So what your trying to say is, if we can stomp white mobs easily and die to elite. Everything is normal?

Ya those molten n especially lasers n desecrators. I mean obviously I dun stand in there when I fight. But I want to at least be able to survive longer den seeing my Hp go down as fast as 4 secs. Sometimes when we fight it's a mess. N it's kinda hard tO differentiate what's on the ground.

I can tank any melee be it elite or not.

Thx for the reply! A few more questions though (sorry...)

How does it work with Sweeping wind? LOH when an enemy enters the radius? LOH per second?

Also, exploding palm... just the initial effect? or the AOE explosion after?

Loh does not work with sweeping wind, although (a build that I am doing on my monk currently is crit damage/crit% and it works on the tornadoes) as for exploding palm, i have never test and do not know.

If you're dying to white mobs, you're either severely undergeared for the area or you have some serious issues of L2P.

As for elites.... abilities are usually fine. Even mortar elites are dodgeable as long as they don't come with something stupid like Jailer Waller. The only thing I'm unable to cope with at the moment is the ridiculous damage from Elite Phasebeasts in Core of Arreat (it's extra bonus fun if they come with Illusionist or Horde) or all the fsking one-shot-kill mobs in A4. Those skeletons in A3 Keep aren't supposed to hit you. Stop using FoT and learn to Deadly Reach kite.

So yes, I'd say melee reduction will make a huge difference in survivability. I'm even considering keeping around a String of Ears as a backup to switch into for specifically fighting elite 1-2-hit-kill melee mobs, while using my regular dex/vita/cr/ar belt against the usual stuff.

This post was edited by irimi on Jun 11 2012 11:20pm

Hey guys my stats so far



Working on act 2 solo right now

I know I need to improve some stuff. Currently looking for better shoulders, rings, amulet, shield

Stats is with mantra of healing (time of need) + enchantress as my follower. Do like 16,250 dps without enchantress

EDIT:

Also have earth ally on. Without ally I'm at like 40.5k health

This post was edited by Newb. on Jun 12 2012 12:06am

You can kite just fine using FoT against strong melee mobs. Plus you get the knockback on white mobs that absolutely rapes them. The only problem I have with FoT is against ranged mobs with AoE like molten because they tend to move a lot back into their AoE while they deal big damage.

What I find myself dying to most often are ranged packs That kite me with their AoE (desecrate/plagued/molten/arcane) and they have a CC skill like jailer waller frozen or combination of all these terrible affixes. It's not so much the AoE that kills me, but their auto attacks while I dodge the AoE. The worst ones are the packs that spawn with more than 3, like the quillbeasts,

use MoE with the armor buff, it's much better. The Health per second is kind of useless but the extra dodge is amazing. I find it saving me or making my life 100x easier all the time.

Even though healing with time of need buffs my resis from 576 to 691?