Demon Hunter Multishot Build with Marauder (Patch 2.7.7 / Season 31) (2024)

Merging the sentry-driven Marauder set playstyle withthe immense AoE coverage of Multishot, this Demon Hunter variant takesthe best of both worlds into an automated engine of screen-wide destruction.This guide will cover all of its available playstyles. The base buildpresented on this page is the Greater Rift Solo Pushing Variation, but thisbuild also has a Nephalem Rift Farming Variation and a Greater Rift SpeedFarming Variation; follow the links above to the respective alterations.

The basic skill setup of the Marauder Multishot Demon Hunter is displayedbelow. Read the dedicated Skills page fordetailed information on choices, alternatives, and build customization.

Active Skills
Evasive Fire FocusMultishot Arsenal1Vengeance Dark Heart2Vault Tumble3Companion Wolf Companion4Sentry Polar Station
Passive Skills
BallisticsCustom EngineeringCull the WeakAmbush

The required gear setup for the Marauder Multishot Demon Hunter is listedbelow. Check the Gear page for detailedinformation on choices, alternatives, gemming, Kanai's Cube and Paragondistribution.

• Helm: Marauder's Visage
• Shoulders: Marauder's Spines
• Gloves: Marauder's Gloves
• Chest: Marauder's Carapace
• Belt: Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle
• Pants: Captain Crimson's Thrust
• Boots: Marauder's Treads
• Bracers: Wraps of Clarity
• Amulet: Squirt's Necklace
• Ring 1: Focus
• Ring 2: Restraint
• Weapon: Yang's Recurve
• Offhand: Bombardier's Rucksack

The former Season 28 theme, the Altar of Rites, has been revised andre-added to Diablo 3 as a permanent character progression mechanic. — Forvirtually all builds and players of all skill levels — from casual toadvanced — we recommend progressing through the Altar tree using the pathoutlined below. The suggested path is geared towards maximum quality of lifefirst, then amplifying damage, and then mopping up the tree with defensive andedge case utility nodes.

Note that while they require reaching them with a Seal, Legendary PotionPowers are not part of the Seal cost system; Potions unlock with a separateresource called Primordial Ashes, obtained from salvaging Legendary or Setitems of Primal (red bordered) quality. Upgrade them as soon as possible, andin the order shown below (courtesy of Caleko's Altar of Rites planner).

You can read more on the Altar of Rites, Seals and Legendary Potion Powersin our dedicated Altar of Rites Mechanics guide.

• Legendary Gem 1: Bane of the Trapped
• Legendary Gem 2: Enforcer
• Legendary Gem 3: Zei's Stone of Vengeance

The seasonal theme for Season 31 will be completely flexible slots forKanai's Cube, which means you can use anypiece of gear in any slot of the Cube.

This is one of the builds where we don't recommend making any changes, sincethe options presented in the default build already make up the strongestKanai's Cube composition possible for the setup.

• Weapon Slot: Dead Man's Legacy
• Armor Slot: Zoey's Secret
• Jewelry Slot: Ring of Royal Grandeur

In this section, we will briefly go over how to kickstart this build intoreality; which items you should aim for with priority when farming andgambling, and what is their relative priority for the functioning of thisspec. Note that these suggestions are exclusively aimed at getting you up andrunning into endgame farming, and might not reflect the gear you need to wearfor high-end Greater Rift solo or group pushing. This section also assumes afresh Season's start, which usually is the point where most players work onassembling their first build with a particular set.

If the Marauder set is part of the Haedrig's Gift for the Season,your simplest and most straightforward path to assembling the build is tocomplete the Seasonal Journey chapters up to Chapter IV. The Seasonal Journeychapters will gradually give you a complete class-specific set, giving 2-3pieces for Chapters II, III and IV.

From the pre-game menu, choose and do this week's Challenge Rift.When successfully completed, this weekly event will grant you 5,1 millionGold, 475 Blood Shards, 370 Reusable Parts, 350 Arcane Dust, 125 Veiled Crystals, 35 Death's Breaths, and15 of each Bounty cache material: Khanduran Rune, Caldeum Nightshade, Arreat War Tapestry, Corrupted Angel Flesh, and Westmarch Holy Water. This will allowyou some early Seasonal leeway to extract and reforge items in Kanai's Cube,speeding up the assembly of this build with the items recommended below.

Having some materials at your disposal, either from farming or theChallenge Rift, is particularly important when you get duplicate pieces ofyour desired set. When you do, you can use Kanai's Cube Skill of Nilfurrecipe (10x Forgotten Souls, 10x Death's Breaths, 1x Setitem) to convert into another item from the same set. You should neversalvage duplicate pieces of a desired set before you have it assembled.

In order to assemble a Marauder Multishot Demon Hunter, you should do thefollowing.

• Gather the full 6-piece Shadow set using the advice above, or by spendingBlood Shards at Kadala. In order of gamble chance, you should spendfor: Shoulders, Pants, Boots, Gloves, Helm, and Chest. A trick you can alsouse is to gamble for duplicate pieces with an easier gamble chance (i.e.,Shoulders) and convert them into another piece from the same set using theSkill of Nilfur recipe in Kanai's Cube.
• Gamble Quivers for Bombardier's Rucksack and Dead Man's Legacy. Bombardier's Rucksack is essential for Marauder playstyles, as itextends the Sentry cap by 2 turrets — and your overall damagedealt scales with their number. Dead Man's Legacy bolsters your damageand enables a lot of upfront burst, which is useful for the lower healthenemies in regular difficulties farming.
• Upgrade rare (Hope of Cain recipe in Kanai's Cube) Bows to get Yang's Recurve. This is a build-defining weapon that greatly assists inyour resource management, as well as your damage.
• Gamble Belts for Zoey's Secret, which is a tailored damage reductiontool for Marauder Demon Hunters — providing 63% DR with all the Companions at your side. While gambling Belts, you can also stumbleinto Goldwrap, which is a cornerstone standard rift farming item thatmakes you nearly invulnerable as you pick up gold.
• Gamble Bracers for Wraps of Clarity. If you followed our BeginnerSeasonal advice, you might have gambled them at level 1 — as they arethe solitary legendary bracer that DHs can gamble for from the get-go.Gambling on Bracers will also net you other staple farming legendaries like Warzechian Armguards (for yourself) and Nemesis Bracers (foryour Follower).
• Do Act I bounties to attain the act-specific Ring of Royal Grandeurfrom Bounty caches. This will be helpful either in completing the basic setbonus, or mixing other helpful sets in (Cpt. Crimson) as described in the Marauder Multishot DemonHunter Gear page. Bounties will net you the craftable set recipes to beginwith, so you will be killing two birds with one stone. Bounties will also netyou Avarice Band (Act III), another farming-oriented staple for mostbuilds and classes, this one included.
• While largely undesirable due to high costs, gambling or upgrading rareJewelry is also possible; the Bastions of Will set ( Focus and Restraint), Elusive Ring and Convention of Elements willall bring massive value to the build, with other standout pieces that can alsosubstitute or be temporarily helpful in the face of Stone of Jordan, Squirt's Necklace, or Oculus Ring and The Flavor of Time foryour Follower.