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Black Widow

By Psojed

Monster hunter with guns and crossbows.

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Category: Characters, Classes, Gameplay Basics, Multiplayer, Secrets, Walkthroughs, Weapons

Languages: English

Posted

7 Jun, 2015 @ 6:04am

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Stats

Skills

Perks

Items

Katarina

The End

Comments

Introduction

Welcome to my guide for Bounty Hunter.

In this guide I will show you a build capable of destroying Fearless scenarios.

Stats

Stat distribution is simple, you need damage, put all points all into Dex.

Skills

First put points into Seekermatons and their bonus skill which increases Critical Hit chance by 20/40/60%. This will ensure you can clear the game easily.

Then max Rampage Aura to maximize Critical Damage, and after that put skills into Poison and Precision Shot to increase base damage. After you gain enough Critical Damage % from items, unlearn Rampage aura and focus on Clear Shot and bonus skills.

- I don't use Battle Stance because you can't afford to stand still for 3 seconds, in Fearless you would die from that.
- Sphere of Timelessness is our panic button, but since it has huge cooldown there's no point in investing more than one level.

Currently, my Skills are distributed like this:

And Auras:

Perks

Choose perks that either help you survive or boost your damage. I'm using only one survival perk and that is Artful Dodger, the rest is damage oriented.

- Perfect Aim: +2% Critical Hit
- Black Widow: +10% Poison Damage
- The Flash: +5% All Damage, +10% Movement Speed
- Gunslinger: +7% All Damage
- Slayer: +5% All Damage
- Berserker: +10% All Damage at max rage
- Bull's Eye: +10% Ranged Damage, +10% Spellpower
- Spirit Guide: +10 Ability points, +3 Skill points
- Master: +5 Skill points
- Artful Dodger: +10% Dodge value bonus, +5% Attack Speed

Items

Obviously you need a good weapon, without good weapon your damage will suck. Easiest weapon to take is the Bounty Hunter set sold by Pigazus.

Other than that, look around for items with these stats:
+ Critical Damage Bonus
+ Critical Hit
+ All Damage
+ Dexterity
+ % Poison Damage
+ HP
+ Defense
+ Luck
+ Body

I'm still using half rare items from levelling up, but I can already play the Fearless Scenarios.

Katarina

GHOST FORM FOREVER!

Her damage is super low, her defense is nonexistant, she's getting hit for over 2000 damage in Fearless Scenarios so she dies fast and respawn takes quite some time. No, don't let her fight.

Put all her ability points into Dexterity and her skillpoints like this:

Another option is Body + Willpower based build with Chillwave, Curse Blast and instakill skills to help with control, however the abovementioned issues still apply, so I prefer to use her as Ghost.

The End

Hope this helps some people stuck at lower difficulties.

A final tip - the best thing you can do is bring a friend who plays a Protector. Let him tank the damage and shoot everything from behind.

6 Comments

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cave_ 26 Feb, 2022 @ 5:49pm

wish there was more builds posted.....

Geotarrr 7 Jun, 2015 @ 10:33am

Thanks for testing out Scatterblast, Psojed.

But about Glacier Shot it's written in the description that the shot hits ALL targets along it's path, creating ice shards from each impact, which could be powerful using it against tight pack of enemies.

amon 7 Jun, 2015 @ 7:45am

ty so much insta fav and *

Psojed [author] 7 Jun, 2015 @ 7:27am

I just tested out Scatterblast with around 30% Cooldown Reduction. It works just as great as Poison, it only costs a little more mana. I recommend taking the explosive powerup for Scatterblast.

But Seekermatons are just too good to go without them. That guaranteed critical hit (60% above normal limits) is simply too good.

Psojed [author] 7 Jun, 2015 @ 7:02am

Well I did a choice between AoE capabilities.

Poison is a circular AoE that leaves a cloud behind that poisons enemies.
Glacier is a single target hit that creates 5 shards auto-aimed at nearby enemies. While the range is basically the same, you are limtied to 5 shards, therefore 6 enemies hit at most.
Scatterblast is a cone attack where the shots hit and pass through with reduced firepower. Out of the three, Scatterblast has the biggest chance to deal most damage (and it also has the highest base damage of the three).

But the damage reduction element is a problem, because Poison deals full damage in the whole circle + damage over time, while scatterblast deals only the direct damage and the farthest enemy ranks won't feel the power.

Also notice that Scatterblast has a cooldown just like Precision Shot, therefore a Scatterblast oriented hunter should be using Cooldown Reduction instead. I'm sure it's pretty viable, I just didn't use it ;)

Geotarrr 7 Jun, 2015 @ 6:56am

Finally a Bounty Hunter guide! Thanks, Psojed!

But the skills recommended in the guide sadly confirm what I was afraid of.

I was afraid that a fearless-able build would require the use of Seekermatons. And I don't like them because they give inconsistent bonus (they cast their debuffs over some enemies, but the other enemies around aren't debuffed, which is inconsistent IMO).

The other thing is that I was hoping to see build using the ScatterBlast skill and sadly the attacking skills recommended in the guide are the starting skills.

At the end the guide confirmed my suspicion that the Bounty Hunter class doesn't give opportunity for play-style analogous to that of the Occult Hunter from VH2 specialized in combination of Exploding Scattershot and Glacier Blast.

But anyway, very good guide, thanks!

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