Whats the problem? Taking too much dmg? The HP scaling is stupid after about MP5. Unless you've got over 100k dps, there's no point in wasting the time since everything has so much health it takes many times longer to do stuff. BTW I have seen GG shield monks with about 100k dps and they are fine in higher MP levels. Get a shield with ~300 dex with high crit, and if you can get your res on it and maybe health or life% and block%.




You want higher dmg, it's gonna start getting expensive, lol. It's hard to guage the 30-60 dmg on that ring, seems like it might do a lot, but if not the Cdmg on it is pretty poor so you could at least replace it with a high dex/crit/asi ring. Your pants have good EHP on them but they are nerfing your dmg output. Think about getting innas helm and pants or belt. Your ASI from the Andys will move to the innas pants and your movement speed right there, and will probably net you 3k dps. You could look at the crit from 2pc nats as well, since those boots aren't really doing much for you either. Alternately you could just get ice climbers on your boots and that will give you enough EHP boost that you can afford to switch out one of your more defensively stacked slots.

Trifecta gloves. Yours have high dex as it is so that will be expensive. But hey, you asked for input, lol.

You could look at a witching hour belt, that will help out a lot.

The Shenlong is mediocre, you'd be better off getting a high dps/LL/OS/cdmg offhand to pair with the EF. This will buff both your DPS by a considerable amount and your survivability from doubling your life leech. You don't need dex on your weaps unless you can afford it easily. It's not worth nearly as much as a higher DPS weapon imo.

You say you want more dmg and MS, but then you say you don't want to lose defensive stats. So your choices are either don't change your gear, or spend insane amounts of gold on something with high stats on everything. Or, trade some EHP for DPS. The easiest option that does both is getting a LL offhand. Big dps gain, and big EHP gain through LL.

Your monk is actually really similar to mine in terms of paper stats: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Kylezo-1560/hero/933168 We are just going about things in very different ways, haha. You also have more defensive stats stacked. The flipside is I'm squishier, but I've also only spent about 50m total on my monk.

Shameless plug, I do happen to have poison nats boots and ring for sale, but the dex is low on them. Just fyi.

This post was edited by kylezo on Oct 8 2012 05:07pm

TY for the tip. I've been wanting to change my bracers for a long time but I can never afford to. I get tons of health from my current bracers, plus 160 dex and 4.5% crit is a lot of dps. The armor translates to like 27 res all which is pretty poor, but you have to think of it in terms of being paired with 9% life and almost 70 vit. So its comparable to rare bracers with 160 dex, 120 vit (at least), 25 psn res, 4.5% crit. Those are expensive to upgrade! But I think at how low my res is now, @res is scaling better than armor since my armor is at a pretty decent level now, 6.5k.

I really just need to get ice climbers, ffs...



Hey man, if Nats boots dropping BOTHERS you...I'll take them off your hands. just sayin

haha it sold for 40mil instantly as i put it up on AH. love it! +170dex but str random roll. i thought it was crappy but someone bought it.

More on my monk topic, with the Ice Climber, I'm much more tanky. Love the upgrade.

Thanks for your awesome input.
I was about to vendor the 30-60 ring ... than I saw the green numbers and extra life and 4K more dmg.
I like your idea about the innas helm and pants and the ias + movement speed.
The only draw back I recall is that innas will get bonus 130 dex but no res .... I will lose about 150 all res.

I sniped the Shenlong for 1.5M ... gave me instant 12K damage over my last offhand.
It has good str & dex along with 89 crit dmg.
The 64 lpss is helpful and saved me a passive (transend)
I will try to look for something similar with higher dps and socket ... will cost alot ... only have 50M atm.
Just bought shoulders for 20M and chest for 50M.
Have to save up or farm abit more.

Thanks again for your input.

where should i start upgrading

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/PrimeJvT-1568/hero/3211707

You have a lot of armor. Good for you man! I like that.

You should get either inna's pants with res or crit lacuni.

Weapons. Get 1 with dex/crit/open socket. Another with dex/life steal/open socket (base crit is optional if you have budget, go for it. If not, get the one without it)

Right ring and ammy should have crit chances.

And please upgrade those gems up to radiant square at least. good lord dude.

AND WTF YOU HAVE 17K LIFE. ARE YOU SERIOUS.

Pick up a pants with like 100 dex/ 200 vital/+80 total res

This post was edited by jinshin85 on Oct 8 2012 05:53pm

haha ok thanks

whats ur budget anyway? ur monk can be massively upgraded with couple mills really.

bout 26k atm trying to get more lol ive never found anything worth more then 100k