What are/were the most fun builds in the game?

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Hi,

I’ve started playing D3 in era 2019-1. I’m mainly a Cruz (I’ve tried all the current builds except the new Akkhan on the PTR), secondly a Barb (I’ve only tried the builds mentionned below + WW Rend) and I’ve started playing the Monk in S25 (still need to try LoD WoL and PoJ Tempest Rush that are said to be fun).

Here are the builds I enjoy playing the most, without consideration for their power level:

:star::star::star: Cruz: Akkhan Thorns Bomb (soon to be dead :coffin:)
:star::star::star: Barb: Frenzy
:star::star::star: Cruz: Roland Sweep Attack
:star::star: Barb: Raekor Boulder Toss
:star::star: Monk: Inna Fire Allies
:star: Cruz: Invoker (the current version)
:star: Monk: Uliana Exploding Palm

What about you? What are/were the builds you find/found the most fun to play, without consideration for their power level, both current and dead builds?

Edit on 2022-08-02T22:00:00Z: replaced “funniest” by “most fun”. Sorry for the approximate English. (Nice to learn about some of the “funniest” builds in the game too, though!)

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The WD chicken is by far the stupidest thing I have seen. Keep that nonsense out of D4.

I have been running the Monk Tempest Rush for the last few seasons. In S27 it will be the WoL Monk.

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i would say for me
1 - inna monk fire allies
2 - necro rat runs version the first one
3 - zdh so cool as well
and regarding what is coming on season 27
barb hammer(animation looks so cool) and barb ww will be very fun to play
:wink:

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GoD.

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Funnest Builds for me:

  1. Wizard: Pre-RoS Arcane Torrent (arcane mines rune) and Archon (Slow Time rune), that also made great use of critical mass passive and life steal modifiers.
  2. Wizard: Early RoS Vyr 4 piece + Tal-Rasha 2 piece for Archon meteor action.
  3. Wizard: Early RoS Frost Hydra (with magistrate helm for nova) + Frost Burn gloves for constant freezing.
  4. Crusader: Early RoS phalanx build with baleful remnant flail

Funniest Build:

  1. Wizard: Early RoS Firebird build that made use of blizzard (apocalyspe rune) and black hole (blazar) since that build was incredibly squishy and required running around constant to survive.
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Jade Harvester, for sure!

#Boom

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  1. The bugged Rathma with Crucible power on PTR for s27.
  2. Nothing comes close.
  3. UE back when it was new and fresh (and strong).
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My all time favorite was pre-ROS. Zero-dog Witch Doctor. A lot of people hated it, but I had fun with it. Actually had some gear drops with good zero-dog rolls. I had mine down to no cool down IIRC I had broken the 2.0 APS mark, or was really close to it.

Then the dev’s killed it on purpose when ROS came out.

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The pre-RoS SNS/CM Wizard was a blast.

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WD chicken his hilariously hella fun for farming. The ability to do stuff like that needs to be in.

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Chicken WD.

Everything else is secondary.

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Fun is relative. For some only meta or S tier builds are fun. And for some, builds that are underpreforming, but have interesting, humorous mechanics are fun.

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I liked the original Witch Doctor Sacrifice build (0-dog) animation aesthetic before it was changed. The entire feel of that was much darker of a tone with each dog exploding and limbs flying all over the place followed by puffs and trails of smoke… then you got healed by a health globe too which felt like their essence or spirit energy was returning life to you.

But yeah Witch Doctor Chicken is hilarious (although I do agree maybe not D4-worthy) wait is it because stereotypically black people enjoy chicken?

I mean I DO like some chicken…

…

hmm? o.O?

ponderings

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I do really like the LoD Captain America build for the crusader. While it’s woefully underpowered, it’s easy and straightforward to play. A real pain to gear as it is LoD build but a lot of fun.

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For me:
WD chicken - Hilarious
Inna’s Earth Alleys - the dumbest
Barbarian Raekor Toss - A Barbarian throwing mud pies :poop: is the strangest

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Had a lot of fun with these past builds:

  1. zWD with perma root
  2. zWD that buffed the party’s damage greatly with Toad of Hugeness
  3. Pet WD that required SMK and Rain of Toads
  4. Chantodo + Firebird Archon Wiz
  5. Grenades + In-geom DH
  6. Bone Spear Necro
  7. Inna’s Water Ally

But the build that I have most fun even today is Frenzy Barb, just wish it was a little stronger.

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inarius with mirinae

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Oh right, forgot pre RoS… used to love the Archon Wizard back when aslong as you killed stuff you stayed in Archon form, was so sweet for farming.

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Yeah back then killing enemies while in archon form increased the duration of your archon transformation rather than increasing it’s damage as it does now.

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Make it a headless chicken spurting blood out of it’s neck then.