WD Toughness Easy Fix to Lakumba's Ornament to Solve it

General Discussion
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WD toughness is based on 2 items and 1 skill to get 60% DR. (A bracer and weapon)

Barb and Wiz get 80% for 1 item + 1 skill

Sacred Harvester doesn’t serve a purpose to any build outside of giving more stacks to Soul Harvest.

The main gripes of this set-up is:

  1. The 2 gear slot requirement (should be 1 slot)
  2. The building of the stacks up to 10 when you have to be right next to the monsters to do it. Having to build stacks from 0 on the RG or boss is a death sentence and horrible game play.
  3. Forced to always have Soul Harvest on every build even if it makes no sense to have
  4. 60% DR could use a boost to say 80% like Wizards since WD tend to be closer to the battle

Solution.
Take the stacking of soul harvest completely out of it. Simply enable the DR by casting the spell. Then add a few more spells to the list. Like the Barb ring does.

For example
Gain 60-80% Damage reduction after casting Soul Harvest, Hex or Horrify

Thanks

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I always thought it lame that Witch Doctors had to lock down 2 item slots only to end up with LESS damage reduction than other classes can achieve with a single slot. This would be a welcome change.

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Right, doing bounty bosses I found are especially painful when the stacks drop waiting for others to hit ok

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I think they’re good enough. If you look at NS solo leaderboards, WD is pretty up high there and they’re also in the 4 man meta.

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It’s significantly more than 60% DR when you take into account the increase in armor as well.

I do agree that it’s a pain to get stacks in some cases though. At least I don’t have to worry about building stacks back up after dying in hardcore!

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ohh wd have 2 items that gives DR?? how lucky u are!!, crusaders have NO items that give damage reduction, and are locked to the same skills in every build to get the DR

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You can also switch to all Emeralds (for more armor) in chest/pants, Molten Wilderbeest’s Gizzard gem (absorb shield/life regen) in a Squirt’s Necklace, and some paragon into Vit as another alternative for more DR support … works well with the Mundunugu’s setup.

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I thought Ruby’s (STR) gave more Armour?

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Either emeralds (dex) or rubies (strength) will work, they both grant armour :blush:

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Yep… Crusaders have no gear specifically to help them but should.

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It’s not a Crusader-only item but as Crusaders are the only class that always use a shield, how about…
https://eu.diablo3.com/en/item/justice-lantern-P4_Unique_Ring_03

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That’s the thing. Soul harvest provides 3% int per stack, which is 15% at 5 stacks and 30% at 10 stacks.
That is still a 15% DR in itself if you have no source of all resist at 10 stacks. More realistic it’s closer to 13%, compared to 6%.

On the other hand as most use Languish rune, you also have a 10% Armor that gets increased to 100% from 50%, which is close to 25% DR increase. And then lastly there’s the 6% pure DR per stack that bumps up to 60% at 10 stacks.

So this is much closer to 75% DR from 2 items with a 25% damage to it divided in to 2 items. That is pretty powerful if you ask me.

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Yes completely agree its powerful. No doubt about that. But better than the wizard 80% ring? Or the barb’s?

Let the SH Knife buff Soul Harvest on its own… then Lakumba do the DR is all I am suggesting.

Cheers

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