Huntress Inner Fire Poison (I averaged 31.7 m dps in a wrath 10 forge in testing)

[Firefrye]

I don't remember where I originally found this build, but I definitely stole it from somewhere quite a while ago.
Basic Idea:
1. Huntress Mist-walker to make inner fire poison and for near 100% invisibility
2. Stab for Poison leech and Immortal arrow "wandering arrow". Don't actually use either. they're just passives
3. I chose elemental auras for the rest of my Ancestral tree because there AREN'T ANY PATHS FOR RAW DAMAGE... (slightly frustrated about that tbh)
4. 60 points in Bravery + 15 Toughness. Other points are your choice. I went with 10 Fury and dumped the rest in Savagery
5. Primordial Bow of Concentrated Inner Strength is the most obvious reaper, but Primordial Big Fury, Untouchable, or a high enough level Bow of the Trainee are also options
6. Heavens of steel (shoulder), Winds of harmony (gloves), Gazloka's conquest (ring), Fenren's Desire (ring), and Indomitable Mountain (chest) are the main legendary gear pieces. Others as you find them useful. If using Fenren's ring, you can gain 50% attack speed with the "Everything is Awesome" upgrade at T5.
7. Activation of Adrienne, Thornbite effect (Beigarth), and Enchancement of Beigarth are the runes I use. Other activation runes are possible depending on preference

Alternate build with 90% the same gear:
1. Swap to Aurifurious, Primordial Bow Born of Fusion
2. Focus more of your gear stats towards raw damage rather than inner fire damage. Take Overdrive damage or Goldus Find if you see it
3. Get the Golden Fleece of Midos (cape) and Sparkling Boots of Midos (boots... duh)
4. The Inner fires + poison will damage enemies VERY fast dropping tons of gold off the fleece. The Reaper will then spawn special Overdrives per gold you collect. The Overdrives scale off the Raw damage you already took for the Inner fire build.
5. This build has slightly higher single target dps, and slightly slower clear speed. It doubles as a great goldus farming build

Stats from runs (added when I think about it on a stats screen). Gear has been improved slightly, but the fundamentals should be the comparable.
1. Primordial Bow of the Trainee - Wrath 10 Forge - 31.7 million dps in just over 41 min
2. Primordial Aurifurious - 5 Floor Wrath 10 expedition - 8 million dps in just over 12 minutes (including boss). I got the Gardens, so the layout was pretty bad and required some backtracking. I earned 6 million goldus and downed the boss in about 30 seconds. I'm not sure exactly how well this would translate to Forge because the build is quite laggy and is based on triggers when you earn goldus which does not drop naturally in the Forge. Run at your own risk.
3. Primordial Alpha and Omega - 5 floor Wrath 10 expedition - 5.4 million dps in 20 min (including boss). This felt slow. I expected that, but the reaper has a decent raw damage multiplier and the spinning black holes seemed on theme, so I tried it. The boss took about 3-4 minutes by itself. To get the Reaper effects to stay in effect, I took the 5-stone path to "Spark machine" in the bottom right of the Ancestral tree to get 50% mana lock and used the "first stone" to take Blood rite at the very top for 50% life lock. If anyone can come up with a better plan to get the two 50% locks needed, I'd love to know (tested, and you can get away with between 40-60% lock and still trigger). My main damage is still the Inner Fires, sooooooo I refused to drop the 2-stone path to "Inner Radiance" as the only way to get inner fires without breaking my smoke screen invulnerability.


I tried to upload an image of most of the stats I have while in town. Not sure how this will work.
https://ibb.co/92w4Jfb

[Lorska]

I'd be scared on W10 with 4k health and at most 50% dr lol.
I am curious about the clear speed, I'm running a ret build so it's kinda similar in that I have to run close to an enemy.

[Firefrye]

Enemies can only target you (or even SEE you) for less than a second every time your special runs out. In that time you have the Thornbite rune to keep you alive. I just finished farming the 30 expedition bosses for Adam's trials and I did about 25 of those at W10 with this build. I did not die once and had an average of 80-120k Thornbite "health" remaining at the end of the mission. Even 1 trigger of the rune give 5k health on my build.

[Lorska]

your math must be off somewhere because you gain 10% of the maximum each trigger so 5k is way too low lol.
But if you manage even with shield resets between floors on battlefield you're probably fine in the forge.
I'm still looking for a worthwhile huntress build to clear forge faster than my ret knight without being at risk of death, minion build is kinda fancy but once I summon ~300 skeletons my PC starts chugging xD
also apparently W10 just deletes 200k health minions in seconds...

[Firefrye]

- I read the 5k directly off the tool-tip in town. No other buffs and my enhancement rune was at zero. That's the bare minimum buff you can receive with it using my gear.
- For the second Nostrus trial I ran a Forge at W8 with only one slightly spooky moment where there was a bit too much lag (due to some invulnerable enemies stacking up) and I got stuck on some geometry. Ended up taking probably 30k damage off of my thornbite health but was immediately fine the moment I could move again. I'm fairly sure I could do the W10 run, I'm just wary because of the amount of lag I sometimes experience in the Forge.
- Shield resets aren't too bad because the opening room is always clear so you're free to cast smoke screen. You can also just stay in the starter room to ramp up your inner fires if you want... with over 100 max fires (with buffs up I think I've seen as high as 120? I just did a single floor of Slorm temple and had 105 at the end) it is VERY EASY to off-screen most enemies in a battlefield without them even gaining line-of sight with you.

[Phreak]

so this is my build! you can find it on the discord as the inner fire poison huntress where I posted it as plm :-)

[Firefrye]

Originally posted by Phreak:

so this is my build! you can find it on the discord as the inner fire poison huntress where I posted it as plm :-)

NICE! I've been really enjoying it over the last year or so. It's been my main for the last patch and I've been having fun tossing random reapers at it to see how it works.
I thought I got it from somewhere on google because I wasn't on the discord at the time, but I don't know for sure. All I know is the initial concept was someone else's and I've just done work on what reapers are viable, and what ancestral tree combos work (but most of that isn't in this guide because they're so marginal).