The Shadow’s Mantle Impale — Demon Hunter

Demon Hunter Build C · by eRnstl · 187 Views

The Shadow’s Mantle Impale for the Demon Hunter: tier C, Season 39, with gear, cube powers, gems and 3 variants.

At a glance

Class: Demon Hunter
Tier: C
Season: S39
Main skill: Marked for Death
Items: 13
Cube powers: 3
Updated: 26.08.2026

Equipment

Helm The Shadow's Mask
Shoulders Aughild's Power
Amulet The Traveler's Pledge
Chest The Shadow's Bane
Gloves The Shadow's Grasp
Bracers Aughild's Search
Belt Chain of Shadows
Pants The Shadow's Coil
Boots The Shadow's Heels
Ring 1 The Compass Rose
Ring 2 Convention of Elements
Main Hand Karlei's Point
Off Hand Holy Point Shot

Active Skills

Marked for Death Grim Reaper

Impale Impact

Shadow Power

Companion Bat Companion

Vault Trail of Cinders

Vengeance Dark Heart

Passive Skills

Awareness

Cull the Weak

Ambush

Numbing Traps

Kanai's Cube

Weapon Dawn

Armor Stone Gauntlets

Jewelry Ring of Royal Grandeur

Stat Priority

Dexterity
Critical Hit Chance
Vitality
Critical Hit Damage
All Resistance
Life per Hit

Legendary Gems

Gogok of Swiftness Rank 150

Bane of the Trapped Rank 150

Bane of the Stricken Rank 150

Regular Gems

Helm Diamond

Armor Diamond

Weapon Emerald

The Shadow's Mask

Helm

✦ Dexterity

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Impale Damage

✦ Socket

✦ Dexterity

✦ Vitality

✦ Area Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

The Shadow's Bane

Chest Armor

✦ Dexterity

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Life per Hit

✦ Socket

✦ Dexterity

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Attack Speed

✦ Dexterity

✦ Vitality

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Thorns

✦ Cold Damage

✦ Dexterity

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Life %

✦ Life per Hit

The Shadow's Coil

Pants

✦ Dexterity

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Life per Hit

✦ Socket

✦ Dexterity

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Impale Damage

The Traveler's Pledge

Amulet

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Gold Find

✦ Cold Damage

✦ Socket

The Compass Rose

Ring 1

✦ Dexterity

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Socket

Convention of Elements

Ring 2

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Area Damage

✦ Socket

Karlei's Point

Main Hand

✦ Cold Damage (Weapon)

✦ Damage %

✦ Dexterity

✦ Attack Speed

✦ Life per Hit

✦ Socket

✦ Dexterity

✦ Attack Speed

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Impale Damage

✦ Cold Damage

Gameplay

The configuration

This setup is stored as a complete build — gear, skills, runes and all four cube slots work together and are not assembled from individual statistics.

Set: The Shadow’s Mantle
Rating: tier C across all classes
Kanai's Cube: Dawn, Stone Gauntlets, Ring of Royal Grandeur
Skills: Marked for Death (Grim Reaper), Impale (Impact), Shadow Power, Companion (Bat Companion), Vault (Trail of Cinders), Vengeance (Dark Heart)
Passives: Awareness, Cull the Weak, Ambush, Numbing Traps
Variants available: Speed farming, Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts, GR push

Use the variant switcher above to move between the versions. What changes between them is spelled out below — read it before you rebuild.

What the set does

This build wears The Shadow’s Mantle. These bonuses apply once the matching number of set pieces is equipped — the damage multiplier hangs on them, not on the individual stats of the pieces:

2 pieces: While equipped with a melee weapon, the damage of your Bolas, Chakram, Fan of Knives, and Impale is increased by 6000%.
4 pieces: Shadow Power gains the effect of every rune and lasts forever.
6 pieces: Impale deals an additional 75,000% weapon damage to the first enemy hit, and 25,000% to subsequent enemies.

How the variants differ

Measured against the push version. Anything not listed here stays the same:

Speed farming: swaps in skills Bolas (Thunder Ball), Preparation (Battle Scars), Smoke Screen (Vanishing Powder); cube St. Archew's Gage, Echoing Fury; gems Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard, Zei's Stone of Vengeance.
Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts: swaps in skills Companion (Ferret Companion), Preparation (Battle Scars), Smoke Screen (Vanishing Powder), Vengeance (From the Shadows); cube Pride's Fall, Squirt's Necklace, Echoing Fury; gems Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard, Boon of the Hoarder.

Sockets and gems

The 3 legendary gems (Gogok of Swiftness, Bane of the Trapped, Bane of the Stricken) belong in the jewellery slots — that is the only place their rank counts, and the only place they keep growing when you upgrade after a Greater Rift.

The remaining 7 sockets are filled with Diamond: the multiplier already comes from the set and the legendary powers, so one more base stat does more there than another effect would.

On the season theme

Shades of the Nephalem spawns a shadow clone of your class at every shrine and pylon that fights along for one minute. Activate shrines inside the pull, not on the way there. The fourth cube slot is already filled in every variant above.