Hey guys, I hope someone can actually assist me. I recently started a monk and built it with survivability in mind. My only concern now, is that I won't be able to kill stuff fast enough.

I have ~920 all resists. 31k life. 1200 life on hit. 20% dmg reduce from melee. 1.68 atk per second. 14k dps.

Im currently dual-wielding (~780-800 dps) with star amethysts to up my LoH, but not sure if I should make a change for a higher DPS weapon at the cost of dex/loh.

My gear right now is a mess all around, and mostly composed of crap my wizard found that I just threw together. I will probably make real upgrades once I figure out what I should look for.

Is there an optimal DPS i should strive for? Im considering going crit/crit% to compensate for some dps, but don't want to lose atk speed/resist/dex. Thoughts?

577k at end of run, not including possible profit from Tomes/Tears/Ess

I actually have 0 problems with act 1. I run through white mobs and kill just the blues/yellows. Did you meant quest 1 of act 3? 700 resists is pretty overkill for act 1. The only problem I have is act 3 and above.

Oh yeah so sorry, I meant act 3.

You need to hit the 700 range as I said, and doubling up on resist for EVERY piece will easily help with that. Try to aim for 90+ combined on each piece, with 110 being a goal number.
Other stuff seems pretty good, hopefully with resist you will survive more! If not PM me, we can look at it more in-depth.

I feel the same way, are you using sweeping wind? And Breath of Heaven damage buff?

If not, I suggesting using both of those and looking into crit damage like you said.

Another suggestion would be to use Conviction mantra if healing/evasion is not necessary for your survival. Overawe with 24 or 48% damage is HUGE.

whats the best armor for a monk?

currently I'm using a tal rasha's , but looking to upgrade it.

I guess I should take one with vita / dex or sockets. ( i mean the new tal rasha , IF im getting one again , because the current one only has attack speed and all res

is tal rasha worth it on monks?

This post was edited by Magic_Hammer on Jun 21 2012 01:52am

mine is just a dex/vit/all res/ arcane res / 2 sockets

all i really need but can def be improved

how much dex / vit does it have , though?

I'm looking for one on AH right now.

i find chest armor to be the most expensive

i have a 70 dex 70 vit 110 res all chest piece (poison + all res) and anything better costs at least 5 mil. godly stuff (all that + 3 sockets) is at least 15 mil

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