Diablo 3 Witch Doctor

One of the playable characters in Diablo III and known as the representation of fear and plague, this character class has a strong spiritual powers whose attacks are more on summoning creatures from your worst nightmares which then aides him in battle.

Skills

The Witch Doctor relies on Summoning Magic to defeat his enemies. Strong in spiritual powers, he is undoubtedly weak at close range fighting. It is advised that players using this class to buff up their mana, health and resistance points asap.

Skill Tiers

The Witch Doctor’s skill types are Plague, Spirit and Voodoo

Plague

Locust Swarm

Summons a swarm of locusts that attack enemies until they’re skeletons, and then moved on to another target.

Plague of Toads

Sends out toads which poison enemies that stepped on them.

Corpse Spiders

A skill that creates a zombie which releases spiders summoned from the ground that attack your enemies.

Skull of Flame

Throws an interesting projectile – a burning skull – at enemies.

Jungle Fortitude

A passive skill that increases the Witch Doctor’s Vitality by adding 5% to your Strength, Dexterity and Willpower.

Hex

Summons a caster, called Fetish, which will run around for about 6 seconds casting hexing spells at your enemies.

Pit of Fire

Summons 4 Fetishes who will surround an area and then cast it on fire.

Firebats

Summons bats-on-fire that will hovel above the Witch Doctor then swoops down and ignite fires as they go.

Acid Cloud

Forms cloud above targeted enemies and then rain acid on them.

Blood Rites

A passive skill that makes the health globes picked up by the Witch Doctor actually increases his spell damage.

Fetish Army

Summons an army of Fetishes that will fight with you.

Spirit

Mass Confusion

Summons a spirit that will confuse the hell out of your enemies which in turn causes them to attack each other or just stand around. You can tell the affected enemies by the blue swirl over their heads.

Haunt

Summons a spirit that will possess an attacker’s body until it drains of life.

Spirit Vessel

A passive skill wherein you will get additional mana whenever you receive a health globe.

Soul Harvest

Creates a smoke ring colored in blue around the Witch Doctor that will damage enemies caught in it. If the enemy’s health is low enough, the Witch Doctor will steal their soul for mana replenishing.

Rituals

A passive skill that increases your Willpower in accordance to the amount of Vitality you currently have.

Spirit Sense

Another passive skill where if an enemy is low in health, about 25% below their total health, the Witch Doctor will inflicts a certain percentage of damage to said enemies.

Horrify

Summons a scary spirit that will make your enemies run away from you in fear.

Spirit Barrage

Lots of spirits will come out inside the Witch Doctor which will damage nearby enemies.

Ritual of Blood

When activated, this skill will take from your health a percentage of any spell cost.

Spirit Walk

Makes it possible for the Witch Doctor to walk on the Spirit World unhindered.

Meditation

Passive skill that brings a percentage of your spell cost back to you.

Death Pact

A passive skill that lets you gives you immunity to damage for about 6 seconds but only if your health has dropped down to 10%. Effect of this skill be happen every 60 seconds.

Voodoo

Horrify

Summons a scary spirit that will make your enemies run away from you in fear.

Wall of Zombies

Summons a wall of zombies from the ground that attacks as well as block enemies from reaching you.

Summon Zombie Dog

Summons a companion – a pet of sorts – that will fight with you. These undead dogs can be enchanted with fire or poison or they can be used as an explosion device by using the Sacrifice skill.

Sacrifice

Will make the selected undead pet explode, damaging enemies nearby.

Mind and Body

A passive skill that brings back half of health and mana point every second.

Zombie Charger

Summons an angry and rampant Zombie that will attack your enemies.

Grasp of the Dead

Summons several zombie arms from the ground to immobilize your attackers by grabbing on their feet.

Unrelenting Assault

Passive skill that gives a resurrection chance for your undead pets when they died… again.

Gargantuan

Brings forth a giant zombie to fight with you.

Leader of the Pack

Another passive skill that increases your spell damage by a percentage according to how many Zombie Dog you currently under command.

Parasite

A skill that sticks a parasite unto an enemy that will give damage for a certain length of time. If an enemy still has the parasite stuck to it after dying, the corpse will turn into one of your Zombie Dogs.

Ferocity

Passive skill that increases the health and damage points of both your Zombie Dogs and Gargantuan by a certain percentage.