Basically the best spirit generation build in the world. First i will tell you the reasoning behind the skills and the passives:-
Way of The Hundred Fists:- Fists of Fury
As you can see below my build contains sweeping wind.You must perform a melee attack before the 6 second duration comes to an end.So my first thought was fists of thunder with thunderclap.But then i saw its videos.It stops at the first obstacle and also at the first monster that comes your way.So i choose this rune instead.This adds a dash to the first strike.All those people who have used dashing strike know how smooth it is.It also adds a 10% holy damage per second to all enemies.The third strike is an aoe effect so you will be able to place the dps on them all.It also works well with the dps you are getting from sweeping wind and mystic ally.So it has a dps potential of 35%-65% weapon damage.
Wave of light:- Explosive Light
The main problem of the original wave of light is it affects only limited enemies in front of you and the range of the second wave is not that good,not helped by the fact that it does only 45% holy damage.Exploding light solves this problem.Its range is more than that of the second wave,its damage is more than that of the two waves from the basic wave of light combined,holy damage cant be resisted,and it works like a nova going off in all directions.The main spam attack of the build.(yes i know it is difficult to spam this skill but not in this build)
Sweeping Wind:-Inner Storm
A good dps attack provided that you can keep it up for a long time.And if you cant,who cares? With the passive regeneration coming from this build you should be able to start it again anyway.Inner storm is chosen for the passive(and also massive,if i may) 3 spirit generation per second.And you will be able to keep it up for a lot of time due to the dash from Way of The Hundred Fists.
Serenity:- Reap What Is Sown
I always choose this rune because the other runes provide defensive bonuses while this provides an offensive one.If you are surrounded by monsters then how the hell will a heal or 1 second increased duration help you? And the amount of damage it deals is not based on your weapon damage but on your maximum life.And if you just equip a helmet with 3 radiant star rubies then your maximum life will be increased by 54%.Also it deals holy damage which cannot be resisted in a huge 20 yard radius.While all of you will use it as your escape button, i will use it to quickly get in the middle of a nasty pack,generate spirit while also increasing the vortex count of sweeping wind.Anything that remains after the 20 yard blast can be exterminated by wave of light.
Mystic Ally:-Air Ally
I chose this not only because of the generation chance of 100 spirit,but also for the dps.Thats another speciality of this build.Even those enemies you are not pummeling with your generator are receiving damage.And by the way,most people dont like the 100 spirit generation.In battle.net forums,i saw people say that if they already have more than 50 spirit then a part of the 100 spirit will be wasted.Well good luck to them in inferno,because i am sure these guys are not going to use potions and heals very often because they will be thinking,"OMG!! I only have 2000 life out of my 9000 life.And monsters are coming after me fast!!Although i have Breath of Heaven Runed for more than 8000 heal i wont use it.What a waste of that extra 1000 life!!", and then some monster would come along and kill them in 1 hit.Hopefully these morons will play hardcore,and it will be fun to see them begging the game developers to revive their characters!!
Mantra of Healing:-
Heal every second for huge amounts of life and gain 3 passive spirit generation.Also after fights are over,just stop for a few seconds and you will have full life!!(And with the amount of spirit generation this build provides,maybe full spirit too)
Passives:-
Chant of Resonance:- Another passive spirit generation of 2.And Mantra Duration increased by 7 minutes.Cool.
Trascendence:-Heal for 64 life(per point of spirit spent) whenever you use a spirit spender.Since you will be spamming exploding light,you will be healing a lot.Also did you know that some items can provide a boost to this property?You can extend it to 200 with little difficulty.(Imagine getting 15000 life each time you use that huge aoe!!)And if you try hard enough you can extend it to 300 too.
The Guardian's Path:- This build will require a two handed weapon because if you use a shiled you will have not-so-good attack speed and if you dual wield then your damage dealing skills will only consider the damage from your mainhand weapon.So whats the problem in using a 2 hander?Also Guardian's Path gives you +25% spirit generation per strike.So you generate 30 spirit ever 4 hits.
So the summary of the build comes down to this:-
Pros:-
5-8 spirit generation per second.
You will obviously be performing at least 3 hits every 2 seconds to generate 31.5 spirit(guardian path bonus).Thats 15.75 spirit per second.
So total spirit generated outside combat is 5-8 while during combat you will generate 20.75-23.75 spirit per second.
This allows you to spam Exploding light every 5 seconds(roughly assuming delays) and with it get a huge heal too.The way i see it,285% holy damage in a huge radius along with a 4800 heal every 5 seconds is no joke.
You wont have any problem generating spirit if you start the battle with serenity.
Cons:-
Bad attack speed due to 2 handers(can be improved with gear)
The sweeping wind vortex count has a CHANCE to increase upon a critical hit.Chance upon a chance is not good.
Here the best defense is a good offense as you have to spam exploding light to maintain a 4800 heal every 5 seconds.So not so good defense unless you use serenity.
So that's it.Best Spirit Generation in the world.You must be thinking this build is pathetic as there are far more ways of generating spirit,that too more spirit than this build can generate.And there are many good combinations out there too which i did not make use of.Like Resolve.And there are runes on all generators to generate way better spirit than this build.But those mostly have a chance to generate or require critical hits.
I can make a build using all those skills and runes,but mark my words,those will just be lists of spirit generating skills and runes,not builds.A build is something you should be able to use offensively as well as defensively.My build has almost everything like huge aoe damage,escape situational skill,single target focus,heals,damage per second,spirit generation,you name it.
So i am adamant that this is the Best Spirit Generation Build in The World!!!
Oh and i completely forgot to mention that there was a forum on battle.net about a guy who said he had acquired 3 spirit generation per second from gear.If thats the case in the beta,Then tell me what is stopping us from acquiring 5+ passive spirit generation in inferno??
And do you want to see some of the skills from this build? Look below:-
Way of The Hundred Fists with The Fists of Fury rune:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WV5v-ggOtI
There was another video of it available too but it was created with an emulator so i dont trust it.
Sweeping Wind:-Inner Storm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCfFWq_QK_Y
Skip to 0:26
The video is a bit outdated,of when sweeping wind was a generator.Ignore the three strikes,the vortex that forms around the monk is now the only effect.
Please give huge amount of feedbacks.
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That's a lot of spirit generation, but what's the point if there isn't a solid non-cooldown spirit spending ability?
My mistake, I see now that you have wave of light as your main attack. This build should work fine providing that wave of light is as good as we hope, seeing as you've built the entire build around it.
The solid non-cool down ability here is Wave of light with exploding light rune.285% damage man!!!Nuke!!!And with the 2 hander you will be rocking!!!And the spirit generation is enough to spam this expensive nuke.(75 spirit cost)
Also another pro i forgot to add:-
This build can be completed by level 46 you dont have to wait till level 60 to kick a$$e$ by the masses.
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That's a lot of spirit generation, but what's the point if there isn't a solid non-cooldown spirit spending ability?
My mistake, I see now that you have wave of light as your main attack. This build should work fine providing that wave of light is as good as we hope, seeing as you've built the entire build around it.
Yes you are right this build is built around the hope that holy damage cannot be resisted by monsters.But i am 100% sure of it because where have we seen demons or zombies or vampires who do not die due to holy damage?I think thats a big advantage.
Second,if holy damage was meant to be resisted by monsters,why were the players given arcane and holy resistance in one slot??
I tell you you can rock with this build.
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There's one "problem" I see here, and the main reason I haven't included Sweeping Wind in my personal "spirit generation" build, is that you have to CRIT in order to add stacks to it.
Melee hits only refresh the duration, crits add a stack. So until you have the gear, it won't be up as much as you think. I realize that once you get the stacks, non crits will still refresh it meaning you CAN maintain the full stack for the 3 Spirit/sec, it will just take a bit to get to that point.
Now, that may not seem like a big deal but there are plenty of lulls in between battles which means no matter how hard you try, no matter what skills you bring, Sweeping Wind WILL drop off pretty often, requiring you to crit again in order to stack it up to attain the spirit regen from the rune.
I'm not dogging on the skill, it's great, just explaining why I haven't chosen it for my personal generation build.
The only generation you have besides your generator is the 10 Spirit/sec, a portion of which will likely drop off (Sweeping Wind) here and there like I talked about. That's a decent chunk though and paired with a generator, you should get ~50 Spirit every 3 seconds with 1 APS 2H (22 from 3 hits of WotHF and 30 from the per second Spirit).
That works out to be a Wave of Light cast every ~5 seconds, which is nice damage.
This is all while you have Sweeping Wind + Air Mystic Ally ticking away, but some of that "thorns" damage may not always be efficient if enemies aren't clumped up. For thorns damage to be most efficient, I feel that either Cyclone Strike needs to be included in the build, or some kind of mobile skill, like Tempest Rush or Dashing Strike, in order to get into the center of a group and damage the maximum amount of enemies with the thorns damage.
That's one more reason I didn't include Sweeping Winds, and thorns damage in general, into my Spirit generation build. Just my personal opinion.
Overall, your build is awesome and it will definitely allow you to pump out Waves of Light often, crushing demons left and right quickly.
Here is mine, I hope you don't mind me sharing it in your thread. Also hope you don't mind the thread title, I'm just joking with you
@glowrym:-I dont trust critical hit.I have clearly mentioned it that a chance upon a chance is not reliable at all.But i think that can be fixed with critical hit gear.Also i picked up sweeping wind because it also is a good damage dealer.And lets say that sweeping wind goes down after 6 seconds.So what's the problem?Even if sweeping wind is not active we are generating 5 spirit/second and you will have leftover spirit from each battle.I dont like builds where you have to rush without enjoying,such as the barbarian's thrive on chaos rune,wizard's archon and the monk's sweeping wind.I like it when i get a lot of good drops from monsters then go to the town and pend minutes comparing the gear to my current one.Sweeping wind is a good skill,it has cool graphics,it deals more damage than mantra of conviction runed with submission,and many people want to use it.But everyone hesitates due to the fact that it has a 6 second duration and if we use the rune to increase the duration we will be losing out on many other skills because we will have to run a lot from here to there finding monsters as well as use lots of spirit if it does go down(75 spirit).And the inner storm rune for the skill is unlocked at level 46.I think you can get a lot of +to crit chance gear by then.Also this build is complete at level 46 and is just as effective as a level 60 build.Oh,and also if you have a 2 handed weapon then the dps damage of mystic ally+way of the hundred fists+sweeping wind that you consider so low will be very high indeed.As i have said earlier,i am not providing you guys with a list of spirit generation runes.Whenever you are fighting an enemy every other enemy you are not fighting is being affected.As for cyclone strike,you already have wave of light.
@Dashing:-Glad someone made the connection between Best In The World and CultOfPersonality.
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@glowrym:-I dont trust critical hit.I have clearly mentioned it that a chance upon a chance is not reliable at all.But i think that can be fixed with critical hit gear.Also i picked up sweeping wind because it also is a good damage dealer.And lets say that sweeping wind goes down after 6 seconds.So what's the problem?Even if sweeping wind is not active we are generating 5 spirit/second and you will have leftover spirit from each battle.I dont like builds where you have to rush without enjoying,such as the barbarian's thrive on chaos rune,wizard's archon and the monk's sweeping wind.I like it when i get a lot of good drops from monsters then go to the town and pend minutes comparing the gear to my current one.Sweeping wind is a good skill,it has cool graphics,it deals more damage than mantra of conviction runed with submission,and many people want to use it.But everyone hesitates due to the fact that it has a 6 second duration and if we use the rune to increase the duration we will be losing out on many other skills because we will have to run a lot from here to there finding monsters as well as use lots of spirit if it does go down(75 spirit).And the inner storm rune for the skill is unlocked at level 46.I think you can get a lot of +to crit chance gear by then.Also this build is complete at level 46 and is just as effective as a level 60 build.Oh,and also if you have a 2 handed weapon then the dps damage of mystic ally+way of the hundred fists+sweeping wind that you consider so low will be very high indeed.As i have said earlier,i am not providing you guys with a list of spirit generation runes.Whenever you are fighting an enemy every other enemy you are not fighting is being affected.As for cyclone strike,you already have wave of light.
@Dashing:-Glad someone made the connection between Best In The World and CultOfPersonality.
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Without doubt the best spirit generation build in the world!!!!!!!
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Well well some people think they are so great.First when you create a build,they come and offer useless criticism and when they are replied they act so sensitive. "Ooh dont point out my mistakes,cause i am mr.sensitive and i will cry if you hurt me." And when their mistakes are pointed out either they cry or they pretend it was sarcasm.Well sorry guys for making you cry,from now on you are free to live in the world of fantasies.Every time someone achieves something good people swarm around to put obstacles in his path,but they find it impossible to do so and dissappear in shame.Well they keep coming,and when nobody listens they go away just as fast.And the person who is not affected by these people is called The Best in The World.(LOL how can something be better than the best??)
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I would gladly use a heal or blinding flash,but the problem with the heal is it does not scale.It will be powerful early on and useless later on.And before the blinding flash used to say that those enemies which are hit while blinded will now be able to attack you but will still have the chance to miss.It does not appear now but it may be present.
The heal with the breath of heaven is the reason the war is going on between The Best Spirit Generation Build in The World and Even Betterer Spirit Generation Build in The World(lol "betterer"?!?)
My war is not with the guy glowrym who posted that build.He countered my points of this build with politeness,firmness and intelligence.I really looked forward to having an interesting debate with him about whose build will be better.And i really didnt care.At the end i was going to propose that these 2 builds used together would rock.
But then these Mr.Sensitive"Please dont hurt me or i will cry"guys came along.They talked rough with me and when answered back they said they were offended.Well they are just a bunch of losers with smarting egos which are ignored by the majority of the people.
Also note that this is not the build i am gonna be using.The build i am gonna use is different.I understand the potential of exploding palm with the spirit generation.But i dont understand why i must use a heal that does not scale or spend 50 spirit for 100% weapon damage.
@Flenty:-Using wave of light once gives me half the heals of breath of heaven.With this build i can use Wave of Light once every 5 seconds.And BoH has a 15sec cd.So i can use WoL thrice in that time giving me damage+heals.
Hey i was tempted to use resolve a lot(who isn't) but decided not to because this build generates spirit.Instead i trust my survival on transcendence.Although i have used resolve in The Best Damage Reduction Build in The World.
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@valt3r7:- I had read on a battle.net forum about breath of heaven not scaling.Hence i thought it did not scale.But it seems that i was wrong.I dont have a problem with this issue,you can be be rough with me anytime about this anytime.Because you PROVED me wrong,hence you earned the right of calling me dumb,lame-a$$,anything else you like.You see i dont have a problem with people being rough with me or even abuse me if they can prove their point.(just say whatever you want to say about me and put "BoH issue" in the bracket.)
However,if you start being rough with me about anything you cant prove,then am i gonna send you a box of chocolates?Now you cant say i started it.It was started by one of you other two lame-a$$ jerks(what was his name now?Sporelax i think) with his "GL HF killing bosses with that" crap.
Oh and you say i manipulated your words according to my needs?You said,"The mystic ally will not solo the bosses." That's a truth. I think sarcasm would be something like"Yeah,like your mystic ally is going to solo the bosses." So actually what happened is that you manipulated your own words according to your needs by pretending that you were being sarcastic and blaming it all on me.
When i said my build>your(ahem)glowrym's build, i did not use any offense.And when i answered back your comments in the same way you answered mine you said i was offending(so no you cant claim that you arent affected) and i was a jerk.
And that lame-a$$ egomaniac jerk(sporelax) and you started acting like jerks yourselves.
And you both decided to ignore me so i decided to help you do so by not replying on that forum anymore.But again you had called me jerks there so i answered back here.And i thought you wont answer back.Since you were trying to prove that you were far more mature than me and i was just another childish jerk.And so i thought i would not get any replies from you mature guys since i am just a Mr.Know it all who you Great Ones would ignore.
But jerks will be jerks.You claim that you are not affected by my insults,but even after you said you will ignore me,you couldnt help replying to me.LOL do truths hurt that much?Sorry for every tear you have shed.And now you cant even claim i manipulated your words or say something like"Oh please.I am not affected by your insults" because that would be the lamest things to do and if i answered back you would rush to your defense anyway.So much for playing the mature guy.
But you still are right and i am wrong about the BoH thing.I feel like an idiot for that.
@Ocean:-Rage face on?!?Knife party?!?
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I never said you HAVE to hail my build as the best in the world.I just said its betterer than the betterer build.
"It is not like the ally is gonna solo the bosses."Pure truth,really i do believe the ally will not solo the bosses.
You like ep with strong spirit, i dont like the fact that you have to kill for it.Personal opinion.
I never went on that forum to argue with glowrym.I just went for an interesting discussion,but the "GL HF killing bosses with that" really made me want to answer back.
I say BoH used in the beggining is weak because why do you wanna use BoH when you have full life? And of course you are going to heal after every battle with potions/healthglobes.
As for the amusement,you are quite amusing yourselves,my diminutive friend(lol you said little so i said diminutive).This war of the words has been quite amusing,really.
I claim that the other build is weaker against bosses because glowrym has clearly stated that he plans to use ep>cyclone>WoL combo for better chance to kill and get the ep bonus.I only have to wait for 75 spirit to use WoL.
Actually this build is not for me,but for those who rant about spirit not regenerating like the other resources and claiming that if they use spirit generation affixes from gear/runes,they will lose out on offense.My build is totally different(even the dmg reduction build i posted is not going to be used by me)
As for the offense,if calling someone jerk,dumb,or calling him just another Mr.Know it all and asking people to ignore him is not offense,then my bad.
And for your first post you had not offended me but i really thought that you were calling my build bad because you wanted the ally to solo the boss.That would be like a cheat.My bad again.
Actually i respected you(no sarcasm i swear)a lot for fighting back like that and the respect increased when you said you would ignore me.Seriously i would not have done that.
But i really hate that lame-a$$ jerk sporelax and his "GL HF killing bosses with that" crap.
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I think that little problem is solved.But i will try one last time to prove that this build is good,when i reach inferno i will post a video of the monk using these skills.Till then no one knows what is what.As for the SW inner storm,i have stated in my first post that it is good only if you can keep it up.I hate SW,i hate the passives i have chosen and i have been told repeatedly to choose resolve but i did not do so,because it does not help with spirit.This build is only about spirit.And yes we are clear,these fights keep happening and in the end it all comes down to this:-
"And they forgived each other and lived happily ever after for the rest of their lives."
@Sporelax:-This sentence is not for you as you are a special case.I think for you it will come down to this:-
"And sporelax was a lame-a$$ jerk his entire life and his last words were "GL HF fun killing bosses with that".Obviously no one was there to listen."
@valt3r7:-What does FYI mean?
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I know this already but as i mentioned earlier i didnt choose defensives due to the fact that this build is all about spirit
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Basically the best spirit generation build in the world. First i will tell you the reasoning behind the skills and the passives:-
Way of The Hundred Fists:- Fists of Fury
As you can see below my build contains sweeping wind.You must perform a melee attack before the 6 second duration comes to an end.So my first thought was fists of thunder with thunderclap.But then i saw its videos.It stops at the first obstacle and also at the first monster that comes your way.So i choose this rune instead.This adds a dash to the first strike.All those people who have used dashing strike know how smooth it is.It also adds a 10% holy damage per second to all enemies.The third strike is an aoe effect so you will be able to place the dps on them all.It also works well with the dps you are getting from sweeping wind and mystic ally.So it has a dps potential of 35%-65% weapon damage.
Wave of light:- Explosive Light
The main problem of the original wave of light is it affects only limited enemies in front of you and the range of the second wave is not that good,not helped by the fact that it does only 45% holy damage.Exploding light solves this problem.Its range is more than that of the second wave,its damage is more than that of the two waves from the basic wave of light combined,holy damage cant be resisted,and it works like a nova going off in all directions.The main spam attack of the build.(yes i know it is difficult to spam this skill but not in this build)
Sweeping Wind:-Inner Storm
A good dps attack provided that you can keep it up for a long time.And if you cant,who cares? With the passive regeneration coming from this build you should be able to start it again anyway.Inner storm is chosen for the passive(and also massive,if i may) 3 spirit generation per second.And you will be able to keep it up for a lot of time due to the dash from Way of The Hundred Fists.
Serenity:- Reap What Is Sown
I always choose this rune because the other runes provide defensive bonuses while this provides an offensive one.If you are surrounded by monsters then how the hell will a heal or 1 second increased duration help you? And the amount of damage it deals is not based on your weapon damage but on your maximum life.And if you just equip a helmet with 3 radiant star rubies then your maximum life will be increased by 54%.Also it deals holy damage which cannot be resisted in a huge 20 yard radius.While all of you will use it as your escape button, i will use it to quickly get in the middle of a nasty pack,generate spirit while also increasing the vortex count of sweeping wind.Anything that remains after the 20 yard blast can be exterminated by wave of light.
Mystic Ally:-Air Ally
I chose this not only because of the generation chance of 100 spirit,but also for the dps.Thats another speciality of this build.Even those enemies you are not pummeling with your generator are receiving damage.And by the way,most people dont like the 100 spirit generation.In battle.net forums,i saw people say that if they already have more than 50 spirit then a part of the 100 spirit will be wasted.Well good luck to them in inferno,because i am sure these guys are not going to use potions and heals very often because they will be thinking,"OMG!! I only have 2000 life out of my 9000 life.And monsters are coming after me fast!!Although i have Breath of Heaven Runed for more than 8000 heal i wont use it.What a waste of that extra 1000 life!!", and then some monster would come along and kill them in 1 hit.Hopefully these morons will play hardcore,and it will be fun to see them begging the game developers to revive their characters!!
Mantra of Healing:-
Heal every second for huge amounts of life and gain 3 passive spirit generation.Also after fights are over,just stop for a few seconds and you will have full life!!(And with the amount of spirit generation this build provides,maybe full spirit too)
Passives:-
Chant of Resonance:- Another passive spirit generation of 2.And Mantra Duration increased by 7 minutes.Cool.
Trascendence:-Heal for 64 life(per point of spirit spent) whenever you use a spirit spender.Since you will be spamming exploding light,you will be healing a lot.Also did you know that some items can provide a boost to this property?You can extend it to 200 with little difficulty.(Imagine getting 15000 life each time you use that huge aoe!!)And if you try hard enough you can extend it to 300 too.
The Guardian's Path:- This build will require a two handed weapon because if you use a shiled you will have not-so-good attack speed and if you dual wield then your damage dealing skills will only consider the damage from your mainhand weapon.So whats the problem in using a 2 hander?Also Guardian's Path gives you +25% spirit generation per strike.So you generate 30 spirit ever 4 hits.
So the summary of the build comes down to this:-
Pros:-
5-8 spirit generation per second.
You will obviously be performing at least 3 hits every 2 seconds to generate 31.5 spirit(guardian path bonus).Thats 15.75 spirit per second.
So total spirit generated outside combat is 5-8 while during combat you will generate 20.75-23.75 spirit per second.
This allows you to spam Exploding light every 5 seconds(roughly assuming delays) and with it get a huge heal too.The way i see it,285% holy damage in a huge radius along with a 4800 heal every 5 seconds is no joke.
You wont have any problem generating spirit if you start the battle with serenity.
Cons:-
Bad attack speed due to 2 handers(can be improved with gear)
The sweeping wind vortex count has a CHANCE to increase upon a critical hit.Chance upon a chance is not good.
Here the best defense is a good offense as you have to spam exploding light to maintain a 4800 heal every 5 seconds.So not so good defense unless you use serenity.
So that's it.Best Spirit Generation in the world.You must be thinking this build is pathetic as there are far more ways of generating spirit,that too more spirit than this build can generate.And there are many good combinations out there too which i did not make use of.Like Resolve.And there are runes on all generators to generate way better spirit than this build.But those mostly have a chance to generate or require critical hits.
I can make a build using all those skills and runes,but mark my words,those will just be lists of spirit generating skills and runes,not builds.A build is something you should be able to use offensively as well as defensively.My build has almost everything like huge aoe damage,escape situational skill,single target focus,heals,damage per second,spirit generation,you name it.
So i am adamant that this is the Best Spirit Generation Build in The World!!!
Oh and i completely forgot to mention that there was a forum on battle.net about a guy who said he had acquired 3 spirit generation per second from gear.If thats the case in the beta,Then tell me what is stopping us from acquiring 5+ passive spirit generation in inferno??
And do you want to see some of the skills from this build? Look below:-
Way of The Hundred Fists with The Fists of Fury rune:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WV5v-ggOtI
There was another video of it available too but it was created with an emulator so i dont trust it.
Wave of light:- Exploding light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVPakGBUKEQ
Skip to 1:47
Sweeping Wind:-Inner Storm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCfFWq_QK_Y
Skip to 0:26
The video is a bit outdated,of when sweeping wind was a generator.Ignore the three strikes,the vortex that forms around the monk is now the only effect.
Please give huge amount of feedbacks.
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My mistake, I see now that you have wave of light as your main attack. This build should work fine providing that wave of light is as good as we hope, seeing as you've built the entire build around it.
Also another pro i forgot to add:-
This build can be completed by level 46 you dont have to wait till level 60 to kick a$$e$ by the masses.
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Yes you are right this build is built around the hope that holy damage cannot be resisted by monsters.But i am 100% sure of it because where have we seen demons or zombies or vampires who do not die due to holy damage?I think thats a big advantage.
Second,if holy damage was meant to be resisted by monsters,why were the players given arcane and holy resistance in one slot??
I tell you you can rock with this build.
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Melee hits only refresh the duration, crits add a stack. So until you have the gear, it won't be up as much as you think. I realize that once you get the stacks, non crits will still refresh it meaning you CAN maintain the full stack for the 3 Spirit/sec, it will just take a bit to get to that point.
Now, that may not seem like a big deal but there are plenty of lulls in between battles which means no matter how hard you try, no matter what skills you bring, Sweeping Wind WILL drop off pretty often, requiring you to crit again in order to stack it up to attain the spirit regen from the rune.
I'm not dogging on the skill, it's great, just explaining why I haven't chosen it for my personal generation build.
The only generation you have besides your generator is the 10 Spirit/sec, a portion of which will likely drop off (Sweeping Wind) here and there like I talked about. That's a decent chunk though and paired with a generator, you should get ~50 Spirit every 3 seconds with 1 APS 2H (22 from 3 hits of WotHF and 30 from the per second Spirit).
That works out to be a Wave of Light cast every ~5 seconds, which is nice damage.
This is all while you have Sweeping Wind + Air Mystic Ally ticking away, but some of that "thorns" damage may not always be efficient if enemies aren't clumped up. For thorns damage to be most efficient, I feel that either Cyclone Strike needs to be included in the build, or some kind of mobile skill, like Tempest Rush or Dashing Strike, in order to get into the center of a group and damage the maximum amount of enemies with the thorns damage.
That's one more reason I didn't include Sweeping Winds, and thorns damage in general, into my Spirit generation build. Just my personal opinion.
Overall, your build is awesome and it will definitely allow you to pump out Waves of Light often, crushing demons left and right quickly.
Here is mine, I hope you don't mind me sharing it in your thread. Also hope you don't mind the thread title, I'm just joking with you
http://www.diablofan...neration-build/
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@Dashing:-Glad someone made the connection between Best In The World and CultOfPersonality.
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The heal with the breath of heaven is the reason the war is going on between The Best Spirit Generation Build in The World and Even Betterer Spirit Generation Build in The World(lol "betterer"?!?)
My war is not with the guy glowrym who posted that build.He countered my points of this build with politeness,firmness and intelligence.I really looked forward to having an interesting debate with him about whose build will be better.And i really didnt care.At the end i was going to propose that these 2 builds used together would rock.
But then these Mr.Sensitive"Please dont hurt me or i will cry"guys came along.They talked rough with me and when answered back they said they were offended.Well they are just a bunch of losers with smarting egos which are ignored by the majority of the people.
Also note that this is not the build i am gonna be using.The build i am gonna use is different.I understand the potential of exploding palm with the spirit generation.But i dont understand why i must use a heal that does not scale or spend 50 spirit for 100% weapon damage.
@Flenty:-Using wave of light once gives me half the heals of breath of heaven.With this build i can use Wave of Light once every 5 seconds.And BoH has a 15sec cd.So i can use WoL thrice in that time giving me damage+heals.
Hey i was tempted to use resolve a lot(who isn't) but decided not to because this build generates spirit.Instead i trust my survival on transcendence.Although i have used resolve in The Best Damage Reduction Build in The World.
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However,if you start being rough with me about anything you cant prove,then am i gonna send you a box of chocolates?Now you cant say i started it.It was started by one of you other two lame-a$$ jerks(what was his name now?Sporelax i think) with his "GL HF killing bosses with that" crap.
Oh and you say i manipulated your words according to my needs?You said,"The mystic ally will not solo the bosses." That's a truth. I think sarcasm would be something like"Yeah,like your mystic ally is going to solo the bosses." So actually what happened is that you manipulated your own words according to your needs by pretending that you were being sarcastic and blaming it all on me.
When i said my build>your(ahem)glowrym's build, i did not use any offense.And when i answered back your comments in the same way you answered mine you said i was offending(so no you cant claim that you arent affected) and i was a jerk.
And that lame-a$$ egomaniac jerk(sporelax) and you started acting like jerks yourselves.
And you both decided to ignore me so i decided to help you do so by not replying on that forum anymore.But again you had called me jerks there so i answered back here.And i thought you wont answer back.Since you were trying to prove that you were far more mature than me and i was just another childish jerk.And so i thought i would not get any replies from you mature guys since i am just a Mr.Know it all who you Great Ones would ignore.
But jerks will be jerks.You claim that you are not affected by my insults,but even after you said you will ignore me,you couldnt help replying to me.LOL do truths hurt that much?Sorry for every tear you have shed.And now you cant even claim i manipulated your words or say something like"Oh please.I am not affected by your insults" because that would be the lamest things to do and if i answered back you would rush to your defense anyway.So much for playing the mature guy.
But you still are right and i am wrong about the BoH thing.I feel like an idiot for that.
@Ocean:-Rage face on?!?Knife party?!?
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"It is not like the ally is gonna solo the bosses."Pure truth,really i do believe the ally will not solo the bosses.
You like ep with strong spirit, i dont like the fact that you have to kill for it.Personal opinion.
I never went on that forum to argue with glowrym.I just went for an interesting discussion,but the "GL HF killing bosses with that" really made me want to answer back.
I say BoH used in the beggining is weak because why do you wanna use BoH when you have full life? And of course you are going to heal after every battle with potions/healthglobes.
As for the amusement,you are quite amusing yourselves,my diminutive friend(lol you said little so i said diminutive).This war of the words has been quite amusing,really.
I claim that the other build is weaker against bosses because glowrym has clearly stated that he plans to use ep>cyclone>WoL combo for better chance to kill and get the ep bonus.I only have to wait for 75 spirit to use WoL.
Actually this build is not for me,but for those who rant about spirit not regenerating like the other resources and claiming that if they use spirit generation affixes from gear/runes,they will lose out on offense.My build is totally different(even the dmg reduction build i posted is not going to be used by me)
As for the offense,if calling someone jerk,dumb,or calling him just another Mr.Know it all and asking people to ignore him is not offense,then my bad.
And for your first post you had not offended me but i really thought that you were calling my build bad because you wanted the ally to solo the boss.That would be like a cheat.My bad again.
Actually i respected you(no sarcasm i swear)a lot for fighting back like that and the respect increased when you said you would ignore me.Seriously i would not have done that.
But i really hate that lame-a$$ jerk sporelax and his "GL HF killing bosses with that" crap.
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"And they forgived each other and lived happily ever after for the rest of their lives."
@Sporelax:-This sentence is not for you as you are a special case.I think for you it will come down to this:-
"And sporelax was a lame-a$$ jerk his entire life and his last words were "GL HF fun killing bosses with that".Obviously no one was there to listen."
@valt3r7:-What does FYI mean?
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