S-TIER | BUILD CHASSERESSE SPIRIT WALKER TWISTERS (@GuyThatDies) | SAISON 5

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Build Overview

The Spirit Walker Twisters is a true league starter steamroller for the Huntress in Season 0.5. Designed by GuyThatDies with help from Glitched (MirrorTier), it revolves around the Twister skill and delivers massive damage with virtually no gear — to the point of clearing T3 maps on day one, solo self-found.

The core of the build is a self-sustaining mechanical loop: Whirling Slash generates whirl stages that Twister consumes to gain damage and additional projectiles. Ice-Tipped Arrows then converts Twister’s physical damage to cold, which freezes enemies, triggers Herald of Ice and activates Frost Nexus to generate chilled ground — a colossal damage multiplier. The freezes in turn feed Combat Frenzy with frenzy charges, which are exploited by Barrage to wipe entire screens.

The build’s true strength comes from the projectile speed provided by the Spirit Walker ascendancy and by Projectile Acceleration: Twisters bounce and hit the same target multiple times, turning each cast into a rain of damage. With the 0.5 update, Spirit Walker’s dodge roll even grants a buff providing 204% projectile speed and six additional projectiles. And the best part is that the build only grows stronger as you invest in gear.

Strengths / Weaknesses

Skill Gem Setup by Step

This build offers 2 progression steps from leveling to the final build. Select a step to view the corresponding skill gem setup.

Early Endgame Crit Transition

Early Endgame

12 skills • 54 gemmes

TrombeSet 2Twister

Taillade tourbillonnanteSet 1Whirling Slash

Héraut de la glaceSet 2Herald of Ice

Marque glacialeSet 1Freezing Mark

Étendard de guerreWar Banner

Flèches à pointe de glaceSet 2Ice-Tipped Arrows

Tir de barrageSet 1Barrage

Frénésie du combatCombat Frenzy

Souffre-douleur IIMeat Shield II

Zone agrandie IIMagnified Area II

Munificence primitivePrimal Bounty

Danse fantomatiqueGhost Dance

Crit Transition

13 skills • 55 gemmes

TrombeSet 2Twister

Taillade tourbillonnanteSet 1Whirling Slash

Héraut de la glaceHerald of Ice

Marque glacialeSet 1Freezing Mark

Flèches à pointe de glaceSet 2Ice-Tipped Arrows

Tir de barrageSet 1Barrage

Bond tonitruantSet 1Thunderous Leap

Frénésie du combatCombat Frenzy

Souffre-douleur IIMeat Shield II

Zone agrandie IIMagnified Area II

Danse fantomatiqueGhost Dance

Domptage de bêteSet 2Tame Beast

Munificence primitivePrimal Bounty

Recommended Equipment

• Weapon (Set 1): Sky Sliver with maximum attack speed, complemented by a 5% attack speed rune
• Weapon (Set 2): your main damage spear — prioritize flat damage, physical damage and ideally +3 levels to projectile skills. The high-budget Crit Swap version adds +5% critical strike chance
• Helmet: Energy Shield piece with maximum resistances
• Body Armour: evasion and deflection, with resistances, and ideally the affix that prevents extra damage from glancing blows
• Rings: flat damage as priority, then rarity and resistances
• Amulet: +3 levels to projectile skills as priority, complemented by resistances, rarity, Energy Shield and life
• Gloves: damage and attack speed
• Belt: resistances and life
• Boots: Energy Shield and resistances, but above all maximum movement speed
• Jewels: projectile speed, damage and attack speed. With a bit of budget, a Heart of the Well (damage gained as fire/lightning, skill effect duration, attack speed) is excellent

Gameplay Tips

• Mapping rotation: cast Ice-Tipped Arrows, chain three Whirling Slash, then trigger Twister
• Large packs: drop Barrage and watch the entire screen disappear thanks to your frenzy charges
• 0.5 dodge roll: remember to dodge roll to activate the Spirit Walker buff (204% projectile speed + 6 projectiles)
• Retreat buff: hit a monster in melee via Whirling Slash at least every 8 seconds to maintain the 25% additional projectile damage bonus
• Bosses: use Freezing Mark to speed up the freeze, and save War Banner for the toughest bosses
• Weapon sets: always keep Whirling Slash on Set 1 (attack speed) and Twister on Set 2 (damage, via Rigwalds Ferocity)

How Twister Works

All the power of this build rests on one key trait of Twister: each cast fires projectiles capable of hitting the same target multiple times. A projectile can strike a boss, bounce off terrain, then come back and hit it again. This is where projectile speed and duration come into play: the former increases the distance your projectiles travel, the latter extends the lifetime of your Twisters. Combined, they multiply the total number of hits each Twister generates before disappearing.

This is also why Twister consumes up to three whirlwind stages generated by Whirling Slash: each consumed stage increases damage and adds projectiles. The basic rotation — three Whirling Slash followed by a Twister — has one single goal: maximizing the number of projectiles per cast. Projectile Acceleration crowns it all by providing 204% projectile damage for virtually free, boosting both damage and clear speed.

The Cold Synergy: Freeze, Herald of Ice and Frost Nexus

Ice-Tipped Arrows converts all of Twister’s physical damage into cold damage. This conversion is the cornerstone of the build: it allows you to freeze enemies, which triggers Herald of Ice and activates Frost Nexus. Frost Nexus generates chilled ground, and that chilled ground is essential for Twister because it grants 50% of damage gained as extra cold — a massive damage multiplier.

Freezes also feed Combat Frenzy with frenzy charges, which translate into even more projectiles when you use Barrage. Be careful though: Elemental Focus is placed on Ice-Tipped Arrows to prevent it from freezing enemies by itself. If Ice-Tipped Arrows froze bosses instead of Twister, you would lose the Frost Nexus proc, and therefore the chilled ground. The entire setup is designed so that Twister is the one triggering the chain.

Weapon Set Configuration

The build makes full use of the weapon set system. Set 2 is your main damage weapon, because the Rigwald’s Ferocity support grants 30% increased attack speed when the skill is placed on Set 1. In practice, you put Whirling Slash on Set 1 and Twister on Set 2: Set 1 is loaded with attack speed nodes, Set 2 with attack damage nodes.

On Set 1, you deliberately do not equip a weapon in your off-hand. Thanks to Dance with Death, having no off-hand weapon grants 25% additional skill speed, which translates into more attack and cast speed. You therefore use a one-handed spear and leave the other hand empty. On Set 2, however, you equip a scepter providing 100 spirit and many useful bonuses. This is why Barrage and Freezing Mark are also placed on Set 1 to benefit from that skill speed — conversely, Ice-Tipped Arrows must remain on Set 2, as it would not apply to Twister otherwise.

The Spirit Walker Ascendancy and the Bear Companion

On the ascendancy side, the first point goes into Vivid Stampede. It is a prerequisite: without the next node, Marker’s Gift, taking Primal Bounty would provide little benefit. Once six points are available, you take Primal Bounty and Marker’s Gift. The final point goes into Wild Protector, which grants our bear companion as well as Sacred Unity and a whole series of buffs.

The main advantage of this configuration is survivability: 10% of damage taken per hit is first absorbed by the bear, and Sacred Unity adds an extra 8%. In total, the bear absorbs 18% of incoming damage before it reaches you, which greatly improves your overall resilience. The companion is supported by Meat Shield, Elemental Army and Hulking Minions to make it even sturdier.

High-Budget Crit Version

The Early Endgame version presented here requires no critical hit chance: a bit of flat damage, physical damage, and ideally +3 levels to all projectile skills is more than enough. This is what makes it such an accessible league starter.

For the high-budget version, you switch to a weapon with approximately +5% critical hit chance. The rest of the gear changes little, but you replace Ice-Tipped Arrows with Wake of Destruction since you move away from cold conversion. This is a transition to consider later in the league, once your budget allows you to push for the build’s damage ceiling.

Skill Tree