Shadowhunter - Demonic Impulse Raid Build

Demonic Impulse Shadowhunter is one of the transformation classes which means that it focuses on farming identity gauge called Shadowburst Meter. You charge it with skills while you are in your normal/human form. When you fully charge it you can Demonize. This will transform you into demon form and unlocks 6 new Demon skills. Demon skills are your main damage dealing skills and this whole build is focused around filling up the identity gauge so you can have a very high uptime of Demon Form.

Skill Progression

• At 268 skill points add Demon's Grip, Encroaching Power to Demon's Grip
• At 284 skill points add Rising Claw, Giant Hand to Rising Claw
• At 296 skill points remove Rising Claw, Giant Hand from Rising Claw and add Demon's Grip, Stretching Hand to Demon's Grip
• At 312 skill points add Rising Claw, Giant Hand to Rising Claw
• At 328 skill points add Demonic Slash, Nimble Movement to Demonic Slash
• At 340 skill points remove Rising Claw, Giant Hand from Rising Claw and add Demonic Slash, Chain Charge to Demonic Slash
• At 356 skill points add Rising Claw, Giant Hand to Rising Claw
• At 368 skill points you are going for level 11 skills. Priority on Demon Vision and Decimate
• At 368+ skill points keep going for other level 11 and level 12 skills as you unlock more skill points

Build Breakdown

• Demon Vision is your main identity gauge farming skill
• Howl is your second best identity gauge farming skill
• Thrust Impact generates identity gauge
• Demonic Clone generates identity gauge
• Demon's Grip generates identity gauge
• Decimate generates identity gauge
• Rising Claw is your counter skill
• Demonic Slash is a gap closer skill
• In demon form Blood Massacre is your biggest damage dealing skill
• In demon form Leaping Blow is your second best damage dealing skill and can serve as a gap close with Ruining Rush
• In demon form Death Claw is your counter skill
• Gate of Eruption is the preferred Awakening skill as it does a lot of damage and very high identity gauge farm

Combat Stats

To fully utilize your demonic form and have high uptime, Demonic Impulse Shadowhunter's focus on full Specialization and Crit as a secondary stat on necklace. High specialization will help you have higher uptime in demon form, increase damage of demon skills and generate identity gauge faster.

Runes

Demonic Impulse Shadowhunter focuses on identity meter farm which means that the only important rune on your Normal skills will be Wealth, 4. Other runes are added on your demonic skills as demon form will be your main damage

• Wealth, 4 on Demon Vision
• Wealth, 3 on Howl
• In demon form Galewind, 3 on Blood Massacre, Leaping Blow and Gore Bleeding
• In demon form Bleed, 4 on Ruining Rush
• In demon form Rage, 4 on Death Claw
• In demon form Overwhelm, 4 on Destruction

Engravings

Priority Engravings

• Demonic Impulse removes Composure debuff which prevents Shadowburst meter gain for 30 seconds after exiting demon form and add 30% crit rate while in demon form.
• Adrenaline provides additional Crit and Attack power
• Keen Blunt Weapon increases your crit damage and requires a decent amount of crit, which you can very easy get with Adrenaline and Demonic Impulse

Add-on End game engravings

• Grudge increases damage dealt while also increases damage received. Best damage dealing engraving out there to add in end game
• Raid Captain turns percentage of movement speed into damage
• Cursed Doll provides with a significant attack power boost at the cost of 25% healing penalty

Gems

The beauty of Shadowhunter is that she does not require you to have 11 gems. You only need 2 gems, one attack and one cooldown gem as your main damage dealing skills will be in demon form, and since demon form is part of your identity, you can only have 2 gems for all identity skills.

• For attack gem you will go for damage increase on Demonize
• For cooldown gem you will go for cooldown reduction on Demonize

Cards

Budget starter card set - You will need 12-piece awakening to gain the benefit of 7% crit chance increase

Lostwind Cliff

Optimal damage end game set - You need 30-piece awakening to gain the absolute max out of the card set

Light of Salvation

Gameplay and Rotation

Gameplay and rotation for Shadowhunter is very simple and easy to achieve. Your main goal is identity gauge farm to transform into a demon to then unleash damage.

1. Use Demonic Slash to get close to the boss, or dodge away from big AOEs if needed
2. Rising Claw or Death Claw to counter the boss when possible
3. Use all your normal skill to farm Shadowburst Meter so you can transform into a demon form and nuke the boss with your big damage. The rotation of these normal skills does not matter as long as you are hitting them all on the boss and using them on cooldown.
4. Before going into demon form use Howl to gain 12% damage increase on boss.
5. Once in Demon Form start with Leaping Blow and Blood Massacre followed by whatever else you want. Rotation here does not matter as all skills have fairly low cooldown and you want to spam them as soon as they are available.
6. Once your demon form ends, on the first rotation use your awakening skill Gate of Eruption which will deal damage and refill your shadowburst meter instantly so you can transform into demon and deal massive damage in very short amount of time
7. Once that demon form ends, all your normal skills are off cooldown, so use all of them and if you have high Specialization, then only one rotation of normal skills will refill your meter full and you can quickly go into demon form again.
8. Rinse and repeat identity farm with normal skills into demon form and big damage

Summary

• Demonic Impulse Shadowhunter focuses on heavy identity gauge farm to fill up shadowburst meter so you can Demonize faster
• In demon form spam every skill as they come off cooldown
• Demon form grants you 20% movement speed and attack speed, while Demonic Impulse grants you 30% crit on all demon skills
• Focus on high specialization and utilize skills with Wealth, 1-4 runes for faster shadowburst meter farm
• Use awakening skill Gate of Eruption to fully gain identity meter and deal damage