Sorry for the late response on this - was out of town at Dragon Con over the holiday weekend.
Thank you all for the advice on improvements to gear! As I continue to look for those elusive ancient weapons, I will also start to focus on finding gear with more CDR and CHD, as the Area Damage issue seems to still be around.
I'm seeing folks (Monks specifically) high on the leader boards using the standard Uliana's six piece SSS build - which includes Broken Promises in the Cube.
I'm doing the same and thus far can't seem to get the DPS to get past GR52. Now I don't have an ancient Fist or Lions, so that's a big part of it. but I feel the other half of the issue is the lack of Crit and the lack of proc on Broken Promises.
For giggles, I did a T10 rift with the character screen open and sat in a group of mobs, just using WothF generator attack. I waited to see the sheet dps jump from 300k to 1.5M. I punched and punched and punched and no jump really in dps. I then hit SSS and immediately the DPS jumped, at the end of the SSS attack and by the time SSS was off of cooldown, the sheet dps was back to around 300K.
I know the ring procs at different times during fights, but it seems so spotty at best that you can't really time your SSS attacks around it. And I feel that has to be an integral part of being able to progress. I have no crit anywhere else and it appears that you start with a base of 5%.
So there was a monk, rank 2 for the monk solo leader boards and they didn't use Broken Promises, but Covention of Elements in its place and they had crit in all the usual places.
So any suggestions on how to play around the proc, to time it, expect it, etc? Anyone else having trouble with this?
Sorry for the late response on this - was out of town at Dragon Con over the holiday weekend.
Thank you all for the advice on improvements to gear! As I continue to look for those elusive ancient weapons, I will also start to focus on finding gear with more CDR and CHD, as the Area Damage issue seems to still be around.
Monkalicious: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/OptimusPrime-12194/hero/79139477
I'm seeing folks (Monks specifically) high on the leader boards using the standard Uliana's six piece SSS build - which includes Broken Promises in the Cube.
I'm doing the same and thus far can't seem to get the DPS to get past GR52. Now I don't have an ancient Fist or Lions, so that's a big part of it. but I feel the other half of the issue is the lack of Crit and the lack of proc on Broken Promises.
For giggles, I did a T10 rift with the character screen open and sat in a group of mobs, just using WothF generator attack. I waited to see the sheet dps jump from 300k to 1.5M. I punched and punched and punched and no jump really in dps. I then hit SSS and immediately the DPS jumped, at the end of the SSS attack and by the time SSS was off of cooldown, the sheet dps was back to around 300K.
I know the ring procs at different times during fights, but it seems so spotty at best that you can't really time your SSS attacks around it. And I feel that has to be an integral part of being able to progress. I have no crit anywhere else and it appears that you start with a base of 5%.
So there was a monk, rank 2 for the monk solo leader boards and they didn't use Broken Promises, but Covention of Elements in its place and they had crit in all the usual places.
So any suggestions on how to play around the proc, to time it, expect it, etc? Anyone else having trouble with this?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Polrayne-1173/hero/22253075
Monkalicious: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/OptimusPrime-12194/hero/79139477