Tier 4 Perfect Suppression Shadowhunter Build Guide

Welcome to the Tier 4 Perfect Suppression Shadowhunter Build Guide! This is a consistent-damage class with lots of multi-hit skills that disables the Demon Form entirely.

Perfect Suppression revolves around generating Shadowburst Meter with your Intrude skills (often called builders) and spending it to boost specific Human skills (often called spenders).

Outside of that, Perfect Suppression inflicts decent amounts of Stagger and Destruction, but it may fail to deliver in very short checks since her utility comes from the amount of skills cast.

Raids

Kurzan Front

Skills Setup

• Cruel Cutter, Grind Chain, Spinning Weapon and Storm Grinding are your main damage skills, and also your Spenders (they consume 20% of your Shadowburst meter to deal increased damage).
• Demonic Clone, Howl and Decimate are your Shadowburst meter generators.
• Decimate, Wild Slash and Piercing Thorn are secondary damage skills that don't consume Shadowburst meter.
• Slasher is your Counter, as well as your main Damage Amplification Synergy and Nimble Movement Self-Buff applicator.

Alternative Skill, Tripod, and Rune Options

Howl can be replaced with Demonic Slash.

• Since Shadowburst Meter generation isn't too tight, you can swap to this Mobility skill that also provides Synergy and Self-Buff, as well as one extra point of Destruction. The downside is that spamming this skill will drain all your mana.

Skills Setup

• Grind Chain is your main skill to clear lesser monsters. It has big radius and can be used pretty often.
• Cruel Cutter is your main damage skill to take down Bosses.
• The rest of the skills do high enough damage to one-shot mostly everything.

Recommended Engravings

• Preemptive Strike
• Contender
• Raid Captain
• Cursed Doll
• Magick Stream

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Warning

This build is optimized and meant to be used only in Kurzan Front. For Ebony Cube please use a Raid build.

This build focuses on cycling between generating Shadowburst Meter and using it. Some of the skills lack Paralysis Immunity, meaning they can be easily interrupted by basic boss attacks.

You can't activate Demonize in this build, but you can utilize the Shadowburst Meter generated.

Your Spenders consume 20% of this meter to deal increased damage.

With the Storm Grinding Ark Passive node, each time you use a Spender you gain one Shadow Shard which, when stacked 3 times, grants the buff "Shadow Injection". This buff causes the next Storm Grinding used to restore 20% of the Shadowburst Meter.

Shadowhunter Identity

There is no strict rotation for this playstyle. Instead, you have a priority list and use skills accordingly. This priority is:

1. Apply your Damage Amplification Synergy and Nimble Movement Self-buff
2. Use your Encroachment Release spenders with at least 20% Shadowburst Meter
3. Use your secondary damage skills
4. Use your Encroaching Power Shadowburst Meter generators

Example Rotation

• Remember to always keep up Damage Amplification and Nimble Movement with Slasher.
• Grind Chain has forced displacement which moves you backwards, and Spinning Weapon has a small hitbox that spawns a few meters in front of your character (which means it can miss small bosses entirely if used at point-blank distance). Therefore, it's smart to use them in that order (when possible) so you don't have to manually reposition yourself.

Gems are another significant aspect of your build, as they directly impact the damage and cooldowns of your skills. You can equip up to 11 gems at a time. Here are the ones you should focus on to maximize this build's potential, listed according to their priority.

Engravings are a core part of your build. You can equip up to five at a time, freely swapping between them.

Bracelets provide beneficial effects to yourself or to your party members depending on the rolls they have.

The primary goal is to get the main stats used by this build - Crit and Swiftness. After that, you should be aiming for Special Rolls to get more damage. Please note that this system is heavily reliant on RNG, and you should not expect to get much more beyond your main stats early on.

The recommended Elixir Set for this build is Master.