It's fine picking up rares, but the point of an Alkaizer run most of the time is just fast exp, sometimes I just slow down and do normal runs, doing way too many alk runs is not very fun lol

I have little trouble in mp8/9 farming for keys with most mobs with my new gear setup, just once in awhile you meet stupid packs that my lifesteal and dps can't cover.

Pretty much can stand in desecration/molten/plague at the same time but if theres reflect damage in there I have to move out due to my lifesteal not covering the reflect damage. Can still stand there and facetank mobs. Still a long way before I hit 200k unbuffed and maintaining decent defensive stats.

http://d3up.com/b/93141 if you'd like to see my setup for doing ubers or farming keys.

I have an echoing fury with some LS, but it's with my friend right now. Basically my LS is fine for most shit bar some stupid reflect damage + fast + molten + something pack where my echoing fury just makes it worse. And you do need a certain amount of LS to make it worthwhile, I'd say above 90k dps unbuffed is pretty ok if you have 2.5%+ LS and not doing MP10 obviously, and have decent EHP. As stated by other posts, getting a high dps weapon with good stats and LS or LoH is pretty expensive, LS being more sought after in higher dps scenarios but if you can afford it, why not get both as long you don't sacrifice dps.

Yeah, in higher MP difficulties, more HP always the better answer, so you don't get 1 shotted. Having decent armour and resists helps but HP gives better EHP overall and how it works with the life % makes it very worth while to get more vit, since if you can survive the hit, your high DPS will leech all your life lost pretty fast, except in some cases like reflect damage + something



Pretty much doable except for stupid packs as I said, I was doing mp10 while carrying a friend, just clearing to azmodan, didn't have much problems with most packs. That is with my old gear, have not tried doing mp10 with my new gears. Also there are times you can't just facetank, for example reflect damage + whatever, have to time cooldowns, walk away, then come back and kill it depending on how fast you can kill.

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 12 2012, 05:07 PM

I can come test it out if I'm free, add me Slythape#1514

Also I don't think its feasible for me to drop like 30k+ dps for another lifesteal weapon, as I don't have billions of gold to get a good wep with lifesteal. Pretty much the thing I had to do when facing these packs is just wait for my cooldowns then go back and hit them, nothing hard really.

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 12 2012, 05:19 PM

Pretty much LS is better than LoH at higher gear levels and LoH is better for lower gear levels.
You said if someone has high LoH and high attack speed, its the same for lifesteal really, its all about whether you can afford the weapons

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 12 2012, 08:05 PM

You should get inna's temperance, its has really good dps and move speed too, as you are lacking movespeed.
Change your left ring to something with crit, dex, average damage. Basically for dual wielding you'd need weapons with decent dps, socket with crit damage but it'll be expensive, budget stuff you could get non socket and get LoH. You should change your shoulders for something with vit too.
Your bracers could be upgraded with a lacuni for movespeed to get 24% with inna's temperance


You'll need to change your rings to something with crit, average damage, dex, resist.
IAS is not a good stat to stack for dps if your crit damage and crit chance is slow, an easy way to get a huge dps increase is to get an inna's temperance.
If possible drop the shenlong set as they are pretty bad and it is better to get something else, it'll cost more gold tho, but focus on changing your rings and get an inna's temperance

Vile ward is pretty overpriced if you want vit on it too, might as well get a rare.

Decent dps weapons are about 850+ with a socket and crit damage and dex, anything above that you'd need to pay an arm and a leg for it.

You'd lose dps tho when you switch from your skorn to two 1 handers unless they have good stats. I myself use a 2hander to power level paragon but when I'm actually farming I dual wield.

Eh not 100% sure about the dps but if you're staying 2hander for now, you should use bells, unless your profile is for something different. Might as well farm some paragon levels with the tempest rush build as it is so good. But you should really get some movespeed to make things better

40 spirit cost so you can spam more and spam MoC:Overawe too

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 15 2012, 10:10 PM

Thats fine if you use it for leveling paragon and its pretty needed for tempest rush, you won't be using MoH:Circular Breathing for groups tho, so change when needed

I have about 550+ for ubers, and about 300+ for paragon leveling (mp0)

You should change your helm for inna's radiance for dex and a socket, get inna's belt since you're using depth diggers, but I would suggest getting inna's temperance anyway, you could change your neck for something with dex then other stats. For weapons, change to whatever you can afford, make sure it has a socket, decent dps, dex and life steal or life on hit.

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 16 2012, 02:43 PM

Last I checked as 6m? thats without resists

only if you're missing 2 set then it'll be a huge dps increase from the 130 dex, also 6% crit and 9% attack speed has almost similar dps as for me right now:
+1% Attack Speed 1,235.09 dps
+1% Crit Hit 2,636.5 dps

Funniest part of this, I was doing mp9 act 2 key runs with a friend of mine, we did 5 runs and he got 0 keys LOL, how unlucky

I have less than 600 AR can survive mp9 ubers and mp10 elites. Spamming MoC increases dps but not on your stat screen, the monsters take extra 48% damage

Any lightning stacking monk want some of my old magic find gear? Might as well give them away instead of npcing

Black damage weapons is really good because of stuff like inna's belt which says "adds 7% to holy damage" and those other stuff like zunimassa boots that adds poison damage, it gives extra dps. If you are using weapon that has other elemental damage, the dps wont be added.

pretty sure you dont get any elemental bonus if your weapon has elemental damage

ah I forgot about the damage before they add the elemental damage, thanks for clearing that up

That's pretty much not really true, I carry my group's mp9/10 dps in ubers while giving good buffs like MoC and guiding light.