what is the best setup for a DH?

[sleep]

so i'm thinking that the major flaw with the DH bot on trinity is that it does not use shadow power to move, so it is always running around at normal speed.

i think for it to be most effective it would need to use both shadow power with increased movement speed, and perhaps tactical advantage with vault for 90% increased movement speed on top of 35 yard flips, also with night stalker and preparation 30% to continue generating discipline.

but the problem here is that you will still run out of discipline too quickly when no mobs are present so stacking a dps passive is probably a better choice. this makes shadow power the skill of choice for increased movement speed, which trinity does not use.

as for the secondary attack skill, i simply can not decide which to use... cluster arrow, rapid fire, or multishot, each of these i would use with ballistics passive and rocket firing runes for max damage, along with a soj and quiver with crit rate bonuses for those skills, cluster arrow gets the grenadier passive and a hatred reduced by 5 quiver to reduce the cost to 35 hatred, which allows more shots, any of the 3 primary skills will use the bat summon to replenish hatred faster

but i am still uncertain, as multishot and rapid fire can have their crit rates boosted by another 16% with item bonuses, but you won't be seeing either of those 1-shotting elites, unlike cluster arrow. rapid fire may end up being a better choice than cluster arrow, but i still haven't tested it's full potential


shadow power - shadow glide
caltrops - bait the trap
preparation - backup plan
companion - bat companion
hungering arrow - shatter shot
rapid fire / cluster arrow / multishot

archery - 50% crit damage
ballistics
grenadier / night stalker

perhaps preparation can be replaced with marked for death, shrugs

 

[ryan12345]

DH is not going to be your strongest class to use. But if you HAVE to, then your setup sounds pretty decent to me. I havent touched my DH in months

 

[sleep]

edit: it seems that ballistics is not the skill you want to use on any active other than cluster arrow..

it raises rocket damage by 50%, meaning if the rockets do 35% weapon damage, they will now do what.. < 45% ? which is certainly not as good as cull the weak for 15% total damage to slowed targets, which i think makes elemental arrow - cold arrow a good choice, or rapid fire slow target, and i have no idea how much damage each individual rapid fire shot does.

elemental arrow costs only <10% of your hatred, so you can keep using it for 170 + 15 + 12 + 20 = 217% max damage (not including item bonuses)

cluster arrow rockets are awesome but you can really only use it 3 times, which may not even be crits

i don't see any of this beating hammer of the ancients 325% - 409% replenishing with a 80%+ crit rate

i think 217 +16 (item boost) = 234% with the +20% quiver ias can get you close though

if you're going to use the cluster arrow setup, the arcane bola will be the best way to sustain higher damage output while hatred is depleted