Been awhile since I've been here, started playing when 1.0.5 and monk's build still the same ol' cookie cutter thunderclap/sweeping wind.

Tried out bells and seven sided strike, seems pretty mediocre compared to blind, maybe I'd need a sick good skorn to make it work.

The prices for gear with AR compared to OWE resist is too much, going to have trouble replacing my gear without sacrificing too much dps or defensive stats

Thundercap gives the best dps, plus it has faster attacks and I love the teleport, too bad its such a stale skill that I've been using since I got the rune at lower levels

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 6 2012, 12:21 PM

Thats what I love and hate about monks sometime, you just left click and spam MoC every 4 seconds, most of the time just hold down left click, brainless easymode farming!

Was talking to my cm/ww friend over skype and he was busy spamming all his buttons while here I am, holding down left click

Thunderclap has the teleport which increases your efficiency and also this:

Generates Spirit faster than other Spirit-generating skills due to the high attack speed.

I do love to annoy my friends with echoing fury, especially in mp8 and molten packs.

Why do they have to torture us to get an echoing fury Oh well, not really a problem solo.

Yeah, it's from sweeping wind: cyclone.

Using FoT, Sweeping Wind : Cyclone, Blind with 30% damage, Serenity, MoC: Overawe and Breath of Heaven with 15% damage, tried 7SS, I prefer blind to get a better 'snapshot' dps for my Sweeping Wind : Cyclone.

Basically for SW:C, it takes a snapshot of the dps when it is cast, lets say you have frenzy shrine and all your monk buffs including blind, and you cast SW:C, if you manage to keep the SW:C buff going on, even without all the damage buff later on, the SW:C deals the damage when the snapshot was taken.

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 6 2012, 01:34 PM

Monk's pretty much an effortless class to play especially if you have decent gear, pretty funny when I see some classes have a "rotation", while we just faceroll through.

Fighting reflect damage mobs with health link in high mps with less than 3% lifesteal is still a pain without enough defenses, especially if they have molten.

Most problems arise for me in mp8 and above is molten combo with stuff like reflect damage cause I'm using my echoing fury and I just fear them away thus making it annoyingly hard to hit, usually if I do get my stuff up, not really a problem, its an issue if you party with lower geared people if you're doing mp8.

Other than that, having 2.8% lifesteal is pretty ok, and farming mp8 is pretty pointless anyway, faster to farm in mp1 or 2

http://d3up.com/b/93141

Here's my stats, probably looking to get a decent vile ward for more defensive stats, should be better

Can just stand in mp10 with another party member(dead) azmodan

just facetank

Thats the blizzard quote, they want to fix/change it but they do not want the money we've spent on our gear to be invalid, so they might do things like 80% effectiveness of the resist? something like that I guess, so many monks i've seen are jumping ship to AR, true it has higher resist potential but the cost in return is not worth it for me and we get the short end of the stick as our set items has no initial AR roll compared to lets say barbs or WD. They need to fix those first before fixing OWE.

Just my 2c.

Also, screw witching hour, its like 20k dps gain but I lose every bit of defensive stats a belt can give unless I have billions lying around to get a good one

Pretty much having 5% lifesteal with high dps you don't need LoH as you can gain more by getting more offensive stats such as crit damage/attackspeed or crit compared to getting something with life on hit on amulets/rings/weapons.

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 6 2012, 04:27 PM

If possible change your neck, get something with both crit and crit damage with dex or crit with dex and average damage, neck pieces give one of the most dps there.

Could change your gloves to something with crit damage instead of attack speed

Maybe change your axe to something with higher dps and crit damage and a socket, it'll improve your dps by lots

Its multiplicative, so it wont be 58% but yeah, its pretty decent

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 7 2012, 12:02 PM

yeah

no it doesnt work that way, as BoH is damage to your stat sheet, while MoC is on the monster

Been trying out this tempest rush mp0 act 3 alkaizer run build for a few days now, seems fun and fast exp and decent loots, too bad I don't loot most of the rares and skip gold thats not in the way, haven't count how much exp I get per run but the run seems to take about 10-15mins and about 8-10m exp per run

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 7 2012, 07:36 PM

Nothing wrong with getting more CC if you can afford it while getting CD and IAS, for me, I'm getting 2.2k dps per 1% CC and 2.1k dps per 10% CD which is a decent ratio, IAS on the other hand gives me 1.1k per 1%, still good.

All depends on whether you can afford these items, especially if they're a decently rolled item CC and CD or a trifecta. Also dex is also important too, and so is average damage on rings/amulet. Some people totally ignore the average damage. Even elemental damage is good too! In the end, it is nice to just stack everything equally.

This post has been edited by Slythape: Nov 8 2012, 04:07 PM

Basically you get minimum 3pc Inna for the set bonus, get a stone of jordan with minumum 1.5 spirit regen, inna's radiance with 1.5 spirit regen, spirit regen on weapon if you dont lose too much dps.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk...;Zcb!abYZcZ

Thats the basic skill set, you can change blind with something else, but the main point is having tempest rush.

So this build you just cast mantra then blind and sweeping wind and just tempest rush through every mob, stopping to pick up legendaries or certain items you'd want to pick up as it is not efficient to pick up every rares and pile of gold.

Do the Alkaizer run or whatever run with the highest mob density, so you just tempest rush through everything