LoD Spirit Barrage Witch Doctor Group Progression Variation
Group Greater Rift Pushing
This variant is archived, meaning that we are leaving it on the site for documentation purposes, but it will no longer be actively updated.
The Spirit Barrage LoN build is the top tier group Greater Rift pushing build for the Witch Doctor class. This variation is no longer the preferred AoE DPS spec for groups, but you can still build it and play it in your group with a reasonable degree of success.
Adapting Skills
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The following skill selection alterations will be necessary:
- Changing
Piranhas
Piranhado and
Spirit Walk
Severance from the soloing build into
Grasp of the Dead
Death Is Life and
Sacrifice
Provoke the Pack. The former two are a monster grouping and a survival tool respectively, and both these tasks are taken care of by Support teammates in groups. The latter combination will net you a nice 20% increase of damage.
- Changing
Grave Injustice (mainly a reset tool for your soloing invulnerability cooldown,
Spirit Walk) into
Gruesome Feast — a staple DPS passive that gets fed by globe spawning support teammates.
Adapting Gear
You will simply need to exchange The Barber for
Voo's Juicer.
This is the other
Spirit Barrage-related legendary that only gets
overlooked when soloing due to the power of
Sacred Harvester in keeping
you alive.
Voo's Juicer has a natural
Spirit Barrage damage roll
however, edging over the competition when survival is no longer a concern.
You will still retain the powers of
The Barber in the Cube.
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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.
Season 28: Altar of Rites
Season 28 comes with the theme of the Altar of Rites — a powerful new account-wide and Season-specific progression system that brings tremendous offensive and defensive buffs to every seasonal character. For virtually all builds and players of all skill levels — from casual to advanced — we recommend progressing through the Altar tree using the path outlined below. The suggested path is geared towards maximum quality of life first, then amplifying damage, and then mopping up the tree with defensive and edge case utility nodes.
Note that while they require reaching them with a Seal, Legendary Potion Powers are not part of the Seal cost system; Potions unlock with a separate resource called Primordial Ashes, obtained from salvaging Legendary or Set items of Primal (red bordered) quality. Upgrade them as soon as possible, and in the order shown below (courtesy of Caleko's Altar of Rites planner).

You can read more on the Altar of Rites, Seals and Legendary Potion Powers in our dedicated Altar of Rites Mechanics guide.
Adapting Gemming
In a group Greater Rifting setup, your role will be the AoE damage dealer.
Since killing the Rift Guardian will no longer be your concern, you need to
exchange Bane of the Stricken for
Pain Enhancer. Due to
Spirit Barrage's excellent scaling with Attack Speed and the clumps of
monsters created by Support teammates, this "APS per bleeding enemy in radius"
gem will net you the highest DPS gain.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
As previously mentioned, you will be cubing The Barber in order to
retain the damage accumulating powers of the ceremonial knife.
Due to the numerous stuns and freezes available to your Support teammates,
you can take advantage of one of the strongest damage reduction sources in the
game by cubing Ancient Parthan Defenders.
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.
Legendary Potion
Your recommended potion is Bottomless Potion of the Tower, whose
Armor-increasing properties complement the naturally high All Resistances stat
of Witch Doctors (due to Intelligence scaling Resistances) for optimal
survivability.
Changelog
- 22 Feb. 2023: Added Season 28 Altar of Rites recommendations.
- 14 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 22 Jul. 2021: Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
- 01 Apr. 2021: Added potion recommendation.
- 19 Nov. 2020: Added Cube recommendations for Season 22.
- 12 Mar. 2020: No changes necessary for Season 20.
- 22 Nov. 2019: Reviewed for Season 19.
- 23 Aug. 2019: Archived variant.
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