Quote (ytiddooen @ Aug 14 2013 07:41am)
Hi all, been away from the JSP community and from D3. I've fallen out of love with wow and my friends are killing it in MP10, I'm tired of getting carried. I have around 650m to spend and am in need of help. My current build/gear is as follows
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/ytiddooen-1456/hero/820939 I know it's dated. Please be nice :-). ISO suggestions on gear upgrades as well as a better build for the current set of gear Any help is appreciated
Better Vile Wards are an easy and affordable upgrade. You can get 250+ dex, 50+ vit, and 50+ stacking resist for around 100m-120m on the US AH right now.
I'm not a big fan of buying amulets anymore, but crafting an upgrade could take a very long time, so you might want to look into buying a better one for the time being. On an amulet, 5% crit chance and 50% crit damage is just too low. To fit your budget, you may have to give up attack speed on the neck for the time being, but try to pick up an amulet with at least 8.5% crit chance and at least 80% crit damage. If you can get something with average damage (true average damage ##-##, not +min or +max damage), dex, vit, stacking resist, and the crit chance and crit damage minimums I gave you, it would be a nice improvement.
Your health is awfully low. Right now you're sitting at 38k and I like to use 40k as an absolute minimum. I would recommend swapping chests so you don't have to run vit gems. Look for an Inna's Vast Expanse with 150+ dex and 250+ vit. Life % of 11-12 is fine and try to get the 6% damage reduction if you can. That would probably run you about 225m-250m on the US AH right now.
Bracers are fairly easy to craft an upgrade for, so if you have some demonic essence saved up, maybe give that a shot. You'll want Dex, Vit, stacking resist, all resist, and 6% crit chance if you can roll it.
Gloves are another item I'm not really a fan of buying anymore. I'd work on crafting those as well. You know what you need on gloves.
On your nat's ring, I think you'd do a lot better to pick-up a dex, vit, stacking resist, 9% attack speed, 4.5%+ crit chance nat's ring. That should run you about 100m on the US AH right now.
Your Witching Hour is probably fine for now. Ideally you'd have a 9% AS with a higher Dex roll and a higher Vit roll, but for now you can continue to use the one you have.
Lose the Hellfire ring, you are sacrificing a lot of damage running that thing. A rare ring with average damage (again, true average damage ##-##), dex, stacking resist, crit chance 4.5%+, crit damage 35%+ is very affordable. Even a Unity would be more useful than the Hellfire ring. You can get a Unity with ~35 average damage, 160 dex, 4.5% crit chance, 35%+ crit damage, and 4% bonus vs. elites for about 120m on the US AH right now.
Inna's Pants with 100 dex, 150+ vit, and 9% AS are about 100m on the US AH right now, so that would be something to look into as well.
Your boots are probably fine for now. Eventually you'll want at least a 250dex/50vit roll on them, but Nat's boots are pricey.
Weapon upgrades just depend on what you want. My preference is a life steal/crit damage main-hand and a life steal off-hand.
Assuming you upgraded your Vile Ward (~120m), Inna's Chest (~250m), Nat's ring (~100m), picked up a Unity in place of the Hellfire ring (~120m), and picked up new Inna's pants (~100m), you'd be at a grand total of ~690m. I think if you made those changes, you'd see a noticeable improvement in your monk.
This post was edited by jaded3 on Aug 14 2013 11:43am