Okay, so yesterday I got wrecked in Greater Rift 90 with my dumb grenade setup, figured it was time to try some “meta” builds everyone’s yapping about. Jumped straight into testing Demon Hunter setups, aiming to find what actually works without needing god-tier gear.
Gear Grabbing First
Started by checking stash – total mess. Mostly Ancient junk from last season. Focused on rolling basic gear sets instead of perfect stats. Used Blood Shards for armor pieces and Death’s Breaths for upgrading rares. Took like 2 hours, but got bare minimum pieces for all five builds.
The Build Testing Grind
Did GR 80 on each one to feel it out. Made notes on my phone like:
- Marauder Grenades: Turrets felt awkward to place. Squishier than expected, kept dying to poison pools. Damage was fire tho!
- Gears of Dreadlands: Spinny strafe mode made me dizzy LOL. Simple to play, just hold right click and dodge stuff. Cleared fastest but got one-shot three times.
- Unhallowed Essence: Multishot go BRRRR. Glass cannon AF – demons sneeze and you die. Required insane positioning but screen-clearing felt juicy.
- Shi Mizu’s Haori: This health% jank build where you gotta stay at low life. DIED TWICE testing thresholds. Huge damage but felt like walking on dynamite.
- Natalya’s Rainment: RoV spam build. Resource management sucked until I rolled better gear. Ended up strongest tank option for me personally.
What Actually Worked
After bashing my head against elites for an afternoon, ranking them like this:
- Natalya’s carried GR95 no sweat – super tanky with perma-dodge
- Gears of Dreadlands for brain-off farming, cleared trash mobs like vacuum
- Marauder Grenades for boss nuking when my turrets didn’t derp out
Unhallowed and Shi Mizu made me ragequit. Might work with perfect gear, but for my semi-casual play? Hell nah.
Final Setup That Stuck
Went with Natalya Cluster Arrow variant. Mixed Dawn+Valla for perma Vengeance+strafe mobility. Key adjustments:
- Cubed Ring of Royal Grandeur to free armor slot
- Stacked Area Damage instead of Crit on shoulders
- Swapped Companion for Smoke Screen – lifesaver against jailer affix
Cleared GR100 solo finally at paragon 800! Proof you don’t need two thousand paragon for decent push. Build’s complicated though – would only recommend if you enjoy piano builds.