S-TIER | BUILD CHASSERESSE FORK STORMCALLER ARROW (@Dr3adful) | SAISON 5

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Build Overview

This Huntress build Stormcaller Arrow relies on a fairly unique combination of mechanics: the Spirit Walker ascendancy triggers Primal Bounty every six seconds on a dodge roll, empowering our next projectile attack with additional projectiles and a greatly increased projectile speed. Thanks to the lineage support gem Olroths Conviction, this empowerment applies not to one, but to three consecutive skill uses.

The centerpiece remains the unique bow Lioneyes Glare (Lioneye’s Glare), which repeats our bow attacks twice with no damage penalty or cooldown, in the style of Barrage. Each repeat retains the Primal Bounty empowerment, giving us nine empowered projectile volleys every six seconds. It’s all driven by Stormcaller Arrow combined with Fork (Fork) and Frost Wall: by shooting our own ice walls, Fork splits on the ice fragments instead of on enemies, generating a rain of overlapping lightning novas that shred everything in the area.

For the Fork to work without ruining single-target damage, you need to drastically reduce the character’s « presence » area (via the unique ring Grip of Kulemak and several passive tree nodes) so that nearby enemies don’t redirect the projectiles back at them. On the defensive side, the author relies on a classic ward setup with The Brass Dome and Remnants of Kalguur, topped off with Mageblood for movement convenience.

Strengths / Weaknesses

Skill Gem Setup by Step

This build offers a single skill gem setup covering the whole progression.

Set 1

Set 1

9 skills • 39 gemmes

Munificence primitivePrimal Bounty

Protecteur sauvageWild Protector

Ruée vivaceVivid Stampede

Projection de sortilègesSpellslinger

Reliquats de ManaMana Remnants

Flèche mande-orageStormcaller Arrow

Remnants of KalguurRemnants of Kalguur

Mur de glaceFrost Wall

Héraut du tonnerreHerald of Thunder

Recommended Equipment

• Bow: Lioneye’s Glare — ideally corrupted with +1 extra arrow, or in a triple-socket version if you have enough to fill them. A non-replaceable piece, it’s the one that makes the entire repeater combo work.
• Secondary weapon set (weapon-swap): a wand with as many levels as possible for Frost Wall (ideally level 21 with corruption) plus critical strike chance, paired with the unique Effigy of Cruelty — spell critical hits apply Critical Weakness stacks, which gives a good crit window right before placing a Frost Wall on the boss.
• Quiver: more levels to projectile skills, additional Fork (Fork), critical strike, projectile speed and flat damage on a prefixed quiver base.
• Amulet: more levels to projectile skills, life, critical strike, attributes and resistances to round it out.
• Gloves: fractured T1 life roll, then chaos-rolled until getting flat lightning damage and T1 physical on a prefix (desecration), with a rune granting life and mana on hit per target struck.
• Helmet: Ancestral Tiara base with Astral Ward, rarity, life and resistances.
• Chest: Copper Dome, triple socket, increased Astral Ward — the immunity to extra critical strike damage is invaluable on maps with 6 modifiers.
• Ring 1: Grip of Kulemak (unique) — this is the piece that provides the presence area reduction essential to the Fork/Frost Wall combo, plus a light radius reduction bonus.
• Ring 2: rare, flat damage and rarity to farm more currency, rounded out with life/resistances (the build isn’t chaos-resistance capped by default).
• Belt: Mageblood for convenience (resistances, movement speed, skill speed) — replaceable with a rare resistance/life belt if you’d rather invest elsewhere.
• Boots: movement speed, resistances, attributes.
• Charms: Life Drain on use, and increased charge gain to keep its uptime.

Gameplay Tips

• Don’t try to kill isolated rares with the main combo: instead, drop a Frost Wall right in front of them to artificially create an impact point and force Fork to explode properly.
• Watch your presence area (visible on hover in the UI): the smaller it is, the more effective your Fork/Frost Wall combo stays on a single nearby target.
• Prioritize buying Olroths Conviction before Rakiata’s Flow if your budget is limited — it’s the piece that turns one empowered attack into three.
• Without Rakiata’s Flow, replace it with an exposure skill (Frost Bomb) and elemental penetration picked up from the tree to recover some of the lost damage.
• Without Mageblood, make up for the missing movement speed with the movement nodes on the tree or the Laviangas Spirits mana flask paired with the attack speed node.

The Fork + Stormcaller Arrow + Frost Wall Combo

The core of the build relies on a projectile mechanics trick: normally, multiple projectiles from the same attack can’t hit the same target more than once (no « shotgunning »), except in special cases. Stormcaller Arrow gets around this rule in a different way: the projectile embeds itself in an enemy or the terrain, then triggers an area nova at the point of impact. With several targets nearby or a generously stacked Frost Wall, these novas overlap and deal multiple instances of damage.

Fork (Fork) changes everything: applied to Stormcaller Arrow fired at a Frost Wall, the arrow no longer embeds itself in the targeted enemy but instead splits into two projectiles that bounce between other ice fragments, each one triggering its own nova. By maximizing the number of possible forks (up to a 100% chance of an additional projectile), you get a chain of explosions far greater than what a standard attack could produce.

Shrinking Your Presence Area for the Combo to Work

Fork requires that no enemy be inside the character’s « presence » area in order to correctly repeat onto ice fragments instead of veering off toward enemies. The build combines the unique ring Grip of Kulemak, several presence area reduction nodes on the tree (including one node with 25% reduction), and the « All for One » enchantment on the amulet to shrink this area down to a tiny circle. Without this reduction, the Fork/Frost Wall combo loses most of its value, as the projectiles end up hitting nearby enemies instead of staying on the ice fragments.

Defenses: the Ward Combo

The build’s defenses rely on a proven ward setup: Copper Dome for massive armour and immunity to extra critical hit damage, combined with Remnants of Kalguur and a solid amount of life. This setup holds up comfortably on triple Delirium tablet content, even in a Delirium + Breach setup with many rares to handle at once. The author doesn’t recommend over-investing in pure ward: life remains the foundation of survival, with ward as a complement.

Upgrade Paths

Several avenues can meaningfully improve this build without changing its structure. Garukhans Resolve, a lineage gem that grants guaranteed maximum critical strike chance on modified attacks, fixes the main flaw of the Lion’s Eye Gaze bow: its very low base critical chance. A corrupted bow with an extra arrow, better rings, and a better amulet with a higher level bonus to projectile skills round out the list of most cost-effective upgrades, without requiring a gem setup overhaul.

Skill Tree