Yeah until the day that I have gear on the level of Invis and other top monks, I can't see myself giving up the double LS. The night and day difference its made to my game play is just too valuable. I totally subscribe to the idea of more dps faster/less LS needed - however, at the point I'm at now, getting that higher level of dps is going to require billions of gold or some really nice RNG.
The current dilemma that I'm dealing with is whether to drop the WKL for another one hand sword with equivalent dps to my main hand and LS. I know the dps boost to lightening skills with the WKL makes a huge difference, but its actual physical damage leaves much to be desired. thoughts?
If you are using FoT - Thunderclap and SW: Cyclone there are no better items than WKL as your offhand. The only thing that can make any sort of sense in this matter is to go with personal preference. If you don't like WKL, go for a rare. It's rather simple A good WKL is more DPS than any other rare (99.9% of the time).
Won Khim Lau can give a fat boost, however, depending on your MP goals they can be extremely expensive because of the metrics you need to maintain to move up. For example, a WKL with lifesteal and respectable DPS, or Crit Hit Dmg.
Ofc the best weapons are more expensive. I might have missed something, but unless ppl are on a budget I will give advice on what is best (amount of gold in the bank is not a part of my reasoning). Even if you dont have the gold now, it's nice to know what IS best.
For any monk builds that uses FoT Tclap/SW Cyclone, rare weapon +1.4aps / LS WKL is the best. Nothing can beat it.
If the build does NOT use any lighting skills like pure bell build, rare weapon +1.4aps / rare weapon +1.4aps (DPS doesn't matter much at all. just high dex/high cd/ls/socket)
Check out my weapon set up for the bell build. My explosive light crits up to 6-7mil per target with the current set up. I love the empowered bell rune the best though.
Echoing Fury is just not good for Monks in my opinion. Even if you have +300k dps, you are likely to chase the elites around which is annoying as hell. I can spec my monk to have about 340k unbuffed dps with cd ef on my OH. It's annoying. Our aps is just way too fast to deal with the fear proc.
For any monk builds that uses FoT Tclap/SW Cyclone, rare weapon +1.4aps / LS WKL is the best. Nothing can beat it.
If the build does NOT use any lighting skills like pure bell build, rare weapon +1.4aps / rare weapon +1.4aps (DPS doesn't matter much at all. just high dex/high cd/ls/socket)
Check out my weapon set up for the bell build. My explosive light crits up to 6-7mil per target with the current set up. I love the empowered bell rune the best though.
Echoing Fury is just not good for Monks in my opinion. Even if you have +300k dps, you are likely to chase the elites around which is annoying as hell. I can spec my monk to have about 340k unbuffed dps with cd ef on my OH. It's annoying. Our aps is just way too fast to deal with the fear proc.
I agree with most of what you are saying, but not the first part. A weapon with 1.4 att.speed is NOT what we want. Those weapons have low dmg range, and will make our cyclones do less dmg. That's why we want weapons with either 1.2 or 1.3 att.speed (spear, mace or axe) as they have the highest dmg range.
Note: the damage range is NOT the same as the dps. A lot of people get that mixed up
^A slower weapon would also mean you proc less cyclones in any given amount of time.
There are a million guides and tutorials online that explain this way better than I can in plain text, so I will end what would be a long rant before it begins. Believe what you want. The evidence is out there
Just a quick one here. At high gear lvl you will have att. speed on all gear. You will then spawn a lot of cyclones. High att. speed wep. will make you spawn even more. BUT there is a cap on how many you can spawn at the same time, so you want fewer cyclone that do more dmg.
Check out InvisUK on twitch. He's got all the numbers and evidence (if you want to do the right thing )
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Ofc the best weapons are more expensive. I might have missed something, but unless ppl are on a budget I will give advice on what is best (amount of gold in the bank is not a part of my reasoning). Even if you dont have the gold now, it's nice to know what IS best.
If the build does NOT use any lighting skills like pure bell build, rare weapon +1.4aps / rare weapon +1.4aps (DPS doesn't matter much at all. just high dex/high cd/ls/socket)
Check out my weapon set up for the bell build. My explosive light crits up to 6-7mil per target with the current set up. I love the empowered bell rune the best though.
http://us.battle.net...08/hero/7645093
Echoing Fury is just not good for Monks in my opinion. Even if you have +300k dps, you are likely to chase the elites around which is annoying as hell. I can spec my monk to have about 340k unbuffed dps with cd ef on my OH. It's annoying. Our aps is just way too fast to deal with the fear proc.
I agree with most of what you are saying, but not the first part. A weapon with 1.4 att.speed is NOT what we want. Those weapons have low dmg range, and will make our cyclones do less dmg. That's why we want weapons with either 1.2 or 1.3 att.speed (spear, mace or axe) as they have the highest dmg range.
Note: the damage range is NOT the same as the dps. A lot of people get that mixed up
There are a million guides and tutorials online that explain this way better than I can in plain text, so I will end what would be a long rant before it begins. Believe what you want. The evidence is out there
Just a quick one here. At high gear lvl you will have att. speed on all gear. You will then spawn a lot of cyclones. High att. speed wep. will make you spawn even more. BUT there is a cap on how many you can spawn at the same time, so you want fewer cyclone that do more dmg.
Check out InvisUK on twitch. He's got all the numbers and evidence (if you want to do the right thing )