If you want to do the hydra cheese you don't want him to hit hard at all, for the lower difficulties anyways. If you want to use him elsewhere then yeah, make him smack people, great counter to those pesky fear champs in arena.
for Hydra I want to prepare him, to give him more acc and speed? or switch to savage set, masters I think are good if I didn't have to put Flawless Execution instead of Giant Slayer
I just rebuilt mine to work a little better with some AoE counterattacks, gonna see how that does. No books yet for him, unfortunately. Previously he was built to slap a lot harder.
I am pairing him with Battlesage, Sinesha, Big'Un and potentially Fellhound and letting those Fear debuffs triggers their A1 counterattcks,