JW, how do tanky monks do vs some of the affix packs late in the game? I do most of my farming/playing on my wizard, so im less familiar with diving head first with a tanky monk. I was just wondering if they would be able to stand in plagued molten firechain, arcane (3 out of the 4) vs like demonic tremors and stay live? I kno its not that difficult kiting with serenity+blind, but really dont know if they could take it head on

Sounds like they do, but I don't do tanky setups. Assuming you had enough regen, I guess its possible. Mitigation will get you far enough that less regen will be viable; however, you still need regen.

i can stand in plagued NP in act 3/4 but molten gives me trouble (don't know why, my poison = my fire resists)

link in sig for some of the strongest mobs ive gone up vs (patch 1.0.2)



theres not a single mob in the game i cant kill

This post was edited by Buffjesus on Jun 26 2012 08:19pm

jelly

What are people's opinions on this piece I recently found.



I can't tell if it's really godly, or if it's meh for some reason.


edit: and does anyone really know how the % damage to skill as shown here applies? Because it doesn't show in dps. Do we add the number to the %weapon damage the skill shows by default, or do we apply it to our dps when using the skill?

This post was edited by booof on Jun 27 2012 02:33am

you can easily throw a dex gem in that, and get just as much VIT on the item, for a character wanting spirt regen i guess it could be really good. Fist of thunder is actually a main skill i use, and its really good, shit id like to see what 9% would even do for me. But im sure you can easily find out how much it will do to the skill but just turning on advance tooltips, then highlight the skill while you have the item equip then youll be able to find out. To be honest, I never even seen an item with a monk skill on it. But if anything I would expect that to help quite a bit, specially if you add another DEX gem in it.

Shit, Id like to even buy it off of you.. if you wanna sell it.

You can't dex gem a helm, you'll almost always throw a purple gem in it for life % unless you are using a MF/GF setup.

The % added is like how crippling wave's mangle rune works. The skill does 143% weapon damage per hit that does not show up in your dps stat. If you got a 9% helm and used CW's mangle it would go up to 152% weapon damage. I typically use CW as my primary spirit generator so I look for helms with CW/socket on them. Imo that helm you found is sick, but I've never experimented with FoT builds.

This post was edited by emitnulB on Jun 27 2012 04:11am

helm is sick imo, vit + socket means you can afford to lose vit on other pieces if you want. would be even better if spirit regen was crit chance instead

any 2hand monk builds viable?