Build Guide
Secret behind this build:
If your'e lucky enough and gotten yourself a Kridershot you should be happy now that a hatred spender spell is now ur hatred builder instead. Based on how lucky you are the amount of hatred generated is either 3 or 4.
So now that we lose some of our hatred regen does that mean we will shoot alot less cluster arrows in our rotation? No! Actually youll be generating more hatred than any build.
Here comes the secret.
What spell you'll want to shoot is elemental arrow which gains dmg buff from your marauder set and in addition to that, the immolation arrow rune also puts down a burning dot on the ground over 3 seconds.
Reason:
Now that you know that your Elemental Arrow is your "primary" hatred builder and that the Immolation Arrow rune puts a 3 second dot on the ground you will want to know WHY you use it.
Reason of the immolation arrow is because we have a spell called Marked for Death with the Mortal Enemy rune.
What the mortal enemy rune does is that the enemy you have marked in addition to extra 20% damage taken also gives you 4 hatred each time you attack him no matter what spell or attack you use.
Here comes the fun!
The immolation arrow dot that lays on the ground will count as attacks also. Basically if you shoot 3 Elemental Arrows you will have done 3 attacks against your marked target which has generated 12 hatred already and then the extra dots from each Elemental Arrow will also generate 4 hatred for each tick they do.
Tactics:
Heres how you should do it. Always keep 5 sentries up and going and keep your target marked and shoot as many Cluster Arrows as you can. Shoot 3-4 Elemental Arrows and start shooting Cluster Arrows and see that your Hatred still goes up even if u standing there and shooting Clusters to dump the hatred. With the extra hatred gained from reaper wraps you'll see that you actually spend more time shooting Cluster Arrows rather than building up hatred with a primary skill.
With this rotation if done properly you will have max hatred in a matter of no time and back to Cluster spamming!
Approved G-Rift: 49
Proof: Donhoz - DiabloProgress (Hardcore)
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Posted Mar 6, 2015One issue that I see with this build is that you do not have anything slowing or chilling your target. If you are running in a group with a Zdps WD, that would be ok because you would not have to worry about procing Cull of the weak. So I would switch to polar stations if running solo to make sure that you are procing the cull of the weak.
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Posted Mar 7, 2015Hmm... Never occurred to me that Immolation Arrow could proc hatred generating ticks.
I am running a KShot M6 build with Cold, but I haven't used fire on EA since they switched it from Screaming Skulls. With auto-turrets sentries, you didn't even have to do anything with Screaming Skulls. Everything just ran away until the fear wore off then they would turn around just to be nailed with Cluster Arrows and Rockets. I kind of like the cold EA for solo as the splinter effect both pierces for extra damage and chills. And I like rockets from both spit fire and MS. I tend to use MS to aid in finishing off enemies at a lower Hatred cost. You can pass them up and the Rockets will shoot over your shoulder hitting the closest enemy. But, I really like this idea for Group play. I'll give this a go though using using Polar Station in solo and swapping out MS for MfD.
Something that I've been doing is adding Archery to get the 8% weapon buff by using a Hellfire Amulet. This is multiplicative as weapon output, so it's a very noticeable crit buff. This offsets the damage disparity from using a bow over a 2H Xbow by moving the lower range limit to a more favorable number with a much higher upper range.
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So I tried it out. Still don't like the play style with Polar Stations. Probably just need practice. But, if you can actually keep the monsters in the bubbles, this build is effective. Moving from floor to floor the more confined tile set maps helped. But in field maps the build suffers in solo rift. Still, I was impressed with Hatred generation.
As a side note, your build got me theory crafting a different build with MfD. So Calamity gives you free MfD tags on everything. So I had a really crappy one that I've had forever. It didn't work well, very underpowered but, hey, it was in my collection regardless. So based on your idea of DOTing Hatred, I figured I'd give it a go with the Tox Gem. It work very well in generating Hatred. Mostly because my personal weapon rolled poorly it wasn't that effective. I'm used to crits around 20M to 200M. I was getting something about half. So, I had a hard time killing off mobs. Everything was hurt a lot but I'd end up kiting a huge mob that seem to keep getting bigger an bigger. So that's the bad part. But when the Greater Rift Guardian spawned I was amazed how fast I killed him off. The combination of Poison DOTs, MfD and extra Hatred made for huge burst of damage from Cluster Arrows. So, you might want to see if adding the extra Hatred generating DOTs will do anything for your build. Just a thought.