My WD is like cikai.
For WD, you need to refer to builds from Penangitesz and stevie.

D3 is gear based game. All chars rely on gears to do high T level.
So, luck is your only good friend.

IMO, 2 things have "broken" in monk.

1stly, the toughness. Both barb and monk have 30% damage mitigation by default.
Technically speaking, monk should be WAY MORE tankier than barb since monk can stack extremely high AR (1400+) and decent armor (8000+).
However, in actual gameplay, monks experience difficulty in T5/T6 due to life drains like water.
I play barb with 50% lower AR than my monk but 50% higher armor than monk, I don't feel the life of my barb drains as fast as monk when it stands in the middle of poison/plague/fire/firechain etc.
So, I reckon the toughness of monk is "broken". I tried MoC/Intimidation + Resolve passive (virtually 65% damage mitigation), it still hurt sh*t.

Monk is okay with the damage. I mean the main character. My under-geared monk can do 18-20m damage from fire bell. It is fine with the damage I reckon.
Here comes the 2nd point, monks lack of macai. Macai is the trend now!!!
WD/Barb/DH are using many macais now. With macais + main char, they can deliver high damage per second in total, collectively.
Wiz, with mirror ball, the damage is 2-3 times more. As good as having macai.
Cru, need I say more, it's flagship char. Many gears allow 2-3 times or more attacks.
So, IMO, it's either
1) Blizz reduce the resource cost of burst damage skills (i.e. bell) or giving more high spirit generation gear (i.e. Band of the Rue Chambers ring etc).
Or
2) Give macai to monk (i.e. buff mystic ally).


Blizz needs to fix the toughness of monk first. IMO, this is very important.
Without this, doing T6 could be a difficult task for monk.
This is especially monk could be the one and only melee char in RoS now (barb can do WT/Seismic slam with macai doing melee or just keep leaping).
Then, Blizz needs to fix either skills or gears for monk.


Last but not least, I won't say monk is totally "broken".
One must remember, not all char can do T6.
Monk can do T4/T5 just fine. Just like most of the chars are doing now.
To do T6, you need specific gears. This applies to all chars as this is gear based game.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: May 16 2014, 03:26 PM

Cru obviously is OP.
A well geared Cru is extremely OP.
No class can come close to that. Period.

Monk is ok with the damage.
Hitting 6-20million of damage is the damage range experienced by other class of heroes, specifically those legacy class.
The point here is, monk can dish out decent damage.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: May 19 2014, 02:39 PM

Of all the points made, I fully agree on the "mitigation" part.
I'd call it toughness instead.

Blizz really need to fix the toughness of monk.

If your wep comes with DEX & socket by default, you should roll damage range.

Congrats!
Your monk is very solid now.

yuhhaur
Please update new builds for monk in the 1st page.
i.e. fire build with skill setup and recommended gears.

Any monk can solo T6? Fast rift!!! Thanks.

Please share your build.

Pinball style is fine.
But I'm having problem with the shaking screen.

By the way, I thought Invis quit.

It's just like WW barb, WW from A to Z.

Time to hunt for Jawbreaker!!

I think armor > AR in ROS.

For other chars, cru, barb, wiz, WD, DH, armor seems working better than AR.

I think that was the old calculation.
No longer valid in RoS.

Barb is the closest melee class with 30% damage mitigation by default.
Barb@T6 require buffed 900AR (or 650-700AR without buff) with 15k armor.

Cru requires 300AR to do T6. With high armor, of course.

Therefore, I do think armor > AR in RoS.

Bro, please come back and play.

Very insightful reply. Well said.

Monks have the highest AR among all class nowadays.
INT chars used to have high AR (1800-2000 AR).
But as we progress, most INT chars stack about 1100-1200 AR for T6.
Nowadays, few INT char put Diamond in the sockets.
AR is broken. It seems to have "diminishing return" when you stack high AR.
Stacking high AR doesn't help in survivability.

Blizz want to fix monk's toughness.
I reckon they pull a fast one by giving monk more armor.
Alternatively, Blizz need to buff the LOH of monk by increasing the proc rate.
Either fixing armor or improving LOH, I think it is a more universal defence fix to improve the toughness of monk.

For dodge, as cow said, Blizz will not likely to go for that route.
Successful dodge gives immunity.
There are 2 sides of a coin.
On one side, if Blizz buff the dodge chance, monk will immune to damage aka god mode.
On the other side, with the toughness not fixed, there is still a chance to get hit by fatal blows. Monk's HP will still drain like water when it can't dodge the fatal hit. It is still not good fix.

Anyway, we will see it how the fix goes at PTR later.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Jun 23 2014, 07:40 PM

Note: Existing items will not be affected by these changes. Only new versions of the items will roll with the added Legendary power.

Keyword, ideally.

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... we want each class performing similarly and with fewer outliers before we introduce new play styles.
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You can expect some works on monk.
It's either nerf others buff monk or buff monk all the way (through gears and skills).
I believe the latter is a more possible solution.

Assuming the toughness has been taken care of by implementing 1 DEX = 1 armor.
For me, it is very easy to fix monk. I do not know why Blizz took so long.
It's gear based game. Give monk some kickarse weapon like "Starmetal kukri". Blizz just needs to fix that.
And buff the skills like Epiphany. It is pathetic as compared to Akarat's Champion, WoTB and Archon.

Fist of Az? People complain monk plays a supporting role with EP.
Sledgefist? Still kill slow.

If Blizz can't give monk more macai like WD, DH and barb, monk should be given 2-3x more damage from weapons like Fate of the fell/Darklight for Cru or Wand of Woh/Mirror Ball for Wiz.
Super Saiyan/Epiphany needs a fix too.

May be they use grift 27 as a benchmark.

It's no where close until monk gets weapons like fire 2 extra Wave of Lights or 1-2 additional 7ss are triggered after casting 7ss.
OR
10% of summoning a mystic ally to fight by your side for 60 seconds.

Look at the time spent, you should be able to do grift 31-32.
I think that is close with other class.

This is a positive result.
I think Grift 30-33 is the range for all above-average-geared characters.