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Everything you need to know for Demon Hunter in Patch 2.4.1 Season 6

All organized neatly in one place! Much like last season I will list all the build guides I have for patch 2.4.1 plus a few extras and some additional resources and information. Because most of the builds didn't change much I didn't make new videos for every build, but the text guides will be updated when the patch hits and the videos will serve as a visual representation of the build's gameplay. My build's foundations are mostly optimized for solo intermediate players, for more information on beginner, advanced, and group variations please read the text descriptions!

If you find these helpful do not forget to give them an upvote, please and thank you! My guides will continue to be polished, updated, and current. If you have any questions or suggestions please kindly let me know! you can contact me either here on dfans or on my Live Stream

2.4.1 DH Changes Summary

- List of Builds -

1. Starter Marauder

2. T10 Unhallowed Essence

3. T10 Legacy of Nightmare

4. Bounty Unhallowed Essence

5. GR Marauder Cluster

6. GR Marauder Chakram

7. GR Unhallowed Essence

8. GR Shadow Fan of Knives

9. GR Natalya Fan of Knives

10. GR Legacy of Nightmare

11. GR zDH Group Support

12. Dunk's Death's Breath Hunter

additional resources and information

1-70 Leveling Walkthrough

Season 6 Starter Walkthrough

UE Dmg vs Disc Calculator

Top Tier Legendary Gems

Follower Setups

Monster Progression Information

Weapon Damage Reroll Calculator

1. m6starter - build for fresh seasonal demon hunters, easy to gear, easy to play, very strong with limited gear

2. t10ue - torment speed farm, easy to gear, easy to play, very fast rift clears

3. t10lon - torment speed farm, hard to gear, easy to play, very fast rift clears

4. uebounty - speed bounty farming build, easy to gear, easy to play, very fast bounty clears

5. m6cluster - solo GR build, easy to gear, easy to play, high potential

6. m6chak - solo/group GR build, hard to gear, easy or hard to play, high potential

7. uefire - solo/group GR build, hard to gear, harder to play, higher potential

8. shadowfok - solo/group GR build, easy to gear, harder to play, best dps group build

9. natsfok - solo GR build, harder to gear, hardest to play, high potential

10. grlon - solo GR build, hardest to gear, hardest to play, highest potential

note: there are many viable variations of this foundation (LoN FoK / LGF) flexible skills include companion/shadow power

11. zDH - group GR support build, easy to gear, easy to play, highest group potential

11. Dunk's DB - highest Death's Breath per Hour DH build, great for farming DB's

Database finally updated!

Build Guides are all fresh, please take the time to upvote the build guides if you find them helpful!

this is the best way to show support if you appreciate the guides

since dfans took so long to update the database and still haven't finished the database some of the guides are rushed and not quite complete, but it should be obvious what items are missing based on the rest of the guide, and they will be polished more throughout the season.

Looking forward to this!!

Quote from Minon»

Any idea what would change when it comes to fire UE for gr's in 2.4.1? I guess we must drop taeguk and run with Zei/Trapped/BotP? Also any change in passives? Steady Aim instead of Ambush? How high can it go?

Purely my opinion, and subject to change once the patch drops, but:

1) Taeguk dropped for BOtP or Stricken. Jury is out as to which will be better. I'm hoping BOtP, because it has more synergy with my next change:
2) Awareness dropped for steady Aim. (so passives will be Ballistics; Ambush; TotH; CtW and Steady Aim). I'm thinking this will be viable because monster damage is being reduced so significantly. It may be enough to just stack a bit more Vit and gear a bit more defensively, as the 20% multi from Steady Aim is a pretty significant damage boost. It really depends on whether we become dps limited, or toughness limited as to whether this will be viable. Otherwise, keep Awareness and swap Ambush for Steady Aim (but it is very close as to which is better IMO).

Thanks for the nice build overview

I've been considering going DH for season 6. One thing that puts me off is the end game LoN build. It brings too many memories of the very boring LoN crusader bombard build.

Is there any chance any other DH setup will be competetive or is LoN definitively the only end game build?

Thanks in advance

First of thanks to Philos for the awesome work!

Just one question to all here can i use these builds in hc too i would like to go back to my roots this new season.

thanks in advance

Quote from giovax»

Quote from onklen»

Thanks for the nice build overview

I've been considering going DH for season 6. One thing that puts me off is the end game LoN build. It brings too many memories of the very boring LoN crusader bombard build.

Is there any chance any other DH setup will be competetive or is LoN definitively the only end game build?

Thanks in advance

ahah fun, because for me it is the opposite. I hope the LoN build to be the best (or at least competitive...since it is the only one unbuffed from 2.4) because I like the playstile gather mobs + one great shot. But I never played crusader bombarb build

Hehe always good with different points of view Hoping someone more experienced can verify the expected build rankings for end game.

Are these going to be updated as I see taeguk in many and that's shifting to channeling skills pretty much?

Quote from giovax»

for pushing all build with prefix GR are ok or there are some that perform a lot better than the others? When I say "a lot" I mean double damage or so, or in other words 2 or 3 GR...

checkout the summary video in the OP, I generalize the strength of each build in that video, roughly it's (LoN>UE>M6>S6>N6) with the difference between all of them being very slight, except LoN is ahead by quite a bit.

Quote from onklen»

Thanks for the nice build overview

I've been considering going DH for season 6. One thing that puts me off is the end game LoN build. It brings too many memories of the very boring LoN crusader bombard build.

Is there any chance any other DH setup will be competetive or is LoN definitively the only end game build?

Thanks in advance

LoN will be the Rank 1 Setup, but the DH sets are balanced enough you can get top 20+ with other builds

Quote from Kedrik7»

First of thanks to Philos for the awesome work!

Just one question to all here can i use these builds in hc too i would like to go back to my roots this new season.

thanks in advance

yes all the builds work fine on HC and SC (except the shimizu version of LoN)

Quote from oldschool_2o4f»

Are these going to be updated as I see taeguk in many and that's shifting to channeling skills pretty much?

yea for sure, but I have to wait for Dfans to update their database with the new patch, usually this happens along side the patch on live servers, but this time it's taking them a bit longer should be updated before season start... hopefully

Great info - thanks

Quote from philosophios»

Quote from Kedrik7»

First of thanks to Philos for the awesome work!

Just one question to all here can i use these builds in hc too i would like to go back to my roots this new season.

thanks in advance

yes all the builds work fine on HC and SC (except the shimizu version of LoN)

Thanks a lot mate for the reply and all the effort, good luck on season 6 leaderboard

Quote from Sisternumsi»

its called marauder starter build, its the top video u can choose, its a youtube video.

He probably means the text guide which is in the second post.
-> http://www.diablofans.com/builds/78430-s6-starter-marauder-build-gr-20-torment-speed Is not working.

Quote from Nomadante»

The link of the first build ([S6] Starter Marauder Build - GR 20 + Torment Speed Farm) doesn't work.

yea sometimes dfan builds vanish when you are editing them, usually they can restore it, i sent them a msg about it, but haven't heard back yet, you can watch the video and see the spec in the widget so i guess it's not that bigga deal

thank you! good to know about the thread ^^

database finally updated! I think I have updated all the text guides for now, please feel free to kindly mention if you see something wrong

since dfans took so long to update the database and still haven't finished the database some of the guides are rushed and not quite complete, but it should be obvious what items are missing based on the rest of the guide, and they will be polished more throughout the season.

don't forget to give them an upvote if you find them helpful!

this is the best way to show support if you appreciate the guides

ty very helpful. i chose DH this season.

So after playing the build for a bit, I recently updated the LoN FoK GR Shi Mizu build guide with some gameplay footage as well as some different setups varying in difficulty, if you are having issues with this build I would recommend you check it out

don't forget to upvote the guide if it helps!