Do you want to play a crazy speed build in Season 19 of Diablo 3? Then try the exploding chicken with the Manajuma set. Fun is guaranteed.
What kind of build is this? You are playing a Witch Doctor build that has proven itself in previous seasons. As a small, crazy chicken, you run through the world of Diablo 3, letting your golems beat everything in their way. In your form as a chicken, you have a significantly increased running speed, which is essential for a speed farm build.
Keep in mind that this playstyle is not intended to push you to the highest levels of Greater Rifts. Here, fun is clearly the focus. It comes from the simple mechanics and the high speed with which you clear the Nephalem Rifts.
How is it played? Most of your damage comes from your companions. You do use active skills like Wall of Death or Piranhas, but the pets handle the rest for you.
A portal run goes something like this: You activate dogs and golems, cast the Wall of Death to activate its buff.
Then you run as a wild chicken to the elite enemies, wait for your pets to arrive and clear everything in the Piranado, and then run to the next group.
The whole thing is accompanied by the silly clucking that your chicken transformation makes.
Why do we recommend this? I, Patrick, enjoy playing this build every season in Diablo 3. It is my “I’m going to switch off my brain and farm a bit” build. It’s also excellent for watching Netflix on the side. The build is incredibly simple to play and feels a bit silly with the crazy chicken. A good way to take a break from more serious, brutal builds.
This is not an unknown build – some may already know it. Nevertheless, we recommend it to those who have not played it yet or need to be reminded of it.
There are many other speed builds in Diablo 3 that you can try out. To climb to the top in the Greater Rifts, we recommend these best classes and builds from Season 19 in the Tier List.
Which skills for Chicken Speedfarm?
Use these skills and runes:
- Wall of Death with Seance
- Piranhas with Piranado
- Golem with Gigantify
- Summon Zombie Dogs with Life Link
- Spirit Walk with Spiritual Journey
- Hex with Angry Chicken
For passive skills, use: Unwavering Will, One’s Suffering, Feast and Between Light and Shadow or – as a safer option – Vessel of the Spirit.
What gear for the Chicken Speedfarm in S19?
For this build, you wear 5 pieces of the Helltooth set. Additionally important is the Manajuma set. Additionally, you need pieces that provide you with more toughness and your pets more damage.
- Head: Helltooth Mask
- Chest: Helltooth Tunic
- Shoulders: Helltooth Mantle
- Legs: Helltooth Legguards
- Feet: Helltooth Greaves
- Hands: Tasker and Theo
- Waist: Goldwrap
- Wrists: Nemesis Bracers
- Amulet: Traveler’s Pledge
- Ring: The Short Man’s Finger, The Compass Rose
- Weapon: Manajuma’s Carving Knife
- Offhand: Manajuma’s Gory Fetch
What’s in Kanai’s Cube? As additional items, you activate in Kanai’s Cube: The Furnace, Jeram’s Mask, and the Ring of Royal Grandeur.
What you put in the cube depends on your loot luck. If you have already found a Ring of Royal Grandeur and are wearing it, you can activate the Short Man’s Finger in Kanai’s Cube first if you cause more damage that way. You should equip the two best of the three rings and then put the third in the cube.
Which Legendary Gems to use? You can experiment a bit with the gems to see what you like. For the Goldwrap belt, Boon of the Hoarder is appropriate. Then also Enforcer to buff your companions and Bane of the Trapped for even more damage.
Socketing should have a Flawless Royal Emerald in the weapon, a Flawless Royal Amethyst in the head, and Flawless Royal Topazes in chest and legs.
Paragon Points: If you haven’t reached Paragon level 800 yet, then prioritize this:
- Basic:
- Movement Speed > Intelligence. If you have problems with toughness, alternate your points between Vitality and Intelligence.
- Offensive:
- Cooldown > Attack Speed > Critical Hit Chance > Critical Hit Damage
- Defensive:
- All Resistance > Armor > Life > Life Regeneration
- Adventure:
- Area Damage > Resource Cost Reduction > Life per Hit > Gold Find Bonus
Difference between Greater Rift and Rift in the Build
In Greater Nephalem Rifts, you do not use Goldwrap as a belt and replace it with Krelm’s Buff Belt or the Witching Hour . This also frees up a new slot for a legendary gem. Use Zei’s Stone of Vengeance or Esoteric Alteration.
This is because no gold drops from enemies in Greater Nephalem Rifts, and therefore you cannot exploit the combination of Goldwrap and Boon of the Hoarder.
Season 19 is still running with the cool season buff in Diablo 3. But soon, a new chapter will be knocking at the door:
