Fire Demon Hunter Build Patch 2.1.2

Anybody out there remember how was the life before Ipad and Ieat and Ishower for you? I do. Actually, I enjoy more stuff from before than now. I can remember how it was amazing to flip the pages on a comic book when I was 8. Maybe I'm too old school, who knows! Anyway, today I'm writing this simple text guide for the new fire demon hunter build in patch 2.1.2.  The meta has shifted towards maximum damage from Attack speed in 2.1. I'll present the skills, the gear and how to perform the Fire Build.

Fire demon hunter build in patch 2.1.2, Season 2

1. Skills (from left to right on your bar)

1.1 action bar
Companion- Wolf companion
Evasive Fire- Focus

Cluster arrow- Loaded for bear
Preparation- Punishment

1.2 Mouse
Sentry- Polar station(solo)/spitfire turret(group)
Vault- Tumble(t6, speed run)/ratling roll(grift)

1.3 Passive
Custom engineering (no replacement)
Cull of the Weak (no replacement)
Steady aim
awareness

Notes: There's many more passive skills that you can use depending on the situation and the group you're playing with. There's a few example: Blood Vengeance (trial), ambush(trial), archery(trial), Ballistics(physical). If you're using an hellfire amulet, you'll find yourself having even more choice.

2.Gear

2.1 Prime Gear (Ancient version are not mandatory, but gives a lot more stats i.e. Toughness for Grifts)
M6 composed of boots, pants, gloves, shoulders and helm.
Boots: Dex, Vit, All Resist and Multi shot/Cluster Arrow.
Pants: Dex, Vit, All Resist, 2 socket (Diamond/emerald)
Gloves: Dex, Crit Damage, Crit chance, Ressource cost reduction/Cooldown reduction/vit)
Shoulders: Dex, RCR(VIT), CDR, Sentry
Helm: Dex, Crit chance, cluster arrow, socket: (diamond/ruby for exp run).
Weapon: Hellrack(solo), Demon Machine(bis atm), arcane barb(easy to craft at first).

Notes: There's an ongoing debate as Season 2 progress on what is the best in slot weapon for demon hunter. In all cases, you should craft an arcane barb as top priority before anything else. After that, you can you use any good demon machine, buriza you find. Bows and even more hand crossbow are not recommended as the damage is calculated from the base damage and not the damage per second. With hand crossbow, you might find yourself doing 2/3 of the damage you would be doing with a crossbow of the same DPS.
Quiver: Bombardier's Rucksack: Dex, Crit chance, Cluster, CDR/RCR, Attack speed
ring: SOJ: Fire dmg, Crit dmg/Crit chance/Dex, Socket.
ring: Ring of Royal grandeur: Dex, Attack speed, Crit damage, Socket
belt: Witching hour

Extra belts: Razor strop, string of ears, chord of sherma, goldwrap(combined with boon of the hoarder)
Armor: Cindercoat: Fire, 3 Sock (emeralds), Sentry/vit.
bracers: Reaper's Wrap(crafted): Fire dmg, Dex, Vit/all res, Crit chance.
Amulet: Hellfire, Maras, etc: Dex/Fire dmg, Crit chance, Crit damage, Socket.

Notes : Tier 1 passives on hellfire are : Custom engineering, Awareness, Steady aim, Cull of the weak. Tier 2 passives :Ambush, Archery, Blood vegeance.
rings: Unity(solo grift), Compass rose(trial): Crit chance, Crit damage, Socket, Dex, base damage.

Note: Compass rose has a possibility to come with 5 primary stats which makes it the best in slot for trial. It beats the 20% dmg with a soj easily.

3. How to

Hatred is precious to the DH as time is to the man. You want to be careful how you do spend it and maximize the damage that comes out of it. In order to do that, you want to have the maximum hatred available (put 50 point in the paragon maximum hatred), the maxium amount of ressource cost reduction available for the build (30-40%) and cooldown reduction (CDR 30-35%). Those are the number that my profile gave me. The diminishing returns are different for the RCR and CDR. There's always some stuff you can work like rucksack CDR or RCR and so forth on the weapon. Use as much as possible RCR and CDR, but never lose main stat for it: DEX>RCR, Crit chance>RCR, etc. It's your job to work around the gear you have. Then you want to regenerate it as much as possible with wolf companion and Preparation- Punishment. Finally you want to spend it the best way possible. To explain this exactly, thoroughly and exhaustively would require a whole new post (which I may do in the future), but for now all you need to know is that you must have as many sentry on the ground as possible at any given time unless you have lethal (it means that your target is going to be dead before you miss hatred). Once you have 5 sentry, you try to calculate (1min) before dropping any other. This takes a while to master. Then you want proper rotation between hitting and regenerating, basicaly you spam cast wolf and Prep anytime they're up and they won't be wasted (i.e. hatred too full).

HAPPY KILLING WITH THE NEW FIRE DH BUILD IN PATCH 2.1.2 !!