Well there's not much more you can do, raiment is inherently squishier than SWK with 2 piece inna.

I never really played bell. I was used to 67% up time serenity with tempest... Now it's 5.6 seconds down time.

All my builds be squishy! Booo

Anyway, I got a 47 GR done with raiment. 48 will come with a decent mobset.

Think it's worth going focus / restraint with no unity?

I'm playing hardcore so I'd be really hard pressed to drop Unity for higher grifts.

For monks F+R is the way to go for sure, only reason not to use them in this season is if you're playing hardcore and even then if solo and going high grifts.

best ive found are cd / attack speed but I don't think id be able to survive without unity. unless the damage kills all that much faster.

does anyone know what actually constitutes a stun for ancient parthan defenders? what primaries would trigger them?

with convention of elements on tempest I can hit for 24 billion damage when the right element is on hahahahaha



This post was edited by Shawnyboy on Apr 18 2015 07:46am

I am using exhaulted soul and epiphany desert shroud.
I have no issues with spirit when epiphany is up.
I tend to run out of spirit when epiphany is down due to using palm / SSS.
It's a fun build, just have to manage spirit better.

Gonna try dropping Madstone & SSS for something else, and see if I can manage infinite TR.

Oh... I never bothered with Palm... And I've always used insight.

are monks still using that dashing strike build?? or is it back to 4pc Innas and sunwko (EP/Wave of Light)?

I'm using 2 piece inna and SWK, there's no reason you should be using 4 piece innas. The new 2 item set bonus and crudest boots is way better than 4 piece bonus.

I do swap to raiment every now and then, but it's so unreliable if you're not paying attention to the amount of charges you have.

Spamming palm and bells is much more relaxed and the damage is stable.

But yeah they're both viable and raiment is capable of going higher grifts due to having more damage.

I made a 6 piece innas bell monk with innas wep and sunwuko just to prove a point. It will go GR40.
My tempest monk can still do GR46 even with serenity nerf. My raiment monk has done GR47.

Still want a good broken promises to try a non Crit chance build on a couple of them.