Monk doesn't need a shield. You can go dual-wield.
Generally you should be doing fine with 20K DPS / 5K Armor / 600 AR / 600 LOH.

2 scenarios.
1) Those with godly gears can kill elites in 3 seconds.
2) Those with shitty gears have to rely on defensive skills to survive in next 3 seconds.

Everyone can do 1 and 2.
What makes them different is, gold in the pocket.

What is your DPS now?
You need balance of DEX and crit attributes.


P/S DEX gives you ARMOR too.

P/S You need to calculate how much DPS you can get from the gear.
Just a quick one,
1 DEX = 9 DPS
1% crit chance = 10% crit DMG = 81.84 DPS
1 min/max weapon DMG = 10.85 DPS

P/S If an amulet with 4.5% crit chance + 30% crit DMG with no DEX, any amulet with more than 70 DEX will give you more DPS.
Do not forget, DEX gives you armor too.
All in all, it depends on your current build. You need to calculate what you need to improve.
For your case, anyway, I think the switching cost is unavoidable and it could be costly.

P/S For some reason, I think the crit build is over-hyped.
I'm not saying it is not important. It is important as you need it to MAX OUT your DPS.
But it is just not crit > DEX.
You need a balance build.


This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Aug 14 2012, 03:25 PM

Err... I am not sure how crit chance relate to tornados spawning.

I used to change my amulet in order to have higher LOH and AR, my crit chance % reduced from 20% to 16%.
I used a slow weapon, 1.2 spear.
I could spawn 4-5 tornados in 3-4 hits. It is exactly the same with higher crit %.

However, to generate tornados, I found it is skill and gear related.
For instance, dual-wield can easily spawn tornados as compared to 1-hand with shield.
For instance, FoT can instantly spawn 2-3 tornados as compared to WoTHF.

Just my experience.

I could even spawn 3-4 tornadoes with the 1st hit.
As Quazacolt explained, it is a critical hit.
FoT can hit multiple target. If your 1st hit is a critical hit and it hits multiple target, it will spawn few tornadoes.

I couldn't explain it. This is how I did.
Averagely, I can spawn 3-4 tornadoes in 3-4 hits. That is very common.
Beside gear and skill, it depends on how many targets/monsters. If you have more targets to hit, you have more chance to spawn tornadoes.

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Added on August 14, 2012, 5:34 pmWith those stats, you can moonwalk in A3/A4.

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Added on August 14, 2012, 5:37 pmYes, I dual-wield with 2 spears.
Never had a problem to spawn tornadoes.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Aug 14 2012, 05:37 PM

My monk doesn't have +% skill damage.

But my Demon Hunter has +9% hungering arrow on the quiver.
It just add the damage as description, as simple as that.
Without the quiver, my DPS is about 87K.
With the quiver, it is 95K+ DPS. Sometimes it can even hit up to 100K+ DPS.
It is something good to have.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Aug 17 2012, 02:05 PM

It doesn't show DPS on your character information page.
The DPS that I mentioned is the damage I see on the screen when I shoot the monsters.

What are the attributes of your current amulet?
Let me check if I have something better than your current amulet or not.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Aug 17 2012, 03:09 PM

What's your current DPS/Armor/HP/AR?

1.5K LOH is quite a lot.
800 LOH and above should be fine for A3/A4.

You only get 20% out of 1.5K.

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Added on August 18, 2012, 3:41 amYou have got very good Crit% / Armor / AR.
2500 DEX is a bit extreme.
IMO, any DEX more than 1800 is good enough.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Aug 18 2012, 03:41 AM

You have a good stats. You should be able to do A3.
With your high DEX, I think your DPS should be good too.

I think it is important to have pickup radius for melee heroes.
You need to pick up health globes.

Yeap, removing the shield still gives you 6000 Armor. Your resistance AR + Physical resistance are pretty good too. It's enough.
Monk doesn't need a shield. You can dual-wield all the way.

Just your HP, 26K, is a bit low.

I don't see a point to have a minor upgrade (like you said, 30-40 DEX increase).
It doesn't give any real impact.

You seek an upgrade because you wanna run like a boss.
What about an upgrade that let you run like a boss in A3/A4?
What about keep your DPS level while you increase your LOH to at least 2200?
Meaning you need to change your weapons (you'll need 2 weapons to achieve that), amulet and rings (optional).

Put away your shield. You don't need that.
Your armor and AR are good enough.

Yes, you can spam the per spirit spent (provided you have high spirit generation).
Let's not forget, you need to keep pressing the keyboard key while your eyes looking at the screen + your another head keep clicking the mouse.
It could be quite stressful at times.

Well, it's up to you how you want to play it.

With the new patch, my monk just stands and whacks Ghom like a boss. No kiting.

You get bored soon... very soon.

It is so slow to increase level after that.
WW-Tornado Barb FTW.

Yeap, A3 is getting easy now.

I think Barbs are the happiest ones after this patch.
They whack and run like boss now.

Why only FoT? If you have high DPS, you can use any skill to kill goblins.

Your stats are good enough to clear Inferno.

Still want to upgrade?
I think you can upgrade your weapon, especially your off-hand weapon.
And upgrade the gems.
These are more realistic upgrades for you, I guess.