Shadow Impale Demon Hunter Speed Farming Variation
Speed Farming
The Shadow Impale Demon Hunter deals with regular Rift farming decently all the way through the highest Torments, making it a viable build for the task. 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.
During standard rift runs, you will be able to cover much greater distances
due to the interaction between Vault and
Tactical Advantage, with
the former being free to cast due to the powers of the
Chain of Shadows
belt. You will still be triggering
Shadow Power at the start of a run and
re-applying
Vengeance on cooldown for its protective properties, but the
remainder of your rotation will be dedicated to utility, with
Smoke Screen
Vanishing Powder (also triggering
Tactical Advantage)
and
Wolf Companion for the extra damage.
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 can run any
Impale rune you like, but for standard rifts we recommend the utility of the auto-aimed bounces of
Ricochet.
Shadow Power is still an inseparable part of Shadow set builds, and the value from its permanence and application of all runes is too good to pass up (note the movement speed increase of
Shadow Glide, for example).
Vault is still a necessary addition, perhaps even more so during speed farming. Though you are free to run the crowd control of
Rattling Roll, but our recommendation is to run cheaper alternative
Tumble.
Vengeance
Dark Heart is an omnipresent self-buff in all versions of the build.
- During normal rift speed farm, you have considerable freedom when choosing the
replacement of
Fan of Knives
Bladed Armor — ranging from a generator like
Bolas
Thunder Ball if you run
Focus and
Restraint, to utility skills like
Smoke Screen
Vanishing Powder and
Preparation
Focused Mind.
- Once you comfortably outscale the content, you can swap
Cull the Weak out during normal Rifts for a speedfarm-appropriate passive like
Blood Vengeance, for extra resource stability and synergy with
Avarice Band.
- Use your fourth passive slot for the massive runspeed boost from
Tactical Advantage while farming low tier content.
Ambush still brings excellent value to speed farming, as the increase of upfront burst almost guarantees oneshots in the standard difficulties.
Adapting Gear
It is worth noting that to optimize your farming convenience in regular rifts,
you should swap away from the progression-oriented Aughild's Authority set, but
still keep Ring of Royal Grandeur in the Cube — and incorporate some
farming-appropriate legendary powers instead. The default recommendation is
Gloves of Worship, but there are other decent options like
Leoric's Crown and
Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan.
When speed farming, the timing of Convention of Elements will be
misplaced, so you can either swap to the consistent protection of an
Elusive Ring, or a generic damage increase from a Lightning-rolled
Stone of Jordan. It is also recommended to swap away from the Endless Walk
set, as it promotes a static fighting style unfit for normal rifts; use the more
offensive combo of
Avarice Band and a
Squirt's Necklace.
Avarice Band's pickup radius bonus is an incredible boon during
speed farming, as it benefits not only your movement speed through a socketed
Boon of the Hoarder, but also negates downtime picking up progression orbs
and gold. While any well-rolled amulet can fill the slot for Torments,
Squirt's Necklace will bring the most burst damage, and you can all but
ignore its "increase of damage taken" with the way you overpower content in
regular rifts.
During low tier GRs or normal rift speedruns in solo play, an optimized
character can avoid the overkill of toughness in the bracer slot by swapping to
Warzechian Armguards for the additional environment destruction-based
speed boost. The usual recommendation,
Nemesis Bracers, can be worn by
the follower starting from Patch 2.7, but should still be taken by the character
themselves in group play.
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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
Bane of the Trapped remains a universally desired damage amplification
gem.
During speed farming, Pain Enhancer will be a progression-oriented
overkill and should be replaced by
Boon of the Hoarder. The latter is a high
utility gem that feeds you practically infinite gold, gives you a massive
short-term speed boost while picking it up, and synergizes excellently with the
worn
Avarice Band for a sizable speed boost, and the
Goldwrap for
near-invulnerability.
If you trust your ability to focus down and chain elites in regular
rifts, you can safely swap Gogok of Swiftness out for
Bane of the Powerful for the consistent, easily sustained damage increase.
If you overpower content so much that even
Bane of the Powerful is
unnecessary, you can consider using
Wreath of Lightning for the extra
speed.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
In a highly optimized normal rifting setup, you can consider swapping the
weapon Cube slot out from Dawn to the farming powerhouse
In-geom.
The damage intake-based damage reduction from Stone Gauntlets will be
redundant in regular rifts, where you can get all the protection you will ever
need via
Goldwrap.
If you opt to include an additional legendary power in place
of one of the Shadow set pieces during speedfarm, you will need to cube
Ring of Royal Grandeur to maintain the 6-piece Shadow bonus.
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.
Changelog
- 13 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 09 Dec. 2021: Added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 21 Jul. 2021: No changes required for Season 24.
- 01 Apr. 2021: Added follower recommendation.
- 18 Nov. 2020: Added S22 Cube recommendation.
- 06 Jul. 2020: Reverted guide recommendation back to the lightning version of the build; included additional clarifications for variant playstyles of the build.
- 30 Jun. 2020: No changes required for Season 21.
- 12 Mar. 2020: No changes necessary for Season 20.
- 21 Nov. 2019: Overhauled the page for Season 19.
- 23 Aug. 2019: Reviewed for Season 18.
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