GoD Hungering Arrow Speed Farming Demon Hunter Build (Patch 2.7 / Season 23)
Speed Farming
The GoD Hungering Arrow Demon Hunter deals with regular Rift farming quite well all the way through the highest Torments and is very adept at farming low tier Greater Rifts for Paragon levels and legendary gem upgrades, making it a viable build for any speed farming task. We have speed farming rankings if you want to know more about which builds are best for speed farming.
Within the limited scope of regular difficulties, the necessary damage and toughness to triumph over the enemy is significantly smaller. Thus, your best course of action is to improve utility and speed.
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Adapting Rotation
When you are speed farming regular rifts, parts of your playstyle will adapt to the lowered challenge and focus more on speed and utility.
The major dynamic of the build remains largely the same, as you will
Strafe from fight to fight and spread your deadly
Hungering Arrow
shots through the set mechanic. You will be focusing a lot more on movement and
utility, of course, and alongside the usual on-cooldown activations of
Vengeance, you will also be using
Smoke Screen
Displacement quite
liberally, counterbalanced with
Preparation
Focused Mind to offset the
cost. You will be allowed much greater freedom of movement due to the interaction
between
Smoke Screen and
Tactical Advantage, and you will fuel your
mobility via your
Avarice Band-augmented pickup radius and its interaction
with
Blood Vengeance.
Adapting Skills
Parts of the skill and passive selection will overlap with the base Greater Rift progression build, but others will have to change according to the task at hand. Ability to cross over great distances faster and more efficiently take precedence.
- The main interaction of the build — the one between
Hungering Arrow
Devouring Arrow and
Strafe
Drifting Shadow — remains unchanged, and both skills and their rune selection will be staples in your speed farming runs.
Vengeance
Dark Heart is an omnipresent self-buff in all versions of the build.
- You can keep
Companion in the build, but opt for the flavorful and speed farming-appropriate rune
Ferret Companion, which bolsters your movement speed.
- Both
Fan of Knives and
Shadow Power from the progression build are far too tanky for the requirements of speed runs, so it is advisable to swap these skills out for
Smoke Screen and
Preparation, respectively.
Smoke Screen will provide you with another burst of speed through the rune
Displacement, while
Preparation will offset the cost of the former with the abundant Discipline regeneration of the
Focused Mind rune.
- As far as passive selection goes, you will keep
Ambush from the base build for its massive upfront burst potential. It is also advisable to use
Awareness to prevent any mishaps; overconfidence is an easy pitfall when you start to comfortably trample the content, but the DH remains a rather glassy and burst-prone class. The remainder of your passives will ease your farming considerably.
Tactical Advantage offers a nice speed boost whenever you pop
Smoke Screen.
Blood Vengeance will not only expand your Hatred pool, but also enables a
Reaper's Wraps-like effect that replenishes both Hatred and Discipline when picking up health globes. This passive will benefit immensely from the cubed
Avarice Band and result in stable resources despite the heavy spending in speedruns.
Adapting Gear
You will still be taking advantage of the full 6-piece set bonuses of
Gears of Dreadlands, incorporating
five of the six pieces that you would in progression, but equipping
Depth Diggers instead of
Cold Cathode Trousers. Wearing
Depth Diggers allows you to run another speed run-synergistic power in
the armor slot of the Cube, as discussed below. Of course, that necessitates
that you complete the GoD powers by cubing a
Ring of Royal Grandeur.
In speed farm, it is advisable to abandon the damage reduction from the
Wraps of Clarity in favor of
Warzechian Armguards, for the
environment destruction speed buffs that are easily provided by the AoE of this
build. The former favorites, the elite spawning
Nemesis Bracers, are still
very valuable, but they can now be equipped on the follower while still getting
their bonus via the Emanate mechanics. You should still equip them in groups,
where you cannot have a follower with you. The
Nemesis Bracers value comes
from the additional loot — not to mention progression — coming from
the extra elite spawns. They let you finish standard rifts that much faster, and
acquire the coveted GR keys in greater amounts.
It should be noted that your jewelry during farming can still be the Bastions
of Will set ( Focus and
Restraint); however, once you perfect
your character and no longer want for burst, you should use utility-focused
jewelry instead. A combination of
Avarice Band and a Cold damage
Stone of Jordan is a nice alteration. The union of
Avarice Band
with
Boon of the Hoarder will greatly improve your speed, as well as feed
into your gold reserve for the costly GR empowerments. The Cold SoJ will simply
be a consistent, care-free damage increase as you farm.
To help with your Hatred management, it is recommended that you swap your
weaponry setup into a worn Yang's Recurve and
The Ninth Cirri Satchel
combo. While it might seem counterintuitive at first due to its
Multishot-oriented bonuses,
Yang's Recurve brings a massive innate
Resource Cost Reduction roll, which greatly assits your Hatred management during
farming.
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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.
Adapting Gems
Taeguk and
Simplicity's Strength both still bring excellent
damage multiplication and protective utility to the build in speed farming.
In normal rifts, the third gem slot should be taken by
Boon of the Hoarder. This high utility gem feeds you practically infinite
gold and gives you a massive short-term speed boost while picking it up,
automated by a worn
Avarice Band. If you are doing GR speed farming in
lower tiers for XP and gem ups, you should slot
Bane of the Trapped here.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
Assuming you follow our weaponry alteration advice, it will be necessary to
move Dawn to the weapon Cube slot to still enjoy the massive
Vengeance cooldown reduction bonus.
To take advantage of the gold gain bonuses from Boon of the Hoarder, you
can transform them into a carefree source of toughness via the
Goldwrap
belt in the Cube.
Lastly, in order to maintain the valuable 6-piece bonus of Gears of Dreadlands
set, you will need to cube a Ring of Royal Grandeur in the jewelry slot.
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.
Follower
The recommended follower for this build during standard rift farming for keys is the Enchantress due to her numerous utility bonuses, allowing you to smooth out your speed runs even further.
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.
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.
Changelog
- 01 Apr. 2021: Minor skill revision; added follower recommendation.
- 18 Nov. 2020: Added S22 Cube recommendation.
- 08 Jul. 2020: Added slight alteration to the weaponry to make resource management easier.
- 30 Jun. 2020: Guide added.
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