Bio: Treasure hunter Tristam makes his appearance in Diablo 3. A master of ranged combat and stealth, Tristam excels at dishing out punishment before the enemy has a chance to react. He then escapes from danger. Tristam's main drive is finding treasure and that is reflected by his use of gear that provides MF bonuses.
ProfileSkillsStrategy: Achieve advantage by dealing massive DPS. Stay alive by avoiding damage. Tristam's skills and items are focused mainly on damage and avoiding death by escape. Tristam's critical hits average 42k dmg, regular hits around 20k dmg.
Passive Skills:: Tristam deals most of his damage by using skills that need hatred, therefore Vengeance is used to boost hatred. Critical bonuses is also important as the dmg is massive and Spray of Teeth distributes this dmg as AoE. Sharpshooter is used to increase frequency of crits. Tactical advantage is used to help escape.
Action Skills: Tristam tries to deal as much damage to the enemy as quickly as possible. His two main forms of attack are Frost Arrows and Rapid Fire. Frost Arrows are particularly useful when enemies are in groups. Successful Frost Arrow hits not only deal very good dmg but they also always split to hit nearby enemies no matter what angle they happen to be at. These secondary hits also do very good dmg. Tristam regularly kills groups of enemies in very few attacks using this method.
His secondary attack is Rapid Fire. Used to slay a single large threat. Rapid Fire is not useless against groups but is rather very useful in eliminating Elites and Bosses that typically have high HP and do not come in large groups. Rapid Fire does a lot of damage very quickly.
Bat Companion is used to make sure Hatred is always high as Tristam is most dangerous with high Hatred. The rest of his skills are defensive, Caltrops and Vault.
Weapon of Choice: Bows.
