Perfect Suppression Shadowhunter Build Guide

• Cruel Cutter, Grind Chain and Spinning Weapon are your Spender skills. They consume 20% of the Shadowburst Meter with their Encroachment Release tripods, but in return deal much more damage.
  • In this setup, Spinning Weapon and Grind Chain are your Conviction and Judgement triggers. Be aware of the internal 30 seconds cooldown of these runes.
• Demonic Clone is one of your main Shadowburst Meter generators.
• Rising Claw is your Counter skill and generates a bit of Shadowburst meter. It also provides Destruction.
• Piercing Thorn is your 4th most damaging skill (after the 3 spenders), it doesn't generate meter.
• Howl is your Synergy skill, generates good amounts of Shadowburst Meter and it also provides Destruction.
• Decimate is your 5th most damaging skill, and it also generates a bit of Shadowburst meter.
• Gate of Eruption is your Awakening skill. It generates good amounts of Shadowburst Meter, but its animation is long (if the enemy moves out, it doesn't generate). You need to cast it during the Conviction + Judgement effect to reduce its cooldown even further.

• Demonic Slash is your mobility skill, as well as a Move Speed self-buff through its Nimble Movement tripod. It deals Destruction.
• Cruel Cutter and Demolition are your two Shadowburst Meter spenders. They also deal the most damage.
• Thrust Impact and Sharpened Cut are secondary damage skills. The first moves you back a little, the second moves you forward.
• Decimate is another damage filler skill, but also generates a bit of Shadowburst Meter.
• Howl is your main Shadowburst meter generator, as well as your main Synergy skill.
• Rising Claw is your Counter skill, it also deals Destruction.
• Gate of Eruption is your Awakening skill. It generates a lot of Shadowburst meter, as long as the enemy stays inside its zone.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

• This provides you with a ranged and faster meter generator, giving more meter per second but reducing your meter generated per skill. This also forces you to take another Synergy skill (Slasher) to maintain good uptime.
• This also lowers your overall Destruction and Stagger.
• Additionally, you need to move your Bleed rune to Slasher and your Conviction rune to Demonic Slash.

• You can take the Chain Charge tripod. This gives you two charges which makes easier to maintain Nimble Movement up, but causes you to use more mana and doesn't allow you to move through the boss.

• You can take the Weak Point Detection tripod if you are running a setup without Adrenaline.

• Grind Chain is your main skill to clear lesser monsters. It has big radius and can be casted pretty often.
• Cruel Cutter is your main damage skill to take down the Boss in the second floor.
• Piercing Thorn, Howl, Decimate and Demonic Clone are good skills to clear lesser monsters and also Elites.
• Demon's Grip is used to generate Shadowburst Meter for Cruel Cutter.
• Demonic Slash is used to move around and quickly destroy third floor's crystals.
• Gate of Eruption is your Awakening. You use it to activate Dominion's set effect for lower cooldowns.

Recommended Engraving Setup

• Preemptive Strike causes your attacks to deal immense amounts of damage to monsters that you haven't attacked yet, making it ideal for Chaos Dungeons.

• Contender is a stacking Attack Power effect that increases in strength once you kill a monster, making it ideal for Chaos Dungeons.
• Raid Captain provides damage based on your Bonus Movement Speed, synergizing well with the Buff Nodes scattered throughout Chaos Dungeons.
• Lightning Fury generates Lightning stacks that deal massive AoE damage when combined with Preemptive Strike.

Basic Rotations

Standard Rotation

• Since you need to cast your Awakening to activate Dominion's effect, and you need to do it during the Conviction and Judgment window for the reduced cooldown, you need to track your Awakening's cooldown and Judgment's internal cooldown of 30 seconds.
• If your Awakening cooldown is less than 30s, you can switch the order of Spinning Weapon and Grind Chain to prevent triggering Conviction (and by consequence Judgment) until your Awakening is ready.
• Remember to keep your Damage Amplification Synergy applied at all times. Be careful of not getting Howl's animation canceled, since it lacks Paralysis Immunity.
• Avoid using your spenders with less than 20% Shadowburst Meter, as they lose too much damage. Unless you need to trigger Conviction and Judgment.

Stagger Check Rotation

• Stagger checks vary in length so you may need to cast more skills apart from the recommended ones here. Remember to use a Whirlwind Grenade if required for faster stagger.

Basic Rotations

Standard Rotation

• This rotation assumes you start with some Shadowburst meter. You can use Gate of Eruption at the start of the fight for this, and then maintain your gauge with your normal generators.
• Use Demonic Slash at the start of the rotation to apply your Damage Amplification Synergy and your Nimble Movement self-buff.
• Proc Conviction and Judgement with Rising ClawCruel Cutter.
• Unload the rest of your damage skills, ideally in the listed order to keep cooldowns aligned.
• Avoid using your spenders with less than 20% Shadowburst Meter, as they lose too much damage.

Stagger Check Rotation

• Stagger checks vary in length so you may need to cast more skills apart from the recommended ones here. Remember to use a Whirlwind Grenade if required for faster stagger.

4 pieces Dominion Set

2 pieces Nightmare Set

Entropy Set

Engraving Explanations

• Perfect Suppression grants damage to Normal Skills as well as increases your Shadowburst meter generation. It's usually used at level 1 except in Crit setups, in which you pick it at level 3 to drop Adrenaline to level 1.
• Ambush Master provides a huge boost to positional damage.
• Grudge increases damage done while also increasing damage received. The engraving is a highly effective damage increase without needing specific positioning, making it worthwhile even with the penalty.
• Raid Captain is a pretty good option since we gain Move Speed from Nimble Movement and Swiftness.

• Cursed Doll is a significant Attack Power increase at the cost of 25% healing. The healing penalty can be punishing for inexperienced players who are not familiar with boss mechanics, but it becomes easy to overcome with time.
• Keen Blunt Weapon is an alternative in setups with >82% Crit Rate, having even higher potential with Crit Synergies.
• Adrenaline provides an additional source of Crit Rate and Attack Power. It is fairly easy to upkeep. Typically used at level 3 except in <1200 Crit setups.

• Adrenaline should only be dropped to Level 1 when you're running a setup with >1200 Crit (or >1350 at level 2), as to avoid being too close to maximum Crit Rate.
• Perfect Suppression is a very good Level 1 option in every other accessory setup. It's the ideal level 2 engraving, but this requires a 9/9 Ability Stone.