About 50 seconds in rhykker was talking about "I only had a couple hours to put this together" and I glance away from watching the chicken on the video to his little box. Thought for just a second he was so rushed putting it together he forgot a shirt. That orange shirt was close enough to skin color combined with how small my phone is, lol.
I'm REALLY looking forward to this build IF for no other reason than we can have the Chick-fil-a war in the "not cow level" that we've deserved to have in D3.
@@DirtyShroomz305compared to D2. D4 is no better in terms of gearing. Really even in D2 you sim for certain items. D3 is more like god mode to me. The others are much slower paced. I enjoy all of them personally. If you push high enough everything one shots you in D3. You could just play on normal the whole time and never struggle.
7:10 If Spirit Barrage-Manatou counts as a pet (ie a minion), they need to turn it into the feathery poultry god Quetzalcockadoodle that throws serene roosters everywhere. It’s a must. ☝️
The chicken doc was my favourite build way back when and the reason why my WD has 300+hrs playtime over my next class. Happy to see it get buffed. Maybe if they let the D4 druid change into a chicken then I'll try playing it again.
I cannot express how much I hope the max paragon does NOT go up any higher. At MOST 1k would make sense. But no more of this, "Which streamer can get the most viewers to power level them." meta. The cap being where everyone can reach it in a reasonable fashion is just so nice. There's already farming up a full set of primals to keep people going for something to grind for. Especially if you plan on playing multiple classes.
I am so cluckin excited for D3, gonna season start WD for sure. To me the class felt cool for pushing but a little too clunky for speedfarming, no longer!
I'm gonna play season 29 I prefer d3 over d4 sadly. I wanna try out this build also I and gonna eventually grind out all the stuff from last season on my non season toons
1000 Paragon would be a nice and even number - 2000 is a mark I often don't reach per season because of life. Somewhere in-between like 1600 seems to be pretty fair.
Cannot believe im actually more excited for this than s2. I thought about d4 stuff daily for like 3 years. I just need the excitement and chaos and it just doesnt have it
I found , at least at lower levels, to use set piece of Arachyr gloves then put Swapland waders or Hex Pants on for more Poison damage. I tried that Helmet Andariels Visage that uses Elemental damage plus hits enemies with poison nova while withing 10 yrds and it work very well as it added another poison damage.
of note: spirit barrage is not buffed by the arachyr set. The damage is irrelevant from this skill, it is only used to stack stricken and spawn fetishes.
"Guardians best in slot" Hard disagree. Captain Crimson's set for me. Remember, Lakumba's ornament does a ton of damage mitigation as well, on top of spider, and now turning into a chicken. If you need more, Aquila's Curass in cube. Not to mention, more CDR, more damage. More resource cost reduction, more damage reduction to you. Keep with wormwood, because Arachyr increases locust swarm damage as well. I would switch to cluckeye, but the problem is, it gets rid of your pets. If it only transformed fetishes, that'd be a different story because getting those guys up is easy with Visage of Guyas - you'd just kill two elites, then transform to chicken. Boom, done.
That's interesting, maybe it's Cluckeye for pushing, as you can work into a rotation of summon pets, then chicken to detonate them, but then use Wormwood in speeds so it auto-applies locust so you benefit from Ring of Emptiness passively
@@etrosknight2254Wormwood is also good for Aquila Curass because it means you're not using mana, unless you need to trap enemies in piranhados, thus maintaining an extra uptime of additional 50% DR and keeping you alive in pushing rifts. It also means you don't need to break out of hex to cast it either, you're allowing more chicken bombs to shoot out of you.
They're going to have to do something else with the cluckeye. The 200% is nice. However, the turning pets into chickens part is pointless. Especially for speed content. There is no reason to run pets on this build. They all explode then you have nothing. Those skill slots could be put to better use. Maybe if there was an addition that read all pets turned into chickens have their cool down reset. That way you have them to turn into chickens every time you use hex. I tried several variations and in the end I ran with no pets and worked off the 30 free chickens you spawn.
I thought spirit barrage and wall of death were for stacking bane of the stricken because the baby chickens that are spawned don’t stack it. Does anyone else know for sure?
Imagine working at blizzard and seeing that a decade old game is played more than your millions budget AAA 2023 hack'n slash, get your shit together D4 dev team, the game is awful. Hire the D3 team to make seasons, it can only make the game better.
its such a waste using your cube power for ring of royal grandeur when your cubed power always maxes out the legendary effect, so I dont get why no one uses that for your ring of emptiness come on people you hurt my brain!
Been running the chicken for speed for years. Was it the best speed-farm build. Absolutely not. So why did I keep running it? Because when I was Angry, I conjured my gear (chair), sat down, pressed 1 and started running around like a headless chicken while wishing the pest upon everyone (with wormwood) and simply had fun watching things go boom. For me, it was and always will be the best build. Forever a S-F tier for me. S-F, for Solid FUN. *)
Man WD is still broken. I want to spam all my PET skills, angry chicken to the next location, BOOM! Spam pet skills, angry chicken, BOOM. But no, we still have Lakumba's, and RoE. Manajuma's Way Set "Angry Chicken turns all your pets into exploding chickens that follow you and explode dealing 100% explosion damage when your angry chicken explodes. Angry Chicken explosion damage is increased by 300% multiplicative damage for each active pet skill. Angry Chicken lasts 15 seconds and movement speed as a chicken is increased by an additional 100%. While in Angry chicken form and for 5 seconds after, gain 30% damage reduction for each active pet skill. Pet skill cooldowns are reduced to 5 seconds." If they fix pet status (so only creatures running around are classed as pets) and do that, we are set.
I've been playing a Witch Doctor for the first time, having a blast so far. Even after a few hundred hours if not a couple thousand hours of playing over the years, I still have no clue how everyone levels and gears so fast. Are people having people give them gear and take them around to level up or something? Ive got probably 20 hours into my WD this season and I've only got like 3 pieces of the build gear and barely 100 paragon levels with my brother getting probably 65 of them when he plays his season character during the day. Any tips anyone can offer about ways to get stronger a bit faster? I'm on GR 25 and not able to get anywhere near the time to advance, takes roughly 35 minutes or so.
@@shadf7902how does everyone level so fast? My brother and I have both been playing on the same season account and are barely over 100 after almost a week lol.
A KFC build into my favorite game ? I gotta love that.. XD Plus it's so ridiculously easy to play as well XD I just started playing one for the lolz in speedfarming only during S32 (can't use any Ethereal since you need Manajumas, which is sad lol), and I already love it xD At least I can have some fun while farming the Witch Doctor ethereals for the achievement XD
Sigh...everytime I play, or see D3 played now, it shows how D4 is such a disappointment of how many more monster variations there are in D3 where D4 has a VERY much lower beastiary. I miss the "Bogans" from the swamp area of D3 when playing D4. Also miss the pets and companions. D4 has such potential. They really need to buff that whole game to get it up to speed with D3 features. Also, I main Witchdoctor in D3 so this Chicken build looks awesome! 🤘
No doubt WD chicken will be nerfed, that is always what happens to WDs! I haven't started D4 yet, I really wanted to have a go with D2res first. Old single and very casual player here thinks that D3 S29 might be as much fun for crappy players such as myself as was S28!
Looking forward to S29!! Way better than d4 S1 in my opinion. S30 is probably going to beat S2 of d4 as well. xD Anyway. PLEASE do not raise the paragon over 1k. I think 800 is perfect, because it forces us to make decisions, and that's 1/2 the point of making this change. It nerfs the power creep, while also giving us a new way to strategize.
I was not even aware that was a reward at one point. I made a post a while back at the D4 forums for them to roll Whimsey and the cosmic wings into D4. It was not well received lol. With how unsatisfying D4 is I might give D3 and this biuld a go again.
It took em over a decade, but we've finally got the build we deserve.
Dont forget the fire bara build !
After so many bad hours with D4, it's just refreshing to see the beauty of D3 again.
About 50 seconds in rhykker was talking about "I only had a couple hours to put this together" and I glance away from watching the chicken on the video to his little box. Thought for just a second he was so rushed putting it together he forgot a shirt. That orange shirt was close enough to skin color combined with how small my phone is, lol.
I'm REALLY looking forward to this build IF for no other reason than we can have the Chick-fil-a war in the "not cow level" that we've deserved to have in D3.
Always liked WD, but the past builds were not tenable as other classes. Glad to see they got some love final season!
Mundunugu bis
"This is D3, not D4!" I seriously lol'd at that. Preach brother Rhykker!
We need WD is D4. It’s CRIMINAL how this class has been erased between DI and D4
D4 is horrible, it needs WAAY more thsn a witch doctor class lmfao. How bout an endgame, or endgame spells, or itemization that makes sense.
I’m playing Ptr/chicken/ssf right now. Thanks for the guide my man. Hope you’re enjoying your time in Germany!
I have never played WD in season. I'm pumped to reinstall and rock this chicken build next season!
Well you just convinced me to come back and create my 20th WD, this looks so fun!
Finally, D4 killer
exactly what im thinking
Theres plenty of those, hell watch paint dry or grass grow even...
@@nomadson615it really is the little kid version of Diablo. Meant for those that wanted to play WoW or something like that with Diablo characters
@@DirtyShroomz305compared to D2. D4 is no better in terms of gearing. Really even in D2 you sim for certain items. D3 is more like god mode to me. The others are much slower paced. I enjoy all of them personally. If you push high enough everything one shots you in D3. You could just play on normal the whole time and never struggle.
"Billy Witch Doctor Dot Com, hmm, mostly deal in chickens. ...RISE CHICKEN, RISE!"
😆
7:10
If Spirit Barrage-Manatou counts as a pet (ie a minion), they need to turn it into the feathery poultry god Quetzalcockadoodle that throws serene roosters everywhere.
It’s a must. ☝️
It shouldn't, and if it does, Blizzard will remove it so don't rely on it.
No
Glad that many years passed Chicken Doctor build is still great! I love this very fast build and now it's plus Pet Explosion.
The chicken doc was my favourite build way back when and the reason why my WD has 300+hrs playtime over my next class. Happy to see it get buffed. Maybe if they let the D4 druid change into a chicken then I'll try playing it again.
Rather have the Witch Doctor as a new character
Arise chicken; chicken ARISE!
Nice ATHF reference 👏
D3:You couldn’t live with your own failure and where did that bring you? Back to me
I always play Witch Doctor. I love it. I was Necromancer for 10 years in D2 but now I love Witch Doctor and use a lot of settings that you do.
Witch doctor needs to be in one of the d4 expansions!!!! Please blizzard!!
With that slow and bad D4 mechanics the WD would be unplayable
Witch doctor is ban in china
I cannot express how much I hope the max paragon does NOT go up any higher. At MOST 1k would make sense. But no more of this, "Which streamer can get the most viewers to power level them." meta.
The cap being where everyone can reach it in a reasonable fashion is just so nice. There's already farming up a full set of primals to keep people going for something to grind for. Especially if you plan on playing multiple classes.
I forgot how colorful this game is 😅
Never thought I'd be happy to see a D3 video after D4 was released. But here we are.
Thanks Rhykker! I'm so stoked for ARISE CHICKEN mode at long last
I am so cluckin excited for D3, gonna season start WD for sure. To me the class felt cool for pushing but a little too clunky for speedfarming, no longer!
It was really good during S28 with all the buffs.
I'm gonna play season 29 I prefer d3 over d4 sadly. I wanna try out this build also I and gonna eventually grind out all the stuff from last season on my non season toons
I did it all a million times over. Ima just abandon blizzard lol
Yesssss...chicken build! Best Build! Even when it wasn't a powerhouse, this was my favorite build.
1000 Paragon would be a nice and even number - 2000 is a mark I often don't reach per season because of life.
Somewhere in-between like 1600 seems to be pretty fair.
Ring if emptiness needs to die in a fire
It's sad we waited ages for d4's release just to be more excited for D3 content lol! 🙃🙃
Its really a freaking joke.
I remember playing this in season 3, always wished it was viable again. Here it is. Me happy
ARISE, CHICKEN! CHICKEN, ARISE!
Chicken arise!
Cannot believe im actually more excited for this than s2. I thought about d4 stuff daily for like 3 years. I just need the excitement and chaos and it just doesnt have it
First time playing chicken and I've had the game since launch, very fun!
Thanks for the great content. Hopefully, d4 will have fun seasons like thism
LOL, don't hold your breath...
Only time will tell
yeah in 10 years maybe😓
@@Daniel-hg7px Trading? Lol okayy
"this is D3 not D4". I had a good laugh there.
Love the new short facial hair look Rhykker and yes of course the new upcoming season 29 as well
Im so glad this ain't a D4 video.
I found , at least at lower levels, to use set piece of Arachyr gloves then put Swapland waders or Hex Pants on for more Poison damage. I tried that Helmet Andariels Visage that uses Elemental damage plus hits enemies with poison nova while withing 10 yrds and it work very well as it added another poison damage.
Finally WD get appreciation it deserves
It's a pretty big problem when I'm infinitely more hyped for this season than anything in Diablo IV...makes me sad.....and happy
People being excited about a troll build reflect the current state of the ActiBlizzard
of note: spirit barrage is not buffed by the arachyr set. The damage is irrelevant from this skill, it is only used to stack stricken and spawn fetishes.
It's still 800 Paragon (as of July 2024) you can still add to your core stats though
I loved chicken gargs back in the day, so i know what i'm playing next season
"Guardians best in slot" Hard disagree. Captain Crimson's set for me. Remember, Lakumba's ornament does a ton of damage mitigation as well, on top of spider, and now turning into a chicken. If you need more, Aquila's Curass in cube. Not to mention, more CDR, more damage. More resource cost reduction, more damage reduction to you.
Keep with wormwood, because Arachyr increases locust swarm damage as well.
I would switch to cluckeye, but the problem is, it gets rid of your pets. If it only transformed fetishes, that'd be a different story because getting those guys up is easy with Visage of Guyas - you'd just kill two elites, then transform to chicken. Boom, done.
That's interesting, maybe it's Cluckeye for pushing, as you can work into a rotation of summon pets, then chicken to detonate them, but then use Wormwood in speeds so it auto-applies locust so you benefit from Ring of Emptiness passively
@@etrosknight2254Wormwood is also good for Aquila Curass because it means you're not using mana, unless you need to trap enemies in piranhados, thus maintaining an extra uptime of additional 50% DR and keeping you alive in pushing rifts.
It also means you don't need to break out of hex to cast it either, you're allowing more chicken bombs to shoot out of you.
Literally more excited for D3
They're going to have to do something else with the cluckeye. The 200% is nice. However, the turning pets into chickens part is pointless. Especially for speed content. There is no reason to run pets on this build. They all explode then you have nothing. Those skill slots could be put to better use. Maybe if there was an addition that read all pets turned into chickens have their cool down reset. That way you have them to turn into chickens every time you use hex. I tried several variations and in the end I ran with no pets and worked off the 30 free chickens you spawn.
I thought spirit barrage and wall of death were for stacking bane of the stricken because the baby chickens that are spawned don’t stack it. Does anyone else know for sure?
this is going to be fun! cant wait until friday!
Imagine working at blizzard and seeing that a decade old game is played more than your millions budget AAA 2023 hack'n slash, get your shit together D4 dev team, the game is awful.
Hire the D3 team to make seasons, it can only make the game better.
@@Daniel-hg7px Yep they hire people for their esg score
its such a waste using your cube power for ring of royal grandeur when your cubed power always maxes out the legendary effect, so I dont get why no one uses that for your ring of emptiness come on people you hurt my brain!
I wonder, this worth trying on HC? or purely for Soft? :D
Diablo 3. The BEST!
Witch doctor > necromancer. Also D3>D4 i gurantee D4 won't be a great game until its expansion
hope to see you next week in Cologne at the Gamescom Rhykker. Will be there too.
Been running the chicken for speed for years. Was it the best speed-farm build. Absolutely not. So why did I keep running it?
Because when I was Angry, I conjured my gear (chair), sat down, pressed 1 and started running around like a headless chicken while wishing the pest upon everyone (with wormwood) and simply had fun watching things go boom.
For me, it was and always will be the best build. Forever a S-F tier for me. S-F, for Solid FUN. *)
Man WD is still broken. I want to spam all my PET skills, angry chicken to the next location, BOOM! Spam pet skills, angry chicken, BOOM. But no, we still have Lakumba's, and RoE. Manajuma's Way Set "Angry Chicken turns all your pets into exploding chickens that follow you and explode dealing 100% explosion damage when your angry chicken explodes. Angry Chicken explosion damage is increased by 300% multiplicative damage for each active pet skill. Angry Chicken lasts 15 seconds and movement speed as a chicken is increased by an additional 100%. While in Angry chicken form and for 5 seconds after, gain 30% damage reduction for each active pet skill. Pet skill cooldowns are reduced to 5 seconds." If they fix pet status (so only creatures running around are classed as pets) and do that, we are set.
This almost tempts me to try D3 again. lol
You can also ask me for further instruction, because I'm playing chicken Doc since 2019 every season. Would be cool to share my information with you.
I hope the witch doctor comes back in Diablo4 I miss him 😢
With that slow and bad D4 mechanics the WD would be unplayable
Im like 90% sure that Manitou does not count as a pet, i remember them nerfing Mundu's by making it not count as a pet.
That was the phantasm rune
I wonder why they didnt go with helltooth garg with dogs since all the pets unleasg chickens. Thats a shitload of chickens with permanent pet uptime
Now this is pod racing.
what about blessed shield crusader? Haven't seen one testing it yet
I've been playing a Witch Doctor for the first time, having a blast so far. Even after a few hundred hours if not a couple thousand hours of playing over the years, I still have no clue how everyone levels and gears so fast.
Are people having people give them gear and take them around to level up or something?
Ive got probably 20 hours into my WD this season and I've only got like 3 pieces of the build gear and barely 100 paragon levels with my brother getting probably 65 of them when he plays his season character during the day.
Any tips anyone can offer about ways to get stronger a bit faster? I'm on GR 25 and not able to get anywhere near the time to advance, takes roughly 35 minutes or so.
Wish it had just a bit more chicken uptime. Chicken burst damage is really impressive. 😂😂
wait a minute ?! they buffed my number 1 spec in D3 ? ?? i will go back to D3 for sure haha
I hope they give us 1000 instead of 800 paragon, thats a nice rounder number.
800 para does nothing, thats day 1 or day 2 of season play. Gonna be a short season.
I was thinking 1200 -- having 300 points for each category lets you max out one stat and then get halfway there on a second.
@@shadf7902how does everyone level so fast?
My brother and I have both been playing on the same season account and are barely over 100 after almost a week lol.
A KFC build into my favorite game ? I gotta love that.. XD Plus it's so ridiculously easy to play as well XD
I just started playing one for the lolz in speedfarming only during S32 (can't use any Ethereal since you need Manajumas, which is sad lol), and I already love it xD At least I can have some fun while farming the Witch Doctor ethereals for the achievement XD
You loved saying the name for this build didn't you 😀
Sigh...everytime I play, or see D3 played now, it shows how D4 is such a disappointment of how many more monster variations there are in D3 where D4 has a VERY much lower beastiary. I miss the "Bogans" from the swamp area of D3 when playing D4. Also miss the pets and companions. D4 has such potential. They really need to buff that whole game to get it up to speed with D3 features. Also, I main Witchdoctor in D3 so this Chicken build looks awesome! 🤘
Yes 6 months ago was whwn that shouldve been 100% completed.
Links worst nightmare 😮
Crazy that builds and gameplay is better in d3 than d4. What a complete failure by blizzard.
We ❤ D3!!!!
3:05 LOL!
speaking of buffing meme item... too bad they aren't doing anything with Horadric Hamburger...
No doubt WD chicken will be nerfed, that is always what happens to WDs! I haven't started D4 yet, I really wanted to have a go with D2res first. Old single and very casual player here thinks that D3 S29 might be as much fun for crappy players such as myself as was S28!
They've never nerfed the chickens. They just let 'em be underpowered, is all.
In Diablo, even chickens run faster than horses! Figure that one out!
When did season 29 is started?
I mean its cool and all, but the PTR can change before final release. I'll wait for the actual season
I play on Xbox One and I don't have the ability to level up my run speed past 50. Is this a PC thing only?
Looking forward to S29!! Way better than d4 S1 in my opinion. S30 is probably going to beat S2 of d4 as well. xD Anyway.
PLEASE do not raise the paragon over 1k. I think 800 is perfect, because it forces us to make decisions, and that's 1/2 the point of making this change. It nerfs the power creep, while also giving us a new way to strategize.
Many people disagree, they're already asking to push paragon beyond that.
Should I go back and farm for those #*%$ cosmic wings that never dropped? I always used this build.
I'm hoping they bring back the holiday gifts, I quit playing in S27 before I knew they were a thing and you could get the cosmic wings from them
I was not even aware that was a reward at one point. I made a post a while back at the D4 forums for them to roll Whimsey and the cosmic wings into D4. It was not well received lol. With how unsatisfying D4 is I might give D3 and this biuld a go again.
So in this build, you are basically an Cucco on steroids after been annoyed by Link too many times.
How do i claim the challenge rift cache on xbox helppp
I thought cluckeye was a bow? How can you use it as well?
cube
Why no Tasker and Theo?
I enjoyed the chicken build even before it was out of F tier. Can't wait to see what can I carnage I can do with it now
just tried this on live and they nerfed it pretty hard guess there is no chicken ataaaaaack
Just go Barb with the immortals kings set.
Basically keeps whirlwind wrath of the berserker and call of the ancients up indefinitely
That doesn't seem like a very optimal way to play. Switch doctor.
Why Rhykker nakie?
Sorry not letting Blizz deviate me from my D4 goals. D3 is officially collecting dust
Blizzard wants you playing D4 bro, you're doing what they want. Gotta keep that player engagement number up
Can we please! Get rid of identifying gear?!
It is the Meme season ... Chicken run, My Little Pony!!! What's next LOL
What the cluck!? 🤔
But it is Diablo 3 and 4 is out...
We won boys
finger lickin good witch doctor!!!!!
Should I buy diablo 4?
Nah,pull out 70$ and flush it down the toilet, you will get the same amount of fun out of that
awesome