My build is more like this than Silence's build but some differences... Paralysis instead of Dominance, Sparkflint on Familiar instead of Cannoneer because they nerfed Familiar damage, but otherwise I think it's the same.
Who uses sentries though? And the bonus to use hatred spenders has a long internal cooldown and I've read pets can only get 50% critical damage. The only thing that could make it interesting is pets share your crit, so if you use sharpshooter and don't attack and have all the pets, +3 wolves from that cloak, and five sentries out they all will be critting 100% of the time, but just shitting out sentries and vaulting all over the place seems really lame even if it were to be effective, I really hope that playing a necromancer dh doesn't become the most effective way to play it.
I leveled 4 classes to 60 in 2.0 on hc and yeah pretty much agree. My wizard and monk are about the same, haven't played my WD in months though. Barb and DH are not quite as good but I could easily see that changing with some gear. Wiz is FOTM but I don't really see why, they seem good and its nice that theres a few different viable builds but I'm not seeing the OP, if anything she's a danger to elites in hallways much more than other classes right now. Game is in pretty good shape balance wise I think. Of course that all changes next week.
Yeah I use similar, I guess i just don't like the mechanics. Might try WD next.
Didn't know it had a cool down, I figured it would be three sentries blasting rapid fire or whatever. With a cool down loaded for bear cluster arrow would be best and yeah not a huge amount of fun.
Sparkflint is nice for the 10% boost. Magic Weapon/Force Weapon, Familiar/Sparkflint, Glass Cannon alone are good for an always on 45% boost to damage. Energy Armor/Pinpoint armor is good for 5% to CHC. This is what I use to solo T1-4. T5 soloing can be a bridge too far for my build. T2 farming is excellent for speed xp ratio, so that's where I stay pretty much.
Yeah, that's the problem I have with Wizard as well. It's a solid class, does decent damage, etc., but I'm just not a fan of how it "feels" when playing. If every map in the game was a series of rooms/corridors, the Wizard would be awesome. But, the more wide open things get, the more things like frozen orb, blizzard, etc. start to break down.
Sentries are pretty good imo, I used them most of the time, they do reasonable damage now, if the fight lasts for more than 5-6seconds then they're insanely effective in hatred. Granted if you're farming white mobs it's shit, it's mostly for rare packs and stuff which I kill. They'd be a fuckton better if they were charge based though, like dashing strikes, so you could drop 2 sentries right away at the start of a fight instead of dropping one then waiting then dropping another.
I also stay on T2 because some champ packs take too long to kill on T3 (and I'm too squishy). Energy Armor is something that I think I am going to change to soon because Storm Armor just doesn't seem worth it.
I had that issue until I started doing them on Torment 2. Torment 1's drop rate just seems flat wrong, so if you can manage it try that shouldn't be that much of a difficulty jump.
WD pets changed A LOT since back in the day, they tank super well and do decent DPS. The passive that summons sycos is very op atm.
Eyashusa's posted covered all the bases.
After you get the plans from the A4 warden, you can also farm him for a random key, apparently.
