D3 S28 Witch Doctor Fresh Level 70 Guide | 2.7.5

What three Legendary gems? L25 them ASAP.

Your next goal should be getting at least L25 on your three most important gems. Just get repeat the cycle of Nephalem Rift for a Key -> Do a Greater Rift until you get them, and do the absolute minimum level you need to level them up. Get them and level them quickly – do not feel pressured to “maximize” your rift keys by inflating the difficulty.

Legacy of Dreams is mandatory, as mentioned in the basics segment! Level this up as much as you can.

From here you have some choices

Specifically, you want some defensive gems right now. Molten Wildebeests Gizzard and Moratorium (only needs L25) come to mind as the ultimate early-game defense duo. You can use them for augments later. Gizzard however, we can use in tandem with Squirts Necklace later on…

The next best gems are Bane of the Powerful (L25 only) which is great for such a small investment. Ultimately we will be using Bane of the Trapped for our DPS needs, and it’s perfect with the chicken build.

Can’t ever go wrong with leveling up a Boon of the Hoarder for speedfarming.

Legendary Items in ALL SLOTS

LoD gets stronger with each legendary item you have equipped – so get to it! You should aim to get this done “passively” by natural item drops, but you can also craft items if you’re desperate.

Simply wear whatever junk you find eventually
replacing them with useful pieces as you get them!

Spending Blood Shards is “OK”, but only use Death’s Breath to fill up the slots if you’re absolutely desperate. You’ll get an item for each slot in no time (you can even craft them). Save your resources for finding SPECIFIC items that will greatly boost your power. We talk more about this in the next segment, refinement.

Ancients DOUBLE this bonus, and they’re a welcome boost to consider.

Defense Type & Gems

Wizards / WD’s / Necros are INTELLIGENCE classes (they get free ALLRES from INT). So, in the face of all this free allres, your prime defensive stats are ARMOR > VIT. So try to reroll Armor on your gear if you need defense – it’s your best defensive stat by FAR. REMOVE AS ALLRES (it’s pretty useless as a rolled-in stat).

Slot in your best Rubies or Emeralds, as they give Armor.

Basic Rerolls

Since legendaries are a little expensive to reroll EARLY ON, try to make the most by REMOVING GARBAGE STATS, and getting anything “remotely usable”.

INT VIT Armor are you basic stats that are welcome everywhere.

Life per Hit is AMAZING ON WD’s since we abuse Zombie Dogs – Leeching Beasts. You can socket amethyst on weapon, or reroll it on pretty much anywhere. This leeching beast and LpH combo is amazing.

Hex% DOESN’T EXIST so don’t sweat it.

The Element% you want will eventually be Poison%, found typically in Bracers and Amulet.

Remove useless stats

• Life Regeneration – garbage for any build.
• Attack Speed – it usually an endgame tune-up stat.
• Excess Resource Cost Reduction – Is a crutch, and only niche builds need it.
• Excess Cooldown Reduction – Only useful for an endgame “need”.
• Unused skill% – literally USELESS.
• All Resists – Useless for us, take Armor and VIT instead.

Take better stats

• INT VIT– can’t go wrong with these. Your core stats!
• ARMOR Life% Great defensive stats.
• Sockets are essentially MANDATORY.
• Life per Hit – Great early game sustainability.
• CRIT Stats (CHC / CHD) – More for endgame, but I’d take this over garbage stats.
• Skill and Elemental% – that you use.

Full Build Preview: Basic LoD WD

I’m not kidding, this is a “no-item” build that can fit most things you can find, and is a very easy to edit build for when you find a banger legendary to help you.

The only purpose of this build is to tide you over while you farm for
Arachyr 6, Sacred Harvester, Lakumba’s Ornament, and Manajuma weapon set.

The items in bold are the only useful ones you’ll be using in your next build.

Full Build Preview: Arachyr 6 Manajuma CHICKEN

This whole build revolves around making your chickening process smoother. It’s a very “Restricted” build that MUST have certain things, but at the same time has enough flex slots and mini evolutions that you can enjoy.

You can definitely use the Arachyr 6 set without Manajuma if you got it first!

You’re gonna need the RoRG to fit in Guardian. Guardian is crafted btw

Here’s advice on how to spend your blood shards with Kadala, roughly in order of importance:

Lakumba’s Ornament (Bracer) is is your best “normal” defensive item. Try to get this asap as Nemesis is also in this pile, for your follower.

Aquila Cuirass (Chest) is another solid defensive option, which can definitely be used in the final build.

Arachyr Set Pieces (various). Find the set pieces using blood shards, and hopefully finding special fillers along the way!

Mojo for Manajuma. Once your build is starting to come together, try and get this ASAP. There are, naturally, many great universal DEFENSIVE mojos.

EVERYTHING ELSE is pretty much “filler gear” for your LoD build.
Feel free to use anything useful, check the full build previews.
almost every slot has ‘something’ you can use!

Here’s advice on how to get your weapons from Deaths Breath rare item upgrades (Kanai’s Cube Recipe: 25x Deaths Breath convert a rare into random legendary of same type), roughly in order of importance:

Ceremonial Knife for Sacred Harvester is always a great option, increasing Soul Harvest stacks gives us alot of stats. Manajuma’s knife is here too.

Mojo for Manajuma. If you just can’t find it with shards – get it with DB’s!

You can reroll set items to another slot (example, Helm to Shoulders)
using DB’s FS’s in the cube. Just a reminder, if you want your Arachyr 6.

Nothing else is really WORTH spending DB’s for, and would rather spend to try and get jewelry you might not have yet.

Rings and Amulets are tough to get from either BS or DB’s (due to the large amount of possible outcomes), but if you’re done getting your core items from these currencies – and you haven’t got your core accessories, it’s a viable way to spend them. Typically you’ll just find these as you grind – then use currency if you’re desperate. Anyway, if I had to rank the importance of your rings and ammys…

Ring of Emptiness is used in the final build to kill pesky elites or bosses.

Unity is a decent defensive option, but you need the follower immortality relic, and another Unity for the follower!

Squirts Necklace is amazing for speedfarming.

As an aside – Ring of Royal Grandeur and Avarice Band are BOUNTY ONLY rings (respectively ACT I and III), which DO NOT APPEAR FROM any other source. They, like any other bounty item, DO NOT DROP from monsters, gambling, upgrades or any other source outside of their respective BOUNTY CACHE.