Natalya Marauder Sentry Demon Hunter BiS Gear, Gems, and Paragon Points
Below, we detail the items and gems that you should use for your Natalya Marauder Sentry Demon Hunter in Diablo 3 and why. We also list your paragon points and Kanai's Cube items. Updated for Patch 2.7.3 and Season 26.
Best in Slot Gear and Alternatives
The build incorporates a mixture of the Natalya's Vengeance and Embodiment of
the Marauder sets, taking five pieces of the former and three of the latter and
tying them together with Ring of Royal Grandeur in the Cube to attain the
valuable 6- and 4-piece bonuses. Outside of necessary pieces like
Natalya's Reflection,
Natalya's Slayer and
Marauder's Spines,
you are free to adjust the split of sets according to your preference and best
rolled items. An example distribution would be to take
Marauder's Visage
and
Marauder's Gloves for the Marauder set, and then
Natalya's Embrace,
Natalya's Leggings and
Natalya's Bloody Footprints for the Natalya set; coupled with the mandatory
pieces, they will form all the necessary set bonuses.
With Ring of Royal Grandeur taking up the jewelry slot in the Cube and
one of your ring slots necessarily taken by
Natalya's Reflection, the best
way to fill out the remaining jewelry slots is the Endless Walk set,
The Compass Rose and
The Traveler's Pledge. Their power balances between
damage reduction while moving, and increasing damage when standing still —
a fitting choice for the Natalya Marauder hybrid, which
Vaults from
battle to battle and then goes into stationary
Sentry-dropping mode
(see this build's skills page for more
information).
Occupying your waist slot, Zoey's Secret is designed to complement the
Marauder 2-piece bonus and scales your damage reduction by up to 9% for every
active
Companion, cutting incoming damage by more than a half
in this minion-heavy build.
The general recommendation for the wrist slot are the Wraps of Clarity;
these bracers further reduce damage taken by up to 50% for 5 seconds after using
a Hatred Generator. There is a notable alteration in this slot with the
Ancient Parthan Defenders (procced by the Freeze of the cubed
Frostburn and the active use of
Flying Strike), which are
theoretically able to cut down damage even lower, but demand a quirkier
playstyle that involves standing near less threatening enemies to proc the
bracer, while focusing higher priority targets that are further away. Adjust to
this variant at your discretion.
Extending the utility you get out of the Marauder set bonuses, the
Bombardier's Rucksack lets you have two additional Sentries. Unlike the
Custom Engineering passive, these additional charges are not immediately
available — but you will have enough time to drop them in any significant
fight, and the potential increase of your main damage dealers makes this quiver
mandatory for the build.
Desired Stats, Breakpoints and Other Notes
For Offense stats, try to obtain both Cluster Arrow % bonus on the helm and boots, as well as Sentry % bonus on the shoulders and chest. Get Fire 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 100%+. Rolls-wise, this build also values Area Damage and Resource Cost Reduction rolls greatly, trying to spread these rolls on shoulders, gloves and quiver.
For Defense stats, aim for a life pool between 500-600k; dropping as much as you can for offense as you grow accustomed to the build. The build struggles a bit with sustain, and you can partially remedy that with a Life per Hit roll on gear (i.e. on the bracer), or optimizing secondary stats for Life per Kill, as well as Pickup Radius and Health Globe Bonus synergy.
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.
Slot | Pieces | Stat Priority |
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Head |
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Shoulders |
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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 |
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Off-hand |
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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 only
spend points until the 15% boost from Paragon Points, as the remaining 10% for
the 25% cap are already passively provided by Companion
Ferret Companion.
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 Crit Damage, Crit Chance, Attack Speed and
Cooldown Reduction in that order. In Defense, prioritize All Resistance, then
Life %, then Armor, and finish off with Life Regeneration. In Utility, build up
Resource Cost Reduction (for the expensive Cluster Arrow), then Area
Damage and Life on Hit, and finish off with 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
Bane of the Trapped is a potent source of additional damage, as it is its
own multiplier in your total damage calculation. You have multiple ways to proc
the gem, most notably the efficient spread of the
Polar Station Chill, but
also the
Spider Companion's Slow, the
Flying Strike Freeze, and
the gem's own level 25 property when in range.
Zei's Stone of Vengeance is another separate damage multiplier you can
add to your overall DPS, with its range-based amplification easily maxing out
with the considerable distance you can keep between yourself and the enemy in
this CC-heavy build. Its level 25 Stun proc is just icing on the cake, adding
another source of safety and
Bane of the Trapped procs.
Leaning heavily on Sentry damage for the bulk of the damage output,
this build integrates
Enforcer as its third and final damage
amplification gem. The turrets count as pets and benefit greatly from this
multiplicative source of damage, while your
Companion summons take
advantage of the toughness buff of the level 25 property.
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. The Natalya/Marauder Sentry DH is highly resource
cost reduction dependent, so slot a
Flawless Royal Topaz in your helm. In
your weapon, use a
Flawless Royal Emerald for the Crit Damage boost.
Slot | Gems |
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Jewelry | |
Helm | |
Torso and Pants |
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Weapon |
For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Kanai's Cube
With set piece distribution that heavily locks down the itemization of the
build, you will be forced to use the Cluster Arrow staple
Manticore in the weapon slot of the Cube for its massive Resource Cost
Reduction and skill amplification bonuses.
The Cloak of the Garwulf indirectly increases your toughness via its
interaction with
Zoey's Secret, and also brings more damage and two more
meat shields in front of the Demon Hunter.
As previously noted, in order to attain the 6-piece bonus of the Natalya set
and the 4-piece bonus of the Marauder set, you will have to use the Act I bounty
cache legendary Ring of Royal Grandeur in the jewelry slot of the Cube.
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 solo GR progression is the Scoundrel due to his powerful crit buff, allowing you brief windows of extra damage that are well suited to the strengths of this build. Alternatively, if you feel yourself too squishy, you can alter to the Templar for his powerful heals and sustain boons.
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
You have two valuable legendary potions in the build; either slot
Bottomless Potion of Kulle-Aid to break up Waller affixes, which potentially
ruin both your damage output and escape options, or a
Bottomless Potion of the Leech for the extra life sustain through the
temporary Life per Hit bonus.
Changelog
- 13 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 09 Dec. 2021: Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 21 Jul. 2021: Added S24 Ethereal recommendation.
- 01 Apr. 2021: Added follower recommendation.
- 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: Changed Kanai's Cube's armor recommendation. Added more explanations to stat priorities, paragon points, and gems. Added a potion section.
- 23 Aug. 2019: Reviewed for Season 18.
- 16 May 2019: Guide was reviewed and approved for Season 17.
- 17 Jan. 2019: Added suggestions for the baseline Ring of Royal Grandeur for Seasonal characters.
- 23 Feb. 2018: Added note for the Fire variant of this build.
- 17 Nov. 2017: Guide added.
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