Demon Hunter skills

This page lists all Demon Hunter skills, as of August 2011. 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.
  • Active skills - Skills where effects are activated by the player.
  • Passive skills - Skills where effects are activated automatically, by the computer or by special events.
  • Signature skills - Skills that define characters.
• Hatred/Discipline - The Demon Hunter's energy resource.
• Runestones - The way to massive skill customization/modification.
• 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.

Active Skills

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

Offense

Icon	Skill	Description

Hungering Arrow Hatred Generator (Level 1)

[e] Generate: 3 Hatred Fire a magically imbued arrow that seeks out targets for 85% weapon damage and has a 35% chance to pierce through targets.

Entangling Shot Hatred Generator (Level 8)

[e] Generate: 4 Hatred Release a sticky adhesive that deals 100% weapon damage and entangles up to 2 enemies, slowing their movement by 70% for 2 seconds.

Evasive Fire Hatred Generator (Level 3)

[e] Generate: 4 Hatred Cost: 4 Discipline if you backflip Shoot for 115% of weapon damage. If an enemy is in front of you at close range, you will also backflip away 15 yards.

Fan of Knives Hatred Spender (Level 14)

[e] Cost: 20 Hatred Cooldown: 10 seconds Throw knives out in a spiral around you, doing 450% weapon damage to all enemies within 10 yards of you. Your knives will also slow the movement of enemies by 65% for 4 seconds.

Bola Shot Hatred Generator (Level 4)

[e] Generate: 3 Hatred Shoot out an explosive bola that wraps itself around its target. After 1 second, the bola explodes dealing 110% weapon damage as Fire to the target and an additional 75% weapon damage as Fire damage to all other targets within 7 yards.

Grenades Hatred Generator (Level 11)

[e] Generate: 3 Hatred Throw out three grenades that explode for 85% weapon damage as Fire each.

Chakram Hatred Spender (Level 7)

[e] Cost: 10 Hatred Fire a swirling Chakram that does 135% weapon damage to enemies along its path.

Impale Hatred Spender (Level 2)

[e] Cost: 25 Hatred Impale a target for 275% weapon damage.

Spike Trap Hatred Generator (Level 16)

[e] Generate: 5 Hatred Lay a trap that arms after 1.2 seconds and triggers when an enemy approaches. The trap does 100% weapon damage to all enemies within 8 yards. You can have a maximum of 3 Spike Traps active at one time.

Elemental Arrow Hatred Spender (Level 9)

[e] Cost: 10 Hatred Shoot an elemental charged arrow that deals 145% weapon damage as Fire damage to all targets it passes through.

Multishot Hatred Spender (Level 17)

[e] Cost: 15 Hatred Fire a massive volley of arrows dealing 140% weapon damage to all enemies in the area.

Cluster Arrow Hatred Spender (Level 27)

[e] Cost: 50 Hatred Fire a Cluster grenade that explodes for 200% weapon damage as Fire into a series of additional miniature bombs that explode for 100% weapon damage as Fire each.

Rapid Fire Hatred Spender (Level 5)

[e] Cost: 20 Hatred initially, and an additional 10 Hatred per second while channeling Rapidly fire for 228% weapon damage as Physical.

Strafe Hatred Spender (Level 19)

[e] Cost: 15 Hatred Shoot at random nearby enemies for 140% weapon damage while moving at 65% of normal movement speed.

Rain of Vengeance Hatred Spender (Level 29)

[e] Cost: 40 Hatred Cooldown: 30 seconds Fire a massive volley of arrows around you. Arrows fall from the sky dealing 674% weapon damage to all nearby enemies over 5 seconds.

Discipline

Icon	Skill	Description

Caltrops Discipline (Level 3)

[e] Cost: 8 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 65%. This trap lasts 6 seconds.

Vault Discipline Movement (Level 6)

[e] Cost: 10 Discipline Tumble acrobatically 35 yards.

Marked for Death Discipline (Level 23)

[e] Cost: 6 Discipline Marks an enemy. The marked enemy will take 20% additional damage for the next 30 seconds.

Smoke Screen Discipline (Level 18)

[e] Cost: 15 Discipline Vanish behind a wall of smoke, becoming momentarily invisible for 2 seconds.

Companion Discipline Summon (Level 15)

[e] Cost: 10 Discipline Summon a raven companion. Your raven companion will periodically peck at enemies for 30% of your weapon damage as Physical.

Shadow Power Discipline (Level 12)

[e] Cost: 20 Discipline Draw in the power of the shadows, increasing attack speed by 30% for 10 seconds.

Sentry Discipline (Level 21)

[e] Cost: 10 Discipline Drop a turret on the ground. The turret begins firing at nearby enemies for 40% of weapon damage. Lasts 20 seconds.

Utility

Icon	Skill	Description

Preparation Discipline (Level 25)

[e] Cooldown: 120 seconds Instantly restore all Discipline.

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.

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Development

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

Removed Skills

• Molten Arrow
• Shock Spike

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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