Arachyr Corpse Spiders Witch Doctor Greater Rift Speed Farming Variation
Greater Rift Speed Farming
The Arachyr Corpse Spiders Witch Doctor is a viable Greater Rift Speed Farmer, managing to retain the core strengths of the GR progression build but also able to adapt for a more aggressive playstyle that is well suited to the needs of speed GRs. We have solo speed GR rankings and solo speed T16 rankings if you want to know more about which builds are best for speed farming.
During lower tier Greater Rift farming, the balance between defense, damage and utility can be shifted to favor the latter two aspects of character building.
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Adapting Rotation
When you are Speed Farming Greater Rifts, your playstyle should at least partially reflect the circumstances by focusing on massive pulls, generic bonuses against enemies and chaining pylon effects.
The build maintains the entirety of its GR progression rotation, but is much
more aggressive in engagements and much more relaxed on the rotation. You still
want to maintain maximized stacks of Soul Harvest, at least up to the
baseline damage reduction of
Lakumba's Ornament.
Horrify continues
to be the accompanying defensive cooldown, but it will assume a much more utility
driven angle with speed combo buff of
Stalker and
Rechel's Ring of Larceny.
Shukrani's Triumph keeps you flying through
Rifts at high speeds with near-permanent
Spirit Walk, and during Speed
GRs you can be a lot more frivolous with how you spend its buff. At its core,
you still want to find a thick clump of enemies, cast
Piranhado in their
midst and mow them down with
Corpse Spiders, as
Pestilence
auto-spreads around from
Wormwood and guarantees you the
Ring of Emptiness damage bonus.
Adapting Skills
Parts of the skill and passive selection will overlap with the base Greater Rift progression build, but others will have to change according to the task at hand. Ability to burst down enemies quicker takes precedence.
- Your main damage dealer remains
Corpse Spiders, taken with the hard-hitting
Widowmakers rune.
Ring of Emptiness remains a valuable source of damage multiplication, meaning
Locust Swarm
Pestilence still finds its spot in the build during GR speed farming. You will be free of the concern to manually cast it however, as a cubed
Wormwood can take care of that for you.
- Grouping monsters is just as valuable in progression as it is during speed
farming, so
Piranhas
Piranhado remains a fixture across variations as an invaluable pulling and monster control tool.
- The duo of protective skills from GR progression,
Soul Harvest and
Horrify, keep their value during GR speed farm as well. Protection from
Lakumba's Ornament is still paramount in any reasonably high Greater Rift, so you need to ensure you harvest at least a few (depending on your item roll) enemies for its baseline effect, and the rune
Languish offers the perfect defensive complement.
Horrify retains some defensive value due to its base effect, but it doubles down on movement speed utility through the rune
Stalker and the skill interaction with
Rechel's Ring of Larceny.
- With its immense movement speed power and added offensive angle because of
Shukrani's Triumph,
Spirit Walk remains in the build during GR speed farming. Adjust to the rune
Severance for even more speed.
- Parts of your passive lineup retains its value during GR speed farming;
Confidence Ritual still matches your fighting range, while
Grave Injustice offers invaluable cooldown and regenerative bonuses. Due to
Wormwood autocasts, you can drop
Creeping Death and insert a failsafe tool against mishaps in he face of
Spirit Vessel instead. Another good adjustment is replacing the additive
Pierce the Veil damage buff with the stronger, but clear speed reliant
Gruesome Feast — a relatively easy buff to maintain during GR speed farming.
Adapting Gear
The foundation of your gearing will match the GR progression build, as you
still rely on the 6-piece set bonus of Arachyr to deal damage and continue to
wear 5 of the 6 available pieces, swapping either Arachyr's Visage for
Mask of Jeram, or
Arachyr's Legs for
Depth Diggers depending
on your better rolled legendary item (the other one will go in the Cube). You
will retain the full 6-piece bonus of Arachyr by using
Ring of Royal Grandeur in the Cube. The remainder of your major equipment
slots is split between
Corpse Spiders-synergistic items with
The Spider Queen's Grasp and
Brood of Araneae, and generically useful
Witch Doctor items with
Lakumba's Ornament and
Shukrani's Triumph.
The actual adaptation and changes will happen in your jewelry, where you need
to swap from the slow paced, rotation-oriented combo of the Endless Walk set
( The Compass Rose and
The Traveler's Pledge) into more
speedfarm-appropriate gear.
You will keep Ring of Emptiness from the GR progression build, as it
provides a time- and pacing-agnostic damage bonus at the mere cost of including
Locust Swarm in the build. Another great ring for GR speed farming is
Rechel's Ring of Larceny, whose movement speed bonus will be triggered
constantly via
Horrify. The third required ring for the setup is
Ring of Royal Grandeur, but due to its weaker innate primary rolls it is
recommended as a Cube item; nevertheless, if your
Ring of Emptiness rolls
badly on its legendary property, it is quite viable to equip the RoRG and cube
the RoE due to the former's uniform legendary power.
Finish off the jewelry with the powerful damage multiplication from
Squirt's Necklace. Take heed of its downside (increase in damage taken,
as well as loss of the damage buff as you take hits) and try to safeguard its
bonus with
Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard, as well as crowd controlling
monsters prior to engagements with
Horrify and
Piranhado,
rendering them unable to retaliate.
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To help you with farming the gear you need for your builds, we have two very useful guides that you can access by clicking the links below: a Salvage Guide to help you quickly check whether or not you can safely salvage a piece of gear and a Legendary Farming Guide to help you efficiently farm legendaries and set items.
Adapting Gems
The entirety of your legendary gem selection from GR progression retains its
full value in GR speed farming as well. Bane of the Trapped,
Enforcer and
Simplicity's Strength all bring excellent damage
multiplication value to the build irrespective of the GR difficulty you
undertake.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
You will replace the staple Sacred Harvester from progression in this
slot for the automated convenience of
Wormwood, which casts
Locust Swarm on its own and procs
Ring of Emptiness for you.
As previously mentioned, you will be wearing your better rolled item between
Depth Diggers and
Mask of Jeram, and extracting your weaker rolled
one in the armor slot of the Cube.
In order to maintain the full 6-piece Arachyr set bonus and get a synergistic
legendary on top, you will need to use the Act I bounty cache legendary
Ring of Royal Grandeur in the jewelry slot of the Cube.
The Kanai's Cube can be used for much more than simply extracting Legendary powers from items. Please refer to our Kanai's Cube guide for more information.
Follower
The recommended follower for this build during GR speed farming is the
Enchantress due to the myriad of helpful buffs from all her skills,
which you will attain by equipping her with Hand of the Prophet and then
decking her out in survivability gear. Her most important buff remains
Focused Mind, since it is very helpful in reaching the attack
speed breakpoints described in the GR progression build.
For more information regarding followers, we advise you to read our Follower Guide, which contains detailed advice for choosing the skills and the gear of your follower.
Legendary Potion
The preferred potions for this build are Bottomless Potion of Kulle-Aid
(allowing you to break down Waller affixes that impede your positioning) and
Bottomless Potion of the Tower (whose Armor-increasing properties complement
the naturally high All Resistances stat of Witch Doctors). Pick whichever you
feel helps you out the most.
Changelog
- 14 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 06 Dec. 2021: Guide revised according to the latest changes to the Arachyr set.
- 07 Nov. 2021: Guide added.
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