So I'm sure this is old news but I only just started it and for anyone who doesn't its a pretty neat thing.

On your enchantress give her an Azurewrath with a high freeze on hit chance and then load up her other slots with attack speed and vit and you get yourself a personal mini cm wiz, hehe.

Anyway, I'm looking for a weapon and have been for a while now and was wondering if anyone in here would be able to help me out.

I'm after a 1.2 speed 1 hander so either a mace or spear with the following stats:
-1k+ dps
-Natural crit dmg (at least 50)
-Dex
-Lifesteal
-Open socket

Big demands I know but have been struggling to find anything that really tickles me, so if anybody has one like that and is willing to talk or know's someone who does please let me know.

On US softcore server btw

Cheers Jake

This post was edited by MaLuckyJake on Apr 4 2013 04:26am

So I'm still not good with exploding palm build but perhaps you all can offer some gearing upgrades for my monk.

I am on about a 50m budget for upgrade at the moment.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/REstes-1975/hero/3738005

Your kind of in a rough spot right now. The reason being that you are getting alot of your vit through your weapons and your hellfire. Your going to have to find a way to shift this onto your other slots to even it up.

Your rings are the main slots which are letting you down dps wise also, no dps stats on your hellfire and your nats ring is very weak. I would look to craft a new hellfire and you can definately pick up a better nats ring with avg dmg and res for under 50 mil. Other than that keep crafting, I would focus on your bracers first.

And stop using serenity

Swap it for blazing fist.

What if I kept serenity and got rid of cyclone / NDE for Blazing Fists / Combo Strike?

I feel like the serenity helps my EDPS as I can stay and fight at the intersection of arcanes and such.

Edit: Bah I might still need to drop it for Sweeping Wind huh

This post was edited by 2fat on Apr 4 2013 08:56am

WTF

Didnt even notice you didn't have cyclone. .. That's just crazy man.

Use cyclone and blazing fist.

And no serenity doesnt increase your edps.

sure it does, every time you run, you could be doing dmg for 4 more seconds, or if your frozen, or if your about to die

though in the sense of vrs other options it might not allways be the best choice, but in a general sense it does increase edps.

This post was edited by Ylem122 on Apr 4 2013 09:34am

I would say serenity adds edps for sure, as does runspeed.

That's what I thought to. It still makes sense for mid-lvl geared monks to some extent.

But for guys who are geared well enough to facetank +90% of everything on high mp games including arcanes/reflect/molten/plague, it actually brings down the EDPS significantly by choosing Serenity over other dmg buff skill.

I've tried using Serenity for some full party mp10 games with friends just for fun. Used probably 3 times over the course of 30 mins run. I could have buffed my dmg by +15% permanently for the entire run. Or I could have used palm that deals crapload of dmg whenever it blows up.

And with builds like Speed Palm, you get to enjoy the extra 15% as / 15% ms on top of the ms cap. So you are basically running around at 39% ms all time. The only thing that makes me to move around is Frozen. Everything else, I can pretty much tank with my Dual LS non EF set up (210k unbuffed).

So, even for frozen, with blazing fist ms bonus, it takes not even 1 second to kite out and tclap back in.

This is the same reason why I've been telling all my monk friends to find a way to drop the OWE passive, since freeing up that passive slot makes you very creative in terms of passive selection.

If two monks are geared about the same, one without OWE will pretty much always have higher EDPS than the one that's stuck with OWE.

Couple seconds of invincibility vs. easy permanent +15% dmg buff to your monk. Choice is yours.

But I guess if you are forced to use Serenity a lot of times in fight, you should take that. That's probably better in terms of edps.

Just my 2 cents.

This post was edited by jinshin85 on Apr 4 2013 10:12am

Yo bro ... I want to try this speed Palm build.
Can you list the skills and passives.