I wouldn't recommend doing it with anything less than a fist weapon. I've never had good success with anything slower. Unless your initial strike is massive in damage...

Well, the offhand I picked up off the AH last night was in fact a 1000 dps blue Fist. My paperdoll DPS went up by a whopping 500 when switching from 1h to dual wielding.

My mainhand, which still does more DPS than anything I've found, is a socketed rare 1027 DPS axe with 1.30 aspd. It's been a mixed blessing, since it does a lot of damage, but its lack of attack speed and small amount of LoH (can only afford a +190 LoH Amethyst on the socket) has made gearing a constant uphill battle.

This post was edited by irimi on Jun 20 2012 11:36am

Lets say my attack per second is 2.0 without my weapons having increased attack speed. I'm in need to upgrade my weapons so how much dps should I look for, 700+? 800+? With dexterity and life on hit of course.

An 800+ is obviously better. Its going to be expensive though.

The more the better? ^^

That question makes no sense.

As you know, dps on weapon comes from base weapon dmg, its +dmg/%dmg mods and its attack speed. I'd still pick something with %attack speed, or otherwise weapons with 1.50+ if you can.

EG. two weapons with 800 dps, but one has better attack speed - take it.

You might be able to drop tal armor/lacuni/boj for something better then

and target 800+, then upgrade from here..

I bet, thanks.



I guess how I worded it made no sense? What I was trying to get across was maybe the 700+ dps can have more stats than the 800+ dps. But I'll go with the 800+ dps.



Seeing how I want to do fists, since the base is 1.40, I should get % attack speed on it?

go big or go home.
get crazy 1.1k dps dual fists wit all the other happy mods. stormshield is great and all but just doesnt fit a monk. Monk suppose to dual sister fister dat shit

huh im at almost the same stats (a little more of everything actually except 18k dps), and i still cant tank fire chains in act 3. maybe i should switch my fist of thunders rune from thunderclap to lightning and get even more dodge

just logged in, joined a game with my monk and... "ok, that's it till i have enough gold."

it was a pleasure discussing here, i think i'll keep moving with my DH (luckly i was already stacking crits so this patch didnt touch me at all there), i'll be back once i get enough gold to equip my favourite char

byez and hf everyone!