Help with hunter HC

[anaksunamun]

Help with hunter HC

Hi all, I'm brasilian and I'm new to these foruns
Well i just started a hunter >>> HC <<< with no elemental suport skills ... and before i do something wrong i'll ask for some advice

Skills:
20 Grizzly
20 Dire Wolf
20 HoW ( i'm not using Oak Sage)
5 Spirit Wolf
Now What??? - I don't know what to do with the rest of points... maybe maxing carrion vine??? Poison no longer removes regeneration(correct me if i'm wrong) so no poison creeper. HElp with this

Weapon – Widowmaker (Shael?)
Armor – Chains of Honor
Belt – String of Ears => Nosferatu’s Coil
Boots – Aldur’s Advance or Sandtorm Trek
Gloves – Laying of Hands
Helm – Four options here: Andariel’s Visage, Tal Rasha’s Horadric Crest, or Vampire Gaze??? And yeah… If my friend borrow me a LEM rune I’ll make a delirium… I think it will be the best helm for me … don’t you think?
Amulet – Man… I don’t have any good ammys… only one I can think its a +3 summoning
Ring – Jesus I’m so unlucky with rings… I’ll be using 2 rares with resists, stats, and fast cast rate ( i have a dwarf star... is he useful? for this build?)

Merc – Since I’m using HoW, my only option it’s a holy freeze merc I think.
Weapon – Reaper’s Toll
Armor – Duriel’s Shell
Helm – Vampire Gaze ???

Hmm… just thought on something… if I make a delirium maybe I can give it to my merc… what do you think?

Well that’s it… hope you can help me

 

[corax]

weapon = Windforce or upp'ed witchwild string with shael/nef
Armour = CoH looks alright but i'd prefer Lionheart
Helm = Jalal's is always good for any kind of druid. applies here too.
Boots = gore riders for deadly mod combo
gloves = laying of hands is a solid choice. so is blood crafts with IAS
belt = string of ears and nosferatu both work well, my fav is the nos coil.
jewelry = 1) ravenfrost and angelic combo for big AR or
2) highlords/ raven + mana leech/ AR rare.

Charms will be mostly AR/max for extra damage

Use a might merc for added damage. your summons will provide enough crowd control.

Get atleast 1 point Carrion vine, good for after battle life recovery and corpse disposal against revives
I know you said you didnt want to use elemental skills but a very strong combo is 1 point hurricane and dumping the rest into cyclone armour. This will provide lots of elemental protection and a hit recovery wall around you to slow down all non cold immune adversaries that get too close.

 

[anaksunamun]

Well... i dont have a windforce but i think widowmaker (guided arrow is fine)... I can't trade for one cause play single player... only trade with friends. I got a highlords and ravenfrost... but i could not find a gore rider(that i'm not already using...) and i never had my eyes on a Jala's It's so hard to find for me... Guess i'll have to mf a litle.. anyways... thanks for the advice...
Maybe i'll use cyclone armor... but not hurricane... dont want any suport...
For the might merc... can i survive in hell without oak sage and holy freeze merc? Well... keep in mind that this is hardcore.
Well i'm gonna mf now... Thanks... any other usefull informatin please share with me =]

 

[MrGoth]

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Unless you get about 10+% mana leach your damage will be too low for consistant guideds, the mana consumption and the lack of a mana pool on druids is just too nasty. But the magic arrow is still gravy on it! I use one on my physical damage hunter on sc nl w, and even though i have zero mana leach the magic arrow is more than enough to get me threw solo pvm, i just used the guided vrs boss's with high deffense {DIABLO!!!!!!!!! That bastard will give you problems if you havent worked with ar...}.

But as said, the magic arrow from witch wild is much better than the magic arrow form widdow, and witchy comes with massive resistance, amp, scaling deadly, and 2 sockets so speed is nicer. You can easily trade for a good % witchy from your widow, could probably trade for an upgraded one.

 

[psuedoenviro]

I like widowmaker as a bow choice for a HC single player hunter. The guided arrow allows you to keep dex at a reasonable level while maximizing vitality. With any other bow you are going to need significant amounts of dex or ar gear to hit in hell. It's 33% deadly strike shouldn't be forgotten and when combined with highlords and gore can reach a respectable number. Sheal or Nef. Mana for guided arrow should not be a problem with your biuld. You are not going the huntermentalist route so no mana draining fire skills. You also said you had extra skill points. Why not actually use solar creeper and carrion vine? Only problem with this bow is the lvl requirement of 65.

CoH is the ideal armor with +2 skills and 65 resists and +20 str. It will make up for not having resists on the bow. I think it has lvl 63 requirement.

If you cannot get a Jalal's, then I like an Andarial's. It has the strength bonus, eventhough this most likely will be your heaviest item. It has huge poison resist and increases max poision resist. Its -30 fire resists won't be a problem since you are wearing LoH and Aldur's which is 90-100 fire resist. +2 skills and the kicker of 20% ias. If you add a 15% ias jewel to this, you have 35% ias. Combined with the LoH it gives you 55% ias for an 11fpa and puts you only 20%ias away from 10fpa which could be made up with shael in bow or Highlords if you can get one. Once again the lvl requirement is very high, 81.

Since 10%ias alone does nothing for you that Nos really is not worth its price. Any of the exceptional unique belts are better than Nos. Sting and T-Gods stand out. Maybe the best would be to gamble a belt with big life, fhr, and 3 resists in the +25 range. They are cheaper than ammys to gamble, but you may be fine with resists between anya quests and CoH/other gear.

There is a trend to my suggestions. All of the gear has high lvl req. You may be best off with WWS and Lionheart/Vampiremagi until you can actually use this high lvl gear.

Check the Strat Compend, under 1.09 is Freniswulf's guide to hunter. It still is very useful to this day and its ias chart for bows is excellently done.