The Huntress is a range-focused bow character in The Slormancer, equipped with various arrows to eliminate foes. Even her basic Arrow Shot can become formidable when enhanced with specific Mastery nodes, allowing it to split upon impact or bounce off walls, generating projectiles across the battlefield.
With the Huntress alone, players can explore countless effective builds, each offering a distinct playstyle to approach challenges. In the following sections, we’ll highlight some of the best build options for the Huntress, including suggestions for Slorm Reapers, Skills, and Stats to aim for.
Slorm Reapers
Your choice of Slorm Reaper is vital to defining your build, so it’s essential to pick one that matches your preferred playstyle. Whether you want a melee poison setup, a turret configuration, a passive Wandering Arrow strategy, or any of the many other options, selecting the right Slorm Reaper can make a significant difference. Here’s a look at some recommendations.
Big Fury Bow
The Big Fury Bow provides an exceptional boost to overall Raw Damage. Each level increases your Raw Damage, Max Raw Damage, and Raw Damage Multiplier, allowing you to reach impressive damage levels. This Slorm Reaper also makes your Skill Damage Lucky, meaning it will roll damage twice and choose the higher value. This increases the likelihood of hitting the upper end of your damage range, enhancing your overall DPS.
Epic Resounding Drum-Bow of War
This is the ultimate form of the Drum-Bow of War, focusing on creating and modifying projectiles, something the Huntress excels at. Its base stats increase your Pierce and Fork Chance Multipliers, making these effects more probable. What sets this Bow apart is its unique Drum Effects, which activate in a sequence when you use a Projectile with either your Primary or Secondary Skill. These effects can enhance Pierce or Fork chances, and even generate additional damaging projectiles.
Bow of the Spider Nest
This Huntress Reaper also enhances projectiles. Its base stats improve your chances of Pierce and Rebound and multiply those probabilities. Additionally, this Bow’s special effect allows you to shoot webs when casting your Projectiles, which also Pierce and Rebound. Moreover, your projectiles can Rebound off all edges of the map instead of just walls, resulting in a greater number of projectiles engaging enemies and making them effective in areas like the Slorm Temple, which lacks walls.
Bow of Concentrated Inner Strength
The Huntress’s specialization, the Mist-Walker, thrives on the Inner Fire mechanic. Inner Fires are special AoEs that surround your character, damaging any foes caught within. The Bow of Concentrated Inner Strength boosts Inner Fires significantly, enhancing their damage and extending their duration. Furthermore, it grants the Fast Expansion Ancestral Skill, allowing you to trigger a new Inner Fire immediately after the previous one expires, leading to a smoother playstyle. This Slorm Reaper is an excellent choice for those who enjoy this mechanic.
Skills
While primarily a ranged class, the Huntress also possesses several melee attacks, along with poison options and turrets, providing even more gameplay diversity. The synergy between your Slorm Reaper and selected Primary and Secondary Skills is crucial to shaping your playstyle, so we encourage experimenting with them as you unlock new abilities to find your favorites.
Here are some strong Skills that can form the foundation of various builds:
Arrow Shot
Arrow Shot is likely the first skill you’ll unlock as a Huntress, yet it remains one of the class’s most adaptable damage options even at higher levels. With investments in Mastery upgrades like Forking Arrow, Multi-Fork, So Many Arrows, and Multiplicative Arrow, you can unleash waves of arrows that bounce between foes.
When combined with Slorm Reapers like the Epic Resounding Drum-Bow of War, Arrow Shot’s Forking ability can be pushed even further.
Void Arrow
Void Arrow can be charged to unleash extra projectiles that have a 100% Pierce chance. Initially strong, it can be difficult to use due to its lengthy charge time. However, once upgraded with abilities like Hypervoid Drifter or Torment of the Void, Void Arrow becomes exceptionally powerful.
This skill works particularly well with Reapers like the Bow of the Sharpshooter, which grants even more projectiles after standing still for a brief moment, making it easy to charge the attack.
Immortal Arrow
Immortal Arrow is the final skill available to the Huntress, offering a unique and powerful ability. When used, it will follow the mouse cursor for one second, allowing you to direct its path. It then travels to each target, inflicting damage along the way. When not activated, it summons Wandering Arrows that automatically seek and engage nearby enemies. You can further enhance this skill through Mastery upgrades like Bolt of the Immortals, which generates smaller projectiles with each Wandering Arrow hit, or Academic’s Arrow to boost the total number of Wandering Arrows.
With sufficient upgrades, you could potentially avoid direct combat and let your Wandering Arrows handle foes for you.
Tumble
Tumble acts as a support skill for the Sharpshooter of the Wild Specialization, providing excellent mobility options for the Huntress—especially when upgraded with Mastery nodes like Assassin’s Momentum or Good Reception.
This skill’s Mastery tree can significantly enhance your DPS, offering nodes like Agility of the Wild, Precision of the Wild, and Rapid Shot. Tumble can also be used to support the Ravenous Dagger playstyle, enabling you to deploy and retract Ravenous Daggers effectively.
All three of the Huntress Specializations offer unique benefits, but Tumble is particularly useful if you prefer relying on your Primary and Secondary Skills, providing increased mobility and damage output.
Stats
Once you’ve decided on your playstyle and a Slorm Reaper that complements your Skills, it’s time to optimize your stats for the best performance. Each build may require different stats, so there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. However, here are some general tips.
If you’re focusing on a Fork build with Arrow Shot, enhancing your Attack Speed and Fork Chance is crucial, while Critical Strike Chance and Damage will help improve your overall DPS. For longevity, Life Leech and Mana Leech can provide valuable sustainability during combat.
Movement Speed is universally beneficial, helping you navigate maps or escape threats more easily, while focusing on Raw Damage can directly boost your total damage output.
