After testing and timing quite a few variations of specs and runes, I've concluded that the fastest monk DE farming spec for me is the one I'm using in this video. Based on both Blizzard's drop rates as well as actual in game testing i'm pretty easily maintaining over 40 Demonic Essences per hour farming VotA.
I actually tried some various abilities instead of serenity as well. At the end I preferred serenity over dashing strike, seven sided strike, and blazing wrath because it simply gave me higher DPS up-time vs mobs. The extra 4 seconds to DPS instead of having to dodge abilities such as frozen and molten explosions made a big difference for me over the benefits of the other abilities.
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My stats:
- 175k DPS
- 5% Lifesteal
- 384 AR (521 Physical)
- 3663 Armor
- 46k HP
I finally started playing this TR/WOL and its great. I had to get used to the slow attack speed since it feels awkward aways seeing if i have enough spirit to use WOL. I would suggest getting Innas Radiance with atleast 1.5 spirit regen and as much vit as you can afford and a SOJ.
I found that the damage from Overawe works better than Circular Breathing and the Spirit Regen. I think in the video, your damage was really high so you ran out of spirit less than me. But I found that if I pop Sweeping Winds and run around the mobs 1 or two times with TR to get the three proc first allows me to kill them quickly. I had to use OWE too keep my survivablity high.
I bought a cheap Skorn with life steal due to slightly less DPS and it works well when socketed with a ruby vs an emerald.
I think that's the skorn I used in the video (LifeSteal and 1602DPS with ruby, 1362 DPS without the ruby), though I can get practically the same results using a non-LS Skorn. I'm actually going to upload a video sometime later today showing some MP7 farming without my LS skorn.
We have nearly the exact same setup. I even run a ruby as well. I go with SSS in place of overawe however as it allows me to easily handle the reflect packs. Nothing worse than dropping a bell on a reflect pack
I tried to use a similar spec with dual-wielding, first without bell just to quickly travel from pack to pack, then with bell. Then I tried a Skorn, and its just so much more efficient, its not even funny. I do way less sheet dps with the skorn (150k vs 200k when dual-wielding, didn't want to invest too much in the LS Skorn), yet the packs drop so much faster.
For now, I prefer FoF over Chant of Resonance, though. I like to move a little faster, even if I might have to add an additional attack.
Im in a similar situation. I only use my Skorn for DE farming and its a left over from my TR exp days. I can only do MP3 though as I rely just on +globes for health. Cant see spending tons of gold on a LS Skorn. I get ~32-35 DE's /hr which is good enough.
I did MP10 solo SB/Kulle with a similar setup. I did change a couple abilities though, most importantly using the Stun Bell instead of Empowered. I did it at 331k eHP and still skipped both OWE and STI.
Here's my SB/Kulle Kill video using a TR/WoL spec:
After testing and timing quite a few variations of specs and runes, I've concluded that the fastest monk DE farming spec for me is the one I'm using in this video. Based on both Blizzard's drop rates as well as actual in game testing i'm pretty easily maintaining over 40 Demonic Essences per hour farming VotA.
I actually tried some various abilities instead of serenity as well. At the end I preferred serenity over dashing strike, seven sided strike, and blazing wrath because it simply gave me higher DPS up-time vs mobs. The extra 4 seconds to DPS instead of having to dodge abilities such as frozen and molten explosions made a big difference for me over the benefits of the other abilities.
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My stats:
- 175k DPS
- 5% Lifesteal
- 384 AR (521 Physical)
- 3663 Armor
- 46k HP
I found that the damage from Overawe works better than Circular Breathing and the Spirit Regen. I think in the video, your damage was really high so you ran out of spirit less than me. But I found that if I pop Sweeping Winds and run around the mobs 1 or two times with TR to get the three proc first allows me to kill them quickly. I had to use OWE too keep my survivablity high.
I bought a cheap Skorn with life steal due to slightly less DPS and it works well when socketed with a ruby vs an emerald.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/TianZi-1634/hero/5011796
I think that's the skorn I used in the video (LifeSteal and 1602DPS with ruby, 1362 DPS without the ruby), though I can get practically the same results using a non-LS Skorn. I'm actually going to upload a video sometime later today showing some MP7 farming without my LS skorn.
Im in a similar situation. I only use my Skorn for DE farming and its a left over from my TR exp days. I can only do MP3 though as I rely just on +globes for health. Cant see spending tons of gold on a LS Skorn. I get ~32-35 DE's /hr which is good enough.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Edward-1570/hero/3500216
I did MP10 solo SB/Kulle with a similar setup. I did change a couple abilities though, most importantly using the Stun Bell instead of Empowered. I did it at 331k eHP and still skipped both OWE and STI.
Here's my SB/Kulle Kill video using a TR/WoL spec:
I tried it, but didn't do well with it. For me, TR was just easier to control (maybe just because I'm so used to having it).