With Spirit Generator buff, DW is definitely going to be strong!

I have hard time guessing which 3 set bonus should belong to Raiment of Thousand Storms, and which belong to Inna! I am guessing Inna is going to be the Mystic Ally set! My guess:

Thousand storms:

2 set:
P2_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_034 - Your Spirit Generators reduce your damage taken by [VALUE]% for 3 seconds.
4 set:
P2_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_022 - Your Spirit Generators have 25% increased attack speed and [VALUE]% increased damage.
6 set:
P2_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_033 - Increases the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to [VALUE]%.

Inna:
2 set:
P2_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_021 - Dashing Strike spends [VALUE] Spirit, but refunds a Charge when it does.
3 set:
P2_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_049 - Increase the passive effect of your Mystic Ally and the base passive effect of your Mantra by [{VALUE1}*100]%.
4 set:
P2_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_029 - Mystic Ally casts Cyclone Strike, Exploding Palm, Lashing Tail Kick, Seven-Sided Strike, and Wave of Light when you do.

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Feb 25 2015, 11:37 AM

DiabloFan updated the datamine...



5000% weapon damage DS damage is pretty crazy! It's even bigger than Wave of Light (835% x 500% = 4175% weapon damage). I hope it will stay after PTR!

The way DS work, we will have 2 charges in the beginning. See an Elite? Dash x 2! With 6 piece bonus, you can DS 2 (100 spirit) more times! It will refund 2 more charges, u dash 2 more times! So, you deal 30000% Weapon damage in a flash! With Momentum, STI passive, the damage should be pretty crazy!!!!

OMG. Raiment will break the game! (Dare to say so?!) Let's hope it stay after PTR.

Inna + Sunwuko is not bad as well. With Crudest Boots, your spirit regen is now 4 times! You bell which deal 6 times damage with sunwuko now deal 8 times! 33% increase in damage!

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Feb 25 2015, 04:00 PM

Sunwuko to have 6 piece bonus!



Inna 4 piece bonus remain! It looks damn powerful with 2 piece bonus increase base mantra by 100%!



Raiment set is correctly datamined

All 3 sets now are quite powerful. Personally, I am not a fan of ping pong game play. So, I m thinking to give up on the 6 piece bonus in Raiment. That open up some interesting build:

Current Sunwuko 4 piece bonus - Amulet, Shoulder, gloves
Raiment 4 piece bonus (25% IAS, 500% spirit generator) - Pant, Chest, leg

There, you have you Genwuko! No longer need Cindercoat!

However, I think my personal favorite would be Inna-wuko!

Current Sunwuko 4 piece bonus - Amulet, Shoulder, gloves
Inna 4 piece bonus (Mystic Ally and mantra bonus 100%, Gain 4 mantra!) - Chest, Pant, Helm
Crudest Boot - Mystic ally x 2!

The new 4 piece bonus for Inna and Crudest Boot is awesome! All 4 mantra gain 100% bonus; MOC - 20% damage to mobs, 40% more resist, MOH and MOR. Crudest boot give you 16 spirit per second! Of you have have too much spirit, try Fire ally, 40% more damage! OMG!

Inna-wuko in action... DPS jumps from 1.8mil to 2.4mil using Fire Ally...

SWK6 should not be about 7SS since the first 2 bonus tied to EP, Bell, CS and TR.

I am a little sad after testing Raiment a little; Spirit generator is still quite weak. Punching mobs is still not powerful enough to be competitive with Sunwuko. The DS 5000% is pretty okay, but I hate ping pong play style. Hope they can fix this before it goes life.

SWK4+Inna4+Crudest Boot in T6 rift video. Watch in 720p60



Another video, Fire Inna-wuko.



This post has been edited by cowithgun: Feb 27 2015, 02:13 PM

Tested 4 piece Raiment + 4 piece SWK that focus on EP. Gear is not really optimized.

Raiment set just got hotfixed this morning!

The 2-set bonus which deal 25% IAS and 500% damage. The 500% was previously additive, is now multiple! Need to retest this...

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16411692171?page=3#54

ps: with this changes, Raiment set is really strong now! Generator build has hope!

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Feb 28 2015, 10:06 AM

try lower torment / expert / master level for faster que time... in adventure mode, you can still test your stuff in GR 26 which about the same as T6.

it will be even faster if you try campaign mode and on lower difficulties. hardcore and season games are even faster...

if you must test T6 adventure mode, leave it there for 2 hours... go do something else... or get friends to invite you, try the public chat too...

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Feb 28 2015, 10:15 PM

*TOP SECRET*

THE MOST POWERFUL BUILD FOR MONK in D3 for 2.2

1. Perma-serenity
- new Zodiac ring
2. 100% Crit chance
- new Broken Promise ring
3. Gungdo EP AOE
- Sunwuko, gungdo
4. Generator against single target RG that is better than Sunwuko
- 2 piece Raiment

It is known as Raiwuko... may not be so straight forward to use. Basically you need re-gear some of your gear to get rid of Crit chance; rings, amulet, gloves, bracer and helm.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16491139115

Someone cleared GR51 with this



This post has been edited by cowithgun: Mar 1 2015, 12:52 PM

ouch!

personally i hate perma-serenity build or teaguk or ping pong play style... gee.. what's wrong with me?

ps: guys, PTR server no longer has que time! try out those new builds!

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Mar 3 2015, 05:15 PM

I log in immediately since yesterday on T6 Adventure mode. Just did it again a few minutes ago.

LOL! Spamming keyboard like that is no fun.

More PTR video: GR 36 Fire bell build. This is my current build with improvement from Inna. Running with 2mil DPS and 30mil Toughness.

Wuko + EP is good combination. For T6, EP first, it will buff EP and Bell. Then drop a bell, kaboom!

Dont really enjoy Serenity spamming gameplay, so, I dont have any gameplay... but many in youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fizLAlxJqdU

In your case, most like because you still have 1.15 (with gogok proc) second down time with Serenity. You need max CDR in all slot! That's including your Az first, amulet and hopefully some paragon point.

Secondly, since you cant achieve 0 sec down time in Serenity, you may need to replace your Zodiac ring with Unity. Zodiac ring will only be cool in Season 3 (i think).

With the news that Bliz is changing the way CDR is calculated (after skill end), perma serenity will be things of the pass. So, you must have some toughness as well... forget about this build... move ahead

Did a comparison between live 2.1 and PTR 2.2 on low GR farming. Using the exact same skills.

Live 2.1 - Sunwuko Fire bell - Crimson set GR35 ~ 5min



PTR 2.2 Sunwuko Fire bell - Inna and Crudest boot GR37 ~ 4 minutes

wow pretty good Furnace!

i am not used to seeing yellow ring.. kakakakakak

Anyone miss punching things in the face as a monk?

The 2-piece Raiment of 1000 Storms is pretty good now. I hope it will remain. Here is a pure and simply punching things to death build:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/16491859369

I was using Broken Promise with unoptimized gear. I tested Bashion of Will, it's pretty good too. But with Broken Promise and Unity, I can hit 128mil toughness (not including 50% damage reduction from Unity ring)

Video on GR 37 - 8 min left



GR43 - Just punch! Perdition as GR, that dude doesnt stand a chance... 6 mins left



Since I got too much Toughness, I swap out Unity ring for a Holy SOJ. Much better clear time in GR 37! 10 min left



This post has been edited by cowithgun: Mar 7 2015, 12:29 PM

This is based on my observation, but cant find anything about it anywhere. Explosive Light damage comes in 2 part:

1. The clones that that fly out, this is the MAIN AOE damage. Huge damage. You want these to hit the mobs, hopefully it crit and with Sunwuko buff.

2. The bell that drop from sky. This will only deal a friction of the damage. So, even if it crit and with Sunwuko buff, you see low damage, even though it's already buffed.

So, you want dont want to drop the Bell at the mobs (if you using Tzo spirit stone). You want to drop the bell nearby. Hopefully the little clones that fly out hit the mobs.

I carefully observe all my previous recorded video and this is pretty consistent. In some rare cases where the mobs are huge, dropping it on them will trigger the same as dropping bell on the side.

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Mar 10 2015, 09:17 PM

NO! This is not how I see it! I really like this change!

Your Spirit Generators increase the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to 8750% for 3 seconds.

This is exactly how I like it to be! Punch! Dash 3 times for a Nuke! Move on to next group. They even fixed the short range dash that doesn't deal damage!