I'm not looking to be told what gear I need. I already know I need a cindercoat and shard of hate. Just looking for advice from other fire monk players about skills and the usage of those skills. In this build I currently farm T1 and can do T2 and T3 but at a much slower rate with a higher probability of dying. My main questions are what skills would you change? How would you use them differently? Besides gear do you see anything lacking? Am I focusing on stats correctly (%FD > AS > Crit DMG > Crit Chance)?
- Should I switch the rune on exploding palm?
The way I use it now is I place it on the strongest mob and 3 of the weakest. I keep it on the large mob so that it is always ticking (such as the gold in a pack of elites) and I put it on 3 weaker mobs to get the dot rolling and popping so it stacks on the big guy.
- Dashing Strike vs Epiphany
I have tried both and for right now I prefer the Dashing Strike. I feel as if Epiphany has too long of a cooldown and less chance to be used for escapes. Are stronger fire monks using DS and Epiphany at the same time or just one or the other?
- Mantra and Passive...
I am using Retaliation and switching between Unity and Mythic Rhythm depending on if I am in a group or not (Unity in a group, MR if solo).
Stats - %FD > AS > Crit DMG > Crit Chance
After %Fire Damage I focus on attack speed mainly because I am using maces which inherently have a slower attack speed compared to axes or swords. If I find a shard of hate and burning axe of sarkkis I believe my priorities would switch to Crit DMG > AS > Crit Chance? Of course Dexterity is numero uno on the stat list (duh and or hello?) but I am talking "secondary" stats here.
This ofc requires a lot of CD reduction, but I am using both dashing and epiphany. I would defenedly swap rune on palm, the fire one is just pure crap, I would say swap to the 20% dmg incraese, work wonders on single target mobs, and since you ain't running with pull (defenedly not enough spirirt regen to it either) I wouldn go with the Strong Spirit rune (which is a nice combo/spirit regen with pull).
Mantra I normaly go with Conviction - Annihilation, or Overawe when soloing, or 2-3 people in a group (if you got the dps the increased movement speed work wonders in gruops), this also making it possible for another passive then unity. Else I use Mantra of Healing - Time of need with a group of 4 and Unity as passive.
Sweeping wind, LTK and palm is imo too much spirit used like ballon said, and this is where I normaly would recomment Epiphany - Inner fire, since it just evaporates elite packs, but I am not sure how it feels without CD reduction. Try fire ally, or air ally instaed perhaps for either more dmg or more LTK spamming?
As long as you hover around 40-50% crit chance your stat prio is as you said your self. I have seen monks go with Cyclone strike - Sunburst, Sweeping wind - Inner storm, and Palm, and then without LTK (LTK is usualy best when having the Gyana Na Kashu). Perhaps give it a try.
I took palm off completely and switched it for epiphany and noticed a huge dps spike. I also switched the rune on conviction to the attack speed rune and that helped a lot with damage as well. I think in higher torments I just need to use healing mantra until i get stronger gear.
I drop sweeping wind for epiphany, I found that the only monsters that I care about killing fast is elites and epiphany will bust them down way faster than sweeping wind....you can run dashing strike as well.
GL!
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I'm not looking to be told what gear I need. I already know I need a cindercoat and shard of hate. Just looking for advice from other fire monk players about skills and the usage of those skills. In this build I currently farm T1 and can do T2 and T3 but at a much slower rate with a higher probability of dying. My main questions are what skills would you change? How would you use them differently? Besides gear do you see anything lacking? Am I focusing on stats correctly (%FD > AS > Crit DMG > Crit Chance)?
- Should I switch the rune on exploding palm?
The way I use it now is I place it on the strongest mob and 3 of the weakest. I keep it on the large mob so that it is always ticking (such as the gold in a pack of elites) and I put it on 3 weaker mobs to get the dot rolling and popping so it stacks on the big guy.
- Dashing Strike vs Epiphany
I have tried both and for right now I prefer the Dashing Strike. I feel as if Epiphany has too long of a cooldown and less chance to be used for escapes. Are stronger fire monks using DS and Epiphany at the same time or just one or the other?
- Mantra and Passive...
I am using Retaliation and switching between Unity and Mythic Rhythm depending on if I am in a group or not (Unity in a group, MR if solo).
Stats - %FD > AS > Crit DMG > Crit Chance
After %Fire Damage I focus on attack speed mainly because I am using maces which inherently have a slower attack speed compared to axes or swords. If I find a shard of hate and burning axe of sarkkis I believe my priorities would switch to Crit DMG > AS > Crit Chance? Of course Dexterity is numero uno on the stat list (duh and or hello?) but I am talking "secondary" stats here.
I am curently playing my firemonk as:
http://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-class-forums/monk-the-inner-sanctuary/85897-how-to-bring-the-damages-monk-style
This ofc requires a lot of CD reduction, but I am using both dashing and epiphany. I would defenedly swap rune on palm, the fire one is just pure crap, I would say swap to the 20% dmg incraese, work wonders on single target mobs, and since you ain't running with pull (defenedly not enough spirirt regen to it either) I wouldn go with the Strong Spirit rune (which is a nice combo/spirit regen with pull).
Mantra I normaly go with Conviction - Annihilation, or Overawe when soloing, or 2-3 people in a group (if you got the dps the increased movement speed work wonders in gruops), this also making it possible for another passive then unity. Else I use Mantra of Healing - Time of need with a group of 4 and Unity as passive.
Sweeping wind, LTK and palm is imo too much spirit used like ballon said, and this is where I normaly would recomment Epiphany - Inner fire, since it just evaporates elite packs, but I am not sure how it feels without CD reduction. Try fire ally, or air ally instaed perhaps for either more dmg or more LTK spamming?
As long as you hover around 40-50% crit chance your stat prio is as you said your self. I have seen monks go with Cyclone strike - Sunburst, Sweeping wind - Inner storm, and Palm, and then without LTK (LTK is usualy best when having the Gyana Na Kashu). Perhaps give it a try.
GL!