Tyraels or Lacuni's.

4 piece Zuni isn't that bad to get. Get a Visage instead of Zuni helm, and use the Zuni mojo instead of a serpent or frog. Also for a Zuni Pox, just get one with a socket and high average damage, or just high int and high average damage.

Stats you should look for on a Visage are crit chance, high int, and unless you plan on doing the zero cooldown build, Acid Cloud would probably be the best skill bonus for you.

Zuni mojo, look for high average damage with crit chance. The best skill to me is Zombie Charger, but people do like Corpse Spiders.

Got myself a Visage of Giyua with 8% Acid Cloud......being stingy on budget I only paid 100k for one without CC. The graphic actually looks cool.

Zuni mojo......got one with corpse spiders.....which means it would be underutilised for now since I am using Acid Cloud.

Also, got myself a very cheap bracers.................at bid price of 2,781 gold which is the vendor price, and which means the seller got less than the vendor price after the 15% AH cut lol.

LOL...........that day I bought a Visage of Giyua with CC and Acid Cloud for 350k in a hurry............it was the cheapest at AH and the others are in millions.......then only I realised that the Acid Cloud is only 2% >-<. Quickly relisted it just below 1m and it was sold. Passing around a bad apple huh.

LOL nice work.

I got mine for 350K. Think it was a pretty good deal for high CC on cloud, and 200+ int.