Marauder Multishot Demon Hunter GR Speed Farming Variation
Speed Farming
The Marauder Multishot
Demon Hunter deals excellently with Greater Rift Speed Farming, as the
massive AoE of Multishot scales even better with the lower health pools
of speed GRs, and you can transition into riskier, all-out aggressive playstyle
with corresponding gear choices. We have
solo speed GR rankings and
solo speed T16 rankings if you
want to know more about which builds are best for speed farming.
During lower tier Greater Rift farming, the balance between defense, damage and utility can be shifted to favor the latter two aspects of character building.
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Adapting Rotation
When you are Speed Farming Greater Rifts, your playstyle should at least partially reflect the circumstances by focusing on massive pulls, generic bonuses against enemies and chaining pylon effects.
The build maintains the basics from the GR progression build: you scout
through the Rift with Vault, drawing monster attention with aggroing
volleys of your own
Multishot and
Evasive Fire. Once you have a
pull going, place turret charges down in a convenient
Sentry "nest", and
demolish them with a barrage of automated and mimicked shots. Rinse and repeat
until the end of the Rift, while strengthening yourself with the massive Hatred
restoration of
Vengeance
Seethe and the damage buff from
Wolf Companion.
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 burst down enemies quicker takes precedence.
- The centerpiece of the build remains
Sentry, autonomous damage dealers that you can augment with your own shots, as they will mimic your Hatred spender barrage on top of their own. Stick with the rune
Polar Station from GR progression, since they offer an easy proc for
Bane of the Trapped.
Multishot also remains the best Hatred spender for the purposes of speed GRs, as its massive AoE mows down entire screens of low health enemies and allows you to move from one fight to the next practically without leaving stragglers behind. The rune of choice for speed GRs is definitely
Arsenal with the improved AoE from the additional rockets.
Vengeance is still quite valuable in speed GRs, and with the speedy progression through the Rift most likely netting you a Channeling pylon for the entirety of the run you can take the rune
Seethe for practically limitless Hatred spending.
Evasive Fire still brings considerable value to the build — occasionally with the Hatred restoration from
Focus, but more importantly as a proc for
Wraps of Clarity.
- Marauder builds rely heavily on
Companion, calling all the rune effects at your side through the 2-piece set bonus and using them for damage reduction via the interaction with
Zoey's Secret. Your most valuable rune remains the multiplicative damage buff from
Wolf Companion, but you gain the benefits of them all through the set.
- Mobility is paramount in any form of speed running, and you can cross the
greatest distances via
Vault
Tumble — making it a fixture during GR farm.
- Passives from Greater Rift progression largely retain their value;
Ballistics brings a multiplicative damage increase to rockets,
Ambush assists you during your initial burst of damage, and
Custom Engineering extends the duration and total number of active
Sentry turrets. You can safely drop the extra damage from
Cull the Weak in GR speed farming, and increase your movement speed instead with
Tactical Advantage.
Adapting Gear
Your armor pieces will match your GR progression setup — with a cubed
Ring of Royal Grandeur, you will retain your
Marauder 6-piece set
bonuses, and will also be able to include the craftable Captain Crimson set.
Your weapon and offhand are also fixed to
Yang's Recurve and
Bombardier's Rucksack, as they are intrinsically tied to the Marauder
Multishot playstyle with their crucial bonuses.
Wraps of Clarity offer
solid protection that weaves itself perfectly in the usual Multishot rotation,
so it also stays in.
Differences will come from your chosen jewelry, especially if you opted for
an Endless Walk-based GR progression setup. In speedfarming,
Squirt's Necklace is all but mandatory for its ubiquitous damage bonus,
which you should be able to retain indefinitely as you destroy entire screens
worth of enemies from a safe distance, dodging the legendary's "increased damage
taken" downsides. For your rings, take a
Convention of Elements for its
rotation-based damage boost, and take advantage of your chosen cycle when you
can, without stressing it too much. You can also take a Fire damage
Stone of Jordan, if you prefer a more consistent bonus. Pair the offensive
ring with a defensive choice in the form of
Elusive Ring, which will
allow you to make extremely aggressive
Vaults all over the Rift, while
simultaneously keeping a very high level of damage reduction. Of course, staying
on the Bastions of Will set,
Focus and
Restraint, remains a
viable course of action.
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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
The entirety of your legendary gem selection from GR progression retains its
full value in GR speed farming as well. Bane of the Trapped,
Zei's Stone of Vengeance and
Enforcer all bring separate sources
of damage multiplication to the build that are just as helpful in the farming
scenario.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
The entirety of your Kanai's Cube selection from GR progression retains its
full value in GR speed farming as well. Dead Man's Legacy is a straight
skill multiplier with an added bonus that complements the
Ambush passive.
Zoey's Secret brings 63% damage reduction from your Marauder-induced
Companion followers.
Ring of Royal Grandeur is necessary to tie
the set bonuses of Marauder and Cpt. Crimson together.
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 GR speed farming is the
Enchantress, due to her cooldown reduction bonus (cutting down
Vengeance and
Wolf Companion downtime) and elemental damage
increase. She also brings a cheat death from
Fate's Lapse and
an Attack Speed bonus from
Focused Mind, all of which are
valuable to the build. Note that this requires that you run
Hand of the Prophet and optimize her survivability, as per our Follower
guide.
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 potions for this build are
Bottomless Potion of Amplification (the highest pure health recovery pot,
as its healing amplification procs itself for 75% health restoration), or
Bottomless Potion of Rejuvenation (for the extra resource recovery proc
when used below half HP — useful in a resource-intensive build such as
this one). Pick whichever you feel helps you out the most.
Changelog
- 13 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 09 Dec. 2021: Overhauled the guide for Season 25's changes.
- 18 Nov. 2020: Added S22 Cube recommendation.
- 30 Jun. 2020: No changes required for Season 21.
- 12 Mar. 2020: No changes necessary for Season 20.
- 21 Nov. 2019: Reviewed for Season 19.
- 23 Aug. 2019: Amulet of choice changed to Squirt's Necklace.
- 16 May 2019: Guide was reviewed and approved for Season 17.
- 24 Jun. 2018: Added the guide.
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