Monk - Builds/Discussion - Page 116

On October 22 2012 13:25 FantomX wrote:
Hey guys I need some help... I have a decent monk right now, low dps and all around just ok. I have been able to do key runs on mp3 without too much trouble.

I have about 14 mill igg right now and looking to upgrade some stuff. I guess I need more dps as I'm sitting around 23k dmg. 1150 res (79%), 52 k life, crit hit 14% crit dmg 164%, loh 2k.

So I really don't know where to go from here.. All my stuff has the stats I think it should, except a few missing sock/crits

Any advice would be really helpfull as to what I should buy with my money that would be cost efficient. Or what could use the most amount of upgrade. Is my res/life too high? I would like to start hit mp 4-5 if I can.

Thanks for any help, could really use it

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/AlexChomey-1652/hero/20910206

On October 22 2012 13:25 FantomX wrote:
Hey guys I need some help... I have a decent monk right now, low dps and all around just ok. I have been able to do key runs on mp3 without too much trouble.

I have about 14 mill igg right now and looking to upgrade some stuff. I guess I need more dps as I'm sitting around 23k dmg. 1150 res (79%), 52 k life, crit hit 14% crit dmg 164%, loh 2k.

So I really don't know where to go from here.. All my stuff has the stats I think it should, except a few missing sock/crits

Any advice would be really helpfull as to what I should buy with my money that would be cost efficient. Or what could use the most amount of upgrade. Is my res/life too high? I would like to start hit mp 4-5 if I can.

Thanks for any help, could really use it

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/AlexChomey-1652/hero/20910206

On October 22 2012 16:14 Espelz wrote:


Thats a pretty insane amount of AR and loh you have there... I´d probably socket the offhand with crit damage, you won´t suddenly die because of 190 loh less....

If you could lose a bit of res on rings and gain a few % crit for that, but that depends on what the auction house offers you for your budget, just take a look.

You definitely will get a lot more dex on pants, probably without losing too much AR. 33 base dex is pretty low.
Bracers with 4+ % crit could also be an option. Perhaps a pair of strongarm bracers with physical resist ? they tend to be pretty cheap, the life% kind of offsets the fact that you don´t get vit with them... or check for rares. I just looked at the ah and found a pair of bracers with 150 dex/80 vit/ 49 phys. res. and 4.5 % crit for 1mio (on EU).

In the end you will have to lose some defense, but 700-800 AR should still be more than okay if you kill stuff much faster.

Edit : Also change Breath of heaven to Blazing Wrath rune, and sweeping wind to cyclone once you get your crit chance up. you could also try Overawe instead of Mantra of healing, which would be a huge trade between AR and DPS for its own (you could try these first to see how much more you can skimp on defensive stats afterwards)

On October 22 2012 16:15 Misanthrope wrote:


Short term:
I really suggest trading in MoH for MoC w/ overawe, putting an emerald in your off hand, and using SHS w/ Fulminating Onslaught. Switching to BoH w/ blazing wrath, and Serenity w/ peaceful repose will increase your damage and survivability.

Long term:
Over time you can start exchanging a good bit of vitality for dex. With your level of defensive ability, cut down to around 800 vit or so, and try to get your dex to around 17-1800 to start, with the end goal being 2000 or more. Try to get max crit chance rolls on each item if possible, and when you get to around ~20% crit chance swap out master of wind for cyclone. Don't be afraid to give up around 200 to 300 resist to hit your dex/crit targets, especially with your life on hit. Seize the initiative is a great way to compensate for lower resists/vit, as is resolve once you start tackling mp5 and over.

The thing about gearing this way is, you can easily compensate for the tankiness you cut by engaging intelligently. Once you learn to do this, you'll farm much faster and mp4-5 will be easy. The period of adjustment will likely be quite quick, if a bit painful at first depending on how fast you pick it up. Good luck! :D

On October 22 2012 13:25 FantomX wrote:
Hey guys I need some help... I have a decent monk right now, low dps and all around just ok. I have been able to do key runs on mp3 without too much trouble.

I have about 14 mill igg right now and looking to upgrade some stuff. I guess I need more dps as I'm sitting around 23k dmg. 1150 res (79%), 52 k life, crit hit 14% crit dmg 164%, loh 2k.

So I really don't know where to go from here.. All my stuff has the stats I think it should, except a few missing sock/crits

Any advice would be really helpfull as to what I should buy with my money that would be cost efficient. Or what could use the most amount of upgrade. Is my res/life too high? I would like to start hit mp 4-5 if I can.

Thanks for any help, could really use it

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/AlexChomey-1652/hero/20910206

On October 23 2012 04:47 NEOtheONE wrote:
I'm running 45.5% crit rate on my monk for maximum effectiveness of sweeping wind. And while my setup is good enough for MP1-4, I got owned rather hard when trying the infernal machine bosses on MP4. Besides critical hit damage to improve DPS, what should I be saving for gear wise?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/NateNEO-1724/hero/8218132

On October 23 2012 07:19 Wuster wrote:


An instant dmg upgrade would be swapping the main and offhand weapons btw. Sweeping Winds is based off your main hand damage and I'm 90% sure earth ally is as well. So go ahead and put that slower, higher dps weapon in the main hand. Always do this going forward too.

Also, I'm not sure I like NDE. I've tried it before and I almost always just died immediately after proc-ing NDE anyways. Maybe that's me, and I should use the revive to run away, but oh well I like STI, it probably saves more dmg for me overall.



As for your weapon, it's absolutely critical that you get a socket in a sword + board build. I can get away without any sockets because my offhand has 90% crit dmg native. With such a high crit chance but comparatively low crit dmg, you're really relying on Cyclones to do the work for you. That's not always viable and I'm guessing MP4 mobs are just taking too long to kill and filling the screen with adds / ground effects. You have a bunch of crit on the shield, so you could let go of some of the crit on your jewelry for crit dmg unless you have enough gold to just get jewelry with everything.

Also, I'd recommend running your profile through a dps calculator, as I believe IAS is very good for shield monks.

As for dual wielding, it might be better for you since 600 resist is kind of low for a shield set up (though of course you have very good armor values). So you aren't really getting the 'tankiness' in return for sacrificing dps. But again, a dps calculator will help you out a lot here.