Is endless hunger necessary for slayer?

Hi all, new player here.

Is endless hunger necessary for slayer? Most guides seem to take

1 brutal fervour
2 impact
3 bane of legends
4 headsman

To my limited knowledge, isnt headsman just a nice quality of life with the culling strike? I feel that endless hunger or masterful form gives some decent defense
Last bumped on Jan 12, 2022, 12:48:57 AM
So really you will have other ways to stop stuns and bleeding, and usually 0.2% of damage leeched is enough to cap you, more will not result in more healing due to caps on life leech.

SO Endless Hunger really just provides 20% attack speed. This is not horrible, but not good for a talent point.

Headsman is the only source to kill at 20%, which is especially good for bosses because last phase is usually the hardest. It also saves you a gem somewhere.

Add on attack speed and movement speed.

Bane and impact add a LOT more than 20% increased attack speed. With other sources you should be at something like 200% increased speed if not more, so 20% is more like 7% due to diminishing returns.

In short, Endless Hunger adds less than a good passive tree gem, and is Quality of Life at best.
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trixxar wrote:
So really you will have other ways to stop stuns and bleeding, and usually 0.2% of damage leeched is enough to cap you, more will not result in more healing due to caps on life leech.

SO Endless Hunger really just provides 20% attack speed. This is not horrible, but not good for a talent point.

Headsman is the only source to kill at 20%, which is especially good for bosses because last phase is usually the hardest. It also saves you a gem somewhere.

Add on attack speed and movement speed.

Bane and impact add a LOT more than 20% increased attack speed. With other sources you should be at something like 200% increased speed if not more, so 20% is more like 7% due to diminishing returns.

In short, Endless Hunger adds less than a good passive tree gem, and is Quality of Life at best.


Endless hunger is far more than 20% attack speed
its

20% attack speed
Stun immunity
Bleed immunity

Super ez to maintain capped overleech with the overkill leech(leech is a big aspect of slayers defense, the smaller leeches while usually enough might not necessarily maintain a capped overleech, probably the smallest aspect of this point though)

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