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Just wanna say thank you very much for making this chart.
As of right now, I think Invis logged on Beta and at 10 x 100 Paragon, he was 358 RoS Paragon Level.
Im still gonna go for Paragon 1000 on live since not alot of people I know have it, maybe 2-3.
If they keep this current design, 358 is still a huge leap forward.
INVIS was at 376. Source: http://dd.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1r1bdu/gathering_results_for_accountwide_paragon_merging/cdimbr5
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INVIS was at 376. Source: http://dd.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1r1bdu/gathering_results_for_accountwide_paragon_merging/cdimbr5
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It looks like P1000 (10x1000) = Paragon 376
Others are gathering additional data, so we'll likely see a curve by the end of the day.
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An Inna's with SW% would probably be a good upgrade, the problem is you have a fair amount of EHP coming from your Mempo, so you'll need to find more EHP first on other gear to be able to drop the mempo.
Looks like you have a decent set of crafted bracers now. You can eventually do better but you could probably craft shoulders or gloves now to see where that gets you (both will probably take a while). Its too bad we can't trade crafted gear, i have a sweet set of CC Fire Resist/AR/vit bracers i crafted when I was rolling Fire Resist:
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To do MP10 I find that getting up to 500k EHP (based on d3up numbers) and as close to 91% damage reduction (in the defensive specifics section of d3up) with 5%+ Life Steal helps make MP10 much more manageable.
Overall you have pretty decent gear though.
Specific suggestions: Farm some Demonic Essences and craft bracers. You may take a little DPS hit, but you should be able to get a set with 5%+ CC, vit all resist and either fire resist or armor, which would probably move your EHP right near where it needs to be.
Next, I'd look at a Socket, 2.5%+ LS, 23%+ Lightning SKILL dmg Won Khim Lao (WKL). Each 1% of ligthing damage is somewhere in the 12-16 weapon DPS range, so a WKL with 800 DPS 25% lighting skill damage is roughly equivalent to a 1100-1200 dps rare weapon with similar stats.
Also, if you are familiar with Reddit, there's a fairly active monk community at http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo3Monks/that are happy to offer other suggestions.
Edit: Also, use d3up for planning your upgrades, it has been the best tool for me to get reliable EHP numbers and for comparing new gear before I buy.
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Check the build here: http://d3up.com/b/465363
This works almost as well as with my LS Skorn and I still kill skorpions in one or two WoL. I did notice I don't get quite the regen while TR'ing between packs of scorpions so it may be a good idea to take StI and have decent resist/HP.
So, in short a non Crit Dmg, LS/socket/Dex weapon may be a viable budget alternative to a LS skorn.
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Monk here; Goves, Bracers, Ammy and Shoulders on above profile
Gloves were first ever craft, I have since gotten a trifecta set of gloves, but lack vit or all resist.
Ammy was after maybe 10 crafts, made ~150 since and gotten no where close to it yet.
Shoulders did replace my vile wards, but still have plenty of room for improvement.
Got the double resist set of bracers in 15 crafts or so, thought I'd stop there for a while :).
Edit: Added screen shots.
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New Inna's Helm with 80+ vit and Double Resist (so Arcane + All resist) and as much Dex/CC as you can find.
New gloves with Vit and Single Resist as mentioned above with high Dex + 9+ CC and 30+ CD
Look into an Echoing Fury with Life Steal would make higher MP level Reflect packs a cake-walk (other than the fear mess).
Optional: Inna's Pants with high Vit(150+) and a new Nat's boots with High Dex and Resist, dropping vit.
Hit me up in game for specific suggestions if you like. My profile is in my sig for my battle-tag
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So Cyclones benefit from this, FoT benefit from this, SW Dot does NOT benefit from this (its physical damage, not lightning).
So, as a general rule of thumb, if a WKL has 25% ligthning SKILL damage, then you'll see between 15-20% boost on you're overall ACTUAL dps output.
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As a frame of reference, I sold a 9.5 CC, 1.73 Spirit regen Xeph for ~59 mil a week or so ago.
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So, I did want to confirm this ^.
I did some testing on the PTR (MP10 Nightmare Belial with tiny dps (around 1500))
Specfically i just started SW with no dps boosts and got a decent idea on SW damage, I then let SW drop, flashed blinding light and the dmg DID go up, BUT, as soon as BL fell off, so did the damage, so it's clear that the SW dmg is now fully dynamic to our active buffs.
May have not needed to be said, but I wanted to make it clear that snapshotting is completely dead.
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Looking forward to the PTR to give it ago.
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Also, given your budget you should be able to get there pretty comfortably.
Here's my suggestions:
LS scales MUCH better than LoH and will serve you well on all but the occasional nasty reflect dmg packs.
Also the WKL 23%+ lightning skill damage boosts almost all damage on the cookie cutter monk build.
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A while ago the dps calcs were not as accurate as those found on theasiangamer.com (there is a D3 dps calculator there) but it looks like they are now much closer.
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Since live, myself, another monk and a DH have been able to consistently clear MP4 ubers. Khule & Siege are by far the more difficult encounter though, and we typically lose at least one of us in that fight.
Our stats are (roughly):
Myself: 90-120k DPS, 2.8 LS, 800 LoH, 580+ Resist, 50k HP, 4800 armor
Other Monk: 70-100k DPS (depends on how much LoH he takes), 2.8 LS, 200-500 LoH, 630 Resist, 46k HP, 4700 armor
DH: 100k DPS (only with archery passive), No LS (relies on Shadow Power & Gloom), 49k HP
We likely could do higher MP ubers, but none of us enjoy that much of a challenge, and we can usually clear MP4 with a single attempt on each.
To add more data, we do key runs on anywhere from MP5 to MP7.