It's what i been trying to say so many times in this thread lol... people keep insisting, saying you MUST use only Deadly Reach and others say JUST FoL is required.

Neither! Use both! Deadly + Keen Eye *AND* FoL + Thunderclap, best of both worlds!
Combo hits for 3rd strike bonuses... 2x hit FoL, 3rd hit Deadly for Armor procc.... 2x hit deadly reach, 3rd hit FoL for maximum AoE dps... etc etc nomnomnom
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#abYXgh!YXU!aZcbaa

This post was edited by Batou079 on Jun 22 2012 10:06am

no room in real skill layouts for 2 spirit gens

Whatever "real" skill layouts mean. I find it a bit sad when people think there is only one build composition for the game.
I'm in act3 Inferno using the above build, doing fine kthx. and i do not have crazy stats either.

act3 is a joke bro

It's what people said about act1, then act2, and apparently about act3 now too. Yesterday some stream was calling act4 a joke.

I have very budget gear, people are succeeding with way more non-normal builds than a simple extra spirit builder and budget gear just like me...
But if you wanna stick to your cookie cutter shtuff, by all means.

must be new here

their optimal skill layouts

theyve been theory crafted and tested, but sure w/e floats your boat

Fot+DeadlyReach as primary and secondary is a very viable build and used by many out there while they're still catching up on gear. After the patch, it's in fact the only build that I can use with my old gear (I don't have the money to spend on regearing to crit) to continue farming the same level of content as before.

tbh, I don't know why anyone bothers paying attention to anything BuffJesus says, since all he's doing in this thread is wave his epeen around about how good his gear is (which usually results in giving bad advice because he can do things that less geared players can't afford to do... like standing in fire or walking across lasers). his build is one way of approaching end-game, but it's one that you can only aspire to rather than imitate exactly unless you have the money to spend into the gear required to do so.

This post was edited by irimi on Jun 22 2012 12:17pm

5k armor + enchantress + dodge mantra is all the armor ull ever need with 50% dodge and LoH

and if you cant hit 5k armor with seize the initiative then your entire item build is most likely crap

Anything i could change for easy improve?>

solo act 4 easy atm but im wondering if it would go easier whit less dodge but more block *( using a shield ) so more res on and on/

- swapping my string for 3% dmg converted to life + dex/vita/res>?



This post was edited by B3rt on Jun 22 2012 12:22pm

right - assuming you can afford to have 1800 LoH in your gear, not to mention 50k+ hp and a ton of block. i agree that that's a good benchmark for defensive stats and after that you should go offensive (dex/dps/LoH), so the point that you shouldn't be stacking even more defense on top of that is well-taken.

FWIW, my FoT+Deadly Reach combo uses Foresight for the DPS increase, not Keen Eye for the armor. I also run with MoC instead of MoE.