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  • Calamity

  

  Legendary Hand Crossbow

  • Primary Stats
  • • +330–524 Dexterity
    • +3 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Automatically cast Marked for Death when you damage an enemy.
    • One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +(533–652)–(639–810) Arcane Damage

    • +(533–652)–(639–810) Poison Damage

    • +(533–652)–(639–810) Lightning Damage

    • +(533–652)–(639–810) Holy Damage

    • +(533–652)–(639–810) Cold Damage

    • +(533–652)–(639–810) Fire Damage

    • +(533–652)–(639–810) Damage

  Calamity
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  • Cindercoat

  

  Legendary Chest Armor

  • Primary Stats
  • • Fire skills deal 5–10% more damage.
    • +3 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Reduces the resource cost of Fire skills by 23–30%.
    • One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +85–108 Dexterity

    • +85–108 Strength

    • +85–108 Intelligence

  Cindercoat
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  • Convention of Elements

  

  Legendary Ring

  • Primary Stats
  • • Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5–6.0%
    • +2 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Gain 150–200% increased damage to a single element for 4 seconds. This effect rotates through the elements available to your class in the following order: Arcane, Cold, Fire, Holy, Lightning, Physical, Poison.
    • Empty Socket
    • One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +220–349 Dexterity

    • +220–349 Strength

    • +220–349 Intelligence

  Convention of Elements

Hello, quick intro about myself, I have been playing DH on and off pretty much from Season 1 when Marauder's was all about attack speed breakpoints, dropping Sentry's, and going AFK. I am currently #11 with GR60 on the seasonal hardcore boards with UE fire and this is the setup I have been using since GR45. This is a fairly standard build this season, so if you already have prior knowledge of the build, feel free to skip down below for some tips!

My profile is http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/timoseewho-1824/hero/69024097

The Unhallowed Essence set is a Demon Hunter set introduced in patch 2.2 (Season 3) and has become a fairly popular set, replacing Marauder's and going head to head with the revamped Natalya's. Its main perks are its ease to learn and gearing, to an extent. I would recommend against making a push on the leaderboards with UE until you have at least Yang's Recurve, Dead Man's Legacy, Focus/Restraint, and of course the full 6-piece set as we do not run Royal Ring of Grandeur (either cubed or equipped). The 6-piece bonus increases your Multishot damage based on your CURRENT discipline, but you want to aim as close to 81 as possible through Invigoration and discipline on the cloak, bow, and quiver (30 base discipline, 15 from Invigoration, and 36 from gear).

With 2.3 and the introduction of Wraps of Clarity, we have found ourselves in an unfamiliar territory, we can actually afford to take a hit or two now. This gives a little more value to defensive stats. I am currently sitting at ~40M toughness self-buffed and all with the new bracers, I can normally take 2-3 hits from regular mobs before I proc Awareness (bathe in frozen/thunderstorm for a little over a second), so I think I can afford to drop some defense for offense.

Fire Resistance is a desirable secondary to have now as reflect damage reflects the school of magic you are dealing, so if you are hitting a reflect with Multishot:Arsenal (fire rune), you will be reflected with fire damage as opposed to the old standard physical. Chill% and Slow% can appear on Shoulders and Pants respectively, which are quite nice to have to help proc the debuffs necessary for Bane of the Trapped and Cull the Weak, both extremely strong modifiers.

Gear

Yang's Recurve (Bow) - Dexterity / 10% Damage / 24% Area Damage / 12 Discipline. Ohhh the bread and butter of this build, for both its innate over-the-top RCR and passive. Discipline and is a MUST-HAVE here again. AD is extremely flexible here and may be turned into toughness or other secondary primary's. A non-ancient YR is almost always better than any other non-YR ancient weapon, you WANT to have this weapon. It is also not the biggest deal if the RCR does not roll top end, a 40% is more than enough coupled with the cubed Cindercoat.

Dead Man's Legacy (Quiver) - Dexterity / 20% Increased Attack Speed / 10% Critical Hit Chance / 20% Area Damage / 15% Multishot / 12 Discipline. It may sound overwhelming at first here to get a good DML, but Dexterity, IAS, CHC are all native stats, and Discipline is a relatively common roll as there is little to choose from in the secondary. You will most likely always end up turning an useless primary into Multishot%. The difference between a 50% and 60% passive is quite noticeable at higher GR's and always aim for a 55%+ one, but is not a dealbreaker if the other stats are right. This is one of the few slots where you may want to keep/enchant for Vitality if it is ancient due to its higher roll potential.

Accursed Visage (Helm) - Dexterity / 6% Critical Hit Chance / 15% Multishot. If you happen to get an ancient one with a Vitality roll, you may want to consider rolling the third primary to Multishot% as the CHC is less effective especially since Iceblink is in play here, also since the helm is one of the few item slots that can roll up to 1000 core stat (take advantage of the added Vitality).

Unsanctified Shoulders (Shoulders) - Dexterity / Vitality / All Resistance / 20% Area Damage. I highly recommend having Vitality and AR on the shoulders, with the fourth stat being AD or even Life%, both viable gearing routes. This is a very good slot to have ancient on as Dexterity, Vitality, and AR can ALL benefit from being ancient and you most likely want to carry those 3 stats.

Cage of the Hellborn (Cloak) - Dexterity / Vitality / All Resistance / 12 Discipline. Discipline is a MUST-HAVE here as it is one of the few slots that can roll discipline. It is also an option to have Life%, Armor, or Elite Reduction instead of AR. Increase Hatred Regeneration is nice to have, but it is not worth trading a defensive stat for. This is another good slot to have ancient on especially if you choose to go with AR or Armor.

Wraps of Clarity (Bracers) - 20% Fire / Dexterity / Vitality / 6% Critical Hit Chance. This pair of bracers is what gives us the tankiness we need to be able to take a hit or 2 before Awareness procs, granted that you keep the passive up. Having a 35% passive roll is definitely nice, but is not a dealbreaker.

Fiendish Grips (Gloves) - Dexterity / Vitality / 50% Critical Hit Damage / 10% Critical Hit Chance. I prefer to go with the defensive route on the gloves, especially if an ancient roll since the Vitality can go up to 1000. If not ancient, you may choose to go with AD over Vitality.

Hunter's Wrath (Belt) - Dexterity / Vitality / All Resistance / Life%. Unfortunately, unless Witching Hour (or the RCR belt, cannot remember the name for the life of me), there is no room for damage stats in the waist slot, which is alright, because having some defensive stats is beneficial. The main appeal of this item is how the passive makes the whole rotation feel a lot more fluent to go with the YR, the extra primary damage is a huge bonus. Having Freeze% in the secondary is nice, but nowhere close to necessary.

Unholy Plates (Pants) - Dexterity / Vitality / All Resistance. Armor can replace AR and having an ancient tag over this one is great as all 3 primary stats you want benefit from being ancient.

Hell Walkers (Boots) - Dexterity / Vitality / All Resistance / 15% Multishot. Just like the pants, Armor can easily replace AR here, and is a very good slot to be ancient as well. The Multishot% is necessary as well since it is one of the three slots that CAN give you more Multishot damage, which is what this build is all about. If you happen to get Movement%, make sure to take that into account when distributing paragon points, 1% Movement saves you 2 points and gives you 10 extra Dexterity. It is necessary to have max Movement at 25% either through the boots or just paragon points.

Hellfire Amulet (Amulet) - 20% Fire / 100% Critical Hit Damage / 10% Critical Hit Chance / Open Socket. The most important thing with the HfA is to make sure you get one with a useful passive, otherwise the ammy is as good as any other non-HfA ammy. Aside from the four passives listed, I consider Steady Aim, Night Stalker, and Perfectionist all viable passives to run as a 5th passive. Trying to get this quadfecta ammy can be hard, especially since you are basically hoping for all Fire%, CHD/CHC (either or, so you can roll the Dexterity to the missing one), and a viable passive. I can say that it is more than alright to be missing CHC or Fire% (having Dexterity instead), so you are only praying for a good passive and either of the three, Fire%/CHD/CHC. A HfA with Fire%/Dexterity/CHD or Dexterity/CHD/CHC with a good passive is just fine.

Focus/Restraint (Rings) - Dexterity / 50% Critical Hit Damage / 6% Critical Hit Chance. This set ring practically doubles your damage (2.25x to be exact), so there is no question here. IF you happen to get a ring with near-perfect CHD/CHC, you may want to consider turning the Dexterity to AD.

Skills/Passives

Evasive Fire, Multishot, and Preparation (along with their runes) are set in stone and should not be changed whatsoever. Some prefer to have Companion:Bat to help with hatred management, but Wolf is nice to help tank to some extent as well as provide the extra damage boost. Many prefer to go with an either/or with Vault and Smoke Screen but I like to run both, Vault is nice to get out of sticky situations and SS is nice for reflect and other miscellaneous damage. If you do run Vault, go with Trail of Cinders for more overall discipline reduction with the cubed Cindercoat. The rune for SS is a personal preference, Displacement and Lingering Fog are both viable.

Awareness is absolutely necessary (I do not think any hardcore player has gone all out yolo yet). Ambush helps with reaching the DML threshold. Ballistics contributes way too much damage to not use. Lastly, this is CtW, which is just a really awesome multiplicative passive.

Gems

Iceblink is required here since it is your main source to proc BotT/CtW. Zei's Stone of Vengeance and BotT are both extremely good gems as their damage is multiplied on TOP of your current damage, also known as separate modifiers, and not added all together before being multiplied like Steady Aim, Calamity's Marked for Death, Wolf, etc.

Normal gems are fairly standard, emerald in the weapon and all over the armor except for the helm, where you slip an amethyst in there for some added survivability (Cooldown Reduction is close to useless for this build).

Cube Passives

Using Iceblink opens up the weapon cube slot for Calamity. Cindercoat really complements the Multishot spamming with YR. Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan is also an alternative to Cindercoat, but requires a little more management. If you are playing fire, there is absolutely no reason to cube Pride's Fall over Cindercoat. Lastly, Convention of Elements is the undisputed damage-output king for the jewel slot, but it is also viable to run some sort of immune like fire to help you get through reflect, mortar, molten, and Winged Assassins (yes, their jump is fire hehe).

Paragon Priorities

Core

Maxing out 25% Movement is required, 1% Movement is 2 points, and remember to take into account if you have Movement% on your boots! After Movement% goes Dexterity, resource is less of an issue now with the immense reduction with this build.

Offense

The general rule of thumb here is to keep a 7-10:1 ratio of CHD:CHC and the best way to keep that balance is through points. For example, if you have 300% CHD, having 30-42% CHC is a sweet spot. You NEVER want to enchant CHD or CHC to one another to hit this ratio, NEVER. Attack Speed and CDR are both not as important to have, with AS being slightly better to help the spam.

Defense

Not much to say here, Dexterity gives us Armor to begin with, and AR helps with practically any source of damage, with Life% adding some sponge-tank.

Utility

Life on Hit is there to help with buffer and sustain and AD/RCR are interchangeable.

In general, the value of RCR has gone down drastically with YR's passive along with a cubed Cindercoat, making room for AD even though it is still not working properly with multipliers like Focus/Restraint. AD really shines with dense maps, more-so than other primary's like Elite%/IHR/CDR. It does help however to have RCR on an extra slot.