Yes, Kanai's cube seem most interesting to me. Think about this setup:

- RoRG ring effect on Restrain/Focus
- Leoric' Crown effect on Mask of the Searing Sky (Raiment's Helm)
- Flying Dragon on Furnace

You can then swap 1 gear such as Chest to Cindercoat.

Bonus:
1. Bastion of Will
2. R6
3. Cindercoat
4. Leoric Crown's additional 12.5% CDR
5. 50% against Elite and FD's double attack

Seem pretty crazy!

Incoming 7SS set!

• P3_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_018 -Your Seven-Sided Strike deals its total damage with each hit.
• P3_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_019 -Every third hit of your Spirit Generators applies Exploding Palm.
• P3_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_020 -Your Seven-Sided Strike detonates your Exploding Palm.

This look like the new ShenLong set!

• P3_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_025 -The damage of your Spirit Generators is increased by [{VALUE1}*100]% for each point of Spirit you have.
• P3_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_026 -When reaching maximum Spirit, all damage is increased by [{VALUE1}*100]%, but you no longer passively regenerate Spirit and 65 Spirit is drained every second until you run out of Spirit.
• P3_ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_027 -Each hit with Seven-Sided Strike grants {c_magic}[{VALUE1}*100|1|]%{/c_magic} damage reduction for 7 seconds.

http://www.diablofans.com/news/48452-diabl...ass-changes-set

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Jun 26 2015, 07:22 AM

Official patch note, monk has 1 skill change!

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19814212/p...notes-6-30-2015

Monk
Active Skills
Dashing Strike
Now breaks roots when cast

Queing to get in game 4 hours and 36 minutes!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Strongest build in PTR at the moment! The new Shenlong Spirit! Generator build! I tried gen build before.. punching things to death is waaaaay more fun than 7SS and DS. I _really_ hope they keep this! GR66 solo seem reasonable since the reduced damage from mobs and with new power from Cube (unity).

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/18193985026

Although the new 7SS set is not as strong as the Shenlong set, but it does look like tons of fun!

This is still in PTR, so, I hope they buff that before it goes live. However, there is big possibility they won't since a new Lion Claw which is a S4 item will double the DPS...

Finally got login to PTR at TX, nice Ruin of Sescheron run and found the cube. Watch in 720p60!



Also, crafted my first hellfire amulet in PTR...



My reaction...



Completing each bounty give u 4 x mat in each Act. Seem like I'll be doing a lot of bounties...

Here is video of extracting power from legendary



Click details to view your equipped cube's power

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Jul 6 2015, 04:58 PM

Wow! Seem like very fun to play! No mantra... no 7SS... but still so strong!

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Jul 8 2015, 10:52 PM

This?



It's more like a recreation build, fast and fun. May not offer enough damage for 50s GR but still fun.

Legacy of the Void preorder has some transmog and probe pet.

I am willing to give good money if they give me the Blue and Green blade as transmog for my shenlong fist!

New patch upcoming in PTR

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NvFPwHX...?pli=1&sle=true

Shenlong set changes:

◾The damage of your Spirit Generators is increased by 2%(up from 1%) for each point of Spirit you have.
◾When reaching maximum Spirit, all damage is increased by 100%(down from 300%), but you no longer passively regenerate Spirit and 65 Spirit is drained every second until you run out of Spirit.

Pure gen build suffer 10% reduced damage but R6 Shenlong suffer 50% less damage. R6 Shenlong achieved GR71 in PTR. Surely that got Bliz attention.

PTR data will be wipe by tonight I think, lets see how it goes with this nerf.

Running D3 on Win10... problem switching to full screen?

Open D3Prefs.txt (usually found in My Document\Diablo), enable the v-sync

Vsync "1"

Season 3 over in 2 weeks! Spirit guard coming to me in 3 weeks!

Shenlong new power coming too.


Life is good as a monk!

Counting everyday!

Finally! The inevitable...



This post has been edited by cowithgun: Aug 12 2015, 02:46 PM

Thanks guys! Time to come back to Monk.

3 monks party - GR 68 (PTR)

I didn't test it myself but from what I gathered there was a bug that make EP ES run forever without 9 seconds timeout. This was patched recently:

• Fixed an issue that prevented Exploding Palm - Essence Burn's explosion DoT damage from falling off when its duration expired

On top of that, (I think) Monk utilizing Zodiac ring can get perma 7SS because each EP ES on each mobs will proc Zodiac and reduce the cool down. They fixed this by making 7SS cool down start after effect expired

• This ability will now begin its cooldown after its effects expire

Although not documented, but some reported that EP ES no longer proc Zodiac.

Haven't seen any good Monk video for awhile...



Although it's for the Heroes, but still good to see our Monk!

Also, don't miss the chance to get extra portrait if you play Heroes before 8 Sep 2015!

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/19867266/p...nexus-8-17-2015

After 2 days of "work"

Some people still playing..

leveling up to 70 takes less than half an hour if you can find someone to Power Level you.

upcoming monk should be good. we have 3 viable build:

Generator Build - Should be able to achieve highest GR
- Shenlong fist with Flying Dragon on cube
o preferably with double LoH
- Inna and Crudest Boot = 80% Life
- Very fun to play, keep punching stuff till they die
- Another variation is to use Ancient Parthan Defenders in cube and using cold CS for massive temp defense



Dashing Stirke on steroid
- Raiment of Thousand Storms (R6)
- Shenlong fist with Flying Dragon on cube
- Restrain and Focus ring with Zodiac power on cube
- Cindercoat on cube
- Very fast speed runs on Torment 10 (TX) and Speed 40s and 50s

Uliana 7SS set
- New Uliana 6 set bonus
- Shenlong fist with Flow of Eternity in cube
- Massive EP explosion with lotsa 7SS
- Very fast speed runs on Torment 10 (TX) and Speed 40s and may be 50s
- Very fun to play! Must try!



Other than that, I am actually thinking for speed 40s and 50s in party, EP Monk with tons of XP gear will be very popular! This is because XP bonus gear is multiplied in GR and in 2.3, XP will be shared so it will benefit everyone in party. EP monk has both damage and CC and the extra XP is always a welcome.

If you are still on Sunwuko with Incense of Grand Torch... time to move on...

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Aug 22 2015, 01:14 PM

Most likely I will join Season towards the end where you guys can carry me to earn the Pet....