[1.2.1.6] Fun double raven Witch Hunter (celestials, SR36+, softcore)

Hi all, second time posting a build here, and now I see why the community says pets are overpowered! And though the rotation basically involves not dying while the pets do all of the work, I still found it a lot of fun since the ravens do best damage as stationary turrets so there is some skill expression in getting the right angles etc.

Foulvillain
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The core of the build is using the Crown of the Winter King to turn the ravens’ damage into cold, then getting as much cold resist reduction running as possible. I didn’t want to but I ended up going Time Dilation again (like my other build) since it’s just too useful in reducing the cooldowns on the powerful amulet and relic procs.

Mogdrogen, Ravager, and Callagadra were all straightforward if a bit long (3+ mins), Callagadra being the biggest slog since I have 0% pierce resist for the ravens and I had to keep reviving them. Crate was relatively quick and fun though so I linked the video. Also tried a bit of SR38, and though Ekketzal and Valdaran were no problem, Fabius at that level was a bit too much – probably his cold resist – I should have tried swapping out the helm and letting the ravens do their default lightning damage instead. But I think SR38 should be doable with a bit of tweaking.



Overall I think it’s a nice build, with good steady damage from the ravens, though I’ve had to nerf them a bit in order to keep myself tanky enough to survive the celestial fights. And even then its been challenging surviving in melee range of the bosses long enough to let Night’s Chill do its work, though that may be just a skill issue on my part. Finally, it seems the gear options to augment the raven skills are somewhat limited compared to the other pets (maybe they weren’t really intended to be used endgame?) so there isn’t a huge amount of flexibility in the gear.