MoE (HT) probably better because of the additional dodge. In the first 3 seconds my dodge goes up to something like 60%.

That also depends on who are you dealing with.

Bosskill : MoH is kinda useless as either they 1hit you or not (like butcher/belial's case) so MoE with dodge is always better. IMHO as for MoC against bosskill, if your attack is high enough you don't even need that to add another few seconds reduction. Better opt for high armor in case you can't avoid the Oh-Shi~ moment.

Elite: As what Sifus' are advised.

NOTE: Dual wield with Guardian's path adds another 15% dodge chance.

This post has been edited by yuhhaur: Jul 24 2012, 10:06 AM

Not really.

Example.
Base: 7000 armor (70% DR) 400 resist (57.14% DR) (30% Monk DR) = Overall 91% DR
Hard Target 8400 armor (73.68% DR) 400 resist (57.14% DR) (30% Monk DR) = Overall 92.11% DR
Time of Need 7000 armor (70% DR) 480 resist (61.54% DR) (30% Monk DR) = Overall 92.91% DR

Time of Need gives only extra 0.8% DR, but at a loss of 15% / 30% dodge.

I was a Barb.
I'm still a new Monk, requires a lot of experiment on different skills.
I did some skill tests yesterday and didn't have good runs.

Help me to define high and medium.
Unbuffed, I have 20K DPS / 44K HP / 6000 Armor / 760 AR / 850 LOH

I'm bidding a shoulder armor.
If I get it, I will have 22K DPS / 48K HP / 6150 Armor / 810 AR / 850 LOH

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Added on July 24, 2012, 10:24 amMoH was still good in A1/A2 Inferno.
I found it is pretty much useless in A3. The elites are much more powerful.

Without the right skill, I found I was heading to a totally wrong path.
Any recommendation of passive skills?

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Jul 24 2012, 10:24 AM

With your stats it should be fine in Act 3 and 4 with MoC. All your stats is higher then mine. Only DPS lose. I used to use WoTF, but see some pple advise and calculate on the % of LOH per attack. FoT ( Thunderclap ) gets more % in LOH which i have tried == TRUE. With my 2.16 Attack Speed, FoT rocks + your LOH so high, it would be a blast.

My stats now only (with buff ), 55K DPS // 37K HP ( Mystic Ally ) // 6650 Armor ( with Enchant ) // 835 AR // 755 LOH.

Try using MoC in Act 2. You can see you can finish farming in 15 min or less with your stats. :-).

Do you play Crit Chance?

Im using OfE, Forgotten the name but its dex = 100% armor, and also dodge change = 30% of crit chance.

As i play crit chance so i feel that is more useful for me. Although it doesnt add much its still ok for me, as i dont dual wield ( shield ), the 15% dodge chance dont apply to me.

LPSS i feel its not much use to me, although FoT regens my Spirit damn fast ( due to attack speed , hit more and faster regens my spirits faster ), i rather have dodge then have life as Im rolling with LOH.

Just my two cents.

This post has been edited by LifeX: Jul 24 2012, 10:30 AM

I have shitty attack speed, only 1.23 on a spear.
I'm still wondering to change the weapon or not.
Fist weapon with IAS?

I don't quite get it. You mean with FoT (Thunderclap), there is a better LOH return?

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Added on July 24, 2012, 10:33 amI have 24.5 crit chance and 233% crit dmg.

P/S I saw you using Mystic Ally. I used Mystic Ally (Earth) in A1/A2 Inferno too.
But I found my Mystic Ally became toufu in A3. Seems useless.
Do you think it is good for A3/A4?

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Jul 24 2012, 10:35 AM

Normally we can go with either:
1. LoH + IAS + Thunderclap build for fast attack that will generate back you life, or
2. Critical build, since you won't get LoH here so need to kill them fast
3. both, if you had the godly gear from both side. LifeX had one.

I also retire my earth ally (10% health is nothing, 60% attack diversion feels also nothing in act 3) and replace with sweeping wind.

Yours seems like going on Crit build.

taofu when kena all those element attack.. others den that.. Earth ally is a very good distraction / tanking clone..
i still using Earth ally to farm in act 3

My Fist is IAS10% with 500+LoH crit dmg 96%. Don't use spear lo bro, unless your spear have high ias. Use sword, or Fist or use Axe with minimum 7% IAS ( then reach 1.39 ).

Sword and Fist is at 1.4, you got other EQ up your attack speed then godly d. :-)

On the FoT, yes. As FOT and WOTF have AOE effect Damage, your LOH return doesnt really give 100% LOH as its spread among the mobs around you. If its 1v1 then yea 100%.

I think in the few post before this, one of the monks posted the calculation or table for LOH. Try searching it.

Mystic Ally is just to buff my 10% HP and hopefully can distract the other mobs just enough time for me to kill the others. As my CC n CD is high, he himself does about 10-20K Dmg. :-) HP i think also mroe then me, LOL. It only weakness is there's no AR to him. LOL, once go into molten or plague confirm die haha.

oh ya, speaking of LoH.
remember the list of LoH which skill benifit most?

http://i.imgur.com/rpqd2.jpg

i did a test Fist of Fury VS Thunderclap

Fist of Fury indeed can get more LoH but the crit chance is slower compare to Thunderclap.

I have 35% CC. Thunderclap 1 strike is actually 2 hit. One from punch another is the blast radius. So crit chance much faster to come out compare to Fist of Fury.

So if you building LoH with Crits like me. Thunderclap win!

I cant thunderclap... =( .. my stats too .. ... average.. average IAS, average LOH, average Critical ... all also half half like tat..
still prefer deadly reach for the 50% amor up..

THUNDERCLAPS ftw!

Ghom ler ? resort back to deadly reach keen eye???

Haha shinkawa post the table edy. Aluene you can have a look.

Like i say it really comes down to what kind of build are you playing.

See-ing the fact your on LOH and Crit Build.

So best you can focus on IAS now.

Actually how much armor on average is sufficient? I've saw some 10k armor build and I was
7k armor + 700AR + 40k hp?

how about yours???

me on 5K amor 760 AR 30k hp ...

Im rolling on only 6650 Armor / 835 AR / 37K HP.

Seems sufficient for me.

forgot liao. was 4.5k armor + 650AR + 43k hp, but now tuned to more armor less hp

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Added on July 24, 2012, 11:07 amMy problem is that I do not have enough damage. Currently only using 7xx dps socketed dagger. Those >800dps weapon are

This post has been edited by yuhhaur: Jul 24 2012, 11:07 AM

Thanks for all the replies.
I was using Deadly Reach (Keen Eye). I was a Barb and I was when I see my Monk only has 6000 armor.
I'll go try Thunderclap.

So, for Mantra, it would be either MoE (Hard Target) or MoC (Overawe) for defensive or offensive build.

Any recommendation on the passive skills? Seize the Initiative & One with Everything are the common ones.
LifeX mentioned Sixth Sense (along with crit chance) but I am not quite comfortable with the dodge thing (I still have Barb shadow in my brain).

YTD was testing my 18k dps main gear (low MF% low GF%) to sweep through act 1 REAL fast. but the drops are really meh even with the gold drop.
I was able to saw 2k gold drop with my 12k dps 270%GF+249%mf (buffed) with my farming gear but that only applies to act 1 (not even act 2).

Guess you can't get best of both world I think.

DPS: 11k
LoH: 1.1k
AS: 1.72 (dual-wield, constant)
Armor: 5.5k
Resist: 530
HP: 23k

Still can't solo Act 2