Witch Doctor Active Skills

Diablo 3 Witch Doctor Active Skills

Witch Doctor active skills come in three trees – each of them offering a different type of bonus to your character. How you play the game will determine which balance of Witch Doctor active skills you select – whether you choose to focus solely on controlling your opponents or you want to deal direct, physical damage to them. Here is a quick breakdown of your options by skill type:

Diablo 3 Witch Doctor Active Skills - Physical Realm

Physical Realm attacks are designed to deal physical attacks that do mostly weapon damage, usually with a poison effect tacked on for good measure. Here is a list of the 9 Physical Realm abilities at your call:

• Poison Dart
• Plague of Toads
• Zombie Charger
• Corpse Spiders
• Firebats
• Firebomb
• Locust Swarm
• Acid Cloud
• Wall of Zombies

There are some pretty impressive skills in this list so what you select will largely depend on what type of character you want to play. Poison is a must of course – so Poison Dart is a good starter and will likely be in your build for a while on auto attack. But Zombie Charger is a powerful upgrade with 140% weapon damage and AoE and only a 30% mana cost increase over Poison Dart. Firebomb is another powerful skill, as is Acid Cloud (though mana cost is pretty high here. If you need AoE and DoT, Wall of Zombies will be a staple for you too.

Diablo 3 Witch Doctor Active Skills - Spirit Realm

Spirit Realm abilities are based on magical attacks like Haunt that deals weapon damage over time and a chain to other enemies. Here are your options:

• Haunt
• Horrify
• Spirit Walk
• Soul Harvest
• Spirit Barrage
• Mass Confusion

This is where you’ll get things like your Fears from Horrify. You can also boost your movement speed and get out of snares with Spirit Walk and you can pull life from your enemies with Soul harvest – a nifty self heal. Mass Confusion is one of your most powerful skills in this tree because it offers a classic confuse (fear with damage!) that lasts a whopping 8 seconds.

Diablo 3 Witch Doctor Active Skills – Command

The final third of the Witch Doctor active skills is the Command list. Command skills are designed to give you unfettered control over your enemies and the undead. It’s a varied list but some truly interesting attacks lie in this grouping.

• Summon Zombie Dogs
• Grasp of the Dead
• Hex
• Sacrifice
• Gargantuan
• Big Bad Voodoo
• Fetish Army

Summon Zombie Dogs is available at level 2 and will likely remain a part of any DPS build for a while. Combined with Sacrifice, you gain a massive AoE physical damage combo that hits for 200% weapon damage. Grasp of the Dead is a fantastic low cost snare with DoT and Hex is the Diablo III version of Sheeping, vital for Co-Op and PvP. Big Bad Voodoo is fantastic too because it has no mana cost and buffs your entire party – when playing with teammates you’ll be expected to carry this skill.

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