I doubt 14m is gonna be enough to upgrade anything substantially at this point. The pieces that stick out to me are your rings and MH (no socket). I'd look for attack speed + crit chance first per Newti's advice and then eventually try to get trifecta rings. A socket in your MH will also be a nice dps boost.
Other than that everything else will be an incremental improvement for most likely monstrous amounts of gold Stuff like getting a similar ammy with stats, more crit/crit dmg on pieces, and increasing resist or getting double resists on pieces.
It seems like all my monk needed was a change in skills. Your guys tips really helped as I am easing thru act2 and doing a lot better in act3. I was initially dualing but decided to go for the shield too as many of you have suggested.
With the shield my resist has entered the 700 range and my critical chance rose to 44 percent. DPS is still good, 30k with shield. The shield also gives a 20 percent block chance. My dex has also increased to 1.9. LOH is the same at 1300 although critical damage has decreased to 180.
Some elites still give me trouble in act3 but not too many. GHOM was a huge pain but I somehow got thru him.
Now what I need help in is building my follower, since that makes a huge difference during solo play. What's better, templer or enchantress? And how would I build that follower?
I use the Scoundrel now, but I did use the Enchantress for a while when I used a shield. The thing with the Enchantress is that the AI for her is really bad and she's dead pretty much 99% of the time against most champ packs. So you get the 15% armor full time, but you don't usually get the attack speed or damage buff. I don't think that the Templar has any buffs you keep when he dies and he dies too much for my taste as well because he has to melee. With the Scoundrel, you get 3% crit full time and he actually tries to keep himself alive. I DW and the extra armor from the Enchantress doesn't do much to keep me alive so I run with the Scoundrel.
Before you give up on DW maybe try this build - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#baXigk!UXZ!cabcYa
You might wanna swap MoC for MoE + Hard Target since your resists are a little low, but maybe the damage is more helpful to you. The problem I had with A3 was that I was always teleporting into stuff on the ground (molten, plague, etc) and explode with FoT + Thunderclap. DR gives you a way to attack and kite or at least stand out of stuff on the ground.
Newti also posted some good information about Sweeping Winds. It's too much of a pain for me to open the character detail sheet every time to check my weapon, so I just use 2 similar weapons. Before you pop Sweeping Winds make sure Blazing Wrath is up and the damage buff from Foresight on DR. It makes a pretty big difference.
Anyway, I can farm A3 pretty easily like that. My stats are little higher than yours now since I recently upgraded a bunch of pieces, but I started about where you're at. I just had ~800 AR with 4200 armor. I have 4800 armor now.
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Other than that everything else will be an incremental improvement for most likely monstrous amounts of gold
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These are the builds I use for my followers: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/follower#1100!0010!0010
I use the Scoundrel now, but I did use the Enchantress for a while when I used a shield. The thing with the Enchantress is that the AI for her is really bad and she's dead pretty much 99% of the time against most champ packs. So you get the 15% armor full time, but you don't usually get the attack speed or damage buff. I don't think that the Templar has any buffs you keep when he dies and he dies too much for my taste as well because he has to melee. With the Scoundrel, you get 3% crit full time and he actually tries to keep himself alive. I DW and the extra armor from the Enchantress doesn't do much to keep me alive so I run with the Scoundrel.
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You might wanna swap MoC for MoE + Hard Target since your resists are a little low, but maybe the damage is more helpful to you. The problem I had with A3 was that I was always teleporting into stuff on the ground (molten, plague, etc) and explode with FoT + Thunderclap. DR gives you a way to attack and kite or at least stand out of stuff on the ground.
Newti also posted some good information about Sweeping Winds. It's too much of a pain for me to open the character detail sheet every time to check my weapon, so I just use 2 similar weapons. Before you pop Sweeping Winds make sure Blazing Wrath is up and the damage buff from Foresight on DR. It makes a pretty big difference.
Anyway, I can farm A3 pretty easily like that. My stats are little higher than yours now since I recently upgraded a bunch of pieces, but I started about where you're at. I just had ~800 AR with 4200 armor. I have 4800 armor now.