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On June 17 2012 00:59 Derrida wrote:


Your damage and resists are fine for A2, but you need more HP and more armor. I farmed A2 goblin with @ ancient ruins for 2 days and made a few millions from drops which helped me get past A2.

On June 17 2012 08:45 Slayer91 wrote:
Anyone considered blazing fists rune on WoTHF over thunderclap when nerf comes in? I used it a bit before, might be more viable now. Also guys, air ally, 2% chance to get 100 spirit, amounts to 2 spirit per hit average, very nice spirit increase and with the patch coming in I hope you learn to love him. He does more DPS than all the others (should do anyway, sweeping wind aura OP) and earth ally is crappy 10% useless stat and a decent taunt.

On June 17 2012 06:29 Pwere wrote:
Why would you want to farm act4? The drops aren't any better than act 3 (or so it seems), and there are no good runs because act bosses don't drop loot besides diablo. Getting 5 stack neph before diablo is a chore, as those elite meteor dudes are very, very hard for monks(but you might be able to skip most of it, not sure).

As for MF gear, you should definitely have a complete suit. Equip it for chests at least, and some of it for goblins/elites. Ally is really good for this, mostly for siegebreaker, as he'll keep the aggro while you equip your 200+mf, resulting in 1+ rare per boss on average. It's worth dying every now and then.

Resolve is pretty useless without Sweeping Wind or at least Air Ally. Might as well get transcendence. FoT is just better than everything else at the moment, and will be a necessity postpatch unless they increase the attack speed of everything else massively (20%+).

On a final note, I finally sold my 25% ias sword,880dps 900lohit for 250$ (bought 4M three weeks ago ), seeing as they're reducing attack speed by 50%+ next patch, on all items apparently (rumors from test servers). My shield is going for 100+, I sold most of my poison gear for 20-30$ a pop, and I'm dropping my monk. There is no way they're gonna buff the monk enough to make up for AS nerf, which hits monk the hardest because we lose LoHit, damage, stunlock, teleport and spirit. And we're already pretty weak, farming-wise.

Good luck guys, it's been fun !

On June 17 2012 14:57 Hollow wrote:


Excellent post. And it's good to see I'm not the only one selling everything also. My current Monk was fucking awesome and it's really a shame they are fucking us over so badly with the nerf just when I get everything right and can farm Act 3 comfortably and fairly fast. I have no intention of starting a new character so I'm done. GL all.

On June 17 2012 06:29 Pwere wrote:
Why would you want to farm act4? The drops aren't any better than act 3 (or so it seems), and there are no good runs because act bosses don't drop loot besides diablo. Getting 5 stack neph before diablo is a chore, as those elite meteor dudes are very, very hard for monks(but you might be able to skip most of it, not sure).

As for MF gear, you should definitely have a complete suit. Equip it for chests at least, and some of it for goblins/elites. Ally is really good for this, mostly for siegebreaker, as he'll keep the aggro while you equip your 200+mf, resulting in 1+ rare per boss on average. It's worth dying every now and then.

Resolve is pretty useless without Sweeping Wind or at least Air Ally. Might as well get transcendence. FoT is just better than everything else at the moment, and will be a necessity postpatch unless they increase the attack speed of everything else massively (20%+).

On a final note, I finally sold my 25% ias sword,880dps 900lohit for 250$ (bought 4M three weeks ago ), seeing as they're reducing attack speed by 50%+ next patch, on all items apparently (rumors from test servers). My shield is going for 100+, I sold most of my poison gear for 20-30$ a pop, and I'm dropping my monk. There is no way they're gonna buff the monk enough to make up for AS nerf, which hits monk the hardest because we lose LoHit, damage, stunlock, teleport and spirit. And we're already pretty weak, farming-wise.

Good luck guys, it's been fun !

On June 17 2012 11:25 AssuredVacancy wrote:


Wouldn't thunderclap be even MORE attractive as a move once the nerf comes in because of the innate 140% attackspeed?

On June 17 2012 17:09 Jisall wrote:


smh. I wouldn't mind you going out by selling your stuff, making money on the game and leaving with a profit, but this.... This is quitting. The monk is a weapon of the gods. Act like it. This dramaqueen/complaintrain solves nothing about the problem.

First we know nothing of the actual data from the next patch, only speculation and data-mining. We have figured out one way of playing the monk (LoH, high resists/armor, high AS), are there not others? You forget along with the alleged AS nerf there difficulty curve is lessening. Monsters are not going to receive the bonus damage per person in the game they did previously, roll a group and figure it out together. We will find a way to improve our gameplay, or we will find another way to play the monk. That is what will happen.

To Pwere and Hollow, im glad you made most likely around $400 dollars on a $60 dollar game. You are a man after my own heart. I will continue to farm and sell gear to make money on this game to try and make the same profit as you both have.

This patch is not the end. This doomsday sentiment needs to be stopped. This is a monk discussion thread not a monk QQ thread. We have no idea what this next patch will bring but we will find a way to solve it. This is what we have done in the past when we hit the brick wall known as inferno act 2. This is what we will continue to do.

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