GoD Hungering Arrow Demon Hunter BiS Gear, Gems, and Paragon Points
Below, we detail the items and gems that you should use for your GoD Hungering Arrow Demon Hunter in Diablo 3 and why. We also list your paragon points and Kanai's Cube items. Updated for patch 2.6.10 and Season 22.
Best in Slot Gear and Alternatives
The build takes advantage of the full
Gears of Dreadlands set bonuses,
taking all six available pieces and opening up the jewelry for the damage
multiplication bonuses of the Bastions of Will set. You will be obtaining as
much tankiness on pieces like the Dystopian Goggles (along with Crit
Chance), the
Galvanized Vest and
Antique Vintage Boots. This allows
you to focus on CDR and offense stats on pieces like the
Mechanical Pauldrons (with both Area Damage and CDR as desirable rolls),
the
Gas Powered Automail Forearm (with double Crit stats, CDR and Area
Damage), and even the
Cold Cathode Trousers (where Hungering Arrow skill
damage is a possible roll).
Taking all six available set pieces allows you to run purely offense-based
jewelry, and you will be filling the ring slots with none other than the Bastions
of Will set — Focus and
Restraint. This ring set
multiplies your damage as long as you alternate between a resource generating and
resource spending attacks, which is a requirement you fulfill by interweaving a
manual
Hungering Arrow shot at least once every 5 seconds as you channel
Strafe. You will finish off your jewelry selection with
The Flavor of Time, whose extension of Pylon effects and natural cooldown
reduction roll fit not only Greater Rift pushing attempts for most builds, but
also the general CDR-heavy orientation of this specific spec.
You will be wearing Hunter's Wrath as your belt; this is a natural
inclusion in a primary skill damage-based build, as it not only increases the
rate of your primary attacks with a baked-in attack speed bonus, but also has a
varying damage increase to primary skills. Naturally, try to obtain as high of a
damage bonus as you can. Stats-wise, you are looking for Dexterity, Vitality,
All Resistance and Hungering Arrow % bonus — this is your other armor piece
besides the pants that can boost your skill damage.
A staple of Demon Hunter builds — especially as far as progression is
concerned — you will be taking Wraps of Clarity as your bracers.
Their effect is simple yet potent, halving your incoming damage as long as you
regularly use a hatred-generating attack. Note the bracers' synchronization with
the Bastions of Will set, which solidifies the rotation into a primary skill
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 is an opportunity
you cannot pass lightly. Its companion will be the dedicated
Strafe
one-handed crossbow
Valla's Bequest. While this might seem counter-intuitive
(and it is suspected to be an unintended interaction),
Valla's Bequest
allows you to proc your 4-piece bonus more frequently by allowing the same
Strafe projectile to create multiple hits. While this is not a direct
skill damage buff, it does scale with monster density in rifts, and in ideal
circumstances and good positioning will easily outshine the alternatives for
this slot.
If Valla's Bequest is to be perceived as an exploitative mechanic, you
can viably alternate the second slot to a tanky choice like the
Fortress Ballista. Another all-out on damage option is to wield
Odyssey's End (slotting
Entangling Shot over
Shadow Power
and applying the damage buff on freshly engaged enemies), equipping
The Ninth Cirri Satchel in your offhand, and cubing the ever-useful
Dawn.
Desired Stats, Breakpoints and Other Notes
For Offense stats, try to obtain Hungering Arrow % bonus on both the belt and
the pants. Get Cold elemental damage on both the amulet and wrists (maximum of
40%), 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 cooldown
reduction-reliant build; you be striving to reach at least the 37% CDR breakpoint
for permanent uptime of Vengeance, but ideally over 50% by spreading a
CDR roll on most pieces you can (shoulders, gloves, both weapons, amulet, helm
gem, Paragons).
For Defense stats, aim for a life pool of about 500-600k; dropping as much as
you can for offense as you grow accustomed to the build. You will mostly sustain
through Simplicity's Strength secondary effect and
Shadow Power, so
dedicated 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 with stats listed in relative order of importance. The first four of them are main stats, and the latter two — secondary stats. If your item lacks and is unable to be rerolled into the primary stats outlined below, especially for a stat higher on the list, strongly consider its replacement. Perfecting Secondary stats is mostly a case of hyper-optimization and is not a case for discarding an item, except where noted.
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Torso |
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Wrists |
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Hands |
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Waist |
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Legs |
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Feet |
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Amulet |
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Ring #1 |
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Ring #2 |
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Weapon #1 |
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Weapon #2 |
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To help you with farming the gear you need for your builds, we have two very useful guides that you can access by clicking the links below: a Salvage Guide to help you quickly check whether or not you can safely salvage a piece of gear and a Legendary Farming Guide to help you efficiently farm legendaries and set items.
Paragon Points
In the Core section, max out Movement Speed to the 25% cap. Normally this is done by dumping the first 50 Core Paragon points into Movement Speed, but if your boots have an imperfect roll with Movement Speed as a stat that you cannot replace, adjust the necessary point investment accordingly by simply subtracting your roll from the 25% max. After that dump as much as you comfortably can into Dexterity, but feel free to invest into Vitality if you feel yourself lacking in toughness, or Maximum Hatred if you want to play around with a bigger resource pool.
In the Offense section, max out Cooldown Reduction (priority in order to hit
the CDR breakpoint for permanent Vengeance), Crit Damage, Crit Chance,
and Attack Speed in that order. In Defense, prioritize All Resistance, then Life
%, then Armor, and finish off with Life Regeneration. In Utility, build up Area
Damage and Life on Hit first, then finish off with Resource Cost Reduction and
Globe Radius.
Slot | Paragon Points |
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Core |
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Offense |
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Defense |
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Utility |
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Gems
Taeguk is the best hybrid of defense and offense among the legendary
gem options, and continued
Strafe channeling will ensure that your
stacks remain capped. Note that there is a viable alteration in this slot to the
pure damage multiplication of
Bane of the Trapped.
Introduced in Season 4, Bane of the Stricken occupies a firm spot in your
jewelry sockets during highest end progression. Building up your damage
multiplicatively in prolonged fights and with a level 25 bonus specifically
targeting Rift Guardians, this gem is designed to assist AoE heavy builds in
whittling down the massive RG health pools.
Simplicity's Strength is one of the best DPS gems you can take for the
build, as it was changed into a separate damage multiplication source to primary
skills in Patch 2.4.1. Upgrading with a steady pace of half a percent per gem
level, it quickly becomes a priority and a fixture in your gem choices. Its
buffed healing secondary effect is also a great boon to the build, 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 the
highest available level of Emeralds in the chest and pants sockets. Ideally, these
will all be Flawless Royal Emeralds as soon as possible. As you grow in
Paragon (bulking up Dexterity in the Core section) and aim for higher tier and
more dangerous GRs, you will transition those gems into the defensive
Flawless Royal Diamond. There is no specific breakpoint where you do that;
the rule of thumb is to make the change as soon as you feel the lack of
toughness impede your progress. Since you are chasing a specific CDR breakpoint,
slot a
Flawless Royal Diamond in your helm. In your weapons, use a
Flawless Royal Emerald for the Crit Damage boost.
Slot | Gems |
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Jewelry | |
Helm |
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Torso and Pants |
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Weapon |
For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Kanai's Cube
The Ninth Cirri Satchel provides a cornerstone power to the build, as
it turns the
Hungering Arrow piercing from a chance-based effect to a
guaranteed one. It also adds a healthy helping of damage multiplication to
cement its place in your loadout.
Depth Diggers are a natural inclusion in this generator build, since by
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 with a
significant damage increase during the appropriate elemental damage cycle —
making it necessary that you keep a watchful eye on its rotation, and preparing
fights by drawing enemy clusters closer together during the off cycles.
In your 4th Kanai's Cube slot in Season 22, place the Elusive Ring
— will add massive damage reduction bonuses as you apply
Shadow Power or
Smoke Screen.
The Kanai's Cube can be used for much more than simply extracting Legendary powers from items. Please refer to our Kanai's Cube guide for more information.
Legendary Potion
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.
Follower
For more information regarding followers, we advise you to read our Follower Guide, which contains detailed advice for choosing the skills and the gear of your follower.
Changelog
- 18 Nov. 2020: Added S22 Cube recommendation.
- 30 Jun. 2020: Guide added.
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