Once OWE and STI are changed ill have the following:
Lose: 700 resistance in all elementals except fire.
Lose: about 40% Dodge
Gain: 8500 Armor
As of now looks like a nerf....depends on what they do with STI
Should I be excited about this??? seems like more loss than gain to be honest, therefore nerf mitigation on an already low dps output performing class....makes no sense to me at this time....
You should probably take another look at your dodge-loss, bearing in mind that it's on a fairly heavy DR curve. The 700 ar for 8500 armor tradeoff seems pretty fair to me, and the dodge-to-armor conversion is nothing but upside for demon hunters. Hell, I might even switch from monk to DH for my HC main.
Regardless of the details, I'm glad that they changed OWE and ditched dodge. OWE only served to make monk gearing a PITA, and dodge artificially inflated toughness anyway. I suspect a lot of monks will see a drop in toughness, but experience an increase in their objective survivability... particularly if Blizzard buffs healing skills along with LS and HpS.
I wouldn't get too worried about this. I assure you that they will make sure the Monk is in a better place post-2.1
New sets, items and retooled skills, the Monk is going to rebound. Let the dust settle before getting too worried.
Monk is my fav class. Well over a thousand hours of experience playing the class. Sadly, I walked away due to the woeful sets and inadequate DPS options. Today, I pulled the rip cord on a new HC Monk in anticipation of the upcoming changes. Can't wait to get him to 70 ahead of 2.1
Lose: 700 resistance in all elementals except fire.
Lose: about 40% Dodge
Gain: 8500 Armor
As of now looks like a nerf....depends on what they do with STI
Should I be excited about this??? seems like more loss than gain to be honest, therefore nerf mitigation on an already low dps output performing class....makes no sense to me at this time....
Regardless of the details, I'm glad that they changed OWE and ditched dodge. OWE only served to make monk gearing a PITA, and dodge artificially inflated toughness anyway. I suspect a lot of monks will see a drop in toughness, but experience an increase in their objective survivability... particularly if Blizzard buffs healing skills along with LS and HpS.
Also, they say "overall we shouldn't notice that much of a change." Well the problem was never mitigation. The problem is dps output plain and simple.
New sets, items and retooled skills, the Monk is going to rebound. Let the dust settle before getting too worried.
Monk is my fav class. Well over a thousand hours of experience playing the class. Sadly, I walked away due to the woeful sets and inadequate DPS options. Today, I pulled the rip cord on a new HC Monk in anticipation of the upcoming changes. Can't wait to get him to 70 ahead of 2.1
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Still will have to use OWE, drop STI, and use sixth sense.
They aren't keeping dodge related skills as-is.
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