Quote (Kalorn @ Sep 29 2012 11:44am)
New to the monk family and would like to know what kind of stats i should be shooting for and also whats skills to use.
This is the basic thunderclap + cyclone build
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aYgSkX!aXU!acYcabYou want about 35% crit at least to start out with this and around 1.75 aps to make it work. This is the build that many monks are farming with. Some people put tempest rush/tailwind in to reduce downtime but this is kind of hard to manage until you're at a higher gear level. Additionally, some use Fleet footed instead of either resolve or STI. Some people sub Deadly reach/foresight for breath of heaven/blazing wrath. Some ppl use hundred fists/blazing fists for movespeed/dps, etc etc etc.
bottom rung for a3 farming would be around 35% crit, 200% cdmg, 750 res all, 35k health. 40k dps ish. You should be able to make it through fine and fairly efficiently with those stats. You could go lower than that but it would probably be faster and more efficient to farm a2 with much lower stats than that till you can afford more gear or find some better drops.
I'm no expert but nobody else is replying, so thats my 2c, haha.