What stats do you need to comfortably solo Ponies without a lot of kiting?

spend 50 million on trash items cant do act3 QQ about game


people are in here asking how to build characters cause they dont want to waste their money. i realize you are trying your hardest to 10% bait me, but know this kid; i get more pms each day about building monks then you prob have across all your multis

i have 992 resist if i use all resist gears, and i have 1.71 aps.
600 more loh really makes that difference? cos i would like to still use fist of thunder, not deadly strike



and yes i dont have that much of budget, only around 20m
i would like to know what works for u guys before i buy the wrong items

This post was edited by siver on Jun 25 2012 11:55am

yeah, but people are asking questions about gear progression - and they likely aren't at the level where they can afford to think about super-expensive items like stormshield (you can't find one on the AH for less than 15 or 20m), not what their end-game gear should look like. there's a distinct difference between the two.

when someone asks a question with "here's my gear/stats/skill build, what should I work on next?" the answer is highly dependent on what his gear/stats/build actually are. you can't tell someone with a monk that has 5m in gear to use the same skill build you're using because you're at different places in the game. you also can't expect them to suddenly make gold appear from thin air and buy an item that's 10 times more than what their entire character is worth.




here's the fairly short and generalized answer:

1. get enough defensive gear (armor, resists, hp) so that you no longer get one or two-shot
2. get enough DPS so that you can kill stuff in a reasonable amount of time -- for a lot of people, this is just anywhere between 10-15k dps unbuffed
3. augment your gear with LoH and some attack speed so that you can regen your HP at a reasonable rate (until then, you'll be kiting a lot)
4. then continue to improve your gear where your feel is needed to have faster clear times -- sometimes this means more defensive stats so you can stay in combat longer, and sometimes this means more offensive stats so you can shorten fights

in terms of specific item stats:
-- dodge, melee reduction and block are highly valuable defensive stats; the more armor and resists you have, the more these will work for you (and will increase in relative value to simply adding more resists/armor)
-- hp is great, but you need to have mitigation to make your hp work for you; someone with 30k hp who takes 5k hits will be much better off than someone with 60k hp who takes 10k hits
-- LoH is wonderful, but it should not be prioritized until you have sufficient mitigation to survive one-shots
-- DPS -- don't underestimate the value of dexterity in adding to your overall dps; weapon DPS is great, but high dex can more than make up for low weapon DPS in many cases

This post was edited by irimi on Jun 25 2012 12:00pm

I stand corrected. You are truly the most important person on this entire forum. Thank god you are here to help everyone, or else seriously I don't know what any of us would do. How would we even play this game without your sage advice?


GET BETTER STATS, LIKE ME !!!


Wow really? Ok, thanks for the tips man. All this time, I didn't know more DPS is better then less DPS. I didn't realize that more resists, life, LOH, Armor, all combined to a better monk then LESS. Thanks buffjesus, now I can rebuild my monk the right way thanks to you.

really try hard at this

but as i said, act3 farm monks sure go for damage; they nerfed the act to joke status.
but if you want to clear everything in the game then ull have to forsake some dps to get tanky with a way to heal the damage.

I'm not at 80% yet. That's a goal. I'm at 72.4% fully buffed. I keep it up 98% of the time. I see no reason why I can't get higher.

What I can tell you is I've done maybe 100 different packs spread out across A1 and A2, each with around 63% dodge, and then 72.4% dodge. There is a massive difference. I can't stress how big it was. I'm sure others who are specing this route have seen the difference.

This post was edited by Veranor2 on Jun 25 2012 12:46pm

Im now running at......
15k dps
10k def
48% dodge
42% block
800 @ res
1200 loh
1.82 aps

Works well for me and ive spent around 8 mill for all gear
Just need to boost my def and aps wich should cost me around 4mill to do.
So you dont need to spend 50 mill but it does help lol.

wtf


gear compilation plox lol

edit: o wait you prob use deadly reach to hit 10k

This post was edited by Buffjesus on Jun 25 2012 01:18pm

monk is not a class for poors ppl.

Credit card or gl