Mostly witch doctor stuff

[Aahzmadius]

I would be very interesting to see in-game stats as well as to what level of gearing your normal play group is running with Aahz.

Here are a few of the chars I've run with recently (they don't need Numbing Traps):

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Bulvi...o/40299878
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/tedor...o/41409846
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Soryu...o/44895153

Last night we ran rifts on Master. Sadly, another DH I recently grouped with deeded. Oh, here's that monk that was farming in T1 (Ssthrass only at T3):

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/VTMat...o/35070722

The main thing I see when I look at your character is a major conflict in hatred spenders between your Big Hitter cluster arrow and Sentry. You have a LOT invested into Sentry. Between a slot on your bar, hatred required to cast it (which competes with cluster arrow), an equipment slot in your quiver, and an entire passive slot all dedicated to this one skill. I question how much you are really getting out of this compared to how much it is costing you.

Do you feel the damage reduction from your Sentries/Passive is necessary to keep your team alive?

Sentry is a solid skill, primarily as something to DPS while I kite. It doesn't cost that much from a resource standpoint, since it's a fire skill (Cindercoat). It shines in a couple of places: Cursed events and Rift Guardians. 4 sentries against the guardian helps burn him down fast. Now having said all that, I'm not in love with Numbing Traps...what would you recommend?

With your gearing you should be able to swap some things around and practically snore through T1 by fully committing to the cluster arrow/non-hatred generator build.

If you were to switch over to the full cluster arrow build I would expect to see your damage shoot through the roof and any loss in the defense from Sentries would probably be gained back in sheer killing speed.

I still consider this character an alt, so I'm not willing to commit a ton of resources to it. The drops have guided my skill choices; some crafting will fill in some Toughness holes. But I still kill pretty fast, even on T1. While I don't doubt that some better gear would allow me to switch to a non-hatred generator build, it's going to be awhile before I build that up. Or maybe tonight a Kridershot will drop; I'll gladly switch to that in a heartbeat!