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Charged Bow
Boots
Odysseus' Bow
Warrior Tabi
Poisoned Star
Deathbringer
Bloodforge
Rage
Demon Blade
Malice
Odysseus' Bow
Warrior Tabi
Poisoned Star
Rage
Deathbringer
Bloodforge
Death's Toll
Boots
Y
B
A
X
As of now i only know one, but i intend to keep playing hachiman and will post more later.
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Speaking from a mathematical dps standpoint, theres no reason triple crit ever. You always get better dps out of getting double crit and more pen, any pen, % or flat. Rage and deathbringer are the best crit items in the game, drop the star for something else.
Bloodforge is a gimicky item with a high cost and only a slight dps advantage over asi. Save the 1100 gold and get something cheaper.
Dont mix qins with crit, get % pen instead, like exe.
Build 4 has transcendence on a hunter that literally has a mana passive. You dont need it.
The standard hunter build is boots, devos, exe, rage, db, crusher
Sometimes frostbound or toxic blade could work instead of crusher
Thats it
And as far as bluestone start, you dont need it. Get deaths toll. Its OP. At level 6 with ninja boots, you still full clear wave with 1 ability, so bluestone immediately loses value. Deaths toll lets you box and sustain better, its the one you want.
Thought I would comment on your builds. Although based on standard build theory overall (probably), these are still my opinions.
I do note that these builds are for non-Clash/Assault.
Build 1:
Build 2:
- This one has options that help the build potential, but the example full build is a bit of a hot mess. Again, the example has 0 pen, and you mix 2x crit with
Qin's Sais. That's not the worst thing you could do, but it's just got some pretty big shortcomings.
- Personally, if you start with
Devourer's Gauntlet (no starter again, which may or may not be okay depending on mode), I personally like to get 
Ninja Tabi instead of 
Warrior Tabi. He doesn't have all that much attack speed steroid in his kit, so he can benefit from that, especially since Devo's will provide a good amount of power. Switched around, I'd probably go 
Warrior Tabi if I were to get that as a first item, to help with early clear and whatnot, and switch to Ninja late.
- Not sure if you know WHY people don't often build Qin's + crit...but understand this. Qin's passive wants high attack speed to get more instances of the passive off...and the passive is also subject to damage mitigation from protections, so high penetration is also preferred. Qin's also doesn't get any added benefit from crit. Crit, on the other hand, wants high power (since crits double damage or higher if you have DB), and it ALSO wants the penetration, to get as much of the actual damage through. Attack speed is helpful for crit, but is a secondary stat. With
Qin's Sais as your only attack speed item in your example, it's just not enough to make it effective...and the Banner ability isn't nearly enough of an attack speed boost to make it worthwhile without support from other items.
- You also get "Optional lifesteal" in this build when you consider
Devourer's Gauntlet to be core...double-lifesteal is just not recommended, especially when you're missing out on more "core" items like...yup, pen.
So, in that 2nd build, if you want it to be optimal, probably you'll at least take out Qin's and Bloodforge, and add inAnyway, hope this helps.
As for od bow i will have to respectfully disagree. Before I say why keep in mind that before hachiman I never used it on anyone else and I still don't. And here is why, Hachiman has really low scaling especially early on with abilities and because of it he has pretty bad clear. This lack of clear can make him get behind pretty fast and get outboxed by several other hunters early game. However adding with od bow he can keep up with clear while still poking the enemy team. It's especially useful since it is so cheap as well.
As for pen I will agree that it is really useful, however I think that the extra utility from poison star + 2 other crit items is nice as well and despite the fact that you may be doing less damage to the tanks you will be bursting down the back liners relatively quickly.
I (myself) am not as fond of the second build either. I feel like hachiman needs the burst damage that a crit can offer, and qins was there to help deal with the tanks. As for double life steal, that was just an option. As far as second life steal goes I would definatly go asi for the pen and attack speed. Also keep in mind this build is more customizable than the other. In fact I wouldn't even say qins is core.
Thanks again for your comment! It has actually inspired me to update it to include a third build (my standard hunter build) It should be more to your liking and hope you give it a read through!
- Forgot to talk about build order...the order of your first 3 skills isn't big in Joust, but if again you are also applying to Conquest, important to make sure you order it properly (at least in your own opinion). Standard level 1 is usually
Heavenly Banner.
- Regarding
Odysseus' Bow: So let's consider your statement that you mostly play Joust. At this point, I will agree with his somewhat lower scaling and poor clear (helped a bit by Bluestone if you choose to get in that mode). I then understand the poke potential O-Bow offers, and possible out-boxing. HOWEVER...Joust is a 3-man game. If you're the ADC, you're likely accompanied by a tank of some type, and a mage. In any Joust game, it's important to consider your team comp...many mages also have fairly strong clear, so it's not like it's necessarily a huge battle to outclear like it might be in Conquest. In addition, it's also not like you're sitting there boxing the enemy ADC 1v1...the other gods on both sides are going to participate, so it's more about what you can do to max your effectiveness. You may still feel O-Bow offers too much to push aside, but I think these are all things that should be evaluated for each match. In the end, I still don't think I'd get it first, due to the various reasons, but that's me.
- Pen is still a core item to me...yeah, you'll deal good damage against squishies, but you'll deal MORE damage if you have pen. If you like the utility from
Poisoned Star, by all means get it...I understand that...but I'd then argue that you might free up a slot by taking out either O-Bow (yeah yeah) or 
Bloodforge, since it's not like base is far or you'll lose lane by backing (you have 2 others).
Anyway, will check the guide out again once you update. =)