D3 S28 Demon Hunter Fresh Level 70 Guide | 2.7.5 (2025)

What three Legendary gems? L25 them ASAP.

Your next goal should be getting at least L25 on your three most important gems. Just get repeat the cycle of Nephalem Rift for a Key -> Do a Greater Rift until you get them, and do the absolute minimum level you need to level them up. Get them and level them quickly – do not feel pressured to “maximize” your rift keys by inflating the difficulty.

Legacy of Dreams is mandatory, as mentioned in the basics segment! Level this up as much as you can.

Bane of the Powerful is a cheap investment for an amazing powerup. You can replace this later for a trapped for DPS, or something like Moratorium if you want more early game defense.

From here you have some choices

Defensive gem? (highly recommended for now) will work wonderfully right now. Moratorium is a cheap L25 investment that works well with your Leech passive. Esoteric Alteration is a more tryhard defensive gem. Don’t worry, you can use these for augments later.

Offensive gems? Zei’s is the basic choice for UE, or Trapped (which eventually replaces Powerful), or Stricken (which is not something I’d recommend right now, it’s a very late-game gem). Zei’s, Trapped, Stricken, and Powerful are the only offensive gem’s I’d recommend for UE Multishot aside from Legacy of Dreams…

Can’t ever go wrong with leveling up a Boon of the Hoarder for speedfarming.

Legendary Items in ALL SLOTS

LoD gets stronger with each legendary item you have equipped – so get to it! You should aim to get this done “passively” by natural item drops, but you can also craft items if you’re desperate.

Simply wear whatever junk you find eventually
replacing them with useful pieces as you get them!

Spending Blood Shards is “OK”, but only use Death’s Breath to fill up the slots if you’re absolutely desperate. You’ll get an item for each slot in no time (you can even craft them). Save your resources for finding SPECIFIC items that will greatly boost your power. We talk more about this in the next segment down there, if you’re curious how to get the “good” items.

Ancients DOUBLE this bonus, and they’re a welcome boost to consider.

Defense Type & Gems

Demon Hunter / Monk are DEXTERITY classes (they get free Armor from DEX). So, in the face of all this free armor, your prime defensive stats are ALL RESISTS > VIT. So try to reroll ALLRES on your gear if you need defense, and REMOVE AS MUCH ARMOR (it’s pretty useless as a rolled-in stat).

So your gemming strategy (body and legs) should be slotting your best Diamonds on body and legs, as they give ALLRES.

Basic Rerolls

Since legendaries are a little expensive to reroll EARLY ON, try to make the most by REMOVING GARBAGE STATS, and getting anything “remotely usable”.

DEX and VIT are your primary stats and are welcome on every piece, also, as mentioned above, ALL RESISTS are also very welcome.

Life per Hit is always good early on, but in this case, you’ll be using Leech so it’s not a huge deal.

Multishot% is found in Boots and Helm.

The Element% you want is Fire, found typically in Bracers and Amulet.

Remove useless stats

• Life Regeneration – garbage for any build.
• Attack Speed – it usually an endgame tune-up stat.
• Excess Resource Cost Reduction – Is a crutch, and only niche builds need it.
• Excess Cooldown Reduction – Only useful for an endgame “need”.
• Unused skill% – literally USELESS.
• Armor – Useless for us, take ALLRES instead.

Take better stats

• DEX VIT– can’t go wrong with these. Your core stats!
• ALLRES Life% Great defensive stats.
• Sockets are essentially MANDATORY.
• Life per Hit – Great early game sustainability.
• CRIT Stats (CHC / CHD) – More for endgame, but I’d take this over garbage stats.
• Skill and Elemental% – that you use.

Full Build Preview: LoD Multishot

YOU DO NOT NEED TO FULLY FARM OUT THIS BUILD, YOU’RE TRANSITIONING TO UE MS! This build DOES shine in flexibility, and possible mobility due to the many flex slots which is great for when you’re not sure what build to transition to. It’s also ANTI RNG, as you can just keep scaling up little by little while farming your other builds.

Cindercoat can help you as an early filler!

Full Build Preview: UE Multishot Speedfarming

Transition into this more complete UE build as soon as you can. I can’t really tell you when the best time to do this is, but once you’ve gathered enough items it should be more powerful already. RoRG via bounties is pretty important here!

Build needs Ring of Royal Grandeur to fit Guardian 3 and Unhallowed Essence 6! This is a basic but good setup which uses Guardians (feel free to use the Crimson variant later on, if you prefer) for some unreal toughness.

The Guardian set is crafted by the way.

Full Build Preview: S28 Natalya Spike Trap

Since this is a completely new build this season, I’m sure many wanna try it out!

This isn’t optimized by any means, but these are definitely the items you want. I chose guardians as a safer splash, since it gives a lot of toughness. For bane of the trapped, you’re gonna need some way to reliably trigger it. There’s many possible evolutions, but they might be a bit of a hassle for a speedier build…

Here’s advice on how to spend your blood shards with Kadala, roughly in order of importance:

Deadmans Legacy – Quiver: a large increase in power, but gives almost no utility…

Wraps of Clarity / Nemesis – Bracer: A universal defensive boost, as well as a very important farmy item are in the bracer pile.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS FILLER,
and pretty much only used for the LoD version

Goldwrap – Belt: A defensive boost for neph grinding. Use with Boon of the Hoarder!

Visage of Gunes – Head: You might not end up using this or even cubing this since Dark Heart is the default rune you want to use, but it’s worth mentioning.

Cindercoat – Chest: a great early game filler. IDK if I would waste shards for this though.

If you’re still using the LoD build,
you can get filler items easily from this method.

Here’s advice on how to get your weapons from Deaths Breath rare item upgrades(Kanai’s Cube Recipe: 25x Deaths Breath convert a rare into random legendary of same type), roughly in order of importance:

2H Bow for Yang’s Recurve. This is a build in a box. Massive RCR, and a huge boost to Multishot power is just… It’s got a reputation for being one of the most powerful singular items and it’s well deserved. Get it first and fast.

1H Crossbow for Dawn. Still pretty good for 100% Vengeance uptime.

Quiver for Deadmans Legacy if you just cant get it from shards.

Nothing else is really WORTH spending DB’s for, and would rather spend to try and get jewelry you might not have yet.

Rings and Amulets are tough to get from either BS or DB’s (due to the large amount of possible outcomes), but if you’re done getting your core items from these currencies – and you haven’t got your core accessories, it’s a viable way to spend them. Typically you’ll just find these as you grind – then use currency if you’re desperate. Anyway, if I had to rank the importance of your rings and ammys…

Elusive Ring is a godlike defensive buff for DH’s which is almost thoughtless to add in any DH build.

Unity is a decent defensive option, but you need the follower immortality relic, and another Unity for the follower!

There’s not much else… Convention of Elements if you’re lacking DPS… Zodiac is fluff for this build…

As an aside – Ring of Royal Grandeur and Avarice Band are BOUNTY ONLY rings (respectively ACT I and III), which DO NOT APPEAR FROM any other source. They, like any other bounty item, DO NOT DROP from monsters, gambling, upgrades or any other source outside of their respective BOUNTY CACHE.