Yeah, just sharing what works to give some numbers to shoot for perhaps.

its the resist.
have 35k hp
750allres
36k dps
950loh

this works mostly fine though not always!

and again

LEARN BASICS

very nice guide here for monks

any monk pro's have an answer?

Depends where you wanna farm and if u wanna do it solo or in group really.

hard to answer w/o the following stats:

crit %
crit damage
dps

anyway you should aim atleast (for a3+ , farming) (its for solo, progress and farm stats)

45k life (again depends on your dps, with high dps u can sac some life )
40- 45k dps for progressing, 55k+ farming
30~ crit %
350+ crit damage ( 400 would be better) so basicly 2 weapon with 6x crit damage+ open socket will do, can be 7xx damage
700ar (depends on dps, crit dam,dex) as soon as u get enough dps u can sac some res, and go with 5xx

as soon as u got 40-50k dps, and not tanking loh is pointless, just stack crit dam (wo sac crit %)

This post was edited by shadowb on Jul 15 2012 03:01pm

Wut? At any given off-hand attack speed, a faster main-hand attack speed will yield a higher combined APS. Yes, faster weapons have lower base damage, but that's besides the point. If there's a trade-off between APS and base dmg, I tend to choose APS.

So I've decided to settle on life per second and life leech. This has been after an exhaustive test using life per spirit / spirit regen, and life on hit. After a major respec, and some lucky rolls on heaven hands, I'm left with the following stats. This includes enchantress, but not bonus damage skills. The skill tree I am using is http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#UYXgik!ZcU!ZcbYca. This build can do any area of A2 with ease and little to no kiting. More life leech and slightly more life per second will eliminate kiting from A2 I believe. I do not think resists are a major issue at this point. Additional resists for A3 are necessary. The life on hit build I did a while back didn't break a sweat up to siegebreaker, so I've got some improvements to do on this one. This build cost roughly 4 mil, including the UNID gambling of around 4-5 heaven hands (obtained for no more than 300k each) that had > 90% crit damage, dex, vita, life leech.

Note: this build has solo'ed Belial with relative ease. Belial is pretty standard (move out of the way of hits, tank the spray, move out of explosions, etc. He was down in 95 seconds. I didn't fraps it. I seem to be having an issue with my vid captures now.

i farm mostly a3 and ill sometimes solo and sometimes do groups lol

with a shield i can get up to around 1100 res, i just now started to fool around with dual wielding and adding more crit n becoming less tankish n more dps.





ok thanks, and my dps/crit is still a little low to be considered a really nice dual wield monk i am still trying to buy all the gear i need to get the most dmg/crit out of my build

the only thing is i dont want to find myself going for to much damage and having a serious lack in res, my life so far really seems to be ok i havent dropped below 60k life yet