Here's an update of what I've done in the last few days.


For MP5 - Key farming - rarely dies to crazy elites
65K dmg
40K life
5600 armour
710 all res
5.7% life steal
600 LoH
42 lpss

For MP3 fast gear farming.
(found pants & ammy, and loss 130 ar)
(bought sword 5M & Gem 5M ... gained 12K dmg just from this )
(gain the rest of 5K dmg from pants & ammy)
Finally got my dmg over 80K ... but loss on other stats
80K dmg (can crit over 300K ... sweet)
45K life
5500 armour
580 all res
2.9% life steal
600 LoH
I like to use this setup for MP5
But I die more due to loss of LS, all res and lpss
Can't seem to regen life fast enough.

There are so many gives and takes in this game ... unless you pay big bucks for super awesome items.
Gain dmg ... but lose survivability.

I guess thats what keeps me playing ... trying for a balanced build.
I really like to improve on the 80K build. Found Ammy that would increase my dmg by 14K ... but cost 1B... ouch.
ATM only have 120M ... can't even do an decent upgrade without losing res / vit.
Now need to farm for weapons with 100 natural crit dmg & open socket.

is skorn worth the extra ~25k+ dps?

Tried it ... too slow.
Monks are meant to play with 2 x one handers with lots of attack speed.
Generate spirit, LoH, LS.

Some people use a tempest rush skorn build... It works well enough I think.

There have also been guys offering mp7+ über runs here on JSP... The monks use single skorn, but their dps is 180k! At that dps, that life steal is epic and seven-sided strike becomes both a full-heal and big damage. You can probably even one-shot whites with tempest rush on a low mp level.

ive knowticed that if i stun lock shit, eventually some things become immune to stun until i get a streak of no stuns and then their resistane to my crowd control slowly gets reset.

if you can get 100k dps still, go for it. Im mad i sold my 2 spare socket and over 40+ stun chance sledges for so cheap (6m). should have jacked it up to 15M haha :p.

Hmmh. A bit of hard decision now. I finally got new mainhand to replace Skorn. 1102 dps 3% steal 152% critical sword.

So the problem is, i've saved some gold now and could almost afford 1245 dps 159% critical Echoing Fury and I really don't know if that 3% steal alone from mainhand is enough, as it's not a cheap test to find out it's not enough.

Dps would be ~230k with those weapons and the natalya's ring i'm about to buy..

So should i instead be looking for 1200+ dps echo with life steal on it ?

Now with skorn and 5.9% steal it's just damn massive life returns, can stand still on desecrator with reflect damage mobs etc, but i hate it's so ugly slow -,-

buy the life steal echo instead of the extra 59% crit you'd get from that one you eyein.

5%+ life steal will be GOD for a monk. The extra sustain imo is > that 59% extra cd. I mean thats like what? maybe like 5 second less inbattle time on mp10 (im assumin your gonna try that out on mp10 ya?). You prolly wouldnt nowtice too much dps difference, but the life heal is a big gap difference.

i mean i put my monk on back burner now to work on my barb to farm shit (and to slowly regear monk that way). n my barb uses 11.x% LS ... man feels amazing LOL. I was rockin 3%, then to 6%, 9% and then eventually 11% and ill say the 3% vs 6% was a big change. So more the better haha. But either way, life steal is life steal. Stack that shit when you can even at dps loss, it only helps you live longer (or be lazy and just sit in desecrators + molten to heal back instead of moving out. being lazy is king haha) but shit your like over fuckin 200k dps LOL...thats just bananas

I like bananas But actually noticed it's a lot better to play on lower MP levels, but what i'm trying to achieve is to play ubers on MP8+ now it's okay with skorn, atleast on MP8 4 players, we've prepared them for 2 players to pay for them (yes, 2 slots filled immediately) but would really like to see how it goes with 2x 1 handers, only "problem" is siegebraker and reflect damage, with skorn i'm now at full hp all the time.

So it's for regular mf'ing now, i've used mp3-4 when running mf's as it seems the most efficient

With skorn and SSS it's like using full rejuvenation on diablo 2

This post was edited by juhazzz on Oct 22 2012 01:48am

yup buy a echo with the life steal then. So you can have at least 5.x% LS (cause your new main has 3% ls already ya?) so any life steal mod'd echo with socket would give ya at minimum like 5.2% LS or whatever the lowest roll is (2.2%?).
i mean the more dam you do with less LS on, the more that reflect gonna hurt lol. So the LS will only help ya and you already got like dps of like 4 average monks fused together haha.

Really... really wish I used an EHP and damage calculator a lot sooner than today.


Wasted a lot of time and gold on items that don't help


zzz


live and learn I guess