Ok, so i faceroll act 1.

the second i step into act two... champ packs SLAM ME im talking 5 seconds max and im dead...

What am i doing wrong?

need more res. aim for 700+.
get a atleast 30+ crit hit chance and 200+ crit hit dmg.
you could use like +1-2k armor.
aim for more than 1.5k dex.

if you post pics of all your gear it'd be easier to help u.

what nesherhaesh said.
and
you should also use fot with the teleport or dodge rune.
it's way faster and get's a bonus when you are dual wielding.
also try to get more dodge chance
with dual wielding try the passive path of the guardian.

Took out Azmodan using my previously mentioned stats @ http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=62550987&f=142&p=427920906. Took 2 attempts as I "relearned" the strategies I had in Hell when doing it 1st time there. Yes, the resists are less than desirable. The elites were not death zerged, and that was the only death I experienced through the entire run which started at siegebreaker. The other death was a really annoying phasebeast group that was horde invul minions. They weren't skipped - I had the yellow down to 1/4 when I kicked the bucket, so I came back in and finished him off.

I will say that life on hit, 1v1, would have been great to have. However, life steal > 5% with that level of crit dmg and chance was far superior against elite packs and large groups. There were several occasions where the act had poor map rolls where 2 elite packs were together. Luckily most of them didn't have bad combos (molten, arcane, desecrator). If they did, I just had to move them out of the death radius and keep swinging.

Lots of tactics on this thread, so thanks to all. Onward I press!

Edit: those stats are with conviction. Stats with MoE, Guardian's Path, Sixth Sense = > 51% dodge without mantra. With Mantra, FoT + Lightning, I have around 74% dodge.

This post was edited by Veranor2 on Aug 4 2012 08:11pm

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What do you guys think? Too lazy to get 50k dps and 40k health :)

This post was edited by phamous on Aug 4 2012 08:58pm

ya i only have 65k dps unbuff ...
thats a very high and good amount already dude. makin it sound like its low lol. 100k unbuff is just stupid rich guys.

most monks in this thread prolly are only around the 20-30kish unbuff dps area.

^ this. I am only at about 50mil and barely touching 30k right now. haha

Just did a farm run in Act 3 with Mantra of Conviction for the first time. I think it's better than hard target at the moment! First time seeing crit of 130k-140k. That was awesome. haha I couldn't use the conviction mantra couple weeks ago, but I guess couple of my gear upgrades let me do it fine now.

This profile thingy is so cool. Didn't know they released this.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/KimSulki84-1308/hero/7645093

I do use my shield for some nasty packs. My dps doesn't really go down as my shield is pretty awesome. And yeah my offhand has terrible dps. Snagged that for 2 mil on AH so.. haha

For some runs, I just use a shield with keen eye. That's fun too.

This post was edited by jinshin85 on Aug 6 2012 02:46pm

anyone has an idea how much life per spirit spend a monk need to totally depend on that, to viable farm act 3/4

and if that is not enough maybe with 500 loh?

Yeah im at work right now too and id love to post pics but what really works as far as slamming down a2-4 is a dodge build with very high dps LoH, life regen, and evasion mantra w/ backlash.

My monk right now has 22k unbuffed and gets up to 80% dodge with skill setup and dex additions

I also run dual wields both loh/leech/crit with guardians path passive.

Having a big amount of resist helps as well, im currently at 900 all res WITHOUT a shield....i think its descent.

EDIT/ to be completely honest, most ofmy dmg comes from the dodging effect of backlash releashing the fire waves @ 60% dmg a piece.

This post was edited by ThePro on Aug 6 2012 03:23pm