The best Hunter build is the Liar's Handshake Prismatic brawler: you punch, heal off the hit, and go invisible — basically unkillable, and perfect for solo runs and GMs. The engine underneath is the Combination Blow loop: Combination Blow ramps your melee damage and Gambler's Dodge instantly resets it, so you chain punches forever. Stat priority is Melee → Class → Health. Want a cheaper version? Assassin's Cowl Arc does the punch-and-vanish trick too.
Prismatic Hunter Solo Build (Profane)
Prismatic Hunter — punch, heal, vanish, repeat.
The Liar’s Handshake Prismatic build is the best solo Hunter build in the game, full stop. The pitch is simple: you punch, you heal off the hit, and you go invisible. Do that on a loop and most content can’t kill you. It’s the build people take into solo dungeons and Grandmaster Nightfalls because the survivability is absurd.
Run Melee → Class → Health for stats (Super and Weapons fill in after). Melee fuels your damage and the heal, Class keeps your dodge ready, and Health is your safety net for the moments you whiff.
💡 Going invisible isn’t just defense — it resets enemy aggro, so use it to peel off and reposition mid-fight, not only to survive.
The magic underneath every melee Hunter build is two abilities working together:
Chain them and you never stop punching: kill with melee, dodge, melee is back, kill again, dodge again. The damage keeps ramping. This loop is the engine — Liar’s Handshake just adds the heal and the invisibility on top.
Combination Blow + Gambler’s Dodge is the core. Every good melee Hunter build is some version of this loop.
No Liar’s Handshake yet? Assassin’s Cowl (Arc) does the same punch-heal-vanish fantasy. Powered melee kills heal you and turn you invisible. The community setup pairs a 1-2 punch shotgun (shoot, then melee for big damage) with a blinding grenade launcher for crowd control. It’s a great stepping stone while you chase the Prismatic version.
The video above walks a full Prismatic Hunter solo build — handy if you learn the loop better by watching it than reading it.
This whole build leans on Prismatic. If you haven’t unlocked it or you’re fuzzy on the Aspects and Fragments, read the Prismatic guide before you farm the exotics.
The Liar's Handshake Prismatic brawler is the best Hunter build — you punch, heal off the hit, and go invisible, which makes it nearly unkillable for solo dungeons and Grandmaster Nightfalls.
Combination Blow increases your melee damage on kills, and Gambler's Dodge instantly resets your melee. Chain them and you punch endlessly while the damage keeps ramping.
Liar's Handshake heals you when you land a powered melee and ties into the invisibility loop. Combined with Combination Blow, you punch, heal, and vanish on repeat.
Run Melee → Class → Health, then Super and Weapons. Melee fuels your damage and healing, Class keeps Gambler's Dodge up, and Health covers the moments you miss a punch.
Hunters have six subclasses: Arcstrider (Arc), Gunslinger (Solar), Nightstalker (Void), Revenant (Stasis), Threadrunner (Strand), and Prismatic.