Thought it would be great to have a dedicated thread for Monk build, so everyone can take a look at the thread and learn about various viable monk builds.

Post your BNET profile AND Skill Calculator of your build. And give a brief summary of your play style & core stats needed, and please tell us how it does on higher difficulty level of a game.

Any monk build is welcomed. Don't be shy.

Fire Monk

Profile (seems to be bugged)
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Veranor-1613/hero/1339118

Build
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#WdZPSk!XUVi!aaacba

Centers around +fire dmg and +skill dmg and takes advantage of Epiphany: Inner Fire. While the build is primarily lashing tail, one could switch it out for Tempest Rush, which IMO, is the best skill to run while using epiphany. The damage that you dish out while spinning around is huge, and since epiphany regenerates spirit, you can twirl your way through an elite pack. The SOJ and Hellcat Waistguard add +dmg to elites, which really shows when you're doing 15mil crits on elite packs using LTK. With Epiphany, you can practically spam the kick, while hitting other targets for 2-3 mil crits.

Plus, with variations, you can even use Retribution: Retaliation or Evasion: Backlash. In terms of damage to large packs, Evasion seems to win out. Retribution is good if you have the regen/sustain to recover after a hit. Depending on mood, I'll switch them out.

I've also thought about dumping sweeping wind for something else, and when I use evasion I will typically go with palm or something similar. Basically anything with fire is a good thing.

.... You have a hellcat with fire resist... I hate you.

That I plan on rerolling to lightning :P.

http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/82397-list-of-skill-dmg-and-elemental-dmg-affixes

Found this linky that lists out all the +% SKILL DMG slots. Try to get couple slots with your desired spirit spender to boost your skill dmg!

Helm

Tempest Rush
Exploding Palm
Wave of Light
Lashing Tail Kick
+15-30% Lightning Skills http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-eye-of-the-storm

Shoulder

Dashing Strike
Seven-Sided Strike
Mystic Ally
Sweeping Wind
Cyclone Strike

Chest

Dashing Strike
Seven-Sided Strike
Mystic Ally
Sweeping Wind
Cyclone Strike

Belt

Way of the Hundred Fists
Crippling
Deadly Reach
Fists of Thunder

Pants

Way of the Hundred Fists
Crippling
Deadly Reach
Fists of Thunder

Boots

Tempest Rush
Exploding Palm
Wave of Light
Lashing Tail Kick

This post was edited by KimSulki84 on Apr 1 2014 06:07pm

What would be a good balance of Toughness and Healing for monks?

What's your set up?

I changed up some stuff yesterday and currently have these stats:

All Res : 1399 (OWE)
Armor : 6401 (STI)
Life : 328K (Diamond in Helm)

LOH: 0
LPS : 6K
Globe Bonus : 70K

I'm around 42% CDR build right now.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#bZdTQP!UVXi!YYaccc

This post was edited by KimSulki84 on Apr 2 2014 11:00am

With such a high amount of health globe bonus have u tried transcendence? I find it great especially vs elites/rift bosses when u use Epiphany

My stats are almost same as urs , u have a lil more all res , I feel like i have enuff toughness at 5.7mil (for T1)but feel like i need more all res (Currently 1150) it seems like i only ever have problems vs elites with elemental attacks

This post was edited by The_Don on Apr 2 2014 11:12am

Sitting at around 490k life with 1300 all res (no paragon) and 8k armor. I'm at about 9.8m toughness and I never die in t1. Easily get into t2 without putting on my srsbsns helm and rings (using 60 leorics and hellfire with a fla-roy ruby in helm). Haven't attempted anything higher because my playgroup isn't that geared. Can probably solo t3 or 4 with my helm and rings.

See? I'm still no where up to date on the new skills. haha

I didn't know globe bonus scales with Transcendence. Will try it out.

I still have to mess with some more enchanting to get the AR up couple hundred more.

EDIT: Wow Transcendence will give me shitload of sustain per second.



That's some serious numbers.

What do you think about the HP pool size? If I remember correctly, you don't have high healing, yes?

Just trying to see how effective healing stats are against raw Toughness stats.

This post was edited by KimSulki84 on Apr 2 2014 11:37am

Question,

Let say I stack some LPSS. And I have some resource reduction mods.

Does anyone know if the LPSS takes the pre-reduced spirit number to calculate the life?