my monk:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Maniacal-1981/hero/13154991question about replacing my MH.
Some background for anyone who cares about the math (the people who can reasonably help me with my question):
I was using an 850dps 116dex 153cd offhand (and sword was MH) but I found that axe yesterday and swapped it into my MH slot for a 700dps statsheet loss, but a 15% increase in mainhand damage (cyclone/sw ticks from a 700 avg damage weapon to an 800 avg damage weapon). With MoC/Overawe + BoH at 110k base that puts me at about 125k*~2.25(~50% overawe spam, 1.10+0.35 from fot/thunderclap)=280k dps. My effective dps before increase (timed MP5 Azo kills) was in the low-mid 600k range, so from this I back out that just over 50% of my damage was coming from sw/cyclone.
Therefore, the 700dps loss (<1%) of swapping my MH should be more than counterbalanced by at 15% increase in sw/cyclone damage for a net increase of about 7% in damage output.
I am looking to obviously replace this MH with something more appropriate to a monk (although the 9k life is sweet). I use just ls% to stay afloat, so aps isn't anything to me beyond spirit generation and I can pick up ias from gloves... I'm more concerned about getting massive cyclone ticks from a slow mh. Right now my budget is in the 100m range for a new weapon, which gives me a few options:
1. get a mediocre black offhand and move the sword back to mainhand, don't net much in terms of sw/cyclone damage over where I was before, but do get good Zuni/Inna damage bonuses. Get an offhand with ls% and cd + socket.
2. get a black MH with just cd + socket. This is where I want to be IF I can stay afloat on only 2.7% ls off of the sword with base dps in the 130k range. Monks with experience: will I need to add loh elsewhere if I do this? will I need more than 5k-5.5k armor and 700-800 res? Will 2.7% keep me afloat assuming I get a sicko 1100dps spear/axe/other slow 1h with black damage, cd, socket, dex? If so, this is probably what I want to do, but I'm wary of throwing 50m+ at this and then discovering that it doesn't work nearly as well as I want it to.
3. get a MH comparable to what I have now, lose out on the cd there and just have dex/vit/ls/socket and black damage. This is definitely sustainable and is probably preferable to 1, although I have yet to do the math for the extra cd to figure out where the breaking point is.
Any help would be awesome.
tl;dr: I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing with my monk's weapon situation and need some serious guidance.
This post was edited by Maniacal42 on Nov 17 2012 09:41pm