It doesn't affect your damage, it only affects the damage monsters take. Therefore, it has never been showing in your character sheet as a dps increase or anywhere really

MoC w/ Overawe is BEAST.

yep, after my recent upgrade we were running a3: 2 barbs, DH and me.
Azmo died before he could spawn one full black pee.
Looked like he shat himself dying.

Ok thanks, the issue I have with replacing the helm is that my life will drop massively as that's my main source of life which means I'd need to make up for it somewhere else

sorry about that, i run overawe, but i play consistently with 2 other monks all 125k dps above. 1 runs overawe, 1 runs transgression (which was me at the time) and 1 runs evasion/hard target. overawe is the only way to go in solo games however for me

Hi all,

I finished my monk today: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Fenix-2546/hero/9873848

Stats:
108k Dps unbuffed
125k Dps with Wreath of Heaven
Very high Damage Output with the Mantra

44 Crit Chance
366 Crit Damage

46 Dodge
34 Movement Speed

707 Allres

5.4 Life Steal
429 Life Regen

I didn't use any RMAH transactions or third party sites, not even FG, to build this char. It took me ~300 hours of playtime on this monk to get all the items / gold. Of course I spent some time (I dont know exactly how many hours) on the AH for buying /selling to make enough profit.

Any input or comments are wellcome. Now I have to farm a bit to get some more Gold for a better Belt and Bracers.

He cleared act 1 and act 2 by himself last night.

And he did a full act 3 run with me and my friends. I think he died like 6-8 times for the entire run. lol

And yes, your aps is much much worse than his aps. That's HUGE. And use guardian path instead of resolve. It's much better for dual wield in my opinion. Resolve is good for a shield monk.

Thanks, I've been switching back and forth for guardian and resolve. The thing is, desecrate, arcane lasers, molten...you know, the stuff in this game that actually kills you - none of it can be dodged (except by hand of course), so resolve (and armor) scales WAY BETTER than dodge as far as effective damage reduction, which makes the 8~% dodge from GP seem really weak in comparison to the flat reduction from other sources that resolve gives. The extra 1500~ armor and 100+ resists the shield gives me also is what goes a long way to help me survive long enough to kill stuff, as well. I would have a 1.4+ weapon to use with that shield, but I've looked for an upgrade weap to the one I found (cdmg, os, 600+ LoH, 880+ dps) but they run about 30m+...which is already way more than I have.

Anyways, I thought about trying to get cheap trifecta gloves, or at least gloves with crit/api instead of crit/cdmg, but it's basically a sidegrade and I can't justify that expense when I could probably be spending it elsewhere..

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

Sorry for being repetitive, but 9% of attack speed is much better than 23% of crit dmg. Dont get the bad trifecta, just get a good crit% + as glove. This plus new weapons with 1.4aps will put you almost 2 aps.

I actually stopped using the guardian path passive. I just tell my friends to use it when they start. I use beacon of ytar nowadays. things that kill us like fire/arcane/molten, i just avoid them 99% of times.

And I thought resolve doesnt decrease the dmg of the elemental attacks that elites do? No?

This post was edited by jinshin85 on Sep 19 2012 04:10pm

After a few minor adustments.

Now at :

Dex: 1950

Amour : 6,000
Damage: 44,000
Health : 42,000

25% crit
250 crit dmg

1.97 as 900 dps fist
2.10 as 1000 dps fist

Anyways, I was playng pub game yesterday and a monk joined with 90,000 damage.
He destroys everything 1 or 2 shots with cyclones everywhere.
I never seen anyting like this before.

He has:
Dex: 2500
Crit: 40%
Crit dmg: 300 ish

I need to get 500 dex, 15% crit and 50 more crit dmg
It will be a big challange, but I'll at least try.