Quote (irimi @ Jun 14 2012 02:30pm)

Siegebreaker on a monk is a kitefest.  You're not supposed to stay in melee range of him unless he's distracted by Tyrael or Mystic Ally.  That's why most people who play monks don't run him for a long time.  Run in, DPS him, and if he starts to attack you, Blind him and get a few hits before running away.  Or use Serenity to DPS or as an oh-shit button to get away.  He must have been easier back when Tyrael actually did a decent amount of damage (also: get your Enchantress a good weapon because her DPS makes the Siegebreaker fight a lot less painful as well).

With your gear, you should be able to do Tower->Cydaea->Azmo runs, I think.  It might not be easy (Elite Phasebeasts will still own anybody), but the bosses are easier to kill than Siegebreaker.

And yes, many bosses on this game are retarded for melee.  I watched a video of some DH killing Azmodan in 20+ seconds, which amounted to him standing there and holding right click.

Quote (irimi @ Jun 14 2012 05:30pm)

Siegebreaker on a monk is a kitefest. You're not supposed to stay in melee range of him unless he's distracted by Tyrael or Mystic Ally. That's why most people who play monks don't run him for a long time. Run in, DPS him, and if he starts to attack you, Blind him and get a few hits before running away. Or use Serenity to DPS or as an oh-shit button to get away. He must have been easier back when Tyrael actually did a decent amount of damage (also: get your Enchantress a good weapon because her DPS makes the Siegebreaker fight a lot less painful as well).

With your gear, you should be able to do Tower->Cydaea->Azmo runs, I think. It might not be easy (Elite Phasebeasts will still own anybody), but the bosses are easier to kill than Siegebreaker.

And yes, many bosses on this game are retarded for melee. I watched a video of some DH killing Azmodan in 20+ seconds, which amounted to him standing there and holding right click.

Quote (armour @ Jun 14 2012 03:47pm)

i found that seige breaker wasnt that hard, serenity his 3 hit combo, use the blind to interrupt his stomp(makes him do it again).

everytime he  tries to stomp i just blind which cancles the animation, then when he does it again i just BoH to heal the damage back.

serenity every time he uses his 3 hit strike, if serenity is on CD, ill heal it back with BoH and mantra spam.

when he does the animation to charge  move around behind him.

i dont have to kite him at all, but his 3 hit combo does hit hard.

Quote (irimi @ Jun 14 2012 05:50pm)

dont you have like 60k hp or something ridiculous like that? lol

when i was killing siegebreaker for the first time (or in my subsequent farm runs), i did it with barely 30k hp and like 400 LoH.

Quote (armour @ Jun 14 2012 03:52pm)

i figured most monks would have around 50k at that point :/

ya i usually run him with 66k hp 1k LoH and 3.1 aps

Quote (irimi @ Jun 14 2012 05:53pm)

if you have those kinds of stats, you shouldn't even be running siegebreaker in the first place. there are far better ways/places to farm.

hell, right now i have ~800 LoH, ~38k hp, and 2.2 aps, and I'm farming Cydaea/Azmodan pretty quickly. with Overawe, i almost have enough DPS to bring Cydaea down before she even goes up the web for a round of spiders.

Quote (armour @ Jun 14 2012 04:02pm)

it's actually pretty effecient method of finding higher ilvl items. before the nerf, you could run seige breaker + 3 respelendent chests in less than 30 minutes, which would net usually ~10 rares. about a week ago they nerfed the act 3 chests spawn, so its probably not worth farming anymore.