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Inferno Butcher down

Inferno Butcher solo kill 19.5.2018:50pm

Diablo down (Hell)

Diablo down (Hell difficulty) 18.5.2012 12:23PM

LVL 60

Wizard lvl 60 18.5.2012 12:49 AM

And so it begins.... nope 37

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Getting ready vol 2

Vol 2 Optimize your gaming for Diablo 3

Kick Prime Evul's ass

The release of Diablo III is approaching, and many gamers are preparing for marathon gaming, with snacks and coffee in front of your computer to lose the least possible time on other tasks and stay awake as long as possible. You may think sugar is the option to stay awake longer – you’re wrong... you noobs.

Baal the sun god, the god of fertility, or the "lord of flies".

Of course, you have your own methods with Battery, coffee and kebabi. You are heartily welcome to it, but if you want to tweak your diet in a healthy direction, simply read on.
Please note: If you fail or noob around, this article might not be for you, as it’s dedicated to the normal health group.

Everyone loves to tell stories about how they survived LAN parties and had to use extra days, to catch up with the lag of sleeping. Note that I go to D3 release with the same planning as an ironman (3.8 km swim, 180 km cycling, 42 km run). It may seem like an exaggeration, but if you are serious about your hobby, the acceptance from girlfriend, her boobs, friends and family is also better, rather than the ridicule gamers get from non-gaming people. So here comes the gaming optimization and health one-on-one, bum on bum

Step One: Ebix Training

Trying to running a marathon (42 km) with no training is insane; you’ll never reach the finish line. The same principle applies to going from your normal schedule up to a very lengthy, lovely, rewarding mmm, trial in front of the computer; you’ll get a sore arm, irritated eyes, and sore back and ass.

I suspect that most of us have tried longer periods at a computer and thus are in good shape for this – if not, then train it up to it. Train the element. You will not be a better swimmer by playing golf. Now, Diablo III isn’t yet available, but train on other RPGs or even an RTS games that has the same sort of view angle and lots of clicking.Also Minecraft helped me to push the limit with my wrists and world of tanks did the same with my eyes.

The longer you’ve tried to sit in front of a computer and the game, the better you get at it. Use a gaming setup you know when you sit there long. Use what you know or practice in front of your new setup, in good time.

Step Two: Sleep (not for noobs)

There is growing scientific consensus which states that the average adult human should have 7 ½ hours of uninterrupted sleep — every night. Five percent of people, due to odd genetic alignment, only need 6 hours to get the same benefits as the majority. So if we listen to the scientific consensus and my recommendation, its 7 ½ hours of uninterrupted sleep each night. Do this up to Diablo 3′s release and you will be fresher and more powerful. This is the most important advice!

Step Three: Beer and bread

The healthier you eat – the better functioning your body will be. There are plenty of official recommendations for fruit and vegetables, fish, wholemeal bread and dairy products. Those are for noobs and trolls. I will not go into that here, because this is not a question of how to become 100 years and avoid cancer, but how to get the most out of your gaming night at diablo 3 release and get the cancer and die young. Of course, a body built of the right amounts of essential macro and micronutrients, added a good dose of exercise may be the most optimal for your macro and micro.

What to pwn on the day?

First we need to know your energy needs for optimal pwn, to find out how much energy you burn per hour while gaming. There are a lot of methods to calculate it using height, weight, physical activity, gender, and age. It does not need to be done exactly when it’s gaming we are talking about.

What is energy? Your body is like zergling. It requires fuel (carbohydrates, fat and protein) in order to function. Your heart, lungs, eyes, brain, muscles, slong etc. require fuel to operate — without it they will eventually halt. If you one day you get too little energy, your body takes it from your fat and muscle depots ("pwn storages"), to maintain cell division, the agencies’ functions and more. The converse is also true; if you get too much energy, your body will just deposit it in your "fail stores".

An average normal person gaming Diablo 3 burns 600 kJ (to convert it to calories, divide by 4.18 = 143.5) per hour, you can get 600 kJ from eating two bananas. By comparison, burning rate is 4,000 kJ per hour when running at an average marathon speed.
With this we can conclude that the game Diablo 3 is not so energy consuming that it is necessary to eat protein bars and sugary drinks to feed your body enough energy during this physical expression. Normal food items will be more than enough.

When I was in Assembly 2011 I wondered often over these people who voluntarily sat and drank 1 ½ liter cola while gaming. Their body just sat quietly, and they had no shadow of a need for 165 grams super readily available carbohydrate. Well, you should probably accept that people who sit quietly and consume cola, is doing this because of taste and they just want to fail, enjoy themselves and become noobs.
So what to eat then?

Two to four days before Diablo 3 servers go live

Fluid

Too little fluid reduces your ability to concentrate. Too much and you lose time to constant pee breaks. Measure your fluid needs as follows: Weigh yourself at the weight, go inside and play computer for 3 hours, without taking anything for eat or drink. Now go out and weigh yourself again. Now you have an estimate of how much you approx should be drinking. Depending on your weight, size and temperature in the gaming room, it’s hard to come by an average of much fluid your body must have. Fear not, your brain tends to be good to tell when it’s thirsty.

Morning and afternoon before Diablo 3 servers go live.

Eat regular food without sugar – simple and ebin.

Evening before release.

Make sure to have dinner with lots of fiber and starch. Complex carbohydrates will give a good blood sugar concentration and a long flow of energy for a long time. Pasta, potatoes,kimchi noodles and rice with lots of vegetables, is the perfect formula. Make plenty of it, so you have something extra to the following night and morning hours.

When I was thinking about fibers went and bought heavy fiber dry bread to boost up my fiber intake. Ingestion of many fibers will do good, you may need to visit the toilet more often, but also means that you will complete your visit to the toilet quickly. If you used to be a rusty catapult in the toilet, then with a high fiber diet, it will be like a bazooka on the toilet. PewPew and you’re done within 1 minute. Fibers drags fluid to the intestine, and will make your stool more smooth. Enjoy.

Glucose/sugar

Low blood sugar. It is not good, we lose concentration, become irritated, miss-micro and feel uncomfortable (same symptoms of high blood sugar – wnich you get by eating and drinking sugar). Low blood sugar, is something we all heard of, many believe they have tried it, but few have. Our bodies can handle 2½ -3 hours of hard physical training before blood glucose levels in the body will fall hard. Computer gaming is not very demanding, so there will never come a time when sugar is needed for a gamer. Drink therefore rather light products without sugar, so you’ll still taste and get caffeine.

Instead of sugary products (soft drinks and candy). Have the following at your computer side. A bowl of fresh fruit, water, brown bread and a caffeine products – then you have all the energy you need.

Sweet, tasty godly... Caffeine

Caffeine is the most widely used stimulant in the world, and is found in more than 60 different plants. How it works, I’ll skip over – it just works. This increases performance, and can ruin your sleep patterns, which is good here because you need to keep you awake longer than usual.

The important thing here, how much should be consumed and when. Caffeine takes approx. 1 hour before it reaches its maximum level in the body. If you consume 3-5 mg caffeine / kg body weight pr. day there are no or only mild side effects. Are you overweight, then stick to a max of 400 mg per day.

Juhla Mocca Coffee — 225 ml — 118-179 mg

Starbucks coffee — 225 ml — 250 mg

Nescafé — 225 ml — 106 mg

Red bull — 225 ml — 80 mg

Other energy drinks(EU) — 225 ml — 80 mg

Coca-cola — 330 ml — 46 mg

Regular tea — 225 ml — 43 mg

Pepsi — 330 ml — 40 mg

Green tea — 225 ml — 30 mg

Hot cocoa — 225 ml — 8 mg

Caffeine pill — 200mg

Last words, good bye see you next week.

Is it healthy not to sleep? Not really, you need sleep or your body will collapse at some point. Danger signs are:

Hard sweats

Hardcore character dies

Blood in stool

Swollen lymph nodes

If you get any of above, please go to sleep or call a doctor, if feeling really bad.
So what if you dont give a shit? If you just want to have a fun night with lots of sugar. Be my guest, but you will have less concentration and will fall a sleep before the Erozz on a starch-rich diet, taking moderate caffeine and avoiding sugar. noobs

Also watch:

An army marches on its stomach.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

I was already getting late in my D3 plans: sleep rhythm was distracted, my flat was not equipped to handle hardcore gaming and my food storage was empty as air. My mental state is now perfect for upcoming challenge so there was time to get to shopping. 

First the most important: the electric kettle. That cost me about 25euros as I had no need for larger than 1,2 liter hot water at one time. I also bought some kimchi korean noodles which will be tested to during this weekend. Disposable cutlery were also necessary to prevent any dishes caused by random visitors: tables, forks, spoons, knifes... all at least for 25 people.

Also I supplied myself with 1,5kg of coffee to be brewed during the marathon. And to counter the negative effects of such a lovely amount of that caffeine glory I bought some orange-mango Gefilus drink.

Forecast between 15th and 20th is not yet stabilized so in case of bad weather i bought some ice cube.

There is much to be done and so little time. My wrist started to hurt other day but now its back in shape. I better focus a bit more on my wrist practise.

Getting ready

Getting Ready vol. 1

There is no question about Diablo 3 being one of the biggest releases in game industry on this year.
While waiting for this great game can be agonising and boring, it sure doesn't have to go to waste.
Preparing for this future masterpiece is mandatory to achieve greatest gaming experience.

Things we are focusing on this post will be following:

1) Preventing gaming injuries and fatigue
2) Proper nourishment
3) Sleeping cycles
4) Mental preparation

 1. Preventing gaming injuries and fatigue

First we need to focus on physical preparations as those often take the longer time to make noticeable difference to gameplay.
We focus on larger muscle and tendon systems as the stress on index finger and distal phalanx is much lesser than past Diablo games.

Some stuff that has helped me to relief my mouse hand pain.

Aside from getting up and taking breaks:

1) I use more than one mouse.

2) I switch to a tablet/laptop every now and then. Some tablets come with mice, so if you have the space, the tablet can replace your mouse pad and you can switch between mouses as the mood/need suits you.

3) I've have a good degree of ambidexterity and frequently use my off-hand when I'm doing non-gaming.

4) Trying different table heights. This seems very effective indeed.


Things to do before long gaming session:

1) Take pain killers. Usually 400mg for every 2-4 hours is enough.

2) Make sure to have your hands warmed up. Having hands warmer than core temperature is more than perfect. Good hand warmups are for example: doing dishes or using devices such as power ball. The perfect air temperature for optimal muscle function is about 26C. While this might not be good room temperature, the temperature can easily be met with proper clothing on arms.

3) Use sports tape or band-aid on your wrists to reduce friction between hand and mouse pad. Band-aid also helps with problems that occur on long gaming sessions like sores and skin peeling off from wrists.

You will be able to push your hand to reach higher gaming durations and better dexterity in hard situations.



There is a possibility to construct 2 archs to support monitor over head. This way it could be possible to play Diablo 3 in horizontal position. The idea is yet to be tested.

 Gaming rhythm

I'm planning to have a gaming routine in 1h cycles. It will include some stretching, fast workout, eating, mental exercise, new positioning and ergonomy check. I'm testing these times with game called minecraft. Minecraft puts your mouse hand in extreme stress and simulates well the Diablo 3 play deep after the release when the gaming has become fluent. I might have to extend the cycle to 1h 30minutes but as I said the we are still in beta state in this matter.

50min pure gaming

 5min phase 1
 5min phase 2
* special event

Pure gaming:
 in this phase you will focus on your game 100% and get into flow.

Phase 1:
 This 5minutes should include the physical exercises with big muscle groups and flexing. It is easy to execute these while you are still in the flow after the "pure gaming" phase. In this phase you also do all other physical needs and get to toilet if needed. None of the previous should distrupt the Diablo 3. Only little handicap is allowed.

Phase 2:
 This 5minutes has the nourishment and the mental exercise in it. In this phase you take your mind of the game and allow it to rest little while checking your goals. Also you should think the game out of the box and try to get the higher level of understanding the game. In this phase your gaming should be continuous with little handicap.

*Special event:
 Toilet break.(aka. BB) should occur during the phase 1 as you can workout and flex while having the BB. Its important to ready up your wc so you do not have to take your mind of the game to try to remember where you stored your toilet pater for example. Also the eye exercises** are done when taking BB.

Eye exercise for D3**

While being one of our most important gaming tool the eyes come under great stress during our gaming marathon. To be sure our important tool is in great shape the following easy exercises should be done. (picture) 1) scanning: scan slowly with your eyes doing banana and circle shapes around the eyes. This helps to stretch the eyes. 2) Wiener: Put your fingers at front of your face and look far at the back of your room to for a hod-dog between your finger. Then focus on your fingers to make hod-dog disappear. This relaxes your eyes after long periods of focusing your monitor. 3) Face palming: Warm up your hands with water or friction by rubbing your hands together. Then place the palms on your eyes to warm them up and give them 15-20seconds "Time Of Darkness". Do not let them to fall to followers of Prime Evils during this time.

2. Proper nourishment

Good nourishment is one of the most underrated aspects of extended gaming. Foods advertised for gamers by common beliefs and tv-ads are very often "no no" for a true gamer.
It is better to take down gamers daily feast bit by bit and focus these major mistakes one by one.

There is no breakfast, lunch or dinner in gamers timetable... only meals so there is no point going into meal specific details.

Common gamer meal:

3dl of Coca Cola
200g Saarioinen Jauhelihapizza

Total energy: 652kcal
Downtime: 61 seconds

Professional gaming meal examples:

1st Example:

Noodles and oil 123kcal +44kcal
banana 95 kcal
2dl mango gefilus drink 100kcal

Total energy 362kcal
No downtime in this situation.

2nd Example:

peanut butter sandwich 327 kcal
2dl hot chocolate / coffee 240kcal / 8kcal

Total energy 567kcal
Downtime: 20 seconds

To make sure the gamer gets all needed vitamins and minerals he should eat food supplements.
For this diet i choose RedRam Combat Pak. It fills all the daily needs what ever you end up missing in the previous simple meals. 

These meals of course need some preparations: Noodles need to be ready in bowls. Also noodles should be crunched to enable drinking of noodles.
Water heater needs to be also in reach of the left hand.

(Downtimes were calculated from average of 5 attempts.)

• Add oil to noodles to slow down the digestion. Don't go over the top with this one as half a tea spoon is enough for on portion.
• Bananas keep your hunger away.
• Peanut butter gives high energy-weight ratio to food.
• Gefilus mango drink helps to prevent indigestion.
• Hot chocolate alternative to coffee

Professional notice: 

As the continuous sitting and staying still doesn't do good to stomach, some people take laxative during the day. This is not necessary if you take care of your dental hygiene with xylitol gum.
I write more about my food preparations day before the release.

(The nourishment part of the article was written after 2h  discussion on matter with Helsinki's top professional food expert. Who also has experience on real time strategies.)

3. Sleeping cycles

Most people only think that there is one way to sleep: Go to sleep at night for 6-8 hours, wake up in the morning, stay awake for 16-18 hours and then repeat. They are so wrong. Actually, that is called a monophasic sleep cycle, which is only 1 of 5 major sleep cycles that have been used successfully throughout history. For example there is tribes in Africa whose members never sleep longer than 2hours. Salvador Dali  and Da Vinci took a nap once in a while and did not sleep longer than 1 hour. That is how Dali made his dream like paintings and Da Vinci had time to do his research.
 

We should introduce the common sleep cycles before deciding which is best suited for our use:

EVERYMAN CYCLE
20h of Diablo 3
4h of Sleep

One 3 hour nap and three 20-minute naps

No negative effects on their health.

Easy to adjust

DYMAXION CYCLE
22h of Diablo 3
2h of Sleep

Sleep for 30 minutes every 6 hours.

Bucky Fullers sleep cycle, that can be maintained at least for 2 years with no health problems

Hardest to adjust

UBERMAN CYCLE
~21,5h of Diablo 3
~2,5h of Sleep

20 to 30 minute naps every 4 hours (by Da Vinci)

Highly efficient

Impossible to miss naps without feeling horribly tired

Can be maintained at least 6months with only positive health effects


SIESTA CYCLE (aka. university student sleep cycle) is not worthy as its used by most young people anyways.

So i came to the conclusion that the Everyman sleeping Cycle would be best suited for my needs as Diablo 3 player. The main positive fact is that it is easiest for the "first timer" in the field of optimized sleeping. Now i just need to think about the best possible positioning of the "3hour nap". Should it be during the day or the night? How i make sure it flows nicely with the time when the servers are supposed to go live.

 Good thing about the nap based sleep cycles is the fact that you are easily able to have something called lucid dreaming. In practice it means you would be easily plan your next move in Diablo3 while you sleep: What item to use? What skill is most efficient on current level? That's what I call fuckownage. You just need to focus on the theme you want to dream about before going to sleep. If you have been playing Diablo 3 for day or two it shouldn't be a problem to have Diablo 3 dreams.

I will update what sleep cycle I have chosen in later post. My plan thought is to slowly start waking up earlier every day during the week before Diablo. That should be enough time to get my sleep cycle leaning back a lot to the point I can get to sleep right after Monday work and sleep until servers go live. I will continue this sleep time during that week with 4-6h of sleep. I have experimented with the times and ended up to conclusion that the 5h is the way to go on that week. I will go to sleep about 4:00pm and wake up around 9:00pm. I don't have daylight to help me out with waking up so i will set timer on my halogen lamp to easy up the "morning". I will also push myself to stay awake 1-2h more every day and same time move the sleeping period. This way i will get into natural non-daylight rhythm like astronauts. Astronauts have 16 sunrises per 24h and they sleep only 6h and have 24h< day cycles. 

Weather

Now we have the problem of weather. Gaming in heat it is not pleasant and efficient sleeping also becomes hard. I studied the forecasts of western Finland between 15.5. and 19.5. Also i found the historical averages. I used 3 respected forecast sites to find idea of the weather.


It seems there will be at least tiny bit of rain what is always good. Also the night temperatures will be perfect for gaming. 


It seems Nephalem are blessed with great weather.

4. Mental preparation

So we have our body, stomach and brains physically ready for our tough challenge. Most of  the time actually the psychological barriers come before the physical. Maybe the best way to start to make sure we are mentally ready for our Diablo 3 marathon is to study how one gets mentally ready for marathon. While marathon running the unique challenge is keep the mind strong and in control when the body begins to break down and rebel against continuing. This is something i will surely face during my gaming. Late in long LAN-parties, for example, after 48 hours of a Diablo 3, the body says, "I get the point, we can stop now." It communicates this message loudly in the form of pain and butthurt. If the mind gives in to those messages, then your APM will slow down or stop, thus immediately failing to achieve your goal. But if you can ensure that the mind resists those messages and commands your body to keep going, then the body will respond (assuming sufficient fitness and manageable conditions) and you will reach your goal.

The easiest way to start preparing to Diablo 3 is to have a goal in game. But finding a goal for myself is not easy. I know only little about the lore. There is no telling how the leveling system and the top level game play is going to be. Picking a goal to aim for is much harder in Diablo 3 than it is for Olympic athlete. It's difficult to have developed the motivation, confidence, focus, and emotional tools to handle the mental demands of the game when the goal is blurred.

Personalities of the people differ a lot and that needs to be taken into consider too. You need to find the best style you can use to succeed. Some like to be alone before the release to focus on their preparations, while others like to socialize to be keep their minds off of the upcoming game and stay relaxed. We won't go too deep on that road. This article would become way too long to be read before Diablo 3 comes out.

Intuition or good strategy?

How to start your gaming marathon? For experienced hard-core gamer the intuition is great tool.
But there is a risk that the intuition, for example, not sleeping and eating well because you feel good, is based on more immediate feelings rather than what is best for later in the "Diabthlon" when it really counts. Many "newbies" make this mistake and change their leveling plan midway and the end result is usually not good. Pushing past your limits should occur before release. After release, you should simply micro up to the limit of what your current fitness will allow you to do. I am thinking about to develop a plan based on my fitness and then have a plan B if problems arise (e.g., need to slow down because of a hemorrhoids started bleeding) and a plan C of owning more if i am feeling good. If i make the wrong choices everything starts to go wrong.

I will continue on my second post "Getting Ready vol. 2"

LFMotivation

I really should read for tomorrow's exam about hydraulics and pneumatics at the moment, but as I can not motivate myself even a tiny bit I will rather refresh my mind by talking bullshit in this very dead blog of ours!

I have heard rumours about incoming blog post considering the preparation for D3 launch. Meanwhile, I'll keep you updated about my status on the game.


Diablo 3: Book of Cain, the mighty tales written by Deckard Cain himself, was ordered by myself a few  days ago and I am waiting for it with great ambition. Although, I am digging my own grave with the order since all my tests are on the go right now, and I suppose the professor ain't going to accept any D3 lore for an answer in a math exam (Should I give it a shot, tho?).


I also got my chance to try out the D3 Beta, with  help of a generous friend. I really enjoyed the game, even tho it was only Beta, and especially I liked the Witch Doctor gameplay. The gameplay was smooth as intented, all spells were useful and the minions were OVERPOWERED as I assumed :D. It's fun to play a class that is ranged and got minions to tank for you.

The lore was quite interesting from the beginning, I suppose the Fallen Star that fell on Tristram was a Black Soulstone, that Azmodan, one of the lesser evils, will be coming to get back or to destroy during the events of Diablo 3. Also my interest in Deckard Cain's book got higher since he is trying to find out (in D3) why there was no attack by demons to the Sanctuary after the Worldstone was broken in the end of D2.


Now, back to the world of pneumatics. See you soon, in the Sanctuary and the gates of Burning Hells & Heaven! Anless out.

Ma WD is called..

Firstly, I must admit that I am very well known among my mates for my excellent name choices for the characters I play in all games. Let the names be unknown for now, but thereby, this time I am going to have an epic background supporting my name for the cruel Witch Doctor!  

Let’s begin with the little knowledge that Abd al-Hazir has brought to us by investigating the Torajan Jungles that cover the southern tip of the great eastern continent, in which Teganze is located, the place where Witch Doctors come from.

 

“This area is extremely secluded, and heretofore unseen by foreign eyes. I was fortunate to befriend the witch doctor I saw in battle, and, through him, his tribe: the Tribe of the Five Hills.- Abd al-Hazir”

The race of the tribes living in the Torajan Jungles is Umbaru and their culture is faschinating:

 “The Tribe of the Five Hills frequently engages in tribal warfare with other clans, but these are matters of ritual and not of conquest. Victories may replenish their supply of raw materials for the human sacrifices that their civilization revolves around.- Abd al-Hazir”

“Upon further discussions with my hosts, I discovered that these tribes define themselves by their belief in the Mbwiru Eikura, which roughly translates to "The Unformed Land". This belief holds that the true, sacred reality is veiled behind the physical one we normally experience. Their vitally important public ceremonies are centered upon sacrifices to the life force that flows from their gods, who inhabit the Unformed Land, into this lesser physical realm. - Abd al-Hazir”

“The witch doctors are finely attuned to this Unformed Land and are able to train their minds to perceive this reality through a combination of rituals and the use of selected roots and herbs found in the jungles. They call the state in which they interact with this other world the Ghost Trance.- Abd al-Hazir”

“Alongside the primacy of the belief in the life force and the Unformed Land, the second most sacred belief of the tribes is their philosophy of self-sacrifice and non-individuality, of suppressing one's self-interest for the good of the tribe. - Abd al-Hazir”

All the bolded pieces from the Abd al-Hazir’s investigations portray my Witch Doctor and thereby, after half an hour of thinking the new name of my Witch Doctor will be Bmlarq, which is related heavily for the “Mbwiru Eikura” that seems to be the language of the tribe. Also the two letters in beginning (Bm-) relate to beast master since I am going for a minion handler, aka summoner spezialisation. The last 4 letters refer to “large arge”, aka large rage. Letter L for large, arq for rage.

Anless Out.

MF Summoner

 I was thinking about creating a Witch Doctor

MOAR DOTS AND MINIONS!!

Shortly after the decicion, reading through some forums I found an interesting article about WD MF (Magic Finder) Summoner.
The idea is to wear as much as possible MF stat in your gear and equip a powerful melee weapon, with high physical weapon damage. The build is called Summoner-build because of it's boost for your minions. Your minions' damage (for today's knowledge) is depending only on the weapon damage, so Witch Doctor itself is able to wear full MF gear and still be sufficient damage through minions and it's own spells.

Here is a possible build to be used:

Witch Doctor Summoner Build

1. Grasp of the dead - gropping eals dmg increases (a lot) with better weapons. Emenies will stay on their spot anyway, fighting minions.
2. Sacrifice - next of kin supply us with new ammunition. Sacrifice not having any cooldown allow us to spam explosions with a little luck (especialy when Big bad voodoo is used, see below)
3. Zombie dogs - leeching beasts to keep us alive. A good balance between leech tanking (along with thorns dmg from items, see passive skills) and exploding needed.
4. Gargantuan - restless giant to keep bosses busy, our main tank
5. Fetish army - fetish ambush for that extra spike damage when needed. After thinking it over i decided its better than additional fetishes or reduced cooldown. If every fetish does that 250% spike damage it will probably do more than another 3 fetishes by their normal attacks during all their life time
6. Big bad voodoo - always used along with fetish army in order to maximize damage. Boogie man allows us to continuously spam sacrifice

Passives:

1. Jungle fortitude - a must have for any summoner build, we don't want our pets do die in one hit right?
2. Zombie handles - another a must have skill for pure summoner
3. Fierce loyalty - this was hard choice, but i think it wins over Tribal rites or Circle of life.

Stacking gear with thorns, replenish life and MF is going to be priority. Its nice to have some higher goal than just MF.

Now that I have my class more or less decided, I'm off to think about the Character's name and professions. Untill then, Anless out.
                            
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