Quote (Ylem122 @ Feb 10 2013 07:49pm)

any one have an opinion on innas weapon with bells? life steal, 5% wave crit, can use witching hour and get 4 peice bonus, decent enough attack speed that it could work well with fot for spirit gen while low enough that you wont have as much tr problems as a dual wield.

Quote (Ylem122 @ Feb 10 2013 07:49pm)

any one have an opinion on innas weapon with bells? life steal, 5% wave crit, can use witching hour and get 4 peice bonus, decent enough attack speed that it could work well with fot for spirit gen while low enough that you wont have as much tr problems as a dual wield.

Quote (kylezo @ Feb 11 2013 02:16am)

right, I looked into inna too for a long time, but very hard to find one that matches skorn. The raw dps on skorn makes it very valuable for builds that use so much base wpn dmg, like sweeping winds, submission, etc.

Quote (Gescom @ Feb 11 2013 09:17am)

Inna's can be pretty gg, but you're guaranteed to be short a big chunk of CHD & LS with only 1 random on it. :S

Quote (huntersghost @ Feb 11 2013 02:15am)

ok i found a cheap way to kill some barbarians 1v1 ^^

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Q. In patch 1.0.7 you will buff Monk spirit spender skills. Why didn't you make any change to the Monk passive skills?

-- Alucardi#2692 (Europe [Italian]), CountFury#1192 (Americas [English])


Wyatt: Overall we're okay with the current state of Monk passives. That's not to say they're perfect (we'll definitely be working on them more), but we did not feel the current issues were severe enough to warrant changes at this time. The Monk got some changes to passives in previous patches, so keep that in mind as well.

There's a lot of moving parts on any class—interdependencies in which changes to one part of the class can have many downstream effects. In the case of the Monk, there are two big outstanding issues to address before further changes to passives happen: the inequity between the 4 spirit generators and their rune variants, and One with Everything.

Speaking of One with Everything, we've mentioned many times in the past that we're looking to make this passive feel less mandatory and a number of options have been discussed. This seems like a good opportunity to discuss some of the solutions that have come up internally. Please keep in mind that this topic is still very much in the air.

The most commonly proposed solution is to simply bake One With Everything directly into the Monk's class. In essence, give the passive away for free. This has a few issues. We don't currently bake a mechanic like this into other classes, so it would be something that’d need to be explained to new players or otherwise exist as a hidden bonus. It also represents a big boost to one class that's inequitable with the other classes. In addition, some Monks don't really like the mechanic, and have built their character around not taking One with Everything. Baking this into the class would make it so all Monks would be foolish not to take advantage of it. On the upside, it certainly frees up Monks to choose new passives without invalidating the current gear choices. Besides, who doesn't like getting something for nothing?

Another option is to alter gear in the future to not drop both an elemental resistance and resist all. Many people already comment that if you have an item with resistance to only one particular school, it's counter-intuitive that the values are lower than a similar-tier affix for resist all. One thing we have talked about doing is increasing the element-specific values so they are higher than the resist all values by a comfortable margin, while simultaneously disallowing both affixes from rolling on the same item. This would allow Monks who want to specialize in a single school of resistance to do so, and pick up One With Everything, without making the benefit of double-stacking resistances so hard to ignore.

A third option that has been discussed is breaking up the effect across all the existing passives. For example, Resolve might become "Damage you deal reduces enemy damage by 20% for 2.5 seconds. In addition any resistance lower than your Cold Resistance is increased to the level of your Cold Resistance." The advantage of such an approach is letting people continue to gain the effect, as well as creating a lot of diversity across different Monks. The disadvantage is your gear choices will lock you even more into particular passive choices, not to mention the cumbersome tooltips.


There are other solutions that have been discussed, but my intent in sharing these is to not only spark discussion and grant insight into our thought process, but also to demonstrate that when we say "we don't want to invalidate the gear Monks are currently wearing" we mean it.

Quote (jinshin85 @ Feb 11 2013 12:33pm)

This is the entire answer. Seems pretty positive.