This guide is designed and looking to do the absolute most DPS possible with the melee Demon Slayer, so if you have any suggestions to boost its power, you can feel free to write them to me. Discord tag is down below at the end.

This is my third guide for Hero Siege, I've written 2 more in season 11 and after coming back to play the game again I felt like making another one updated for this season.

About me:
I'm currently not even max Level yet and haven't really cleared much but I ended season 11 on a high rank with wormhole level 567 with a ranged Demon Slayer build. I have fun with theory crafting and min-maxing builds.

Pros:
-Can clear high tier wormholes and has no problems with harder content in general.
-Amazing at farming because of movement speed and very strong aoe clear.
-Also deals very good single target damage.
-Very tanky, its almost impossible to die even on very high level wormholes.
-Scales really good with Hero Levels
-Really fun and cool in my opinion.

Cons:
-Extremly expensive BIS items and almost no alternatives.
-Damage can fluctuate a bit since it has many procs.
-Can be boring for people that don't like playstyles reliable on only auto attacking.


EDIT: With an Iron Ring of Prometheus (Unstoppable 20 roll) you can deal up to 2 billion DPS.

In the local editor I could reach up to about 1 billion DPS (Would deal a bit more if "Unholy Possesion" could proc on the dummy) with this build while having all the BIS relics, every item at 115% quality, hero level 100, angelic abilitiy (Angelic Key) on merc + my weapon and all BIS items.

ONLY START BUILDING IT IF YOU CAN AFFORD ASCENDANCY AND GET THAT FIRST, THE BUILD DEPENDS ON IT
EDIT: Iron Ring of Prometheus with an "Unstoppable" 20 roll close to doubles your DPS instead of Mana Bender's Will.

Best in Slots:

Head: Mevius Mighty Helmet (4 Sockets max) (very expensive)
Armor: Arcane Robes of Authority (Rule of Order 20 max) (6 Sockets max) (very expensive)
Boots: Mana Stompers (4 Sockets max) (very expensive)
Weapon: Ascendancy (Overwhelming Power 20 max) (runeword) (very expensive) + Flash Fire Angelic Ability
Gloves: Soulbraces (Soul Spurn 20 max) (runeword) (very expensive)
Amulet: Philosopher's Stone (5 Sockets max) (very expensive)
Charm: Lunar Charm (Mana Pool 30 max) (5 Sockets max) (very expensive)
Ring: Mana Bender's Will (1 Socket max) (very expensive)
Iron Ring of Prometheus (Unstoppable 20 roll) (1 Socket max) (very expensive)
Belt: Sash of the Magi (3 Sockets max) (very expensive)
Potion: Wizard Potion (2 Sockets max)
Shield: Novice's Tower (Mana Shield 25 max) (5 Sockets max)

Alternative items you can use instead of the super expensive best in slots are:

Head: Thinking Cap (Mana Shield 20 max) (runeword), The Faceless Priest (4 Sockets max)

Amulet: Stone of Jordan (4 Sockets max)

Armor: Grandwizard's Robe (5 Sockets max), Lizard's Robe (6 Sockets max)

Boots: Arcane Marchers (4 Sockets max), Magister's Marchers (4 Sockets max), Wizard Boots (4 Sockets max)

Gloves: Conjurer Mitts (Magic DMG) (4 Sockets max), Shadow's Grasp (4 Sockets max)

Charm: Moonshard (4 Sockets max)

Ring: Mana Bender's Will (1 Socket max), Ra's Band (1 Socket max), Dragonsteel Ring (1 Socket max), Khodo's Wedding Band (1 Socket max), Demon Eye Ring (1 Socket max)

Belt: Viperskin Belt (3 Sockets max)

Shield: Arcane Bastion (Spell Bulwark 20 max) (runeword), Ancient Aegis (5 Sockets max)

Fill every socket with Vex runes (1.5% Energy).

Abilities to max are: Demon Form, Focused Mind and Slice of Shadows after that you have some freedom between maxing Vitals, Unholy Possesion or Heart Attack. I personally like to max out Heart Attack for more movement speed (I don't value the other abilities that much since they only deal physical damage while this build mainly deals magic damage) and put the rest into Unholy Possesion. In my opinion putting points into Unholy Possesion is more useful than into Vitals cause you can't really see the Vitals with this build and they sometimes just don't work properly.


These are the Hero Talents that gave me the most DPS while testing them out:

Level 10: Mystic Knowledge
Level 20 Knight's Vow (Doesn't really matter which one you pick for DPS)
Level 30: God's Wrath
Level 40: Shockwave
Level 50: Master Poisoner
Level 60: Hail of Blades
Level 70: Wizard's Intellect
Level 80: Resistancy
Level 90: Burst Shot
Level 100: Grandwizard's Spellpower


Abillity Rotation: Activate Overwhelming Power (Ascendancy) and Mana Shield (Thinking Cap or Novice's Tower (Novice's Towers Mana Shield is better)) - Press Demon Form on CD for maximum uptime - Use Soul Spurn on CD for Shield and AoE Damage - Always keep auto attacking.

EDIT: Using Monkey King Bar doesn't make much sense since you already get flying from Arcane Boots, I'd suggest using Mage's Handbook instead.

These are all the relics I would personally use with running this build. If you disagree, feel free to pick some others since the boost of some of these are very small.

Here's a list of the relics:

Doom Flute, Nunchucks, Storm Dagger, Magic Mushroom, Whip, Odd Book of Spells, Hand Scythe, Light Katana, Dirge, Hellscream Axe, Frostmourne, Commander's Sword, Silver Cube, Gold Cube, Gold Dagger, Triforce, Razer Blade, Tequila!!!, Butterfly Knife, Lightning Ball, The Holy Grail, Monkey King Bar, Amazon's Spear, Old Man's Coffee Mug, Damien's Left Eye, Lost Wand, Wizard's Mind Bomb, Phoenix Feather, Magic Sphere, Arcane Boots

Using a mercenary is just a bonus for this build, you don't need it to make the build work and you are free to use another mercenary build if you'd like to. But it can boost your DPS by about 300 million when its fully geared.

Tip: I don't know about the ranged Mercenary but the melee one can proc Overwhelming Power if you have it activated (Its not as strong as yours though)

This is the mercenary build I would use to clear content like wormholes with:


EDIT: Riftmaster's Dirge is actually better than Perdition cause of the extra "Penta Slash" Ability it has, Perdition is way cheaper though.

Head: Golden Crusader (4 Sockets max)
Weapon: Riftmaster's Dirge (Fanaticism Aura 30 max) (6 Sockets max) + Mark Target Angelic Ability (very expensive)
Armor: Mage Slayer's Magic Jacket (Spellbreak 30 max) (6 Sockets max) (expensive)
Shield: King's Tower Shield (Mending 30 max) (6 Sockets max) (expensive)

I used Efoel runes in every socket for more survivability but you could also use Dau runes for attack speed.

The roll on Fanaticism Aura is important since it increases your attack speed and the Mark Target Angelic Ability is also very strong because it increases damage taken by the target. The Spellbreak on Mage Slayer's Magic Jacket will reduce the target's resistance to magic damage which gives you a nice DPS boost. I choose to use tank items for the Head and Shield since there aren't very big DPS increases for those slots and your Mercenary doesn't apply debuffs if he's dead.


I chose to max Armor Boost, HP Boost, Shielding and Deflect so he's more tanky, the rest of the points into Swiftness for the attack speed. You can also put 1 point into everything else like I did. No Symbiosis max since you're already very tanky with the build and it would only make your Mercenary more squishy.

Here's a laggy 20 minute video from me almost clearing wormhole level 3500 with this build. I missed the timer by about 5 seconds but I would say that its possible.

I've exported this build and uploaded it to the HSeditor Discord incase you want to try it out for yourself in the local editor.

Here's a link to the Discord and their website.
https://discord.gg/DPeuk8Q
https://hseditor.com/

You need the HSeditor and put the template from the #build-templates channel into "%localappdata%/Hero_siege/hseditor/builds", then you can import it via HSeditor's import function.

I hope you like the build and try it out for yourself.

Incase you're looking after some more builds for other classes also, check out Fablephantom's Google Doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wnynn3xJmJbYbN8PhGOt1-K50ydtFDAB0krMuL6SPIw/edit?usp=sharing

If you're looking for my other guides, here you go:

https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2569288320

https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2566937678

https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2277355110

https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2290343952