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  • Dawn

  

  Legendary Hand Crossbow

  • Primary Stats
  • • +(533–652)–(639–810) Holy Damage
    • +330–524 Dexterity
    • +3 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Reduce the cooldown of Vengeance by 50–65%.
  Dawn
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  • Visage of Gunes

  

  Legendary Helm

  • Primary Stats
  • • +3 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Vengeance gains the effect of the Dark Heart rune.
    • Empty Socket
    • One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +128–163 Dexterity

    • +128–163 Strength

    • +128–163 Intelligence

  Visage of Gunes
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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, timoseewho here. Season 7's finally here and unfortunately with very little class changes not counting the ones made to Spike Trap that somehow got botched to no one's surprise. The only thing that affects us is the Companion:Wolf nerf from 30 to 15%. Again, I'll be sticking to the Unhallowed Essence set this time around, but I still foresee LoN/S2M2 ending up being top dogs. I'm currently on 78 and a #14 spot with this setup. This guide will be awfully similar to my previous one since there really weren't any major changes for this class.

Skip to Build Guide below if gearing isn't an issue and you just want some tidbits on playstyle.

Here are my profiles, battle.net and diabloprogress

Acronyms
AD - Area Damage
AR - Resistance to All Elements
BotP - Bane of the Powerful
BotS - Bane of the Stricken
BotT - Bane of the Trapped
CDR - Cooldown Reduction
CHC - Critical Hit Chance
CHD - Critical Hit Damage
CtW - Cull the Weak
EF - Evasive Fire
IAS - Increased Attack Speed
IHR - Increased Hatred Regeneration
LoH - Life on Hit
RCR - Resource Cost Reduction
SA - Steady Aim
TotH - Thrill of the Hunt
ZSoV - Zei's Stone of Vengeance

Gear
Yang's Recurve (Bow) - % Damage / Dexterity / Discipline
This is a must-have item for this build even if non-ancient. An ancient Yang's beats any other weapon in ancient form for UE. This is one of the 3 slots where Discipline is required. There are extremely rare scenarios where a damage range enchant will outweigh the Discipline roll, but it's really rare. It goes without saying though that damage range is important since a ton of stuff scales off it, including Conduits. As for the extra primary, I recommend having either Vitality for added toughness or AD for more damage. LoH to is a viable option here to counter reflect affixes. I like my Vitality especially with an ancient roll since it can go up to 1000. Sometimes it may be unclear if a damage range, damage%, or a Discipline reroll is best, so that's where Meto's rerollcalculator comes in. rerollcalculator doesn't have support for Discipline calculation, but the general rule is 1 Discipline ~= 1.2% damage unless there's absolutely no Discipline to be found on gear, in which case, is bad practice. Philosophios' spreadsheet has a more detailed Discipline calculator.

Dead Man's Legacy (Quiver) - Dexterity / Increased Attack Speed / Critical Hit Chance / Cooldown Reduction / Multishot / Discipline
This is a very key item for a few reasons, it's one of the few slots where CDR can be obtained without sacrificing too much and Discipline can be rolled. I like my DML's to have at least 85%+ Multishot% and 55% passive. Like the Yang's, it's absolutely necessary to have Discipline here, even at the risk of not having CDR. Also like the Yang's, I like Vitality here if ancient.

Unsanctified Shoulders (Shoulders) - Dexterity / Vitality / All Resistance / Cooldown Reduction
I highly recommend having CDR here as the other damaging primary's (RCR, AD) aren't as important. Feel free to fill the other 2 stats with mitigation (AR, Life%, Armor), it won't hurt too much.

Accursed Visage (Helm) - Dexterity / Vitality / Critical Hit Chance
Ever since the introduction of the new DML with its massive Multishot% roll, the value of Multishot% on the helm has gone down due to its diminished value. Having CHC here is a given, it's not a choice between Vitality or Multishot%.

Cage of the Hellborn (Cloak) - Dexterity / Vitality / All Resistance / Discipline
This is the last slot for Discipline. IHR isn't all that useful now especially with Yang's and Vengeance. This is a good slot for a chunk of mitigation.

Fiendish Grips (Gloves) - Dexterity / Vitality / Critical Hit Damage / Critical Hit Chance
It's a player-preference whether or not this slot should have CDR, but keep in mind that having CDR here is a chunk of lost Vitality. The CHD/CHC here is necessary. I recommend keeping Vitality if this slot happens to be ancient.

Hell Walkers (Boots) - Dexterity / Vitality / All Resistance / Multishot
This 15% Multishot% is required. If there's movement% here, keep that in mind when plugging paragon points into Movement.

Hellfire Amulet (Amulet) - % Fire / Critical Hit Damage / Critical Hit Chance / Open Socket
The most important thing with the Hellfire is to make sure it has a useful passive, otherwise the ammy is as good as any other non-Hellfire ammy. There's not much wiggle room for optional passives here, on the Hellfire, the passive choice is either any of the four listed above or SA. Getting that perfect Hellfire won't be easy, in terms of priority with stats here, I'd rank CHD>Fire%>CHC>>>Dexterity.

Focus/Restraint (Rings) - Dexterity / CHD / CHC
A very good set, essentially doubling your damage. The ring slots aren't a bad place to squeeze in the CDR needed for Vengeance uptime. On ancient rings, damage is worth more than Dexterity if that's an option.

Skills/Passives
All the skills are set in stone unless Cindercoat is cubed for a more yolo-y approach, then going Trailer of Cinders for Vault is more beneficial. Going Hardened on EF is also a possibility, but not a very good one.

UE suffers from a lack of passive choices. Awareness is needed to not die instantly, Ballistics for the huge rocket damage, TotH to proc both CtW and BotT (both massive multipliers), and Ambush. SA was buffed last season to be a separate multiplier and was highly desirable. On paper, the math works in SA's favor greatly, but in practice with all the herding, Ambush is more beneficial overall (Ambush is an ~8% damage gain going up to 11% with a perfect DML). The most unfortunate part so far is that we still need a means of proc'ing CtW/BotT, making TotH necessary. The only time TotH can be swapped out is in groups when there are other classes/roles providing it, making room for Ambush. Archery isn't terrible, but not good either.

Gems/Augmentations
ZSoV and BotT are both awesome legendary gems due to the nature of their damage being multiplicative. The third gem can either be BotP or BotS. BotP also received a hefty buff this patch making its damage multiplied as well as added mitigation from elites. BotS really shines at higher Greater Rifts when the guardians take a substantially longer time to kill (75+).

Emeralds are preferred everywhere except for the helm where a diamond is necessary to help with Vengeance uptime. It's also fine to use diamonds in the chest/pants for some toughness. It's fairly obvious that dexterity is the go-to for augmentations and no, the legendary gem used for the augmentation transmute doesn't matter.

Cube Passives
Dawn is what gives the chance at getting 100% Vengeance uptime so there's no argument here. Visage of Gunes helps with some added toughness when Vengeance is up (which is why it's super important to have good Vengeance uptime). Other options for armor cube include Cindercoat or Magefist, but that really kills toughness. Convention of Elements is a huge source of damage, with immune necks being the only thing I'd replace it with if anything at all.

Softcore Changes (or a more yolo-y approach!)
For softcore, Vitality may be ignored on a few slots to make room for more damaging slots such as AD instead of Vitality on bow, AD/RCR instead of Vitality on quiver, Multishot% instead of Vitality on helm, AD/RCR instead of toughness stats on shoulders, IHR instead of toughness stats on cloak, and AD/RCR instead of Vitality on gloves. The damage gained from EF% on legs and movement% on boots are so minimal that keeping the respective toughness stats is a better tradeoff.

Awareness can also be dropped to make room for Ambush or Archery (only if it's on the HfA). I can recall a few progression rifts where I don't even pop Awareness, so it's doable without.

Lastly, cubing Cindercoat to reduce spell cost is also perfectly viable, but this is also dropping a ton of toughness, so keep that in mind. Magefist is also an option, but the value of fire% goes down considerably if both bracers/neck have fire%.

Paragon Priorities

Core
First thing, get Movement to 25%, remember to take into account the movement% from boots if they have them. 10% on boots is 20 points saved and in turn 100 Dexterity gained. Afterwards, just dump it all into Dexterity.

Offensive
Make sure to get the CDR necessary to help with Vengeance uptime (usually requires all 50 points), then maintain a 10:1 CHD:CHC ratio. For instance, with 350% CHD, the target CHC is ~35%. Don't ever roll CHD or CHC off to one another to hit that ratio. IAS is mediocre at best. Here's a breakpoint table for Multishot, but it's not really that important.

Defense
Dexterity already gives armor so no need to put points into it immediately due to the diminishing effect. I like to have AR/Life%, then some regeneration for downtime recovery. Armor isn't absolutely useless as it provides overall damage reduction. Normally, AR is the go-to toughness stat and if needed, diamonds add extra toughness in the cloak/pants, no shame in that, diamonds save lives.

Utility
I like to go with LoH first to get some regeneration going, as little as it is, afterwards I go for AD then RCR. There's more than enough RCR from Vengeance and Yang's.