LOH is really overrated. Take it if you can get it, but never gear for it. You're better off hitting a decent resist threshold like 700-800 and then going for crit/crit damage/dexterity and any vit you can get. Killing things faster means less damage incoming. Seriously, being able to burst down an elite with nasty affixes quick can be the difference maker.
LOH might save you on some trash, but no amount will save you from molten, fire chains, arcane, plague , desecratations and shielding/vortex.
That's fine if you don't like the playstyle, but don't say you need amazing gear or anything to get it done. The champ with those affixes will kill any monk regardless of spec. The winds aren't doing the amazing while you kite btw, but you keep them up as much as possible you when you go back with serenity on a hard pack you have a 3 stack up already and can make a ton of tornados and do a ton of damage. Here's the plan vs. random horrible affix champs or elites.
1) target a minion or champ and blow your cooldowns to do as much damage as you can.
2) kite, sneaking in hits to keep sweeping wind up
3) when cooldowns are off, go back in and do as much damage as you can
4) repeat
Other packs you can simply tank/spank through no problems in even ok gear.
I simply cant dps in act 2 with this spec i got 450 resists 31k hp, 16k dps unbuffed 25% crit chance and everytime i dps and go near the mob i get raped in 2s, fists of thunder require alot of defensive stats since u teleport into shit on the ground but to get both high crit,dex,resists,vit means u have to spend millions on gear while as a wizard u just go full intelect and simply rape everything in your sight.
All the monks u see killing stuff in act 3/4 with high crit chance/dmg have 1,5k+ life on hit, to get that you need to spend alot of gold, only a wep would cost u 30 mil gold. Show me a monk who does act 3/4 with 0 life on hit.
Stop making excuses for your bad play. I cleared Act 3/4 with 200LOH and 20k dps. You don't need the best weapon in the game to make this build work, nor do you have to be the best player. You need to get comfortable with fist of thunder and thunderclap. Keep your sweeping wind up as much possible, which is really easy with thunderclap. Teleport in and out for quick hits. Let a mob come to melee you and pop your sereniy + faith in the light for big DPS. Don't just teleport in and try and faceroll molten+arcane+desecrate mobs.
I tried this spec with 14k dps and it sucked in act 2, this will only work when u got 40k dps and to get that u need to spend 500 mil gold+ to do it, til then i stick with my wizard.
Cleared Diablo with 5NV and only 21k dps and not spending more than 3 million on a single piece of gear. Farm more, play better and stop making excuses for bad play.
Thanks again for this guide. Was able to kill Diablo on Inferno with it. Used FoT with Mantra of Evasion + Hard Target. Only had 530 fire resist and 200 LOH on the kill while keeping a 5 stack of NV up. I had to skip a few BS packs unfortunately but they were Horde/molten Morlu Meteor Bros and Opressors. Very solid build and guide.
I'm having the most success in act 3 and I don't outgear it. Against molten casters, use serenity + blind with the dps rune and do as much damage as you can before you have to run out. The good thing about this build is you can do some really high DPS. Also, thunderclap won't teleport you if you actually get close enough to hit with the teleport. The dodge mantra with hard target also gives you some armor which helps against the puddles of death.
It is very dependent on crit gear though, but all the old builds were equally dependent on LOH gear and this build is not. If you can get good enough crit gear through farming or AH, you can quite easily get 40k or more DPS and just wreck packs of elites before they kill you. You still have to kite and be careful of the puddles/fires, but that is intended by Blizzard.
I've been farming act 2 and act 3 up until siegebreaker. Some packs are still bullshit, but what can you do? Only thing you can do is continue to grind and get better gear or dump that pack of horde/invulnerable minion demonic tremors in a corner.
I've shed a lot of IAS for to bring my crit up to 25 and crit damage to 100 and it honestly feels like my DPS has tripled. Was able to kill Ghom post-1.03 with this build and a lot of elite packs that I would just loldump in a corner. As for plague/molten/firechain and the like, you need to kite and use serenity and your heals as much as possible. Anything with vortex and these affixes I try and use a corner to bait the vortex and then I go in with burst damage.
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LOH might save you on some trash, but no amount will save you from molten, fire chains, arcane, plague , desecratations and shielding/vortex.
1) target a minion or champ and blow your cooldowns to do as much damage as you can.
2) kite, sneaking in hits to keep sweeping wind up
3) when cooldowns are off, go back in and do as much damage as you can
4) repeat
Other packs you can simply tank/spank through no problems in even ok gear.
Stop making excuses for your bad play. I cleared Act 3/4 with 200LOH and 20k dps. You don't need the best weapon in the game to make this build work, nor do you have to be the best player. You need to get comfortable with fist of thunder and thunderclap. Keep your sweeping wind up as much possible, which is really easy with thunderclap. Teleport in and out for quick hits. Let a mob come to melee you and pop your sereniy + faith in the light for big DPS. Don't just teleport in and try and faceroll molten+arcane+desecrate mobs.
Cleared Diablo with 5NV and only 21k dps and not spending more than 3 million on a single piece of gear. Farm more, play better and stop making excuses for bad play.
It is very dependent on crit gear though, but all the old builds were equally dependent on LOH gear and this build is not. If you can get good enough crit gear through farming or AH, you can quite easily get 40k or more DPS and just wreck packs of elites before they kill you. You still have to kite and be careful of the puddles/fires, but that is intended by Blizzard.
I've been farming act 2 and act 3 up until siegebreaker. Some packs are still bullshit, but what can you do? Only thing you can do is continue to grind and get better gear or dump that pack of horde/invulnerable minion demonic tremors in a corner.