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My impression with hwoj wrap was that it was nice with bane of the trapped, but there were better options.

Here's what I'll be doing, and what I would recommend as a starter setup for season 5:

- jade headpiece, quetz mask in the cube, ditch RoRG since you don't need it anymore

- goldwrap on your character, and with the ring slot, you can now fit avarice band in somewhere. Goldwrap/avband/hoarder gem is a combo that does a great job of giving Jade everything it's ever wanted but rarely had: movement speed, invincibility, and huge pickup radius.

This setup leaves out both haunting girdle and hwoj wrap, but the way I see it, those just don't have anywhere near the same impact as the goldwrap combo. And by the way, since this is a starter build, I think it's worth mentioning that avarice band and goldwrap are both relatively easy to get compared to hwoj and the girdle, since avarice band comes from bounties and goldwrap seems to be a pretty common drop for legendary belts.

For grifting, I'd still go with quetz in the cube--you have three really powerful ring options, and I'd rather spend the armor cube slot on the mask than sacrifice one of those rings. Waist slot could be girdle, or hwoj, or even belt of transcendence. My choices for rings would absolutely be ring of emptiness in the cube and convention of elements, and then probably the new endless walk set.

Then again, this isn't the best set for endless walk compared to, say, a lot of channeling builds. If I didn't have that then I guess I may as well wear both ring of emptiness and CoE, and then cube RoRG. It'd save me from having to find the jade helm right away. Edit: but even then it'd only be a stepping stone until I get either endless walk or a couple of unity rings.

Here's an actual starter build if anyone is interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfGFsJH2A48

What is the elemental damage of locust swarm? Fire because of the rune or poision because of the mojo? Just curious

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What is the elemental damage of locust swarm? Fire because of the rune or poision because of the mojo? Just curious

Locust Swarm takes the damage of the rune on your bar.

Could anyone tell regarding Wormwood mechanics plz?

Looks like it works even if you don't put Locust Swarm into skill slot. I'm not sure, if it will work with Vile Hive mojo.

Will not it be better to preserve the skill slot and instead of Locust Swarm put something else like Hex\Big Bad Voodo even dogs\Garg into skill slot? Sorry if it's noobish question)

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Could anyone tell regarding Wormwood mechanics plz?

Looks like it works even if you don't put Locust Swarm into skill slot. I'm not sure, if it will work with Vile Hive mojo.

Will not it be better to preserve the skill slot and instead of Locust Swarm put something else like Hex\Big Bad Voodo even dogs\Garg into skill slot? Sorry if it's noobish question)

It will cast a vanilla Locust Swarm without a rune if you don't have it on your skill bar. If you run Vile Hive + Wormword it will cast Pestilience without having Locust Swarm on your skill bar.

Yep, Vile Hive dropped for me yesterday and i can confirm, that it works well with Wormword well!

But my quesiton is following: Won't it be better to sacrifice the ability to manually cast locust swarm + Searing Locusts rune for Something like Hex spell with +30% more damage rune or Big Bad Voodoo? What your opinion?

starter build @ hellfire amulet

Isn't it better to replace Boon of the Hoarder with Mutilation Guard or Esoteric Alteration to survive better?