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Fetish Army is a tier VI skill in the Voodoo Skill Tree, which summons an army of fetishes to fight for you. This is the Witch Doctor's only summoning skill that generates a large number of minions, albeit non-traditional, short-lived ones.

Background

Diablo III Skill [e]

Fetish Army Active, 5 ranks
Used by:	Witch Doctor
Skill Description:
Summon an army of level 15 fetishes to fight by your side
Skill Details:
Type:	Summon
Quantity:	Duration
Effect:	Target
School:	Magical
Mana cost:	12 mana
Cast time:	Unknown
Duration:	None
Cooldown:	None
Synergies:	Unknown
Requires:	N/A
Prereq of:	N/A

The Witch Doctor summons forth an army of fetishes to do his bidding.

Skill Design

As of Blizzcon 2009, Nothing was known about the skill other than the name and the written description. Some months later a bit more information was added by Bashiok in a March 2010 forum post. [1]

Fetish army is really the only mass-summon spell the witch doctor has. The fetish army spell effects are coming along too, it's looking pretty amazing.

But it's really more of an AoE that happens to do its damage by sending out little dudes to fight.

The witch doctor is more about using a small number of summons as damage soaks, and then casting spells for the majority of his damage. Some of which are themselves larger one-off summons. He's not a mass summoner, that's just not the intended flavor of the class.

Skill Rank Table

(legend (A) = Assumed)

Rank: 1/5
- Summon an army of level 15 fetishes to fight by your side.
- Mana Cost: 12 mana
Rank: 2/5
- Summon an army of level 16 fetishes to fight by your side. (A)
- Mana Cost: 12 mana
Rank: 3/5
- Summon an army of level 17 fetishes to fight by your side. (A)
- Mana Cost: 12 mana
Rank: 4/5
- Summon an army of level 18 fetishes to fight by your side. (A)
- Mana Cost: 12 mana
Rank: 5/5
- Summon an army of level 19 fetishes to fight by your side. (A)
- Mana Cost: 12 mana

Synergies

None known.

Skill Rune Effects

None known.

Development

Fetish Army was first named in the BlizzCon 2009 demo. It has never yet been seen in use, but is known to still be in the game and to have been iterated quite a bit, visually.

Media

You can find pictures in the Diablo 3 screenshot and picture gallery. Sadly, no images of Fetish Army have been seen:

Diablo 3 screenshots and pictures

References

Full Witch Doctor Skill Trees and Stats

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-'''Fetish Army''' is a tier VI [[skill]] in the [[Voodoo Skill Tree]], which summons an army of fetishes to fight for you.
+'''Fetish Army''' is a tier VI [[skill]] in the [[Voodoo Skill Tree]], which summons an army of fetishes to fight for you. This is the Witch Doctor's only summoning skill that generates a large number of minions, albeit non-traditional, short-lived ones.
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 ==Skill Design==
-A really nice skill, having an army of these pesky monsters by your side is certainly worth it. During the demo, it had the words "Not Yet Implemented" written on it, so it might get changed, iterated or removed when Diablo 3 gets released.
+As of Blizzcon 2009, Nothing was known about the skill other than the name and the written description. Some months later a bit more information was added by [[Bashiok]] in a March 2010 forum post. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blue-posts-on-shields-zookeeper-builds-and-healig-spells/]
+::Fetish army is really the only mass-summon spell the witch doctor has. The fetish army spell effects are coming along too, it's looking pretty amazing.
+::But it's really more of an AoE that happens to do its damage by sending out little dudes to fight.
+::The witch doctor is more about using a small number of summons as damage soaks, and then casting spells for the majority of his damage. Some of which are themselves larger one-off summons. He's not a mass summoner, that's just not the intended flavor of the class.
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 ==Development==
-''Fetish Army'' was first seen in the [[BlizzCon 2009]] demo, and is a new skill. It is unknown if this skill was iterated, at least publicly.
+''Fetish Army'' was first named in the [[BlizzCon 2009]] demo. It has never yet been seen in use, but is known to still be in the game and to have been iterated quite a bit, visually.
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