Demon Hunter Natalya Rain of Vengeance Build

Last updated on Aug 26, 2022 at 10:00 by Deadset 7 comments

Welcome to our build guide for Natalya Rain of Vengeance Demon Hunter in Diablo 3. Here, you will learn everything you need to know to play this build at the highest level. This build is updated for Patch 2.7.4 and Season 27.

For more information regarding followers, we advise you to read our follower guide, which contains detailed advice on choosing the skills and the gear of your companion.

This build is no longer relevant in Patch 2.7.5.

1.

Introduction

The Natalya Demon Hunter takes the elegance of Strafe Strafe into a potent tool that resets the cooldown of Rain of Vengeance Rain of Vengeance through the power of the Natalya's Vengeance set. This bursty, control oriented build is meant for solo progression, but we have a speedfarming variation available (see link just below).

2.

Quick Reference

2.1.

Skill Setup

The basic skill setup of the Natalya Rain of Vengeance Demon Hunter is displayed below. Read the dedicated Skills page for detailed information on choices, alternatives and build customization.

Active Skills
Left Mouse Button Entangling Shot Icon Entangling Shot Justice is Served Justice is Served Right Mouse Button Strafe Icon Strafe Drifting Shadow Drifting Shadow 1 Rain of Vengeance Icon Rain of Vengeance Anathema Anathema 2 Fan of Knives Icon Fan of Knives Pinpoint Accuracy Pinpoint Accuracy 3 Smoke Screen Icon Smoke Screen Special Recipe Special Recipe 4 Vengeance Icon Vengeance Dark Heart Dark Heart
Passive Skills
2.2.

Gear Setup

The required gear setup for the Natalya Rain of Vengeance Demon Hunter is listed below. Check the Gear page for detailed information on choices, alternatives, gemming, Kanai's Cube and Paragon distribution.

2.2.1.

Angelic Crucible Sanctification

Season 27 comes with the theme of Angelic Crucibles — consumable items that empower Legendary items with perfected Ancient-level stats, as well as infuse them with one of three unique, powerful, class-specific abilities at random. For this build, we recommend aiming for the Vengeance Vengeance Sanctification, which adds the following power to your build:

  • Vengeance Sanctification: Casting Vengeance unleashes a barrage of rockets that deal damage equal to a percentage of the maximum life enemies possess. The number of rockets fired increases over 30 seconds. Elites and Bosses receive less damage per rocket.

Use Angelic Crucibles on an item that crosses over most (if not all) variants of a build, and is also an item that is relatively harder to perfect than other slots (since sanctifying an item maximizes its stats). In the case of this build, a good candidate for Sanctification is Dawn Dawn, which is present across all variants of this build.

You can read more on Angelic Crucibles and the sanctification process in our dedicated Angelic Crucible Mechanics guide.

2.3.

Legendary Gems

2.4.

Kanai's Cube

3.

Changelog

  • 26 Aug. 2022 (speed farming page): Added Season 27 Angelic Crucible recommendations.
  • 26 Aug. 2022 (gear page): Added Season 27 Angelic Crucible recommendations.
  • 26 Aug. 2022 (skills page): Skills and passives reviewed for Season 27.
  • 26 Aug. 2022 (this page): Added Season 27 Angelic Crucible recommendations.
  • 13 Apr. 2022 (speed farming page): Guide reviewed for Season 26.
  • 13 Apr. 2022 (gear page): Guide reviewed for Season 26.
  • 13 Apr. 2022 (skills page): Guide reviewed for Season 26.
  • 13 Apr. 2022 (this page): Guide reviewed for Season 26.
  • 09 Dec. 2021 (speed farming page): Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
  • 09 Dec. 2021 (gear page): Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
  • 09 Dec. 2021 (skills page): Reviewed for Season 25.
  • 09 Dec. 2021 (this page): Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
  • 21 Jul. 2021 (speed farming page): Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
  • 21 Jul. 2021 (gear page): Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
  • 21 Jul. 2021 (skills page): No changes required for Season 24.
  • 21 Jul. 2021 (this page): Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
  • 01 Apr. 2021 (speed farming page): Added follower recommendation.
  • 01 Apr. 2021 (gear page): Added follower recommendation.
  • 01 Apr. 2021 (skills page): No changes required for Season 23.
  • 01 Apr. 2021 (this page): Added follower recommendation.
  • 18 Nov. 2020 (speed farming page): Added S22 Cube recommendation.
  • 18 Nov. 2020 (gear page): Added S22 Cube recommendation.
  • 18 Nov. 2020 (skills page): No changes required for Season 22.
  • 18 Nov. 2020 (this page): Added S22 Cube recommendation.
  • 30 Jun. 2020 (speed farming page): No changes required for Season 21.
  • 30 Jun. 2020 (gear page): No changes required for Season 21.
  • 30 Jun. 2020 (skills page): No changes required for Season 21.
  • 30 Jun. 2020 (this page): No changes required for Season 21.
  • 12 Mar. 2020 (speed farming page): No changes necessary for Season 20.
  • 12 Mar. 2020 (gear page): No changes necessary for Season 20.
  • 12 Mar. 2020 (skills page): No changes necessary for Season 20.
  • 12 Mar. 2020 (this page): No changes necessary for Season 20.
  • 21 Nov. 2019 (speed farming page): Overhaul of the page for Season 19.
  • 21 Nov. 2019 (gear page): Expanded stat priority, paragon points, and gems sections. Added a potion section.
  • 21 Nov. 2019 (skills page): Reviewed for Season 19.
  • 21 Nov. 2019 (this page): Gear and skills do not change for Season 19, but the guide was revised in many places with better and more comprehensive explanations.
  • 23 Aug. 2019 (speed farming page): Squirt's Necklace is now the recommended amulet.
  • 23 Aug. 2019 (gear page): Flavor of Time is the recommended amulet in Season 18.
  • 23 Aug. 2019 (skills page): Reviewed for Season 18.
  • 23 Aug. 2019 (this page): Item recommendations were revised for Season 18.
  • 16 May 2019 (speed farming page): Guide was reviewed and approved for Season 17.
  • 16 May 2019 (gear page): Guide was reviewed and approved for Season 17.
  • 16 May 2019 (skills page): Guide was reviewed and approved for Season 17.
  • 16 May 2019 (this page): Guide was reviewed and approved for Season 17.
  • 17 Jan. 2019 (gear page): Added suggestions for the baseline Ring of Royal Grandeur for Seasonal characters.
  • 17 Jan. 2019 (skills page): Information was reviewed and approved for Season 16 with no changes required.
  • 17 Jan. 2019 (this page): Guide was revised with additional recommendations for Season 16.
  • 20 Sep. 2018 (this page): Guide was reviewed and approved for Season 15.
  • 14 Jun. 2018 (this page): Guide was reviewed and approved for Season 14.
  • 12 Nov. 2017 (skills page): Updated the passive selection to better reflect the need for single target damage.
  • 30 Oct. 2017 (speed farming page): Reworked speedfarming variation to include Sage's set.
  • 30 Oct. 2017 (gear page): Added mentions of Fan of Knives throughout the paragraphs and adjusted stat priorities.
  • 30 Oct. 2017 (skills page): New rotation that incorporates Fan of Knives.
  • 30 Oct. 2017 (this page): Merged Fan of Knives variant into the main build.
  • 01 Jul. 2017 (this page): Updated guide for 2.6 and moved it to the new format.
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