Posting again since my post got buried between discussions.

Been playing monk for some weeks and gearing it up, I'm very comfortable doing T3 (15ish minutes rifts) but I get destroyed when I step on T4

http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/icarian-2335/Tharja/42777162

This is what I've been using and it has worked fine so far, I don't know if it's lack of damage or defensive abilities, I'm fine doing most elite packs with epiphany up, but the moment it wears off I drop dead instantly, and most of the time it is not enough to kill an elite pack in a single go, especially if they have the HP+ mod, also some white packs can easily swarm and melt me down pretty fast, all in all it can easily take around 30 minutes to finish a rift, I can do 2 T3 rifts easily within that time.

Should I wait and gear up a bit more before trying to take on T4 rifting/bounties or do you guys have any tips about the build I should use?

Lightning DPS monk

Use SoH + Odyns for the procs, 4 piece innas for the mantras + extra skill slot

http://www.diabloprogress.com/hero/yames-1568/Monkey/3755221
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Yames-1568/hero/3755221

T5 capable party/solo play

Skills
Way of the Hundred Fists - Hands of Lightning (high dps spirit generator)
Wave of Light - Pillar of the Ancients (super high dps spirit spender)
Dashing Strike - Flying Side Kick (use stun rune for haunt of vaxo proc)
Cyclone Strike - Implosion (switch up for mystic ally - fire rune for solo play... serves 2 purposes, extra passive damage, and to gain the full effect from the unity passive)
Exploding Palm - The Flesh is Weak (a must for t5)
Sweeping Wind - Cyclone (still so strong much wow)

Passives
Seize the Initiative
Unity
One With Everything
Exalted Soul

This post was edited by GageM on May 22 2014 06:49pm

does chant of resonance work with inna's 4 set to give you 8 spirit per second?

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/kimsulki84-1308/hero/7645093

OMG I GOT THE PANTS

NEW ONE WITH 2 SOCKETS AHHHHHHHHHHHH

Hmm.. looks pretty good.

What's really killing you exactly against elites?

Ground effects or what. Describe a little bit.

If you can add in some more cooldown reduction, it should help you out a lot.

And put your Odyn in the mainhand.

This post was edited by KimSulki84 on May 22 2014 08:41pm

Oh my god... those pants are proof that good things happen to good people

Jesus. "grool" that monk looks sick

anyone have some improvement ideas for my monk?

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Ntiask-2252/hero/7246836

has 800k sheet dps with transgression rune on gameplay T3 goes easily.

This post was edited by Urpokekkonen on May 22 2014 11:15pm

nah chant of resonance only gives 2 spirit/sec

This post was edited by GageM on May 22 2014 11:18pm

omg im so jelly, again

Thread (in mandarin if u can understand that)
http://bbs.d.163.com/thread-172914500-1-1.html

Video
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNzE1NzUxMDM2.html

Profile
http://kr.battle.net/d3/ko/profile/Lvanb-3250/hero/14763579

Core items used
Fist of Azturrasque
Rimeheart + frost burn combo

Exploding palm + woth/fof

This build is almost like a zdps build but the rimeheart/frostburn allows you to freeze lesser enemies and insta kill them, which allows to chain explode mobs.

Pretty good setup(unlike the other poser builds going around that claim can do t6 easily). Downside is, you require white mobs to start the chain explosion.