In terms of gearing choices for a SC monk where do you rate gearing pieces with this new expansion? I have put in some pieces which I think are current BIS, but I am curious as to what everyone thinks...
Helm- Gyana-na-kashu Shoulders- Chest- Belt-Tgod Bracer-Strongarm Legs- Boots- Amulet- Rings- MH-Thunderfury OH-Shard of Hate
Also, the set bonus for 4-peice Inna's is incredible (gain the base effect of all four Mantra's at at all times). But I feel like the procs from tgod and gyana are too good to pass up. (Inna's as a group supportive monk is probably the way to go.)
Hey Netherfrost I would really apreciate a BiS guide not only the gear but what stats to look for in each piece for that lightning build or maybe a general guide (for all kinds of builds) would be more productive, but it's all up to you =). I really wanna improve my gear and stats to have best usage of each piece and what to enchant (or reforge) into, and I think all monks in the forum would love to have that info out there, since there is no where to find it atm. I'm farming T4 with friends atm and I keep switching the LTK with Ciclone strike and I'm really loving it, saw some 12M crits on my LTKs.I've got around +120% lightning dmg, armory sucks, but I managed to reforge that andariel, the neck and the stone of jordan to do lightning dmg: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/holyrock-1646/hero/8720311 Really hope to get better and seems like information is our biggest weapon, ty for reading all this =) Peace! Oh one more thing, 4inna works on the entire party, I had that on lvl60 2.0.
To answer my own question and provide information to others: Odyn's Son, Thunderfury, Shard of Hate, and other weapons are world drops. I believe that you must be in a Torment I or higher game, but I'm not sure.
Couple things here.. 1) Ring of Royal Grandeur DOES give you the set bonuses (aka 3 pieces of inna's gear equipped = 4p set bonus). 2) Shard of Hate is hands down better than Odyn's Son (and i would argue TF), because it has 100% proc rate... My dps literally jumped by 12 million when i got one. 3) Blizz REALLY needs to fix the interaction between Inna's 4p and Unity passive so I can get rid of the mantra from my bar like i was so dreamy of doing when I first saw it. That is all.
Thunderfury proc does not benefit from %lightning. Game is not too consistent on this, so some item proc's do work as you expect and others don't. Right now thunderfury is one that does not work with %lightning.
BiS for monk will probably be 2-3 branches. Fire monk, Lightning Monk, and other.
Netherfrost can talk to lightning.
I play firemonk:
Helm: Kashu LTK fireball helmet
Chest: Cindercoat
Gloves: Magefist
Ring 1: Stone Of jordan w/ %Fire Dmg
Ammy, Bracer: Anything to suit your play style with %Fire damage.
Weapon: Axe of Sankis and/or Devestator offer %fire damage, but they may roll a little low on dmg and slow attack speed for monk's taste. I don't have a dex roll on the first and recipe on the latter, so I have been running sun keeper and thunderfury on my fire monk.
Fire monk Open slots: Ring 2, Belt, Pants, Boots, Shoulder
Two of those slots could be captain crimson for 10% cooldown. I think pants and boots are the weakest spots on legendaries, so would pencil in crimson for those two. Unless two piece 1000 storms 500 dex bonus is on your radar. Then you could go crimson belt + boot/pants , 1000 storms shoulder+ boot/pants.
Belt slot has some interesting legendaries like witching hour and hellcat that might be worth more than 500 dex you could get on a set bonus.
Shoulders, some ok affects. Nothing great. Could go born's shoulder + born's weapon + ring of royal grandeur for another path to 10% cooldown reduction.
Cooldown reduction is high my list for epiphany inner fire uptime.
Helm- Gyana-na-kashu
Shoulders-
Chest-
Belt-Tgod
Bracer-Strongarm
Legs-
Boots-
Amulet-
Rings-
MH-Thunderfury
OH-Shard of Hate
Also, the set bonus for 4-peice Inna's is incredible (gain the base effect of all four Mantra's at at all times). But I feel like the procs from tgod and gyana are too good to pass up. (Inna's as a group supportive monk is probably the way to go.)
I'm farming T4 with friends atm and I keep switching the LTK with Ciclone strike and I'm really loving it, saw some 12M crits on my LTKs.I've got around +120% lightning dmg, armory sucks, but I managed to reforge that andariel, the neck and the stone of jordan to do lightning dmg:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/holyrock-1646/hero/8720311
Really hope to get better and seems like information is our biggest weapon, ty for reading all this =) Peace!
Oh one more thing, 4inna works on the entire party, I had that on lvl60 2.0.
Rings are obviously Royal Ring of Grandeour and a 20% +Light SoJ.
Inna's setbonuses are underwhelming imo, I would rather have 2 Aughild's pieces than Inna's.
I'm at 100% +Light dmg on my monk atm, without Odyn's Son or Thousand Storms 4set, just can't wait to get a TF to smash shit up.
Also just saw the post above me, none of the weapons (except the Inna's daibo) are Torment restricted.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/9582428450 for the list
BiS for monk will probably be 2-3 branches. Fire monk, Lightning Monk, and other.
Netherfrost can talk to lightning.
I play firemonk:
Helm: Kashu LTK fireball helmet
Chest: Cindercoat
Gloves: Magefist
Ring 1: Stone Of jordan w/ %Fire Dmg
Ammy, Bracer: Anything to suit your play style with %Fire damage.
Weapon: Axe of Sankis and/or Devestator offer %fire damage, but they may roll a little low on dmg and slow attack speed for monk's taste. I don't have a dex roll on the first and recipe on the latter, so I have been running sun keeper and thunderfury on my fire monk.
Fire monk Open slots: Ring 2, Belt, Pants, Boots, Shoulder
Two of those slots could be captain crimson for 10% cooldown. I think pants and boots are the weakest spots on legendaries, so would pencil in crimson for those two. Unless two piece 1000 storms 500 dex bonus is on your radar. Then you could go crimson belt + boot/pants , 1000 storms shoulder+ boot/pants.
Belt slot has some interesting legendaries like witching hour and hellcat that might be worth more than 500 dex you could get on a set bonus.
Shoulders, some ok affects. Nothing great. Could go born's shoulder + born's weapon + ring of royal grandeur for another path to 10% cooldown reduction.
Cooldown reduction is high my list for epiphany inner fire uptime.