I play pretty casually with my friend and we just found the time to work our way through Act 2 Inferno. Haven't made a concerted effort to start chipping at Act 3 yet, but I did do some punching bag tests on some of the early mobs in the Act.
I've found that with good play and situational awareness my survivability is pretty adequate through Act 2 save for some ludicrous pack like molten horde teleport on mobs that already hit like station wagons bolted to the front of an inter-stellar spacecraft. My main problem while dual-wielding is that I can't seem to put up enough DPS to keep fights short enough that I don't make a fatigue mistake or get caught by an unlucky RNG move while my OH SHI- button is on CD. I realize that pushing my +crit% to at least 30% and my critdmg to at least 200% is a baseline goal, but I'm not sure where to go about upgrading without sacrificing a lot of resistances or health. I know my OH is a little on the low side in DPS but I can't find an upgrade for it on the AH that wouldn't bankrupt Bill Gates.
Unfortunately I only have a 1.2m gold budget since my luck with drops has been absolutely awful and I have little luck with the AH.
I know how you feel. When I run act one my DPS is around 17500 but I'm also running a base MF of 243%. I have another set of gear that I use for Act 2 and Act 3 which gets my DPS to around 30000 with all resistance around 700 and I still find Act 3 to be insane at times. Gear to really get the DPS up is extremely costly for the monk. Even DPS of 30k it still isn't enough. With only 1.2 million it won't be enough to bring the DPS up alot. I think that my Crit % is only around 24%. I think that some of the pieces that I need just to upgrade alone would be 10 mil or more. About all you can do is farm act 1 and 2 hoping to get some good gear drops.
1 thing that I did notice is that you could upgrade or weapons you off hand weapon is actually stronger than the other weapon. I also had a star amethyst in my weapon but as my crit hit chance increased i switched and put a star emerald in it and increased my DPS a bit.
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u need some starting gold to get somewhere, an option would be to buy gold find on items, to make a gold find set, so buy a new set of gear for like 20k a piece, gonna cost u like 300k with as much goldfind on , other stats are not that important unless also dex and some vit but just dex is good too. And u farm nightmare siegebreaker a couple hours. If u have alot of goldfind and u can make 300k by just clearing siegebreaker on very easy nightmare takes about 7 min and 30k per run. Get running speed shoeds, take the running passive ,like a build for fast farming. Its boring but if do this for some hours or just 1 hour each day, u gonna have like another 1.5 mill for 5 hours.
with 5 million i can make a monk that does 30k dps 500 resist and 30k hp, so about your stats but higher dps just by biuying cheapo items. Actually i could probably build this monk with two million by waiting on the bids to end and get it 4 times cheaper, since some items i could get alot cheaper.
your trying to hard getting high dps weapons, with your money u should be looking at 600 dps weapon with like 250 dex and 40-60 crit damage and socket. instead of buying crappy high dps weapons, u should look for perfect lower dps weapons. Why because for u they gonna do alot more dps. If u can buy two weapons with 250+ dex on it u gain like 300 dex, thats alot of dps..and if they have alot of crit damage also u gonna gain even more dps there..
your 700 dps spear is really crap, a 500 dps weapon with good stats would be alot better!!!
i would focus on gear instead of weapons, gear is cheaper, get more crit chance, u can find a better ring with 4% crit chance for like 300k. Find a helmet with a socket and less resist..
pants and chest is probably the best upgrades u can make, u wanne search for chest with three sockets, dex and your resist and then check prices from low too high and find the best one
same with pants, u wanne check for two sockets, dex and your resist and look from cheap to highpriced.. u dont want too much resist on these u wanne have decent resist but alot of vitaty, pants and chest can have like 140 vit + easy. this will boost your hp alot. And the socket u can fill with dex to gain dps.. u wanne have a decent amount of dex, resist, alot of vitality on these two pieces..
but its hard, since your total gear needs reworking but a good chest and pants is half the work,
its best u save up gold now, try not to die much and research your items and then buy after patch hits.. crit damage is only good when u have alot of crit chance, crit chance increases your sweeping winds cyclone damage. So always get high critchance then worry about crit damage since that will come from your weapons.. try to get amulet with loh and crit chance on it
I agree, try getting a gold find set and try to earn income that way. I do it from time to time as i switch from MF to gold runs so i dont get too bored.
Ya, your total dex should be considerably higher, and the attack speed of weapons is very important for a monk. Try to have your weapons have a minimum of 1.4a/s, at least in the mainhand.
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I play pretty casually with my friend and we just found the time to work our way through Act 2 Inferno. Haven't made a concerted effort to start chipping at Act 3 yet, but I did do some punching bag tests on some of the early mobs in the Act.
I've found that with good play and situational awareness my survivability is pretty adequate through Act 2 save for some ludicrous pack like molten horde teleport on mobs that already hit like station wagons bolted to the front of an inter-stellar spacecraft. My main problem while dual-wielding is that I can't seem to put up enough DPS to keep fights short enough that I don't make a fatigue mistake or get caught by an unlucky RNG move while my OH SHI- button is on CD. I realize that pushing my +crit% to at least 30% and my critdmg to at least 200% is a baseline goal, but I'm not sure where to go about upgrading without sacrificing a lot of resistances or health. I know my OH is a little on the low side in DPS but I can't find an upgrade for it on the AH that wouldn't bankrupt Bill Gates.
Unfortunately I only have a 1.2m gold budget since my luck with drops has been absolutely awful and I have little luck with the AH.
Would appreciate any help/advice.
1 thing that I did notice is that you could upgrade or weapons you off hand weapon is actually stronger than the other weapon. I also had a star amethyst in my weapon but as my crit hit chance increased i switched and put a star emerald in it and increased my DPS a bit.
I agree, try getting a gold find set and try to earn income that way. I do it from time to time as i switch from MF to gold runs so i dont get too bored.