Since I’ve been searching for a strong acid witch hunter build that can farm 150-170 and hadn’t really found one strong enough to make it easy I thought i try to theorycraft one myself and it actually was a succes.
The build itself can farm 150-170 with banners and buffs.
Please do feel free to criticize, come with suggestions, improvements and such. Next step would be to make this build being able to farm without the need of banners.
What I’d do is drop ABB completely. It does nothing for your build. Get grasp of unchained might for the lovely bonus to RoS --> Drop manticore for something else.
Also, you might want shard of beronath on one of your weapons
@sir spanksalot not worth it to ditch ABB with the current setup since you have 100% cold conversion to acid as you can see in the skill tab. I will try replacing seal of shadows with shard of beronath to see if it gets better although i highly doubt it. In the build calc it shows a decrease in dps. I will test more.
@veretragna after I’m done with the testing phase I will try to make a video to see how it goes
The game clearly only mentions Off hand damage in the tooltip so I assume it is just off hand damage :D. Btw. How would you reedit the grim tools link i initially posted to improve the character after your beliefs? Let’s theorycraft a bit :D.
If you’re dead set on DW, I would personally try to focus on 1 of 2 things:
Option 1: Flat damage autoattacker. You’re going to need to stack attack speed for this
Option 2: DoT kiter. Notice how NHH adds a fat load of poison damage to the WPS? Each of these damage sources stacks independently. Venomlash might be your go-to here.
Well I’ve been tested more on this and i’ve come up with the following stuff:
For option 1, flat damage auto attacker isn’t too much of a thing unless you use belghotian carnage to try empowering shadow strike as much as possible, or second choice, the setup with vilepact set, grasp of the unchained might to empower RoS as much as possible.
For option 2, it’s basically stuffing points into all poison increasing skills, choosing items accordingly to stack more poison and just hit and run.
Out of all builds i test, these being full vilepact set, vilepact with 2 deathguard blades and vilepact with 2 venomlashes, I got best damage with 2 deathguard blades and SS, best defense with full setup and RoS, mix of both but less of both with the venomlash setup. Out of all I would probably recommend the venomlashes for a decent kill speed without trading too much survivability.
Credits to Chthon for the deathguard blades setup from the SS aether warpstriker topic :D.
Hmmm looks interesting. It’s similiar to what i tried. He tried reaching max attack speed on it. I will test it too to see how it does compared to the rest and come back with some more feedback.
