Both are ok. Lots of crit with some crit damage running Sweeping Winds-> Cyclone is crazy fun though so I'm working on crit. I've lost some attack speed but it's not been too much of a problem.
For S&B, on the other hand, you can disregard crit damage almost completely in favour of a mixed bag of crit chance (amulet, gloves, head, shield) and aspd (jewelry and gloves). Cyclones don't scale with crit damage so it makes no sense to go out of your way to get it. Your *actual* DPS won't be correctly displayed in the stat window if you go down this path, however.
I am using S&B, how much crit % chance and crit dmg is recommended to progress in Act 3? Some packs are killing me almost instantly
700 weapon damage
15k damage
900 LoH
50k HP
6k armor with enchantress
30+% crit chance
200% crit damage
680 all resistance
I know my 50k HP is probably too much as people are doing it with 40-45k, some gem swapping will probably do it.
Since crit damage really isn't necessary at this moment, I might as well swap it with a LoH gem (fist), before I can find a weapon upgrade for my 700 fist
What do you think of my resistance? is it enough to handle act 3?
I don't like crit. It might be the highest dps stat, but meanwhile attack speed will: 1) increase healing from LoH, 2) increase spirit generation and 3) provide smoother playing (on top of increasing dps of course).
Yeah don't stack too much vit on a monk. You need some, but 50k hp is excessive. I cleared a3/a4 with 900res/6k (conviction mantra) armor but only 23k hp. Your loh and heals are worth more when you're heavier on mitigation. HP isn't necessarily bad, but monks just don't get the same level of benefit from vit that barbs do, so don't stack it over other stats. If you can get hp with good mitigation, then by all means go for it, but most people have a budget and have to choose one or another until they become rich ;p
Some upgrades, gear switching and I ended up with this:
700 weapon damage (unchanged)
15k damage (unchanged)
900 LoH (unchanged)
44k HP (down from 50k)
7.8k armor with enchantress and Hard target (up from 6k w/ enchantress, no hard target)
30+% crit chance (unchanged)
100% crit damage (down from 200%)
800 all resistance (up from 680)
1.6x AS (up from 1.43)
3 major changes there, Armor, resistance and AS all up, and lost about 6k HP. I was able to solo Act 3 up to Ghom. I died to some difficult packs, but some I could face tank no problem. I did change from Backlash to Hard target, but I can see using Backlash again when I have higher armor and resistance. Thanks for inputs, at least I can now farm first part of Act 3, great news for me with the change on drop rates last night.
Now back to the topic, high crits chance with low crits damage is perfectly fine with S&B. I will test if IAS can be completely omitted with higher LoH (~1200) and standard AS (1.43) when I am back tonight
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I am using S&B, how much crit % chance and crit dmg is recommended to progress in Act 3? Some packs are killing me almost instantly
700 weapon damage
15k damage
900 LoH
50k HP
6k armor with enchantress
30+% crit chance
200% crit damage
680 all resistance
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I know my 50k HP is probably too much as people are doing it with 40-45k, some gem swapping will probably do it.
Since crit damage really isn't necessary at this moment, I might as well swap it with a LoH gem (fist), before I can find a weapon upgrade for my 700 fist
What do you think of my resistance? is it enough to handle act 3?
700 weapon damage (unchanged)
15k damage (unchanged)
900 LoH (unchanged)
44k HP (down from 50k)
7.8k armor with enchantress and Hard target (up from 6k w/ enchantress, no hard target)
30+% crit chance (unchanged)
100% crit damage (down from 200%)
800 all resistance (up from 680)
1.6x AS (up from 1.43)
3 major changes there, Armor, resistance and AS all up, and lost about 6k HP. I was able to solo Act 3 up to Ghom. I died to some difficult packs, but some I could face tank no problem. I did change from Backlash to Hard target, but I can see using Backlash again when I have higher armor and resistance. Thanks for inputs, at least I can now farm first part of Act 3, great news for me with the change on drop rates last night.
Now back to the topic, high crits chance with low crits damage is perfectly fine with S&B. I will test if IAS can be completely omitted with higher LoH (~1200) and standard AS (1.43) when I am back tonight