Locust Swarm
Level Required: 21
Skill Type: Secondary
Skill Type: Secondary
Cost: 300 Mana
Unleash a plague of locusts that swarms an enemy, dealing 1040% weapon damage as Poison over 8 seconds.
The locusts will jump to additional nearby enemies.
Element: Poison
Runes for Locust Swarm
Skill Runes | Level | Element |
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Pestilence Locust Swarm has a 100% chance to jump to two additional enemies instead of one. | 27 | Poison |
Devouring Swarm Gain 25 Mana a second while the first enemy hit by a Locust Swarm cast is still affected by that swarm. | 33 | Cold |
Cloud of Insects Enemies affected deal 25% reduced damage. | 37 | Physical |
Diseased Swarm Enemies killed while affected by Locust Swarm leave behind a cloud of locusts that deal 75% weapon damage as Poison over 3 seconds to enemies who stand in the area. | 42 | Poison |
Searing Locusts Engulf the enemy with burning locusts that deal 1480% weapon damage as Fire over 8 seconds. | 59 | Fire |
Note: Information on this page is based on a level 70 Witch Doctor.
Locust Swarm Rune Popularity
- This chart shows the popularity of the runes for the Locust Swarm Witch Doctor active skill. Select the blue bars for softcore data, the red bars for hardcore data, or view all the rune statistics in the table display.
- These are the Locust Swarm runes as chosen by level 70 Witch Doctors who are currently playing the Diablo III: Reaper of Souls on PC or Mac in patch 2.3. It can also guide Witch Doctors looking to pick the best Locust Swarm runes in Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition on consoles - the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
- See other Witch Doctor skill data in the Most Popular Witch Doctor Builds and Skills charts.
Locust Swarm Rune Popularity Chart
Popularity percentages for Locust Swarm runes, as used by level 70 hardcore and softcore Witch Doctors. Hightlight the bars on the chart to see the percentages for each Locust Swarm rune.
Locust Swarm Rune Popularity Table
Popularity percentages for the Locust Swarm runes used by level 70 softcore and hardcore Witch Doctors.
Rune | Softcore % | Hardcore % |
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Pestilence | 78.5 | 77.8 |
Searing Locusts | 8.8 | 10.3 |
Devouring Swarm | 5.5 | 3.7 |
Cloud of Insects | 4.3 | 5.8 |
Diseased Swarm | 3 | 2.4 |
No Rune | 0 | 0 |
Charts Last Updated: November 3, 2018