

If an enemy steps in that area, the trap is sprung and everything in the field is snared.Īs your progress throughout the game and level up, you’ll be presented with new skills to choose from. Caltrops is a trap you can drop on the ground that persists for a short period of time.

So yes, sometimes your arrow will hit an enemy, then magically turn around and hit them again. Hungering Arrow is pretty similar to the Amazon’s Guided Arrow (they’re both guided and do pretty nice damage) with one awesome difference: Hungering Arrow has a base 50% chance to penetrate its targets. You’re given Hungering Arrow as your Hatred and offensive skill and Caltrops as your Discipline and utility skill. Upon starting up a fresh Demon Hunter, players are automatically introduced to this dual resource system. This works out rather well as Hatred skills are mostly damage-dealing skills and Discipline skills are more utility. So while you can happily spam several Hatred skills in a row, Discipline skills must be used more strategically. Hatred refills rather quickly whereas Discipline returns at a much slower pace. Hatred-consuming skills, but in the current beta build I played, it was just straight-up Hatred-consuming skills). Accordingly, skills are divided into Hatred-consuming and Discipline-consuming skills (Note: on the official skill-builder site we told you guys about a couple weeks ago, it lists Hatred-building vs. As such, the resource “globe” at the bottom right of the screen is split down the middle: the left half is red for Hatred and the right half is blue for Discipline.

The Demon Hunter actually has two energy resources: Hatred and Discipline. In Diablo 2, mana was a resource shared by all classes however, in Diablo 3 each class has their own energy resource. We’ll delve more into the specific skills later. She specializes in bows and crossbows as well as a variety of traps and trick shots. The Demon Hunter is a pretty solid blend of Diablo 2’s Amazon and Assassin classes. Rounding off our class coverage of the Diablo 3 beta is the Demon Hunter.
