So last season I kept seeing players wrecking stuff with this Unhallowed Essence Demon Hunter build. Figured why not give it a shot myself? Started grinding like crazy to gather the whole set.
The Frustrating Early Days
Honestly, my first tries sucked hard. Saw some guides telling me to stack critical hit chance and critical hit damage everywhere. Slapped on whatever gear gave me big green numbers for those stats. Damage? Yeah, okay. But felt like paper – mobs breathed on me and I was dead. Kept running out of Hatred too. So annoying dying all the time in Torment XVI.
Started swapping stuff randomly outta frustration:
- Replaced my crappy helmet with a Visage of Gunes – that extra toughness felt amazing.
- Ditched the random rings, hunted forever for a Convention of Elements and Elusive Ring. Game finally coughed them up.
- Sacrificed some raw damage on my Yang’s Recurve bow to get one with RCR (Resource Cost Reduction). HUGE difference! Could actually spam Multishot for days.
The Key Breakthrough Pieces
The biggest game-changer? Getting the right Dawn hand crossbow. Previous one rolled like garbage. Finally landed one that gave almost max Vengeance cooldown reduction. Paired that with my cubed Visage of Gunes and suddenly Vengeance Dark Heart was almost always up. Way less dying!
Other gear bits that clicked:
- Wraps of Clarity bracers: Life per Hatred spent? Perfect for keeping me alive in crowds.
- Hellfire Amulet with Ambush: That extra burst damage when enemies are full health? So good.
- Rerolled a bunch of gear to include Discipline secondary stat. Major damage boost for Unhallowed!
Final Gear & Results
After tons of farming and rerolling, this setup carried me hard:
- Weapons: Yang’s Recurve (main), Dawn (off-hand) – both rolled for max Damage, Attack Speed, RCR.
- Armor: Full UE set. Focused hard on getting Multishot damage % on Helm & Boots. Seriously crucial.
- Jewelry: Convention of Elements, Elusive Ring, Hellfire Amulet.
- Cubed Powers: Visage of Gunes, Depth Diggers, Ring of Royal Grandeur.
The difference? Night and day. Went from struggling in low Torment to blasting GR80s comfortably. Stuff just melted, and I wasn’t kissing the ground constantly anymore. Such a relief finding stuff that actually works without needing a PhD to figure it out.