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UE Hungering Arrow Demon Hunter Guide

Last Updated:May 24, 2025|Changelog

Introduction

UE Hungering Arrow Solo Push

In Season 21, the Gears of Dreadlands Set was added to the game. At the same time many Generator-related items were buffed or reworked in order to make the new set playable.

However, Demon Hunter already had a Generator set — Unhallowed Essence. So for every successful GoD build there's another UE build lurking in the shadows. This is one of them, the long lost brother of GoD Hungering Arrow DH.

The build focuses on Hungering Arrow to deal damage, however, since there's no Strafe, it plays nothing like the GoD HA build. It's best to describe this build as a cross between GoD HA and UE Multishot. From the former we take all the items (minus the set), and from the latter—skills and playstyle.

The UE HA build isn't the best at anything but it has strong damage output to push high on the solo leaderboards. In particular, it has a shot at beating Multishot on the Unhallowed Essence leaderboard, where the two builds are head-to-head rivals. In Patch 2.7.5 (Season 28), the set also got a tremendous buff of around +9 GR tiers, making it a lot better than before.

Great mobility ✔
Strong season starter ✔
Rewards good gameplay ✔
Great single target damage ✔

❌ Very squishy
❌ Difficult to play

Sensitive to fishing
Terrible at speedfarming

Core Setup

Core Item Build

Items

  • Unhallowed Essence set provides huge damage bonuses: x1.6 through the (4) Bonus, and up to x1462 through the (6) Bonus, for a total of x2339 damage with your Hungering Arrow. The set gives you 60% damage reduction and plenty of Discipline, which lets you spam Vault.
  • Bastions of Will provide 125% increased damage.
  • The Ninth Cirri Satchel is the key item of the build, adding 100% pierce chance to Hungering Arrow as well as an up to 600% multiplicative damage increase.
  • Hunter's Wrath is another high-value DPS item, providing a 30% Attack Speed bonus to your Primaries as well as another 200% multiplicative damage bonus.
  • Dawn helps you reach permanent Vengeance uptime.
  • Depth Diggers provide another 100% damage increase to Hungering Arrow.
  • Wraps of Clarity reduce incoming damage by 50%.
  • Convention of Elements provides up to 200% increased damage during the Cold cycle. Another option in this slot is Elusive Ring, use it if you cannot survive otherwise.
  • Echoing Fury in the cube provides up to 75% increased Attack Speed. Alternatively you can cube Fortress Ballista for more defense.

Season Theme - Eternal Conflict

For the duration of this season, all players will benefit from the Pandemonium Kill Streak buff initially available in Season 19. For each stack of this buff, you’ll receive a small boost to movement speed and bonus damage, ultimately capping out at 50% movement speed and 100% damage at 1000 stacks. In addition, reaching certain kill streak goals will trigger a special effect and cause even more mayhem on the battlefield! For full details on how this works, check out this exclusive Seasonal Guide!

The Kill Streak effects are:

  • 15 Kills: Exploding Chickens seek and destroy
  • 30 Kills: A wide Frost Nova freezes enemies
  • 50 Kills: Corpses rain from the sky
  • 100 Kills: Five massive Energy Twisters are unleashed
  • 150 Kills: Dark Geysers form beneath enemies
  • 200 Kills: Treasure Chests fall from the sky
  • 300 Kills: A Ring of Fire engulfs everything
  • 400 Kills: Meteors hail from above
  • 500 Kills: Angels descend upon the battlefield to fight
  • 1000 Kills: Diablo appears!

In speedruns, you usually don't profit much from this season theme, however in pushing it opens up a lot of strategic depth by playing around various key kill counts. Especially the Geysers (150), Meteors (400) and Angels (500) are the most impactful and can kill anything in an instant, allowing you to get a significant progression boost if used correctly.

Depending on the situation, it may be best to voluntarily reset your kill streak after 150 to get the Geysers multiple times, or to set up for a boss kill by getting as close as possible to that number and then hoping for a Rift Guardian with adds or a few kills from Nemesis Bracers.

Build Adjustments
Furthermore, each of these three procs can finish the rift guardian instantly all the way up to GR150, allowing you to push without Bane of the Stricken if you manage to set it up properly. If you are willing to give up consistency for more power, you can replace this gem with Zei's Stone of Vengeance.

Global Stat Priorities

The most important for almost any DH build is reaching permanent Vengeance uptime. This is achievable through the 65% Cooldown Reduction effect provided by Dawn and having 37% Cooldown Reduction on your characte. If your Dawn has less than 64-63% on the legendary affix, you should consider adding a 4th Cooldown item to make up for it, as any lower will leave you with a significant gap.

Maximum Discipline is the best damage stat you can have, which is a secondary roll on Hand Crossbows, Quivers and Cloaks. Make sure you get as much as possible, but don't worry too much about one or two missing points.

Other than that, you want to stack damage stats wherever possible, especially Critical Hit Chance & Damage, Damage Range, Cold Damage, Hungering Arrow Damage, and lastly Area Damage (typically in this priority). For your defensive stats you just need to focus on increasing the raw toughness value. Since your Recovery is mostly based on percentage of your maximum life due to Simplicity's Strength, there's no reason to prioritize mitigation over health. You should always use Flawless Royal Diamond in your Chest and Pants sockets.

Variants

The Ninth Cirri Satchel nerf in Season 23 made this build completely horrible when it comes to farming or group play, so there are no other variants. The only use this build has is pushing Unhallowed Essence Leaderboards, where it can compete with UE Multishot DH.

If you don't like playing with Squirt's Necklace, you can also replace this amulet with The Ess of Johan.

Video Guide

Mechanics

Summary

  • Reach the necessary Cooldown Reduction for permanent Vengeance (37% with a perfect Dawn).
  • Keep up buffs (Multishot Wind Chill, Bastions of Will) at all times.
  • Keep your Discipline high as it directly scales your damage output.
  • Avoid wasting your time on single enemies or elites that don't die your strength is AoE dps.

Unhallowed Essence Demon Hunter is always lurking in the shadows, watching...

Credits

Written by Northwar
Contributions & updates by wudijo

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