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Speedy HoTA Build (DB Farming)

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Skills

  • Hammer of the Ancients Smash
  • Sprint Marathon
  • Battle Rage Bloodshed
  • Furious Charge Merciless Assault
  • Call of the Ancients Together as One
  • Wrath of the Berserker Insanity
  • Berserker Rage
  • Brawler
  • Rampage
  • Ruthless

Items

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  • Legendary Gems

    • Boon of the Hoarder
    • Wreath of Lightning
    • Bane of the Trapped

Kanai's Cube

  • The Gavel of Judgment
  • Nemesis Bracers
  • Ring of Royal Grandeur

Cube


    Weapon - Gavel of Judgement (so we’re still able to spam HoTA)


    Armor - Nemesis Bracers (more elite packs = more DB’s)


    Jewelry - Royal Ring of Grandeur (to maintain 6pc IK & 2pc Sage’s)



Gems


In order to benefit from any of these gems, they must be at least rank 25 for the bonus.


    Boon of the Hoarder - Gives us an extra 30% movement speed as the whole floor will be covered in gold


    Wreath of Lightning - Gives us an extra 25% movement speed (doesn’t proc as much compared to WW, but still adds some mobility)


    Bane of the Trapped - Personal preference, bane of the powerful is also an option


    Diamonds/Rubies in chest & legs. Either is fine, I prefer diamonds as damage is no issue


    Ruby in helm for extra exp


Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Maximum Resource
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction

Defense

Resist All
Life
Armor
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Life on Hit
Gold Find
Resource Cost Reduction

Build Guide

Pretty basic death's breath farming build.


Takes advantage of the crafted set Sage’s Journey for the 2-piece bonus (Increases death’s breath drop by 1) and Royal Ring of Grandeur to maintain our 6-piece IK bonus. Outside of that, it plays just like your typical HoTA build. Now the one issue with farming as HoTA is that it is typically very slow, which is something we’ll address through gems & skills to help make us a bit more speedy.


Prioritize your gear as you would for your regular HoTA setup.


For the most part, we really just want to sprint from elite pack to elite pack throughout the rift


HoTA is clunky, so try and keep as much uptime as you can through *Sprint*, *Boon of the Hoarder*, and *Wreath of Lightning*. Combined these will give us **95% additional movement speed**. Don’t hesitate to break the first point and hit white mobs along the way to proc the gems.


A note on the Sage’s 2pc bonus - unfortunately no matter how many death’s breaths a mob drops we only get 1 extra. So for example if a goblin drops a stack of 10 DB’s, we only get 1 additional, for 11 total DB’s not 20.


There’s tons of builds & ways to farm death breath’s, I just find this to be the most efficient. What I think is one of the best things about it is that there aren’t many changes that need to be made from swapping back & forth between this and your normal HoTA setup, which I know most of us are running right now. Hopefully this helps some of you in your farming, good luck with those bottles!


rocsawce