Demon Hunter skills

This page lists all Demon Hunter skills. Follow the links to the individual skill pages for full discussion of every skill, including first hand reports and screenshots.

Useful skill links:

Skills - General skill design and mechanics.
- Skill runes - The huge skill customization and improvement system.
Demon Hunter - a bow-oriented ranged class who also relies on traps and other gadgets.
- Hatred/Discipline - The Demon Hunter's energy resources.
- Demon Hunter skills - A list of all the Demon Hunter's active skills.
  - Discipline spells - Situational skills that use the slow-regenerating Discipline resource.
  - Hatred Energy - Special Physical skills that use the slow-regenerating Hatred resource.
  - Bow skills - Skills that require the use of a bow, crossbow, or hand xbow.
- Demon Hunter passives - A list of all the Demon Hunter's passive skills.
Demon Hunter skill archive - Demon Hunter skills removed or modified during development.
Demon Hunter traits - Passive skills in Diablo III were called traits for a while before reverting back.

[edit] Active Skills

Click to the individual skill pages for more details about these skills including numbers, screenshots, skill rune information, blue quotes, and much more.

[edit] Primary

Name	Level	Description

Hungering Arrow
(database)
Primary
Bow skill

1

Generate: 3 Hatred

Fire a magically imbued arrow that seeks out targets for 115% weapon damage and has a 35% chance to pierce through targets.

Entangling Shot
(database)
Primary
Bow skill

3

Generate: 3 Hatred

Imbue an arrow with shadow energy that deals 90% weapon damage and entangles up to 2 enemies, slowing their movement by 60% for 2 seconds.

Bola Shot
(database)
Primary
Bow skill

11

Generate: 3 Hatred

Shoot out an explosive bola that wraps itself around its target. After 1 second, the bola explodes dealing 160% weapon damage as Fire to the target and an additional 110% weapon damage as Fire to all other targets within 14 yards.

Grenades
(database)
Primary

15

Generate: 3 Hatred

Throw out three grenades that explode for 95% weapon damage as Fire each.

[edit] Secondary

Name	Level	Description

Impale
(database)
Secondary

2

Cost: 25 Hatred

Impale a target for 265% weapon damage.

Rapid Fire
(database)
Secondary
Bow skill

5

Cost: 20 Hatred initially, and an additional 10 Hatred while channeling

Rapidly fire for 276% weapon damage as Physical.

Chakram
(database)
Secondary

12

Cost: 10 Hatred

Fire a swirling Chakram that does 170% weapon damage as Physical to enemies along its path.

Elemental Arrow
(database)
Secondary
Bow skill

20

Cost: 10 Hatred

Shoot a fire arrow that deals 155% weapon damage as Fire to all targets it passes through.

[edit] Defensive

Name	Level	Description

Caltrops
(database)
Defensive

4

Cost: 6 Discipline

Lay a trap of caltrops on the ground that activates when an enemy approaches. Once sprung, the caltrops Slow the movement of enemies within 12 yards by 60%. This trap lasts 6 seconds.

Smoke Screen
(database)
Defensive

8

Cost: 14 Discipline

Vanish behind a wall of smoke, becoming momentarily invisible for 1 seconds.

Shadow Power
(database)
Defensive

16

Cost: 14 Discipline

Draw in the power of the shadows, gaining 15% of all damage done as Life for 5 seconds.

[edit] Hunting

Name	Level	Description

Vault
(database)
Hunting
Movement ability

9

Cost: 8 Discipline

Tumble acrobatically 35 yards.

Preparation
(database)
Hunting

13

Cooldown: 45 seconds

Instantly restore all Discipline.

Companion
(database)
Hunting

17

Cost: 10 Discipline

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Summon a raven companion. Your raven companion will periodically peck at enemies for 38% of your weapon damage as Physical.

Marked for Death
(database)
Hunting

21

Cost: 3 Discipline

Marks an enemy. The marked enemy will take 12% additional damage for the next 30 seconds.

[edit] Devices

Name	Level	Description

Evasive Fire
(database)
Devices
Bow skill

14

Generate: 4 Hatred

Cost: 4 Discipline if you backflip

Shoot for 130% weapon damage. If an enemy is in front of you at close range, you will also backflip away 15 yards.

Fan of Knives
(database)
Devices

17

Cost: 20 Hatred

Cooldown: 10 seconds

Throw knives out in a spiral around you, doing 320% weapon damage to all enemies within 10 yards of you. Your knives will also Slow the movement of enemies by 60% for 2 seconds.

Spike Trap
(database)
Devices

22

Cost: 30 Hatred

Lay a trap that arms after 1.2 seconds and triggers when an enemy approaches. The trap does 275% weapon damage to all enemies within 8 yards.

You can have a maximum of 3 Spike Traps active at one time.

Sentry
(database)
Devices

25

Cost: 30 Hatred

Cooldown: 8 seconds

Drop a turret on the ground. The turret begins firing at nearby enemies for 175% weapon damage. Lasts 30 seconds. You may have 2 turrets active at a time.

[edit] Archery

Name	Level	Description

Strafe
(database)
Archery
Bow skill

19

Cost: 12 Hatred

Shoot at random nearby enemies for 156% weapon damage while moving at 75% of normal movement speed.

Multishot
(database)
Archery
Bow skill

22

Cost: 30 Hatred

Fire a massive volley of arrows dealing 165% weapon damage to all enemies in the area.

Cluster Arrow
(database)
Archery
Bow skill

27

Cost: 50 Hatred

Fire a cluster arrow that explodes for 225% weapon damage as Fire into a series of additional miniature bombs that explode for 100% weapon damage as Fire each.

Rain of Vengeance
(database)
Archery
Bow skill

30

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Fire a massive volley of arrows around you. Arrows fall from the sky dealing 715% weapon damage over 5 seconds to all enemies in the area.

[edit] Passive Skills

Passive skills replaced Traits during late game development in 2011. Many Traits were simply changed to passive skills, but some are all new. See the Demon Hunter traits page for a full list of those passives.

Name	Level	Description

Tactical Advantage
(database)
Passive

10

Whenever you use Vault, Smoke Screen, or backflip with Evasive Fire you gain 60% movement speed for 2 seconds.

Thrill of the Hunt
(database)
Passive

10

Every 7 seconds, your next skill that costs Hatred will immobilize your target for 2 seconds.

Vengeance
(database)
Passive

13

Your maximum Hatred is increased by 25. In addition, gain 20 Hatred and 2 Discipline whenever you are healed by a health globe.

This skill is affected by your characters: Skill Level (set to 1 for example above)

Steady Aim
(database)
Passive

16

As long as there are no enemies within 10 yards, all damage is increased by 20%.

Cull the Weak
(database)
Passive

20

Damage against slowed enemies increased by 15%.

Night Stalker
(database)
Passive

20

Critical Hits have a chance to restore 1 Discipline.

Discipline is used to fuel many of your tactical and defensive skills.

Brooding
(database)
Passive

25

You gain 1% of your maximum Life per second.

Hot Pursuit
(database)
Passive

27

Whenever you are at full Hatred, movement speed is increased by 15%.

Archery
(database)
Passive

30

Gain a bonus based on the weapon type of your main hand weapon:

Bow: 15% increased damage
Crossbow: 50% Critical Hit Damage
Hand Crossbow: 10% Critical Hit Chance

Numbing Traps
(database)
Passive

30

Enemies hit by Fan of Knives, Spike Trap, Caltrops, Grenades and Sentry fire have their damage reduced by 20% for 3 seconds.

Perfectionist
(database)
Passive

35

Reduces the Discipline cost of all skills by 10%. Increases your Life, Armor and all of your resistances by 10%.

Discipline is used to fuel many of your tactical and defensive skills.

Custom Engineering
(database)
Passive

40

The duration of your Caltrops, Marked for Death, Spike Trap, and Sentry is increased by 100%.

Increases the maximum number of Sentries to 3 and Spike Traps to 6.

This skill is affected by your characters: Skill Level (set to 1 for example above), Sentry, Spike Trap

Grenadier
(database)
Passive

45

Increases Hatred generated from Grenades by 2 and reduces the Hatred cost of Cluster Arrow by 10. Upon death, you drop a giant grenade that explodes for 450% weapon damage as Fire.

Sharpshooter
(database)
Passive

50

Gain 3% Critical Hit Chance every second. This bonus is reset 1 seconds after you successfully critically hit.

This skill is affected by your characters: Skill Level (set to 1 for example above)

Ballistics
(database)
Passive

55

Damage from rockets increased by 50%.

Rockets are fired from certain skill rune effects.

[edit] Skill Distribution

A useful player-made chart showing when the Demon Hunter gains access to skills, passives, and rune effects.

Demon Hunter skill progression. Stats as of May 5, 2012.

[edit] Development

The Demon Hunter was the fifth and final character to be revealed in Diablo III, making her debut at Blizzcon 2010.

[edit] Removed Skills

[edit] References

Zediono's translation of JudgeHype's pre-beta report -- IncGamers 1st Aug 2011
HardRock's Demon Hunter Passive Skills -- IncGamers 6th Sep 2011
Demon Hunter Overview -- Diablo III 13th Sep 2011

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[edit] Active Skills

[edit] Primary

[edit] Secondary

[edit] Defensive

[edit] Hunting

[edit] Devices

[edit] Archery

[edit] Passive Skills

[edit] Skill Distribution

[edit] Development

[edit] Removed Skills

[edit] References