Hello and thanks for checking out our Witch Doctor Speedfarming Guide – here we talk about the various build adjustments to your WD to better speedfarm (using any, or no set).

Why not discuss the best build? We do, in another page, but every time a new season starts, or for newer players, the best item setup isn’t exactly available ASAP. This guide offers advice on how to TWEAK ANY BUILD to be as SPEED FARM CAPABLE as possible.

Please see: D3 General Speedfarming | Witch Doctor Fastest Speedfarm Build.

This guide assumes you’ve read:
D3 Speedfarming for any class

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Witch Doctor Speedfarming Skills

Spirit Walk-Severance is probably the key skill here, providing the highest mobility of all the runes, and quite impressive even when compared to other classes.

Soul Harvest-Soul to Waste is a mindbogglingly huge boost to Movement Speed. It’s easy to keep up and doubles up as a boost to damage.

Horrify-Stalker while not the most impressive, 20% is something a lot of classes would beg for – WD can easily live without this. I wonder if this can be used efficiently?

Summon Zombie Dogs, Gargantuan, and to a lesser extent Fetish Army are the next best things, being “Passive DPS auras”.

Locust Swarm and Haunt with varying runes are also a semi passive source of damage.

Hmm, anything after this is too far off to be related to speedfarming, but you get the idea.


WD Speedfarming Passives

Fierce Loyalty is a simple passive that fits into most builds, or at the very least easy to fit. 30% MS is pretty huge.

Grave Injustice doubles up as both an indirect buff to Mobility (primarily reducing the CD of Spirit Walk) and a buff to offense by lowering CD’s between bigger spells.

No other passives directly support speedfarming or Mobility. The next ones you should take are key passives to your build! There are of course some “general use” offensive passives when you want to drop utility and defense for more killing power:

Fetish Sycophants is a great passive for lower power WD’s that serve as an offensive and defensive boost, providing passively pewpewing minions + mini meat shields.

Gruesome Feast is a titanic boost in power especially in speedfarm type content. It’s easy to keep up in those scenarios too.

Pierce the Veil and Confidence Ritual are your generic “fits all” DPS passives. Midnight Feast, of course, is best when your build allows it.


 

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WD Speedfarming Items

Whoa.. there’s actually quite a bit going on here…

Manajuma’s Way Set (Manajuma’s Carving Knife + Manajuma’s Gory Fetch) is your basic WD speedy set. This set is actually stupidly fast, and you can succeed with a speedy build using just this. The best Hex runes to use with this would probably be Unstable Form or Toad of Hugeness.

In-geom with Witch Doctors? Yeah there’s a lot of potential abuse here…

With just Spirit Walk, In-geom enables most ANY build to be speedy…

Belt of Transcendence – another Fetish generator that suits some builds. But any build can use this, really, for additional passive DPS and meat shields. Better for lower powered WD’s. While it’s not for everybody, it’s one of the more impactful SINGLE items out there. (Similarly: The Gidbinn)

Wormwood “BRAINLESSNESS” is an aspect of any speedbuild that many of us enjoy. Used in builds that benefit off of this such as Jade and Arachyr.

Soul Harvester for increased stacks will likely mean increased Movement Speed for our purposes. A powerful legendary by any right.

Short Man’s Finger along with the popular Humongoid rune or Big Stinker basically triples Gargs passive DPS. The DPS increase, brainlessness, CC and meatshieldy nature makes this item notable enough to be included in a speedfarmy list.

Shukrani’s Triumph is the usual “buff your mobility skill” legendary. WD’s are so mobile this is absolutely unnecessary… just throwin’ that out there.

Legacy of Nightmares? Is a viable speed set as long as you put the bare minimum effort in theorizing your build.

Alas, while I usually list down legendaries that support the speedy skills, there’s just way to many setups and way too many possibilities to list here. The above are mentionable, but by no means “COMPLETE”. If it’s not on this list, it’s very likely you’re referring to a ‘build-specific legendary’.


 

WD Speedfarming Builds for each Set

Make no mistake, in terms of set usability and speed farming – Witch Doctors are the king of speedfarming, with viability among ALL sets. Each tab below pertains to a generic speedfarm setup for each set. It’s by no means comprehensive but you’ll get a pretty good idea.

Spirit of Arachyr

This is a special mention, man… Hex is affected by the 6pc bonus – combined with Manajuma you can easily do 5B+ chain blasts. Make no mistake – SPIRIT OF ARACHYR IS A VIABLE SPEED SET! Especially in bounties.

 Spirit of Arachyr Speedfarming Setup
Skill and Rune
Hex Angry Chicken
Corpse Spiders Any
Spirit Walk Severance
Soul Harvest Soul to Waste
Locust Swarm / Firebats Diseased Swarm Any
Gargantuan (Open) Big Stinker
Passives
Confidence Ritual Grave Injustice
Pierce the Veil Gruesome Feast
Kanai’s Cube
Furnace / Wormwood
Mask of Jeram / Hexing Pants
Ring of Emptiness / Avarice
Legendary Gems
Boon of the Hoarder
Bane of the Trapped
Any (Wreath, Powerful)

There’s a bajillion ways to make it work but the above gives you a pretty good idea.

Gargantuan is optional, better if you can fit in Short Man’s Finger (But you’ll need Ring of Emptiness and/or Avarice Band, too). Probably not worth the trouble…

Mask of Jeram, Tasker and Theo and Enforcer AFFECTS Corpse Spiders and 2pc Spider Queen, just to let you know.

It’s definitely good for T7 speeds, and bounties, but it struggles with elites (hence the Furnace) – you’ll need extremely good gear for TX speeds but the Mobility is really unmatched, along with the chain bursts off Hex.

Learn more about: Spirit of Arachyr

Helltooth Harness

Uhh, damn. Helltooth’s capability to passively obliterate things is uhh.. “well documented”. There’s many possible setups, and the above is just one.

Helltooth Harness Speedfarming Setup
Skill and Rune
Hex Angry Chicken
Soul Harvest Soul to Waste
Spirit Walk Severance
Wall of Death Comm w/ Spirits
Summon Zombie Dogs Chilled to the Bone
Gargantuan Humongoid
Passives
Fierce Loyalty Midnight Feast
Pierce the Veil Gruesome Feast
Kanai’s Cube
Furnace / In-geom
Mask of Jeram / Tasker and Theo
The Short Man’s Finger
Legendary Gems
Boon of the Hoarder
Bane of the Trapped
Enforcer

Learn more about: Helltooth Harness.

Raiment of the Jade Harvester

Jade Harvester’s largely active playstyle can be a bummer, bit it’s not a set that lacks power. It just takes a lot more work compared to the others…

Jade Harvester Speedfarming Setup
Skill and Rune
Open Open
Haunt Poisoned Spirit
Spirit Walk Severance
Locust Swarm Diseased Swarm
Soul Harvest Soul to Waste
Open Open
Passives
Pierce the Veil Creeping Death
Confidence Ritual Gruesome Feast
Kanai’s Cube
In-geom
Quetzalcoatl
Ring of Emptiness / Avarice Band
Legendary Gems
Boon of the Hoarder
Bane of the Trapped
Any (Wreath, Powerful)

Having said that, the active playstyle does have it’s advantages. The power of this set in brainless content allows for quite an open build.

2 Open skills? Doesn’t matter at all. Hex-Angry Chicken if running Manajuma which the build can fit. The other spell literally doesn’t matter… Horrify-Stalker?

KEY PIECES: In-geom cubed. Avarice and Ring of EmptinessWormwood, while not technically ‘needed’, reduces the amount of stopped to press that slow-ass spell – and improved the overall brainlessness and speed.

Learn more about: Raiment of the Jade Harvester

Zunimassa's Haunt

Another good ‘ol “passive DPS” set, Zunimassa’s Haunt is actually VERY comparable to Helltooth, it’s not bad at all.

Zunimassa’s Haunt Speedfarming Setup
Skill and Rune
Poison Dart (Open) Spined Dart
Acid Cloud Acid Rain
Spirit Walk Severance
Soul Harvest Soul to Waste
Gargantuan Humongoid
Fetish Army Legion of Daggers
Passives
Pierce the Veil Fetish Sycophants
Gruesome Feast Midnight Feast
Kanai’s Cube
Furnace / In-geom
Mask of Jeram
The Short Man’s Finger
Legendary Gems
Boon of the Hoarder
Bane of the Trapped
Enforcer

KEY PIECES: There’s so many ways to run this build, as long as you have Short Man’s Finger, Mask of Jeram and hopefully, Tasker and Theo there is absolutely no way you can mess up.

Keep in mind that Zuni 6 says PETS. Not just fetishes.

Since we assume we equip Goldwrap, which is why I take Fetish Sycophants in the passives. Belt of Transcendence isn’t bad either – in which case you get one open Passive (likely for Confidence Ritual).

Learn more about: Zunimassa’s Haunt.

Legacy of Nightmares? Again, LoN is so inherently powerful and you can make a speed build out of it 100 ways. You’re likely gonna want to use Short Man’s Finger in there somewhere for a “1 item speed build”.

This guide assumes you’ve read:
D3 Speedfarming for any class

Witch Doctors are lucky in the sense its very HARD NOT TO SPEEDFARM. As long as you’re playing correctly, tiny adjustments to your build can help you speedfarm with ANY set, a luxury most classes cannot sympathize with.

WD Speed farming: Navigation
Skills | Passives | Items | Set Builds

Witch Doctor Fastest Speedfarm Build: is our seasonally updated guide regarding the “best” general purpose speedfarm build. If you have a lot of the WD key items – check that out!

Other Witch Doctor Guides:

Helltooth Harness Set | Helltooth Set Dungeon
Raiment of the Jade Harvester Set | Jade Harvester Set Dungeon
Spirit of Arachyr Set | Arachyr Set Dungeon
Zunimassa’s Haunt Set | Zunimassa Set Dungeon

Click on our Directory Guide for more info on other D3 classes.

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