Demon Hunter Unhallowed Essence Fresh 70 Starter Build (Patch 2.7.6 / Season 29) (2024)

Last updated on Sep 15, 2023 at 09:00by Deadset31 comments

Active Skills
Evasive Fire FocusMultishot Wind Chill1Vengeance Seethe2Vault Tumble3Companion Bat Companion4Preparation Invigoration
Passive Skills
Steady AimBlood VengeanceTactical AdvantageCull the Weak

The majority of the build will be assembled to Unhallowed Essence'stranslation of Discipline into damage, as well as its obvious Multishotfocus.

You will alternate generating Hatred through Evasive Fire Focus andspending it in powerful Multishot volleys. You can activate Preparation when low on Discipline, but the skill is taken mostly forthe Unhallowed Essence 6-piece benefits from Invigoration.With its significant downtimes in early character progression, Vengeanceshould be used only for significant fights (high density, elites and RiftGuardians). The rest of your Hatred management will come from Companion Bat Companion, which you can swap to Wolf Companion onceyou are confident with resources. As usual, Vault will take you in, outand from fight to fight.

• Multishot is the obvious choice for a damage dealing hatred spenderin an Unhallowed Essence build; you have two viable runes to choose from, Arsenal and Wind Chill. While Arsenal deals higher damageoverall, it is more GR-progression oriented, requiring swaps in your passivesinto Thrill of the Hunt and Arsenal — both of whichsignificantly deviate from your main goal, utility and speedfarm. Wind Chill applies a chilling effect prior to dealing damage, proccing Cull the Weak (and later on, Bane of the Trapped) automatically.Allowing you better speedrun passives and offering a party-wide Crit Chanceincrease makes Wind Chill the recommendation. Note that you acquire Multishot damage bonuses from the Unhallowed Essence as late as the6-piece, so you can run any spender to your liking prior to that point.
• While you can technically run any 7 Hatred generator in this slot, Evasive Fire fires in a wide ark, helpfully reminiscent of Multishot and with a high chance of hitting a target without the need ofmuch aim.
• Unchanged from the leveling build, Vault Tumble gives you the bestground covered to Discipline spent ratio, making it the preferable skill for thepurpose of mobility.
• You will keep Companion like a swiss knife at your side, but you willadjust its utility according to your preferences; it is likely you will strugglewith Hatred in an early Multishot spec, so you can safely fall to the Bat Companion crutch until you acquire key legendaries to stabilizeresources with.
• Preparation will also remain in the build, but needs to be changedinto Invigoration as soon as you acquire the 6-pieceUnhallowed Essence bonus, as it extends your Discipline pool.
• Similarly to Multishot, Vengeance draws damage benefits fromthe Unhallowed Essence set, and brings a multiplicative damage buff of its own.Its major role in the build comes from the Seethe rune however, andobtaining its amazing Hatred regeneration permanently through cooldown reductionstacking and cubing Dawn will be one of your gearing priorities.
• For early game Unhallowed Essence progression, it is advisable to keep mostof the leveling setup ( Steady Aim, Blood Vengeance and Tactical Advantage), but abandon Custom Engineering along with itssentries for the multiplicative damage increase of Cull the Weak.

The build above is specifically created not to require any additional sets orlegendary items. In order to transition to a late game-oriented spec using thesame set, we have listed the top three priority items to obtain when startingout with this set.

• Yang's Recurve — this bow is tailor-made for Unhallowed Essenceand Multishot, with a myriad of affixes that are all too helpful toignore. Naturally rolling with up to 50% Resource Cost Reduction, it is alreadya strong contender for expensive spender builds, but to top it off it increases Multishot attack speed by 50%.
• Dawn — the power of this legendary one-handed crossbow is onethe most attractive options to consume in the Cube. Since Vengeance is auniversally desired buff, reducing its cooldown up to 65% and achieving permanentuptime through a modest CDR investment on gear is an opportunity you cannot passlightly.
• Dead Man's Legacy is a Multishot-specific quiver that doublesthe application of your shots as soon as your enemy reaches below 60% health andfurther increases the damage of your spender.

The mini-guide above is simply meant to acquaint you with the set and how abuild with just the Haedrig's Gift (or a newly found set), and no supportinglegendaries would play out. We have the following endgame-oriented builds thatuse the set, and encourage you to explore these much stronger playstyles!

• Chakram Demon Hunter Build
• Unhallowed Essence Grenades Demon Hunter Build
• Unhallowed Essence Multishot Demon Hunter Build