Monk - Builds/Discussion - Page 45

On June 05 2012 21:29 xavra41 wrote:
I wanna look at the monk to see if it is fun, but not many monks stream and those that do suck (they are farming non combat or they are low level) any streams u guys can recommend recordings are fine too

On June 06 2012 00:11 noD wrote:
Im doing this build
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#bYgiXk!bXU!ZYaZbY
the explanation is I have 7 seconds (serenity + blind) to nuke the most of them, the other skills are to quickly heal and wait for the next serenity cooldown + blind to nuke again
focus is damage increase and armor increase so it's good for both offensive and defensive tatics ...

On June 06 2012 00:11 noD wrote:
Im doing this build
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#bYgiXk!bXU!ZYaZbY
the explanation is I have 7 seconds (serenity + blind) to nuke the most of them, the other skills are to quickly heal and wait for the next serenity cooldown + blind to nuke again
focus is damage increase and armor increase so it's good for both offensive and defensive tatics ...
edit : mantra of conviction is due my lack of gold for better weapon and rings/amulet with aspeed so since my dps is low (16k) i have to use it for damage increase ...

On June 06 2012 00:03 Whofah wrote:
I haven't even made it to inferno yet, and I'm seeing the huge dependency on gear. I'm a little curious though. I haven't managed to read 'all' of the posts, but has anyone tried synergizing crippling wave / tsunami and exploding palm with the last rune? (forgot what it's called.) Seems like they do well with clearing out waves pretty quickly.

Other than that, what's the usual skills from Hell and up? I'm using Serenity / PR, Blinding Flash / Echo, 7-sided / Sustained and...Evasion / Hard Target. I still seem to get completely stomped haha. Any suggestions other than kite and hope I don't soil my monk?

On June 06 2012 00:11 noD wrote:
Im doing this build
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#bYgiXk!bXU!ZYaZbY
the explanation is I have 7 seconds (serenity + blind) to nuke the most of them, the other skills are to quickly heal and wait for the next serenity cooldown + blind to nuke again
focus is damage increase and armor increase so it's good for both offensive and defensive tatics ...
edit : mantra of conviction is due my lack of gold for better weapon and rings/amulet with aspeed so since my dps is low (16k) i have to use it for damage increase ...

On June 06 2012 00:44 Dead9 wrote:

there's no reason to run exalted soul ever
swapping that out for resolve should make everything a lot easier

On June 06 2012 00:32 Whofah wrote:


With that rune setup for conviction, you may as well get rid of breath of heaven and take some other skill and swap deadly reach for hundred fists for higher proc on reclamation. At least, that's what my initial thought would be. Could take 7 sided instead of breath so you can remain untargetable for...3 seconds? enough time with cdr to get serenity back up by chaining with blinding. Just a thought.

On June 06 2012 01:58 TaekwonV wrote:
Thanks for the reply, i guess thats what it comes down to until i get better gear. I was hoping i could play a more tanky style.

On June 06 2012 02:14 Slayer91 wrote:




These are my stats I'm doing siegebreaker runs without too much trouble (don't need tyrael to kill everything while I'm dead, still die quite a bit though) can kinda facetank siegebreaker infact it seems to be the easiest way of doing him because trying to dodge his attacks is really hard and you lose lots of life on hit and stuff. Most non silly elites I can do, obviously need to kite around and use doorways but it's doable. Can kill the soul rippers (licking dudes) elites as well but sometimes I need to get one to split off first because they jump around a lot and it's easy to separate them sometimes.

My life on hit is ring (169ish) amulet (390) and weapon (860 dps, 747 life on hit) Attack speed gloves (15%) and ring (12-13%). Looking to improve my dex and AS mostly seems to be most of the monks here have much higher dex and as who can clear act 4.

Not sure if I can do azmodan or not but I might try him because getting really crappy loot from siegebreaker atm. (could be unlucky streak though)

On June 06 2012 00:11 noD wrote:
Im doing this build
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#bYgiXk!bXU!ZYaZbY
the explanation is I have 7 seconds (serenity + blind) to nuke the most of them, the other skills are to quickly heal and wait for the next serenity cooldown + blind to nuke again
focus is damage increase and armor increase so it's good for both offensive and defensive tatics ...
edit : mantra of conviction is due my lack of gold for better weapon and rings/amulet with aspeed so since my dps is low (16k) i have to use it for damage increase ...

On June 05 2012 19:30 Slayer91 wrote:
I was asking a question o.O most people were saying diablo hits less hard than a lot of stuff in act 4. I'm still at the siegebreaker run phase of act 3 myself. A 5 NV stack diablo run is pretty impressive though. My stats aren't a lot different with 1300 life on hit 800 all resists (860 weapon dps) so I'm wondering if I should focus on attack speed/dexterity for DPS to be able to clear the rest of inferno. (I'm at 1.84 attacks/second and 1.1 k dex)

On June 06 2012 05:41 Couvre wrote:

You can drop around 500 life on hit and get another attack speed item and higher dex and you should be fine for 5 stack act 4.

On June 06 2012 05:57 Slayer91 wrote:
Dropping life on hit for attack speed when attack speed gives me more hits for more life on hit?
Higher dex I can understand, it's mostly a matter of improving my item quality overall though, to get more dex you need higher ilevel kinda. But I do feel low on the DPS as opposed to survivability right now.