Demon Hunter Fast Tech Bears

The safest Night Elf build: Demon Hunter, four Archers and an Ancient of War creep, tech at 21 food, Hunter's Hall and two Ancients of Lore, then Master Druids of the Claw and an Orb of Venom.

By Wontu· Updated 25 September 2026

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Full guideDemon Hunter Fast Bear Tech

The standard fast Master Druid of the Claw strategy is one of the first things a Night Elf player should learn: it is probably the safest build against most opponents and works in every matchup to varying degrees, especially with a Demon Hunter. The strength comes from the Demon Hunter preventing the opponent from playing out their game while you tech.

Easy to execute, though it can be used in strategies that are advanced. It also works with a Keeper of the Grove first, but this version sticks to Demon Hunter first for the least variance.

Build order · 24 steps

#	Food	Instruction
1	5	Put 4 of the starting Wisps on gold and have the 5th Wisp build an Altar.
2	5	Build your 1st Wisp.
3	6	Take a Wisp from your gold mine when the 1st queued Wisp is 2/3 done and build an Ancient of War, ideally in position to creep.
4	6	Queue your 2nd Wisp.
5	6	The 1st Wisp created builds a Moon Well.
6	7	Queue your 3rd Wisp. Your 2nd and 3rd Wisps go to the gold mine for 5/5 on gold. All future Wisps go to wood.
7	8	Queue your 4th Wisp.
8	8	Scout with the Wisp that built the Altar and send the Wisp that made the Moon Well to harvest lumber.
9	9	Build your first hero (usually Demon Hunter, sometimes Keeper). Continue Wisps until you have 9 on wood in total.
10	15	Build an Archer.
11	18	Build a Moon Well once you hit 40 wood.
12	19	When the Archer completes, begin the Ancient of War creep.
13	20	Your 9th wood Wisp is stuck in queue: start an Ancient of Wonders with a wood Wisp to drop to 19/20, then cancel it once the Wisp starts training.
14	21	Build a 2nd Archer. Tech to tier 2 (you should have 5 on gold, 9 on wood, 2 Archers and 1 hero).
15	23	Build a 3rd Archer.
16	25	Build a Moon Well when you have enough lumber.
17	25	Build a 4th Archer.
18	27	When your tier 2 tech is 50% complete build a Hunter's Hall.
19	27	When tier 2 and the Hunter's Hall finish, build 1 Ancient of Lore and a wood Wisp.
20	28	Begin your tech to tier 3.
21	28	Buy your second hero (common choices are Naga, Panda or Keeper).
22	33	When you have enough lumber build a 2nd Ancient of Lore and then your shop.
23	33	When the Ancient of Lore finishes build a Dryad.
24	36	Begin pumping Bears. Get Adept training before tier 3. When tier 3 finishes get Master training as soon as possible and an Orb of Venom for one hero.