Marauder Multishot Demon Hunter Nephalem Rift Speed Farming Variation
Nephalem Rift Speed Farming
The Marauder Multishot
Demon Hunter deals excellently with Nephalem 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.
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 T16 key farming build will mimic the GR speed farming rotation, but sped
up one step further: extremely aggressive Vaulting all over the place,
placing down a
Sentry or two and
Multishotting the screen down
with their help, and then moving along — only stopping for a shot or two
of
Evasive Fire when
Vengeance
Seethe fails to keep up with your
tremendous Hatred spending. Pop
Wolf Companion frivolously, any time you
see a fight coming or simply when it is off cooldown.
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.
- You still rely on
Sentry for the bulk of your damage, but you no longer have to build up nests of 5 turrets as you do in GR progression; simply plop down one or two per fight and help them out with a barrage of your own. Since you do not need to run
Bane of the Trapped for T16s,
Polar Station can be dropped in favor of either the small DPS gain from
Spitfire Turret (our default recommendation), or the defensive utility of
Guardian Turret.
Multishot
Arsenal offers the most AoE bang for your buck, which is all you care about in T16 keyfarm.
Vengeance offers a nice damage multiplier as a base effect, but the impressive Hatred regeneration brought by the
Seethe rune is your real reason for its inclusion. Pop it on cooldown. Whenever it is down and your Hatred reserves near depletion, fire away with
Evasive Fire
Focus.
Companion remains a utility-packed cooldown even without taking
Zoey's Secret (see below), but it is mostly taken for the nice damage boost from
Wolf Companion.
- Mobility is paramount in any form of speed running, and you can cross the
greatest distances via
Vault
Tumble — making it a fixture during T16 key farm.
- Passive-wise, keep
Ballistics for the multiplicative damage increase to rockets from
Arsenal and
Ambush for the augmentation of your upfront burst, which is very likely to oneshot enemies in T16s. Complement them with speedfarm-appropriate passives like
Tactical Advantage (for the extra movement speed) and
Blood Vengeance (for the plentiful resource restoration as you effortlessly pick up health globes via
Avarice Band).
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 intrinsicly tied to the Marauder
Multishot playstyle with their crucial bonuses.
In T16s, your toughness will be taken care of by the cubed Goldwrap,
along with the socketed
Boon of the Hoarder and the
Avarice Band
worn by your follower. This gold triumvirate combo will render you practically
invulnerable during standard rift farm, and will allow you to make reckless
moves like
Vaulting directly into Molten affix explosions and such. With
that in mind, you should remove
Wraps of Clarity from your bracer slot and
replace them either by
Warzechian Armguards in solo play (for the
environment destruction-based speed boost), or
Nemesis Bracers in group
play (as you no longer have a follower and need to proc the elite spawns on your
own).
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 are rendered impervious
by the
Goldwrap armor boost. For your rings, take a Fire damage
Stone of Jordan for its consistent elemental and elite damage bonuses.
Pair it 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. If you feel you
are overkilling on defenses, an alternative for this slot is
Rechel's Ring of Larceny, a Fear-based movement speed buff, which can proc
itself with its guaranteed Chance to Fear on Hit in its secondary stats.
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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
Most of your legendary gem selection from GR progression retains its value in
T16 Nephalem Rift speed farming. Both Enforcer and
Zei's Stone of Vengeance still brings excellent damage multiplication value
to the build. While certainly not weak, you should consider dropping
Bane of the Trapped in order not to overkill on damage, and replace it with
Boon of the Hoarder instead. Paired with a cubed
Goldwrap, and an
Avarice Band worn by your follower in solo play (or yourself in
groups), this legendary gem increases your movement speed and provides
near-infinite Toughness through its interaction with the aforementioned
items.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
Most of your Kanai's Cube slots will be consistent in T16 runs as well.
Dead Man's Legacy is a straight skill multiplier with an added bonus that
complements the
Ambush passive.
Ring of Royal Grandeur is necessary
to tie the set bonuses of Marauder and Cpt. Crimson together. As mentioned in
previous paragraphs, use
Goldwrap in the armor slot for the
near-invulnerability it brings while you farm T16s.
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: Guide added.
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