And in case anybody didn't know, Near Death Experience is still bugged (so don't use it!) -- it triggers when you have Serenity active and drops you to 35% life even if Serenity absorbed the full hit.

I use Resolve, STI, and ONE. I switch them out for particular boss fights where DPS matters more than tankiness (I imagine Diablo would be one of them).



I would totally DW if I had the money for it. But it's a wayyyyyyyyy costlier build, and not a good long-term investment with the impending IAS nerfs.

Also, the attack speed wouldn't go down that much if he went sword and board. I imagine the biggest loss would be in the form of offensive stats coming from his offhand weapon (dex, crit, LoH).

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What kind of resists/armor/stats are people running late A3 and A4 with? I'm curious to see where I need to gear up right now in order to survive late A3 and early A4 (A3 Tower still owns me and I can't get past the Gardens in A4 even after killing Istaku and Rakanoth).

I'm currently at 1061 dex, 675 vit (~30k hp), 726 resists, 6k armor (unbuffed - ~7.4k with Hard Target) and 19k dps unbuffed (2.02 AS and 437 LoH). Fully buffed I think my DPS goes up to ~26k.

At this point, it's almost impossible to upgrade my LoH without sacrificing some resists/dex or farming like 5M for a better ring. I feel like my dex is too low, but finding some better pieces with higher dex means sacrificing even more Vit or some amount of armor to do it... and I'm really unwilling to compromise on Armor atm (it's the only thing keeping me alive it seems, and makes A2 farming trivial).

This post was edited by irimi on Jun 6 2012 02:54pm

with seize the initiative... higher dex = higher armor, no?

i'm going to try to boost transcendence powers... so i was wondering... besides weapon and helm, is there anything else that offers life per spirit spent? i'm guessing legendaries and sets mebbe? anyone know them?

damn it, i tried to switch to 1h+shield and went fairly good through act 2, slow but good, till Maghda's death...
Now i'm blocked again at the very begin of the sewer, ffs right at wp there's always a champ/boss pack with insane stats that insta own me!

i tried with 3 different setup, changing my @res from 560 to 780, my dodge from 58 to 42, armor from 6800 to 6300, LoH from 700 to 550... NOTHING!
In any setup they rape me within 3-4 hits!!
Guess what? I'm going back to the easy butchers runs till i get 1mill or so and pick up a decent weap to rip them off

The sewers in act 2, or any place in act 2, is a special kind of hell. You just have to power on unfortunately.

Just wondering if anyone had been able to tank a full game of ponies or should i switch back to a barb.

face the facts.

dodge is pointless when you have 50% every second attack is hurting you very much because of the lack of armory that strenght builds up.

as a monk you focus on dodge but when you get a shot 1/3 of your life pot is empty, when you have for example 50k life 1/3 is 33k, so you have 16k life to regenerate or gain with LoH. with the amount of for example 2.5 APS and 1k LoH to fill up the missing 16k life with LoH you need 6.4 sec. that time you can be dead after another 3 shots.

barb can stack a great amound of def and face with huge amount of dmg.

uhm... a good monk will kite and try to get all the monsters in front of him so his LoH can trigger ALL the mobs on him and also a good monk would use FoT with Thunderclap and it's massive KB effect which stops all normal mobs to perform attacks

about the fact "every attack hurts hard" nothing to say, u are right ^^

problem is just one: we have to outgear enemies to win

This post was edited by Shirl86 on Jun 7 2012 06:38am

how much life do you need on monk ?

40k ++ for inferno, the higher the better

Sure, more health is good and all, but you don't need to focus it. I farm act 3 with 27k.


Really, you don't. Keep that kind of false information where it belongs, the official bnet forums.

This post was edited by trashie on Jun 7 2012 07:25am