you may also want to try the way of the hundred fists: fists of fury + breath of heaven: infused with light version

While infused with light proc is up, you have infinite spirit and can spam infinite bells

Or should i grab one with another skill modifier?

Its good for uber runs. For regular runs get a unity or litany ring.

Yeah, that was a sort of enquiry.
Do you remember the screenshot of some beasts that I posted yesterday? I encountered similar beasts today, buffed myself to 62k life and 750 all res (with lower dps items, of course), and still got one-hit ^^ So life isn't quite the answer to this particular equation.

This post was edited by kalinthebest on Mar 24 2013 08:57pm

That's weird because I don't get 1 shotted. Must be the litany ring.

You just gotta figure out the enough ehp number to not get one shotted by them. Not easy but not hard.

Do you get 1 shotted by mp10 keep2 fallen maniacs?

And again, you cant really sacrifice dmg to up ehp. That wont work.

This post was edited by jinshin85 on Mar 24 2013 09:29pm

I buffed the life just to try them out, I don't intend to sacrifice any single dps. I can survive 1 fallen maniac, but not a single charge by such beast (the pack was vortex, molten, arcane, illusionst, so.. practically undodgeable).
I have the gold to buy either a litany, or a unity with cd, but won't this actually lower my dps? I have 167k dps with blazing wrath, so the soj would give me 27% over these 167k, right (not including 12% to fists of thunder which is considered a primary skill)? A litany would give me only about 15k over the soj, and unity would give me nearly 27-28k, so in both cases it seems that I will lose out on effective dps, although the sheet value would increase.
Am I doing the calculation properly, or am I missing something?
And does SW do more dmg than FoT?

This post was edited by kalinthebest on Mar 24 2013 10:22pm

You are doing the calculations right. I tested all these rings multiple times already. High cd unity would give me the most dps out of various ring choices. But in the end I went with 9%/7% litany because the dmg reduction increases both the ehp AND dps since that gg tanky mod allow me to stay in the fight longer than the soj and unity. It was a no brainer decision for me.

And I geared up my new monk tailored to the infused fof build. I dont use OWE and Serenity.

The ring choice and gear choices can vary by the build that you are going for.

Good luck man. We are here to help you out, thats for sure.

Just to add. The reason I went with shitload of attackspeed over cd is not only because I wanted to hit the high bp on fot but also to make the fot animation much faster. This allows me to quickly go in amd out of the fight which is vital for my build since im serenityless.

This post was edited by jinshin85 on Mar 24 2013 10:50pm

Well, I like the FoT-Blinding flash build, and I'm sure Blinding flash gives more than 30% extra dps when cast, I wish there were items that can reduce the cooldown. And I don't think I can drop serenity for anything.
Is there any difference between soj with FoT and SW bonus? I will try to snipe a 30% dmg to elites one soon.
Unfortunately, I can't see any cheap upgrades for my monk, besides crafted shoulders (for a double res and life %) and crafted amu (many combinations are possible). Better WKL is too expensive, better mainhand is not even worth the gold. I could get 4-5k dps increase from a slightly better nat ring for ~70-80m. I'd like to switch to another armor, but my crafted one already has double res and decent amount of dex+vit. It seems like I'm stuck without a hefty budget or some crafting luck..

I ran that build for 4 months. If you are still liking the soj idea, sw is better than fot, period. Everything has been tested.

But tbh I dont see the point of using soj except uber runs. I did like 150 mp10 uber runs before. Soj makes difference.

But for regular runs, soj is only good for skorn tr/bell build.

But its ur monk, if you like it, go for it.

So I have 500m budget to build a monk

I would like to do ubers mp 7-8 solo and normal farming mp 7-9 and maybe maybe keyruns on mp10



The problem is I dont know anything about monks

Could someone help me with what to buy ?


Thanks