Best Diablo 3 Demon Hunter Builds: Season 33

The best Diablo 3 Demon Hunter build in Season 33 will let you eviscerate the hordes of hell in style – so here’s everything you need to know to do just that.

Lurking in the shadows with a thirst for vengeance, Diablo 3’s Demon Hunter uses their deadly ranged weapons to deal high amounts of damage and take down foes from a relatively safe distance. The class also returns in Diablo Immortal.

This mysterious class has quite a high skill ceiling in the game, however, featuring two resources that need to be effectively micromanaged to ensure you can keep up the pace.

Here’s why you should be using the Demon Hunter in Season 33 of Diablo 3, as well as a rundown of the best builds to take with you into the Burning Hells.

Is the Demon Hunter for me?

A sound Demon Hunter can quickly level the battlefield, but there are some setbacks. While the class can deal a huge amount of damage, they’ll be backed against a wall if they become overwhelmed by enemies.

As a ranged class, you’ll have to be a lot more active in managing the Demon Hunter’s dashes and abilities to keep your opponents at bay. For people looking to take down the Prime Evils with arrows and a penchant for destruction, then this class should be right up your alley.

If you prefer running head-on into battle as a tank, though, we’d recommend running either Barbarian or Crusader. For those who prefer running fully ranged builds as a whole, you will feel right at home with the Wizard or the Necromancer.

Is the Demon Hunter good in Diablo 3 Season 33?

The Demon Hunter is a good choice for Season 33, with one build in the S-Tier and all others sitting in the A and B-Tier and below.

Whether maximizing your damage and farming Greater Rifts is your main concern, or if you’re looking to be flexible with your playstyles, there’s a whole variety of playstyles to choose from.

Best Diablo 3 Demon Hunter Build: Season 33

To ensure that your Demon Hunter has as much survivability as possible, you’ll want to run the Marauder Sentry build, which provides AOE-based gameplay that is great when playing solo.

Reliant on the Embodiment of the Marauder set, it’s worth noting that this build continues the trend of the class’ typically high-skill ceiling. If you’re looking for a challenge, this is the one for you.

Active Skills

Below, we’ve listed all of the skills that are included in this build, but make sure that you’re prioritizing maxing out your stats in the following order of importance: Sentry damage, critical hit damage, fire damage, multishot damage, and critical hit chance above all, followed by area damage, attack speed, damage, dexterity, and cooldown reduction.

Skill	Rune
Companion	Any of Spider, Boar, Ferret, Bat, and Wolf
Evasive Fire	N/A
Multishot	Arsenal
Sentry	Polar Station
Vault	Tumble
Vengeance	Dark Heart / Seethe

Passive Skills

The passive skills you’ll want to utilize for this particular build depend entirely upon what you’re looking to do. The three bolded passives should always be taken with you, and then choose a variation of what you personally prefer:

• Ambush
• Awareness
• Ballistics
• Blood Vengeance
• Cull the Weak / Tactical Advantage
• Custom Engineering
• Numbing Traps
• Perfectionist

Item build

Utilizing the right equipment is essential to any build, so here’s how to maximize your Diablo 3 Demon Hunter this season:

Item Type	Name
Helm	Marauder’s Visage
Neck	Squirt’s Necklace
Shoulders	Marauder’s Spines
Torso	Marauder’s Carapace
Waist	Captain Crimson’s Silk Girdle
Wrists	Wraps of Clarity
Hands	Marauder’s Gloves
Fingers	Focus & Restraint
Legs	Captain Crimson’s Thrust
Feet	Marauder’s Treads
Main hand weapon	Yang’s Recurve
Secondary weapon	Dawn
Off-hand	Bombardier’s Rucksack

Diablo 3 Demon Hunter Follower

While some don’t play with a follower, they can ultimately help to make or break your gameplay. Changes from Diablo 3’s earlier seasons allow you to customize their armor alongside their weapons, meaning that they make much more of an impact when paired with and geared correctly alongside a particular build.

We recommend bringing along the Enchantress, with an emphasis on Intelligence, Vitality, and Life percentage above all. She is also the only follower that gives a cooldown reduction – making her an important choice to keep your skills in play.

Alternative Diablo 3 Demon Hunter build

If the high-damage yet tough-to-master build of the Hungering Arrow doesn’t take your fancy – fear not! The next two builds both sit in the B-Tier, with one being a perfect choice for those looking for a less intense build.

Shadow Impale build

The beginner-friendly Shadow Impale build features a melee playstyle and is great to use against single enemy targets. It’s the perfect choice for those that are less experienced, allowing you to somewhat sit back and not need to micromanage everything during play.

Skill	Rune
Impale	N/A
Shadow Power	N/A
Vault	N/A
Vengeance	Dark Heart
Any two of Fan of Knives / Companion / Marked for Death / Sentry	Bladed Armor / Wolf Companion, Boar Companion / Valley of Death / Guardian Turret

Hungering Arrow build

If you’re looking for something that’s a little bit harder to master, the GoD Hungering Arrow build might be just what you’re looking for.

As the name implies, Hungering Arrow is where most of your damage is dealt, offering lightning-fast attacks to deal damage to your enemies – though it does hold itself back slightly with unimpressive AoE performance on the whole.

Skill	Rune
Companion / Fan of Knives / Caltrops / Shadow Power / Entangling Shot	N/A / Bladed Armor / Bait the Trap / Gloom, Shadow Glide / N/A
Hungering Arrow	Devouring Arrow
Strafe	Drifting Shadow / Rocket Storm
Preparation	Focused Mind
Vengeance	Dark Heart
Smoke Screen	Displacement

For all the Diablo 3 character class builds, check out our guides for the Necromancer, Barbarian, Witch Doctor, Monk, Wizard, and Crusader.