Jade Harvester Witch Doctor Speed Farming Variation
Speed Farming
Jade Harvester is a capable speed farming build for both T16 key farm as well as bounties. 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.
Within the limited scope of regular difficulties, the necessary damage and toughness to triumph over the enemy is significantly smaller. Thus, your best course of action is to improve utility and speed.
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Adapting Rotation
When you are speed farming regular rifts, parts of your playstyle will adapt to the lowered challenge and focus more on speed and utility.
While playing standard Nephalem Rifts for key farming, the build still retains
similarities to the GR solo rotation, but pretty much every aspect of the build
is reworked for extra speed an utility, especially when it comes to spreading
DoTs. You zip from fight to fight in Spirit Walk form with the powers of
Shukrani's Triumph, spreading your
Locust Swarm automatically via
Wormwood and spamming
Resentful Spirits. You should have a
Piranhado pull up for every fight with the
Grave Injustice reset,
and you simply follow up with a
Haunt, dive in and
Soul Harvest
the pack. This will more than likely nuke the entire pull, resetting your
Spirit Walk movement and readying up
Piranhado for the next one.
Do not forget to
Horrify your enemies regularly for the movement speed
boost from
Stalker and
Rechel's Ring of Larceny.
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 cross over great distances faster and more efficiently take precedence.
Soul Harvest is still your main damage dealer, attaining all the runes via the Jade set 4-piece bonus and turning from a utility skill into a nuke via the 6-piece bonus.
Haunt is still a major DoT for your rotation, but it is recommended that you use the faster spread of the
Resentful Spirits rune.
- Swap progression-oriented
Locust Swarm runes like
Pestilence and
Cloud of Insects for the superior damage of the
Searing Locusts rune, spreading automatically around with a cubed
Wormwood.
- The protective
Frightening Aspect rune on
Horrify should be replaced by the movement speed boost of
Stalker.
- Just like in progression, the movement speed and invulnerability utility
from
Spirit Walk and the monster pull from
Piranhado retain their value in speed runs.
- Change
Confidence Ritual to
Gruesome Feast, as it undeniably offers the strongest damage increase among its peers, provided you can keep it stacked with health globes — an easy task when farming. Use
Pierce the Veil over progression-oriented passives like
Blood Ritual or
Spirit Vessel. Maintain
Creeping Death (for the lengthened DoT duration, directly increasing your DPS via the Jade set mechanics) and
Grave Injustice (for the kill-based Cooldown Reduction) as build staples.
Adapting Gear
The basics of your gear setup remain the same; however you will equip the
full 6-piece Jade Harvester set and drop the Cpt. Crimson plus
Ring of Royal Grandeur combo from the GR progression setup. This opens up
the jewelry slots for all-out damage and utility items to assist you in speed
farming in the fastest way possible. Stat-wise, the T16 Jade Harvester refocuses
from
Haunt damage into
Locust Swarm damage, and changes from
Poison (or Cold, depending on your progression rune of choice) into Fire
elemental damage. The remaining 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, attained via the cubed
Wormwood.
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
suggested ring for the setup is a Cold damage
Stone of Jordan, which
provides a consistent elemental and elite damage bonus. You should have the SoJ
equipped, since its elemental and elite bonuses cannot be extracted in the Cube;
pair it with your better rolled item between
Ring of Emptiness and
Rechel's Ring of Larceny, and cube the worse one.
It should be noted that Avarice Band is a supremely useful legendary
item that, in conjunction with
Goldwrap and
Boon of the Hoarder,
will form a gold triumvirate that keeps you safe and showered in gold as you
farm up T16s. When you are farming solo however, this ring can be equipped on
your Follower, and its power will "Emanate" to you (meaning you gain the
benefits of the item as if you wore it yourself). That being said, in group
farming you will need to wear the
Avarice Band yourself, replacing the
SoJ, since you cannot have a Follower in parties.
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
Goldwrap, as well as crowd controlling monsters prior to
engagements with
Horrify, rendering them unable to retaliate.
Weapons-wise, early on you can stay on Sacred Harvester to bolster the
benefits of
Lakumba's Ornament. The latter however quickly become
survivability overkill once you get the hang of
Goldwrap mechanics; a
good alternative for the weapon then becomes
In-geom, as it allows you to
chain cast
Spirit Walk from elite to elite, clearing the rift
lightning-fast. Another source of additional speed will be found in
Warzechian Armguards, which provide an environment destruction-based
speed boost. Note that the former favorites in the slot,
Nemesis Bracers,
are still quite valuable to the build. In solo play however, they should be
equipped on the follower, and their power will carry over to you via the Emanate
mechanic.
Nemesis Bracers should still be equipped by you in group
play.
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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
Gogok of Swiftness retains its usefulness in T16 farming, as an increase
of both Attack Speed and Cooldown Reduction is universally valuable for Jade
Harvester builds. Offense-oriented, damage multiplication gems should be replaced
by utility;
Bane of the Trapped should be replaced by
Boon of the Hoarder, whose interaction with the
Avarice Band and
Goldwrap will keep you rich, safe and sped up throughout the run.
Bane of the Stricken should give way to
Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard,
whose shielding mechanics will safeguard your
Squirt's Necklace damage
bonus.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
In the weapon slot of the Cube, we recommend running Wormwood —
it casts free
Locust Swarms on a regular basis and allows you to focus on
Haunting and pure speed.
You need to maintain Quetzalcoatl in the armor slot of the Cube, as
it is a cornerstone legendary piece for the mechanics of the Jade Harvester
build.
Your jewelry Cube slot will be occupied by your worse rolled item between
Rechel's Ring of Larceny (massive speed boost whenever you Fear an enemy
with
Horrify), and
Ring of Emptiness (massive damage
multiplication against enemies affected by either
Haunt or
Locust Swarm).
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 T16 key farming is the
Enchantress due to her cooldown reduction buff from
Prophetic Harmony, as well as the
Focused Mind attack speed buff.
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: Enriched the guide and added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 22 Jul. 2021: Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
- 01 Apr. 2021: Minor gear revision and added follower recommendation.
- 19 Nov. 2020: Added Cube recommendations for Season 22.
- 01 Jul. 2020: No changes required for Season 21.
- 12 Mar. 2020: No changes necessary for Season 20.
- 22 Nov. 2019: Reviewed for Season 19.
- 23 Aug. 2019: Flavor of Time is the new recommended amulet.
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