Quote (kylezo @ Aug 28 2012 02:22pm)

I've logged about 150 hours on my monk and I've got about 8m gold. I stopped playing him when ww barbs got popular cuz I made one for 300k gold and facerolled act3 with no gear (whereas my shitty gear dependent monk cost 3x that and could barely survive in a2). Monks are fun but they suck ass from a gold:effectiveness standpoint. Now that there's been a lot of nerfs since 1.03, I started playing my monk again, but I'm at that wall where my upgrades are several million gold each for a minor upgrade vs. the 15k on each piece I've been spending. I didn't exploit, and I didn't have time to hoard or even get to 60 during launch. It has nothing to do with being braindead. I made a DH for 150k that got all the way to a4. MONKS ARE FUCKING SUPER GEAR DEPENDENT in comparison, that's all. Thus, it's prohibitively expensive. It's like, lets see, what do I need for my monk? Well, my gloves have 190+ dex, 8% crit, 90 vit, and 60 poison res that I got for about 90k, but I could really use @res on there, and ASI, and CDMG. No big deal, just 20m-150m gold for those slight upgrades. Once you start going, "well, I've got 4 out of the 6 main stats I need", prices start going up WAY faster. So I'm resigned to playing my barb or DH for higher acts, or just having fun on my most enjoyable character but only at lower levels. anyways, /end qq.

Here's the shitty monk in question, lol

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Kylezo-1560/hero/933168

What do you think I should do next? Biggest glaring upgrades? I have a few different things I've been swapping out a lot, LoH weaps, api% helm, andys, etc. I was using a LPSS build (2x 60lpss weaps, 30 helm, 62 trance) with FoT:Quickening, which was super fun but just didn't have enough survivability. So now I'm experimenting with a build that's probably a lot better suited for a higher DPS monk, but with my combination strike, Breath, and 15%api up, I'm at about 37k DPS on screen plus 31% bonus from offhand (and 8% from helm for FoT). I stopped using a shield at 1.03...although I'm not averse to using one again, but cmon, dual wield is way more fun.

Quote (xu-godx @ Aug 29 2012 05:34am)

Nothing.  As I said, i'm a quant option trader specializing in volatility products.  Trading stocks is for the sheeple.  I actually prefer making money, so I wouldn't touch equities...

Quote (kylezo @ Aug 29 2012 05:36am)

This

Quote (Parsa @ Aug 29 2012 05:56am)

So where do you work or if you work for yourself what is your broker? just by reading your posts make you sound like you're full of shit. Naming all the vix's sub instruments doesn't make you look cool, specially considering theres no point ever trading those on top of each other.

Quote (kylezo @ Aug 28 2012 06:22pm)

I've logged about 150 hours on my monk and I've got about 8m gold. I stopped playing him when ww barbs got popular cuz I made one for 300k gold and facerolled act3 with no gear (whereas my shitty gear dependent monk cost 3x that and could barely survive in a2). Monks are fun but they suck ass from a gold:effectiveness standpoint. Now that there's been a lot of nerfs since 1.03, I started playing my monk again, but I'm at that wall where my upgrades are several million gold each for a minor upgrade vs. the 15k on each piece I've been spending. I didn't exploit, and I didn't have time to hoard or even get to 60 during launch. It has nothing to do with being braindead. I made a DH for 150k that got all the way to a4. MONKS ARE FUCKING SUPER GEAR DEPENDENT in comparison, that's all. Thus, it's prohibitively expensive. It's like, lets see, what do I need for my monk? Well, my gloves have 190+ dex, 8% crit, 90 vit, and 60 poison res that I got for about 90k, but I could really use @res on there, and ASI, and CDMG. No big deal, just 20m-150m gold for those slight upgrades. Once you start going, "well, I've got 4 out of the 6 main stats I need", prices start going up WAY faster. So I'm resigned to playing my barb or DH for higher acts, or just having fun on my most enjoyable character but only at lower levels. anyways, /end qq.

Here's the shitty monk in question, lol

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Kylezo-1560/hero/933168

What do you think I should do next? Biggest glaring upgrades? I have a few different things I've been swapping out a lot, LoH weaps, api% helm, andys, etc. I was using a LPSS build (2x 60lpss weaps, 30 helm, 62 trance) with FoT:Quickening, which was super fun but just didn't have enough survivability. So now I'm experimenting with a build that's probably a lot better suited for a higher DPS monk, but with my combination strike, Breath, and 15%api up, I'm at about 37k DPS on screen plus 31% bonus from offhand (and 8% from helm for FoT). I stopped using a shield at 1.03...although I'm not averse to using one again, but cmon, dual wield is way more fun.

Quote (xu-godx @ Aug 28 2012 10:20pm)

As was said before.  This is not high end monk discussion, so we should stop now 

Quote (thingstuff @ Aug 28 2012 10:22pm)

Wrong. You can make 100m very quickly from 8, and you can make more if you need to. Gearing is trivial.

Quote (kylezo @ Aug 29 2012 02:24am)

You said wrong when I asked a question? Way to contribute.

Quote (thingstuff @ Aug 28 2012 10:26pm)

You said it has nothing to do with you being brain dead.

Making gold in this game requires nothing but common sense and a very small amount of time. I know you have a very small amount of time, so there's only one variable left.