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We have gogok of swiftness,increases your attack speed which means higher proc rate on nat’s 2 set bonus as well as cooldown reduction which helps all your cooldowns. This can be switched out for zei’s for more upfront damage, but this allows the cooldown refresh to be way smoother than with gogok allowing for more rain of vengeance, wolves and preparation. In case you want higher damage but not dps, you’d then use zei, bane and taeguk. Best scenario when using zei’s instead of gogok would be with focus / restraint with CDR.

Then we have taeguk which will stack easily via strafe.

Last but not least we have bane of the trapped, which will be procced by your follower.

Another option instead of gogok (Seasons only though) is iceblink.

The gear

You’ll have a very important item, a set that you need to complete as well as something I have to mention about your offhand, so let’s get those out of the way first since they’re the most relevant.

First, the crashing rain belt. This is the bread and butter of this build besides natalya’s full set. It basically represents a 4000% damage attack to the location where you’ll cast your rain of vengeance. This is the ability that can sometimes crit up to 9 billion or even more with party buffs.

About your offhand. You can use either the balefire caster (the 1h crossbow with fire damage which I don’t have) or the calamity if you lack the former. Very important to know however is that your offhand is nothing more than a stat stick, the rain of vengeance damage is calculated from your mainhand crossbow. In other words, feel free to get all the useful stats you want on your offhand such as cooldown reduction, hatred regen, vit, socket etc.

Then as mentioned we have nat’s full set (except the ring).

On the helmet you’ll want toughness, crit chance and a socket (remember strafe isn’t there for the damage, but the cd reduction). Toughness is also not that bad of a choice with nat’s since you gain 30% damage reduction for 5 seconds after casting rain of vengeance. On gloves, cc, cd and cooldown reduction. Chest, vit, dex and rain of vengeance damage Pants, Vit, Dex, AR, 2 sockets Boots, vit, dex, ar and movement speed (same as helmet, don’t care about strafe damage, plus this will allow you to invest more points into dexterity and buff your rain of vengeance more)

On the nat’s crossbow you’ll want max damage, % damage, rain of vengeance damage, socket and cooldown reduction.

As shoulders you’ll want skeleton’s king pauldrons (which is a reward from act 1 bounties), with dex, vit, cooldown reduction and rain of vengeance damage.

For bracers you’ll want strongarms with fire damage, dex, vit and crit chance

Your rings, focus and restraint with cc, cd and sockets.

Amulet, hellfire with fire damage, cc, cd and socket would be ideal if not dex instead of fire damage.

Paragon Priorities

You want to max out movement speed and then put all the rest of your points in dex.

Then, cooldown reduction, crit chance, crit damage and attack speed

Also last tree, resource cost reduction and area damage.