Defense > Offense

Current CI crit witch says otherwise.

Although, I am hoping this gets changed.

Witches have quite a bit of damage to work with. I'm not sure if you are using the right skills.

Cold to fire with firestorm is very deadly if you take cold multipliers with fire multipliers. You also can run exploding zombies and corpse explosion for your main attack to increase damage done using fire skills.


A lot of people overlook fire damage but it can be one of the most deadly if used right.

When you talk about critical spell builds you are mainly referring to cold build witches. You should not box your build choices just to what everyone else is doing.

Another option is a wand totem witch, with the enrgy shield you can add many more passives to damage, and take the extra totem.

You could make a flicker strike witch using the attack speeds of the shadow with knives and out class a crit shadow.


You can also use blood rage with CI for casting skills and power siphon and use discharge as a main skill. With maximum area of effect, you can tank your energy shield and continuously get the charges you need to explode damage.


I dunno those are a few things off the top of my head, I could think of more builds but my point is to not just try one build that everyone else does and think it's your only option. Ranged players have a lot of interchangeable skills and options to work with.

Also side note: I have no problem with defensive builds being overpowered. It makes sense that some kind of pattern in this stew would be advantageous. Although, I wish the game felt more like rock paper scissors, rather than one-strategy dominates

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SL4Y3R wrote:

Current CI crit witch says otherwise.

Although, I am hoping this gets changed.

That's pretty much the exception to the rule.

Psythos.

I currently have some of the highest damage in game, as well as some of the highest defense.

My point was to the topic that defense nodes are vastly superior, because my build has very very few.

My DPS on diamond can reach a sustainable 18k per pulse. I have 3. If all three hit, that's 54k dmg in a second.

My DPS w/o diamond is 7.5k per.

Unsustainable DPS, I've gotten as high as 70k

All with 10k+ ES.

And again, I hope this changes.

I was regarding the op's post. Sorry should have stated that.