For making monk not suck with your current spec on Shakespears!!
Hats off to you for the most enjoyable monk spec I've tried, finally something with enough spirit gen to use bells like they should be used, and enough dps to get solo elites, trash mobs and goblins down without issue, bonus for being a spec that should work great in the xpac with the buff coming to dashing strike and bells not pushing things all over the place.
The major bonus, HATE HATE HATE HATE screenshake with thundercap, glad to not be using that.
I've tried nearly everything on monk in past, and every time I am severly dissapointed or the spec / gearing is lacking in some regards to it being fun, like, at all.
I always went back to barb and recently P100'd a WW barb with rend becuase it was the ONLY fun spec to play, but always I go back to monk trying to make it fun or work in some fashion.
Nirvana spec was sort of fun but:
- lacked any damage outside of nirvana
- SW drop off was devastating when moving into a new pack
- goblins or elites by themselves or not around enough mobs, forget it
- leaves too many good exp trash unkilled because of the need for packs
- forced to drop a good passive for lowered cooldowns on ONE button that actually has a cooldown
Tempest rush
- forget trying to kill keywardens or elites without freinds around.
- goblins were downright impossible without trash around.
- Required a dumnbing down of gear for spirit regen or less attack speed
- out of spirit, go die in a corner, it's all thats left for you, it takes less time to res with spirit than it does to generate more
- even EP tempest rush, same issues as before when not in groups of mobs
Standard TC SW Overawe
- Screenshake, un-effing-bearable
- slow chasing down mobs
- spirit gen was crap
- if you wanted to use EP or Bells even with spirit regen EP or lowered cost bells, you only got to cast these things once in a while
- spec was almost useable with EP spirit regen, but there is the whole screenshake issue, bleh.
On a side note, I've always disliked blind in general, so it's great to be playing a spec that doesn't need it.
The only issue even remotely worth mentioning is a lack of tornados in this spec, but that will most likely be fixed with being able to spec paragon points into offensive stats and perhaps when I get a little better gear with mor IAS.
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Hats off to you for the most enjoyable monk spec I've tried, finally something with enough spirit gen to use bells like they should be used, and enough dps to get solo elites, trash mobs and goblins down without issue, bonus for being a spec that should work great in the xpac with the buff coming to dashing strike and bells not pushing things all over the place.
The major bonus, HATE HATE HATE HATE screenshake with thundercap, glad to not be using that.
I've tried nearly everything on monk in past, and every time I am severly dissapointed or the spec / gearing is lacking in some regards to it being fun, like, at all.
I always went back to barb and recently P100'd a WW barb with rend becuase it was the ONLY fun spec to play, but always I go back to monk trying to make it fun or work in some fashion.
Nirvana spec was sort of fun but:
- lacked any damage outside of nirvana
- SW drop off was devastating when moving into a new pack
- goblins or elites by themselves or not around enough mobs, forget it
- leaves too many good exp trash unkilled because of the need for packs
- forced to drop a good passive for lowered cooldowns on ONE button that actually has a cooldown
Tempest rush
- forget trying to kill keywardens or elites without freinds around.
- goblins were downright impossible without trash around.
- Required a dumnbing down of gear for spirit regen or less attack speed
- out of spirit, go die in a corner, it's all thats left for you, it takes less time to res with spirit than it does to generate more
- even EP tempest rush, same issues as before when not in groups of mobs
Standard TC SW Overawe
- Screenshake, un-effing-bearable
- slow chasing down mobs
- spirit gen was crap
- if you wanted to use EP or Bells even with spirit regen EP or lowered cost bells, you only got to cast these things once in a while
- spec was almost useable with EP spirit regen, but there is the whole screenshake issue, bleh.
On a side note, I've always disliked blind in general, so it's great to be playing a spec that doesn't need it.
The only issue even remotely worth mentioning is a lack of tornados in this spec, but that will most likely be fixed with being able to spec paragon points into offensive stats and perhaps when I get a little better gear with mor IAS.
Thanks again,
Monks +1