I sent an updated guide to.sgull to have it fixed

Few updates and minor changes with current gear

Tank Demon Hunter

The main advantage of the tank demon hunter is that you are attacking the entire time during battle. You're not kiting through door ways or needing to use the higher grounds to trap elites. This build is great for solo inferno or being the team tank.

My Stats:

59kLife
Lowest Res 630
1484 Vita
1648 Dex
4050 Armor
1700 Damage return
34% Critical hit chance
260% Critical hit damage
4.3% Freeze on hit
3.8% Stun on hit

1.73 Attacks per second.
32,632 Dps

How this build works:

This build is built around Life on hit. Gas gernades hit up to 3 times per attack so you can gain massive ammounts of life per attack. Gas gernades, caltrops, sentry, and chakram all proc life on hit. all of the skills do area of effect damage.

Requirements:

~ 600 + Res
~ 950-1200 Life on Hit
~ 40k Life


Other Requirements to get if possible:

~ Chance to Freeze or Stun
~ Critical Hit Chance
~ Critical Hit Damage


Skills:

Gernades - Gas
Chakram - Shuriken Cloud
Caltrops - Jagged Spikes
Sentry - Guardian Turret
Spike Trap - Scatter
Fan of Knives - Hail of Knives / Mark of Death - Mortal Enemy
The reason I switch to Mortal Enemy is becuase I never run out of Haterd and I can spam Spike Traps non stop.

Passive Skills:

Numbing Traps
Custom Engineering / Night Stalker (once you get high enough crit chance)
Cull the Weak / Archery (once you get atleast 20% crit chance to boost to 30%)


Equipment:

~ 1 Hand crossbow (Dex,Vita,Ias, Loh,Socket, Critical hit damage)
~ Shield (Good block %, Dex, Vita, All Res, Crit hit chance, Chance to

cast stun or freeze)
~Helm (Dex, Vita, All Res, Life % or Open Soc)
~Belt (Dex, Vita, All Res Life % Chance to cast Freeze)
~Chest (Dex, Vita, All Res, 3os)
~Pants (Dex, Vita, All Res, 2os
~Boots (Dex, Vita, All Res)
~Gloves (Dex, Vita, All Res, Critical hit Chance, Chance to stun)
~Bracer (Dex, Vita, All Res, Critical hit chance)
~Shoulders (Dex, Vita, All Res)
~Ammy (Dex, Vita, All Res) or (Vita, Life % Crit hit Damage)
~Rings (Dex, All Res, Ias, Life on hit)

What I use:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/TheDropOut-1820/hero/1776236

Video:
I need to make a new video, this is without chance to freeze and only a

1.1% to stun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkDl1TOIAqo&feature=plcp

If anyone has any question feel free to post, pm, or send me a message in game TheDropOut#1820

8/20/2012 Updated

Thanks to 1.0.4 this build no longer is going to work good job blizzard. Caltrops and Cloud not longer proc Life on Hit and Gernades got nerf from .5 to .125 no more tanking anything with that amount of loh.

so no tank build for dh anymore? IS Tanking DH Dead?

you can simply spam ball lightning + gloom and not die cuz inferno is nerf again

Tank DH. sigh.

I have recently relax on farming with my barb a bit and try DH, and unlike my barb and monk who can tank even with in-game drop gears, my DH got one shot by Belial in Normal, mean it's rediculous, it's not even Hell or Inferno, and I am getting 1 shot in normal. Blizz design DH in a way so much so much weaker than the Bow Amazon in D2.

Bowzon in D2 has great damage on Multi, on Rapid Fire, and the Hungering Arrow has much more tracing ability. In D3, the Multi, Rapid fire do crap damage, and Hungering Arrow, apart from the ability to pierce at times, isn't as tracing as in D2.

In D2, Amazon can dodge/evade/avoid, and is able to desynch run with 150frw, in D3, the vault isn't half-ass as good, consume too much discipline, you literally can't perma vault, in the end got to rely on SS, nonetheless not powerful enough, duration for SS is short as well, so is Shadow Power.

I don't mind if the DH were back in the pre 1.0.1 where they have all the damage bug, I don't even mind if they out damage my favourite char, barbarians, at least this is how a bow class should perform, and that's how a bowazon performs in D2. In D2, apart from being 1 hit kill by charge or ww, Bone Spears, Tornados, Traps you name it, bowazons are one of the top pvp characters in D2, this culture should not be removed in D3. Demon Hunter Class seems broken and useless compared to D2, I wonder what the creators in D3 are thinking. Though my favourite class is Barbarians, I can't help feeling anguish for everyone who favours the Demon Hunter Class, this game is atrocious!

This post was edited by Jaxz on Sep 11 2012 11:26am

you're doing something wrong if you die in one shot by belial in normal
life and dr% (in this case mostly life) is just as important on dh as on any char

and demon hunter isn't d3's amazon, it's more like a combination of assa/ama

I mean it's just normal difficulty, any class should try to be able to make it with in game drop gears, playable even with blues, or Auction House, not trying to gear her up so insanely when it's just only normal Difficulty. My Barb or monk can own Normal without much Rares, when taking Belial in normal, my monk and barb were wearing blue armour pieces! Just speaking about D3 alone, DH when compared to other class, is so paper.....


Even if it is has some assassin blood, Hybrids and Pure Trappers are also one of the top pvp characters in D2, DH is so much weaker compared to either Amazon or Hybrids, If DH is from West and Bowzon/Hybrids is from East, and when East meets West pvp, it's going to be a hell thrashing pawning time on DH...

This post was edited by Jaxz on Sep 11 2012 11:54am

If you are on normal you can just use stun impale and keep the boss stunned for the entire fight.