Build Guide
This is the Rank 1 solo DH setup capable of clearing GR100+ depending on the exact setup this build has quite a high skill cap and requires a bit of fishing to make it worth running, not recommended for beginners. However, if you are a veteran demon hunter or interested in mastering a unique build, this can be highly rewarding to execute properly and quite satisfying to play after you become familiar with it.
The gameplay of the build revolves around slowly taking damage until you are in shi mizu range (below 25% life) and then smokescreen away and strafe for fortress shield while avoiding damage and gathering monsters into clumps to smoke screen into and FoK on lightning CoE with wolf active, lining up this properly will basically nuke everything in the range of the FoK and then you avoid picking up health globes and rinse and repeat, if you accidentally heal you should use that opportunity to pick up all the globes around before getting back into shi mizu range.
HFA passive = Perfectionist > Archery
shi mizu beginner varaition; recommended to try a few combinations of these until you become comfortable;
If you have hatred issues you can wear visage of gunes for the dark heart rune, enabling you to run seethe for the hatred
(if you run seethe you no longer need evasive fire focus and should use hardened for the armor or bola shot bitter pill for the disc)
If you have issues getting into shi mizu range you can wear death's bargin pants from Act 4 & 5 Bounties, these will prevent healing from awareness and get you into shi mizu range anytime you proc
if you have discipline issues you can run preparation focused mind instead of wolf companion, this will give you extra discipline to help spam smokescreen
advanced variation;
changed foundation to advanced version
non shi mizu version; (HC)
instead of shimizu for the cube/armor you can run beckon sail for a second cheat death, doing this will require you prioritize crit chance on your gear.
crit chance is available on gloves,helm,neck,bracers,rings
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Why not visage of the gunes so you can have seeth as well or any other rune? what is the benefit of Andariel Visage over the Gunes?
can you also make a game play video of this? so i can see the play style? thanks.
Can you also specify stat priority on the gear? with 37% you cant have full uptime. you need at least over 50% to get a full uptime.
you have dawn in hand, depending on the rolls on the dawn you might need more or less, but with perfect dawn it's ~37
I will update the guide at some point, but im busy with the season starting now so I don't really have the time yet
Thx for sharing this build, Philosophios. I'm missing a few pieces to fully utilize it but I'm def excited about it's potential. An ancient pair of boots is def elusive for me. Your builds are some of the best!
Question: I've played a standard Nats build before and I had no problem keeping my Hatred well above 90% w/ the strafe-generator shot-strafe-generator...ect, but this build struggles to maintain the 90%. Am I doing something wrong?
uhh, I cannot get it right it seems... Got lvl 50 gems and 11 ancient parts (only rings left to get), which means I lose 15% dps (from missing ancients), but even on 30 stacks of Fan, I need 2-3 hits to kill an elite or gob on T10. Wonder what's wrong...
I have alot of awesome gear for this build... all ancients just missing the pants and helm...which im using leorics crown and some ancient set pants. I wouldnt think those 2 items would effect the build significantly. As of right now, it's really slow and barely capable of doing GR 60. Rambo's Gear << link to my gear if you get time to give me any advice.
Is there a video of this in action somewhere? I nearly have the gear and would love to try it, but based on the comments I'm wondering...
here's desolacer's hardcore version - desolacer's hc lonfok
Thanks for the post.
I want to switch from a Nat's FoK build to a LoN FoK, but I can't get a decent DH-LoN rings set. It's been forever and it drives me mad. Anyway, once I'm lucky I'll try this build for sure. Getting in the shi mizu range seems tricky, though. Maybe I lack courage for that.
But why Fire % on shoulders? You use the Pinpoint Accuracy(Lightning) rune, don't you? Then how does FoK benefit from Fire?
Yeah, my bad, I missed it. Makes sense now.
Thanks, xLightangel.
yea, they dont have FoK dmg in the list of stats for shoulders
Yeah.....im having the same problem as Faaw. I'm Para LVL 770 with max hatred, move speed, CDR, CHC, CHD, Life, Armor, Resist All, Area Dmg, Rsrce Cost Redctn. I'm running Vengeance- Seethe, and all 4 that you have listed. I tried alternating Tactical Advantage out for Night Stalker and even (knowing is effects) Blood Vengeance. That's also changing out the Area Dmg % on both Hand and Shoulder slots (St. Archie's & Mantle of Channeling) what am I doing wrong??????
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