How much res do I need to be an efficient monk? I don't want to over do it if I don't have to. I'm around 570 at the moment and I feel okay with that. Does anyone feel like they can accomplish more with less?

Also, how do you fellow monkers feel about a high dps skorn?

res depends on ur dps. if you have high dps, you don't need high res.

skorn is really boring. ive tried it.

monks are meant to play as dual wield. super fast attacks!

This post was edited by jinshin85 on Oct 9 2012 11:09am

speak for yourself. if you do a decent amount of dmg, tempest rush will hurt enemies , plus it knocks them back and slows them by 60% for 2 seconds which is HUGE
the movement speed is the real bonus as its the only thing that allows monks to keep up with barbs as far as farming efficiency goes

learning how to keep up spirit takes time but once you get it down its easy

What do you guys think about the Tyriel's Might chest armor for Monks?

Looks like I can get one with 2 sockets for like 50-70million.

Is act 3 going to be the best place to play in 1.0.5 patch? If so, the dmg plus to demons would be awesome.

I came up with this idea because I want another 12% on my monk...

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

My specs:
2320 dex
65K dsp
40K health
6700 armour
720 all res
600 LoH
2.9% LS
26% crit
274 crit dmg
+ 29 attack speed ( asi on helm 9, ammy 7, ring 7, glove 6)
996 dps echoing fury (56 crit dmg ... attack speed 2.32 )
895 dps set fist (89 crit dmg ... attack speed 2.03 )

I was at 5600 armour and 580 all res. Didn't feel too comfortable.
I increased them to 6700 armour and 720 all res.... feels much better
Facetank all A3 including Ghom & Amozdan.

I played PTR mlvl 5 with no issues ... except elites took 2 -3 times longer.
So survivability is gonna be huge in 1.05.
And Monks will lose anywhere from 1000 to 1500 armour depending on your dex.
Get prepared for it and increase armour / res to survive the longer durations with elites.

Most Monks I see are sitting around 5500ish armour and will go down to 4500ish.
They might not do so well at mlvl 6 and higher.

Monks need high attack speed and LoH / LS to maintain health during elite / boss fights.

What's the best way to up the armor? Like getting the +armor mod on the armor pieces?

Str = Armor, that's another way to do it I guess?

This post was edited by jinshin85 on Oct 9 2012 03:38pm

Thats a good queston.
I tried many different combination of str / +armour and higher armour# on items.
And I wasted about 30M trying to do that.

I find +armour and higher# on items to be better.
I upgraded 4 items and lost about 200 str but gain 1000 overall armour.
Its trial & error for me .... couldn't find a armour calculator ... does it even exsist ?

My shoulder lost 80 str and gained 400 overall armour..... I think res also count for armour
I also gained 70 more res .... maybe that why... don't know.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Jet-1853/hero/2705542

Yeah, I'm always confused with this calculation. I used to just thought +str = +armor, so I tried to find the items with str stats as +armor aren't that available.

skorn works well but Im wondering if 2 fists say shenlongs and won kim would work better?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Jeight-1142/hero/25946100

edit my budget is low say 20 mill for an upgrade

This post was edited by Jeight on Oct 9 2012 04:43pm

I've tried using Skorn for fun. It was way slow for my taste.

And you don't have to use shenlongs and won kim to be great. Those are extremely overpriced and shitty ones are cheap and those are shitty.

But definitely go dual wield. Much better set up for Monks.