chest looks like the only item that doesn't belong so yeah

Yah, Legendaries were UP but rares were simply not rolling well enough. The randomization was far too great. They probably overestimated people's patience for grinding because they based it on Diablo 2 numbers (there was less competition for gaming time back then...). 1.04 needed to bring the impatient players back. And OP legendaries did the trick. I'm happy for that. I do hate the state of rares right now, though :/ hopefully they'll make crafting viable again.

There're scaling down monster damage again, LOL. maybe you can stand to lose some of that EHP

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5724133759#1

Awesome. You think I should go for a nice inna's? Maybe a Blackthorne's surcoat with 150/150? Cheers.

22/10/2012

It already has been reduced.

LOL, you're right. Holy crap o_O I saw it the first blue post on boxes at the top of the forum and I thought it must have been now. I just realized that it was the EU server too o_O I guess there are no blue posts on the EU server.

sorry about that!

There's some gameplay before i bought Mempo and inna's chest. 243k on this video

Had to split into 2 videos, second one is currently uploading and will be ready in 2-3 hours

For the ones hyping about pvp dummy, are you enjoying your pvp games at the moment ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paDZDeoAGps

Part 2 also uploaded now, testing youtube linking at same:



This post was edited by juhazzz on Nov 5 2012 04:53am

I'm looking for useful discussion of what gear I should upgrade, so this may veer off into TL;DR territory.

Here's my current monk: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Maniacal-1981/hero/13154991

I was indecisive for a while over whether to use the boots/ring slot for 2-pc new Nats for the 7.0 cc or if I should go with Zuni boots for the 7-8% poison on a black damage MH and then pick up a rare ring or SoJ. I'm currently toying around with the Zuni boots option, but haven't quite made a decision. Since I'm already stuck on a black MH due to the Inna's belt that I need to preserve set bonus for sweeping wind, it seemed reasonable to try the Zuni boots out. Opinions?

Additionally, what pieces of gear should I upgrade next, and what sort of stats should I be targeting? I know my HP and resist are low right now (33.5k and 650), so I'm aiming to improve, but I am wondering what heuristics exist for target values for a good monk. I've noticed that I don't like being much below 700 AR, but for HP I've got less of a set point in mind... is 40k a safe lower target? 35k?

Finally, how exactly does cyclone work and how does its damage scale? The duration of the cones seems to be constant, and they are produced from critical hits only of some subset of possible attacks (spirit generators?). The damage they do is dealt as ticks over time... is the rate of this affected by ias, and, if so, how many ticks do I get for certain ias ranges? Is it based solely off of MH weapon speed, or is it based off of aps? I've been trying to reason through how cyclone damage should be calculated into a statsheet, but haven't reached any conclusion yet. Any good resource or discussion of this would be very appreciated. The obvious thing is that more cc means more cones, more cd affects cone damage in conjunction with cc, and ias allows for more cones to proc (but may also affect the cone damage output, making it nonlinear in effective dps as opposed to linear in statsheet dps), but I can't reason exactly how to model cone damage. It seems like prioritizing cc over both ias and cd is correct, but finding the right ias/cd balance is proving to be tricky, mostly because I don't actually understand how my character works.

Sorry if this is addressed elsewhere in this thread... I admittedly have not read all of it.

This post was edited by Maniacal42 on Nov 5 2012 05:49am

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/AK984-1365/hero/26627351

Not sure what I should really aim at getting next ... Any suggestions and/or advice would be greatly appreciated! I know my fists are pretty low dps and I also need to upgrade all my gems. Are one of those things what I should focus on first??

Thanks.