GoD Hungering Arrow Demon Hunter BiS Gear, Gems, and Paragon Points (2024)

The build takes advantage of the full Gears of Dreadlands set bonuses,taking all six available pieces and opening up the jewelry for the damagemultiplication bonuses of the Bastions of Will set. You will be obtaining asmuch tankiness on pieces like the Dystopian Goggles (along with CritChance), the Galvanized Vest and Antique Vintage Boots. Thisallows you to focus on CDR and offense stats on pieces like the Mechanical Pauldrons (with both Area Damage and CDR as desirablerolls), the Gas Powered Automail Forearm (with double Crit stats, CDR andArea Damage), and even the Cold Cathode Trousers (where Hungering Arrowskill damage is a possible roll).

Taking all six available set pieces allows you to run purely offense-basedjewelry, and you will be filling the ring slots with none other than theBastions of Will set — Focus and Restraint. Thisring set multiplies your damage as long as you alternate between a resourcegenerating and resource spending attacks, which is a requirement you fulfillby interweaving a manual Hungering Arrow shot at least once every 5seconds as you channel Strafe. You will finish off your jewelryselection with Squirt's Necklace, which nets you an additional damagemultiplier. The former favorite The Flavor of Time should now be slottedon your follower, and its power will be transferred to your character via theEmanate mechanics.

You will be wearing Hunter's Wrath as your belt; this is a naturalinclusion in a primary skill damage-based build, as it not only increases therate of your primary attacks with a baked-in attack speed bonus, but also hasa varying damage increase to primary skills. Naturally, try to obtain as highof a damage bonus as you can. Stats-wise, you are looking for Dexterity,Vitality, All Resistance and Hungering Arrow % bonus — this is yourother armor piece besides the pants that can boost your skill damage.

A staple of Demon Hunter builds — especially as far as progression isconcerned — you will be taking Wraps of Clarity as your bracers.Their effect is simple yet potent, halving your incoming damage as long as youregularly use a hatred-generating attack. Note the bracers' synchronizationwith the Bastions of Will set, which solidifies the rotation into a primaryskill shot at least once every 5 seconds to keep both bonuses up.

One of the ideal weapons for the build is the one-handed crossbow Dawn — with Vengeance being a universally desired buff,reducing its cooldown up to 65% and achieving permanent uptime through gear isan opportunity you cannot pass lightly. Its companion will be the dedicated Strafe one-handed crossbow Valla's Bequest. Valla's Bequest allows you to proc your 4-piece bonus more frequently byallowing the same Strafe projectile to create multiple hits. Whilethis is not a direct skill damage buff, it does scale with monster density inrifts, and in ideal circ*mstances and good positioning will outshine thealternatives for this slot.

Another option you can viably alternate the second slot to a is the Fortress Ballista. A third, all-out on damage option is to wield Odyssey's End (slotting Entangling Shot over Shadow Powerand applying the damage buff on freshly engaged enemies), equipping The Ninth Cirri Satchel in your offhand, and cubing the ever-useful Dawn.

For Offense stats, try to obtain Hungering Arrow % bonus on both the belt andthe pants. Get Cold elemental damage on both the amulet and wrists (maximum of40%), Crit Chance and Crit Damage within a 1:10 ratio (ideally over 50% and 500%,respectively), and Area Damage of 150%+. This is generally a cooldownreduction-reliant build; you be striving to reach at least the 37% CDR breakpointfor permanent uptime of Vengeance, but ideally over 50% by spreading aCDR roll on most pieces you can (shoulders, gloves, both weapons, amulet, helmgem, Paragons).

For Defense stats, aim for a life pool of about 500-600k; dropping as much asyou can for offense as you grow accustomed to the build. You will mostly sustainthrough Simplicity's Strength secondary effect and Shadow Power, sodedicated sustain rolls on gear will not be necessary.

All augmentations on gear should be done with your main stat, Dexterity.

Note that the stat suggestions below portray an ideally rolled item withstats listed in relative order of importance. The first four of them are mainstats, and the latter two — secondary stats. If your item lacks and isunable to be rerolled into the primary stats outlined below, especially for astat higher on the list, strongly consider its replacement. Perfecting Secondarystats is mostly a case of hyper-optimization and is not a case for discarding anitem, except where noted.

To help you with farming the gear you need for your builds, we have two veryuseful guides that you can access by clicking the links below: a Salvage Guide tohelp you quickly check whether or not you can safely salvage a piece of gear anda Legendary Farming Guide to help you efficiently farm legendaries and set items.

The former Season 28 theme, the Altar of Rites, has been revised andre-added to Diablo 3 as a permanent character progression mechanic. — Forvirtually all builds and players of all skill levels — from casual toadvanced — we recommend progressing through the Altar tree using the pathoutlined below. The suggested path is geared towards maximum quality of lifefirst, then amplifying damage, and then mopping up the tree with defensive andedge case utility nodes.

Note that while they require reaching them with a Seal, Legendary PotionPowers are not part of the Seal cost system; Potions unlock with a separateresource called Primordial Ashes, obtained from salvaging Legendary or Setitems of Primal (red bordered) quality. Upgrade them as soon as possible, andin the order shown below (courtesy of Caleko's Altar of Rites planner).

You can read more on the Altar of Rites, Seals and Legendary Potion Powersin our dedicated Altar of Rites Mechanics guide.

In the Core section, max out Movement Speed to the 25% cap. Normally thisis done by dumping the first 50 Core Paragon points into Movement Speed, butif your boots have an imperfect roll with Movement Speed as a stat that youcannot replace, adjust the necessary point investment accordingly by simplysubtracting your roll from the 25% max. After that dump as much as youcomfortably can into Dexterity, but feel free to invest into Vitality if youfeel yourself lacking in toughness, or Maximum Hatred if you want to playaround with a bigger resource pool.

In the Offense section, max out Cooldown Reduction (priority in order tohit the CDR breakpoint for permanent Vengeance), Crit Damage, CritChance, and Attack Speed in that order. In Defense, prioritize AllResistance, then Life %, then Armor, and finish off with Life Regeneration. InUtility, build up Area Damage and Life on Hit first, then finish off withResource Cost Reduction and Globe Radius.

Taeguk is the best hybrid of defense and offense among thelegendary gem options, and continued Strafe channeling will ensurethat your stacks remain capped. Note that there is a viable alteration in thisslot to the pure damage multiplication of Bane of the Trapped.

Introduced in Season 4, Bane of the Stricken occupies a firm spot inyour jewelry sockets during highest end progression. Building up your damagemultiplicatively in prolonged fights and with a level 25 bonus specificallytargeting Rift Guardians, this gem is designed to assist AoE heavy builds inwhittling down the massive RG health pools.

Simplicity's Strength is one of the best DPS gems you can take forthe build, as it was changed into a separate damage multiplication source toprimary skills in Patch 2.4.1. Upgrading with a steady pace of half a percentper gem level, it quickly becomes a priority and a fixture in your gemchoices. Its buffed healing secondary effect is also a great boon to thebuild, as it is one of its few steady sources of health sustain.

When it comes to gear gems, you will start out progression by slotting thehighest available level of Emeralds in the chest and pants sockets. Ideally,these will all be Flawless Royal Emeralds as soon as possible. As yougrow in Paragon (bulking up Dexterity in the Core section) and aim for highertier and more dangerous GRs, you will transition those gems into the defensive Flawless Royal Diamond. There is no specific breakpoint where you dothat; the rule of thumb is to make the change as soon as you feel the lack oftoughness impede your progress. Since you are chasing a specific CDRbreakpoint, slot a Flawless Royal Diamond in your helm. In your weapons,use a Flawless Royal Emerald for the Crit Damage boost.

For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.

The Ninth Cirri Satchel provides a cornerstone power to the build, asit turns the Hungering Arrow piercing from a chance-based effect to aguaranteed one. It also adds a healthy helping of damage multiplication tocement its place in your loadout.

Depth Diggers are a natural inclusion in this generator build, sinceby cubing them you gain the maximized 100% damage increase to your generator(multiplicative damage source as of Patch 2.4.1).

Tucked away in the Cube, Convention of Elements will provide you witha significant damage increase during the appropriate elemental damage cycle— making it necessary that you keep a watchful eye on its rotation, andpreparing fights by drawing enemy clusters closer together during the offcycles.

The Kanai's Cube can be used for much more than simply extracting Legendary powers from items. Pleaserefer to our Kanai's Cube guide for more information.

The seasonal theme for Season 31 will be completely flexible slots forKanai's Cube, which means you can use anypiece of gear in any slot of the Cube.

This is one of the builds where we don't recommend making any changes, sincethe options presented in the default build already make up the strongestKanai's Cube composition possible for the setup.

The recommended follower for this build during solo GR progression is theScoundrel due to his powerful crit buff, allowing you briefwindows of extra damage that are well suited to the strengths of this build.

For more information regarding followers, we advise you to read our FollowerGuide, which contains detailed advice for choosing the skills and the gear ofyour follower.

The preferred potion for this build is Bottomless Potion of Kulle-Aid,which will allow you to break through movement-impeding Elite affixes —generally a problem for builds that move based on channeling effects.