i tried solo.. .. act 1 from... khanz staff .. until .... butcher..
die few times  ... skip one of the elite.. i think.. one of the elite with immune ability... ... kenot tahan 
the rest manageable.. butcher 3rd try only win with proper buff and skill ..

i tried coop.... i need a barbi war cry buff and stun skill and some dps-er (HD/ Wiz) to deal massive damage.. and change my skill to full tank mode (also with dual-wield..)...only can tank and survive..

  can explain more on this?

over 1.2k all resists. still get my ass handed to me. need to deal with dex/armor/vit too

500-600. see, life on hit is not a prob. i play on 4peeps coop. assholes hit for over 20k. act 3 bastards hit for 50-80k, with my stats (6k armor, 1.2k all resist)
the dmg scaling in coop really needs to get looked at. :/

we had to corpse flopped to skip a invulnerable extra fast minion elite sand golem pack while doing ******* kulle quest. they hit for 20k per, and lol invulnerable, and theres 4 of them, 4x20k = hahahahaa (i got 40k hp)

ironically kulle's golem adds, are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY bigger than those normal golems. and guess what, they hit for like... 2k? whats with the glaring 2k vs 20k difference? not to mention the sizes are totally not appropriate at all!

and belial, lol i just tanked it.... 10-20k dmg per hit, but he hits SOOOOOOOOOOOO slow, life on hit/MOH healing and the occasional health globes maxed me up before his next hit. lawl!
i cant tank his aoe spam thingy (the one where he plunge both his hands underground and spam the map with explosions)

took like 2-3 in a row and had like 5-10% or less hp, almost dead, i spammed cooldowns like serenity/breath/moh activation/blind LAWL full HP
then i start to move on the subsequent explosion spams XD

if you click on it you will crash your d3

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Added on June 7, 2012, 5:21 pm

belial hits like a ***** compared to some of those rare/elites out there.

You guys currently "stuck" on Act1 Inferno, where do you farm? Tired of doing Butcher runs for crap gear and very little money.

resist makes a HUGE difference in act 2. what i found was that with high dps and low resist, you died to elites SO fast that your higher dps doesn't matter. Ideally I would maintain high dps and pump resist, but I don't have the money, so I pumped resist by sacrificing dps. Yes, I still take long to kill things, but 12k dps isn't too bad when you have constant +15% from the heal rune.

trying to follow like you pumping into resist but then no dps and current dps with 615dmg item only 12k dps. but resist 200.. not enough and hp 30k T____T

12k dps also i don't mind. as long as i can tank.. but in act 2 cannot wasp i can survive but cannot if too much come and atk me. :|

pump into critical also good! can hit up to 40k dmg.

that's what i'm stuck at right now. have only 400k on hand but that doesn't seem anywhere near enough for a decent life on hit weap. i'm looking at AH and it seems if I want a >400 LOH >600 dps +atkspeed weap I'm looking at closer to a million gold.

wondering if I should just buy a cheaper one for 400k without the +attackspeed so i can sort of more efficiently farm act2 instead of act1 butcher rinse repeat x 1000

@deodorant, clerickilla, evofantasy

may i know what are you guys priority when looking for armor set?
1) dex
2) specific element resistance (and then use passive skill to boost other element)
3) vit

or resist 1st, dex 2nd, vit 3rd?

please share your build..

why?

act 1-2 shares the same loot table/maximum ilevel, might as well run for easier/faster butcher

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Added on June 11, 2012, 9:05 am

im selling off my previous tanking LOH weapon which is 34x something, however dps is under 400 so... yeah tanking

IINM its fixed on 1.03 ma, cuz act 2 is so full of shit atm lol.

until they feel like changing tracking maces, and kiting wasps/lacunis, or lol golems with invuln, id pass on the frustrations

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Added on June 11, 2012, 2:06 pm

all defensive skills 1 mantra, stack heavy resistances etc

hi, wondering how u guys survive in inferno act 2? my friend's monk keep die. which skill u guys use to survive?

-45% dmg from monsters while i coop, that alone is more than enough for me to push through act3 inferno lol

so whats the math/basis on picking submission instead of overawe for mantra of conviction?

and wouldnt overawe works for higher top end dmg? (eg: 2handers)

eg: 3sec activation for 48% dmg and then drop a nice spirit spender like 7SS/WoL?

scary resist and armor.  using Keen Eye?

i complete act 1 inferno with 21k HP.

it is called effective health folks. do read up the thread/post by another member that linked to bnet on the formulas/calculations/explanations.

regardless of monk's healing scaling, the same applies to barbarians too as they cannot go immune like monks and their ignore pain/avatar etc are on cooldowns in which, unless you tend to run around useless while waiting for cooldown, you need to be able to have mitigation

also, health potions are static values.

So you meant that we don't need 50k health and high dmg? Yes I know that to survive better we need high resistant but 1.2k resist 

ya.. with high resist.. really helps... plygin with my fren with war cry buff.. really helps alot.....
with war cry buff.. i can win elite 2 v 1 ... the war cry buff makes my resist to 1.1k...
without... i cant..

maybe I shall use MOH + buff resist? 

variables:
mob dmg is 50k
your hp 50k
5k armor + 1k resist = 50% reduction (may not be exact value, this is just an example)
potion heals 25k

scenario:
without armor and resist, mob hits you = dead

with armor and 1k resist, you take 25k dmg, requiring 2 hits to kill you.

from there, your effective health is theoretically 100k (as 2x 50k dmg is needed to kill you)
and your potions that heals you for 25k is effectively theoretically doubled. (allowing you to take 1 more hit from the same mob instead of not having a chance to even use potion being 1 shotted from full hp)

now, what if your armor + resistance is doubled and it reduces 75% dmg? (again, fictional exemplary values)
you may think that due to diminished returns it is not worth it, however it still is (refer that previous post for the complex number/graph)

mob dmg is now 12.5k, requiring 4 hits to kill you.
your potion is now capable of extending 2 additional hits from the same mob, as opposed to just 1 more hit.

so remember folks, plain vit with shit mitigation = bad
all mitigation but having no vit is also bad as you cant have enough hp buffer to deal with crits or big hits from certain monster/elites/bosses where your mitigation is just not enough

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Added on June 12, 2012, 11:06 am
yeah i am using it because with LOH + basic regen and that, i can last really long

+ my allies (again, i always coop) can top their hp easily especially when theres stray lightning enchanted/mortars around and their potion's on cooldown.

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Added on June 12, 2012, 11:08 am

never worked on flies missiles despite around 60% dodge. block not sure though as i die before ever able to block before

how do you get high resist and vit dex at the same time? if u forego ur vit how to get so high hp?

They need high HP cos they got overall low resistant. Monk got damage reduction and evasion making us able to sustain longer. Just like what Quazacolt mentioned, we only need health to sustain 2-3 more hit. U ask those wizard can they? I believe most are 1hit KO.

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Added on June 12, 2012, 11:20 amNot like we are gonna stand infront those bosses and yell at them: "you are the boss and I am the boss" to do 1on1 fist exchange.

Smart move. hit, avoid hit, run around, hit again, heal.