Hi everyone, went from being a poor man with less than 100m average gold to having and "ok" chunk of 1.5b due to a lucky drop that was no good for my class.
Now it's upgrade time and I am really struggling to find ways to bring my damage closer to 200k without sacrificing EHP.
A few notes about DPS:
1) I can bring my damage up to ~140k if I throw away all my EHP and use Inna's full set, I do this for MP1-6
2) I can bring my res up from 675all seen here to 730all in a pinch by throwing on my HF ring, but it drops my DPS to 112.5k
3) Gloves, shoulders, amulet are crafted
4) I can bring my DPS up to 165k with my Skorn
Numbers aren't everything though, I did lots of tests on mp8 comparing Skorn (165k), EF (134k), and WKL (120k) and they all took the same amount of time to kill larder within 1-2 seconds, over 6-12 runs with each setup. That means the WKL wins out due to increased spirit regen over Skorn, and no fear of the EF.
Surely there are places I can bring up my DPS with 1.5b but the obvious choices like Mempo and Witching Hour are ~2b each for decent ones. The ring would probably be a good first step. I thought about replacing my amulet but I'm already borderline too squishy with 675 res, sacrificing the 12k HP and 30 res might hurt more.
It's burning a hole in my pocket so if some of the 200k+ monks could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.
I actually just checked it out and even the best 2b crit mempos are only bringing 3k damage to the table.
I checked witching hours and found those can bring me up nearly 13k, and while losing less EHP than the Mempo! Of course this is also shopping in the 1.5b+ range for a belt but I might be leaning towards one of these. I'm having a hard time shopping for rings since they can roll so many stats that effect dps.
Ok lets see here your missing key dps stats on some gear and the gear that has the right stats its low. Your gloves have the right trifecta of stats but too low. Go for 10%cc, 9%as and the higher the cd the better. Get rid if your rare ring and grab a unity. If you want to stick to rate get a trifecta with high dex and average damage. Get a lucini's with 6%cc. Neck need 10%cc, cd and then some as in that order. Your chest and legs are both missing about 100dex each. Id personally go inna's 4 piece, so nice. Your helm could be 6%cc and is short about 100vit. Upgrade all gems in your gear to at least 50dex gems.
TY it wouldn't let me post it as a link since it was my first forum post.
I appreciate everyone's input especially heavensmoker. I did a lot of comparing on the lacuni and the 9% IAS is such a small increase I can't justify the price. A ring will be my first upgrade I think my current one is in dire shape. My amulet will be up after.
As for chest I have an Inna with the same stats as your but removing the Blackthorne + bonus makes me pretty damn squishy.
I was considering do 2 part Inna pants + helm and using witching hour belt with tal rasha chest. Thoughts?
I can't link my profile because my job blocks it, however a few things i thought of just reading your post:
1) you dont need that much res. Im at 240kish unbuffed, 42k hp, 450 res, 5k armor and comfortably do mp5-6 alkeizer runs in less than 15 min. I can switch out helm gem and get up to 48k when i want to do mp8+ ubers. You dont need that much res/hp IF you have LS and the dps to back it up.
2) 1.5 billion is more than enough gold to make some nice upgrades at your gear level. You can get a pair of nats boots with higher dex for not too much. another 60-70 dex shouldnt be absurd. Thats 4-5k dps right there. Echoing Fury is the way to go if you are just looking for a straight paper dps increase, youd gain a bunch with a 1100 dps/50+cd/socket/.23 or greater one.
You have the money to spend. you can lose hp, you can lose res and youd still be fine. Again, with my stats, i farm mp5-mp7 comfortably. Unless you are planning to do mp9-10 farming, then i guess keep your res/hp numbers.
my toon is diddy#1916 on US servers if you want to peek at my setup. The amulet i have on isnt the one i usually use, was just playing with crafting.
I made some changes, one of the terrible. I salvaged my bracers. I had to craft some new ones, did about 90 of them but still couldn't match the old ones.
Other than that, I bought a new Unity ring, a new high trifecta amulet, and a good witching hour.
This altogether significantly raised my DPS and lowered my EHP.
Here is the original link to the build I first posted in this thread: old gear
And here is the new setup (MY BRACERS ARE GONE :(): new gear
Overall it was a big improvement in mp1-8 however in 9-10 I felt a little too squishy which was a disappointment, I ended up benching my amulet for these MPs and going with this:
New gear mp10 setup: defensive amulet
To the guy above I do mp5-6 comfortable enough for me as is, I'm really trying to gear towards doing mp9-10 with more speed, ideally for ubers.
BTW I think these upgrades ran me around 650m, overall I'm not super pleased with the results but 150k DPS is reaching closer to my target... getting higher now will be even more difficult.
P.S.: how OP is this guy?
mp5 is just right in terms of speed for me. I suppose to each his own but beating on an elite pack for longer than 10-15 secs seems counter productive. I like to keep it moving.
I'm at 300k self buffed and mp10 is still a chore to do.
This is the most bad ass monk there is http://d3up.com/b/258549/view/slug/lorelei
I use this site when figuring what kind of stats to look for on gear http://www.d3maxstats.com/?class=monk&weaponsetup=onehandedshield&legendaries=yes&layout=slots
I really cant suggest any thing beyond whatbi did earlier besides saying if you wanna farm mp10 like i farm mp 5(1 shotting every thing) then its going to cost you a dump truck full of gold. You wanna be geared like the guy i linked at the start of this post then its going to cost 1-2b per slot. GL bro. Hit me up if ya need any thing else.
Now it's upgrade time and I am really struggling to find ways to bring my damage closer to 200k without sacrificing EHP.
Here is my monk:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/rumsey-1247/hero/3631254
A few notes about DPS:
1) I can bring my damage up to ~140k if I throw away all my EHP and use Inna's full set, I do this for MP1-6
2) I can bring my res up from 675all seen here to 730all in a pinch by throwing on my HF ring, but it drops my DPS to 112.5k
3) Gloves, shoulders, amulet are crafted
4) I can bring my DPS up to 165k with my Skorn
Numbers aren't everything though, I did lots of tests on mp8 comparing Skorn (165k), EF (134k), and WKL (120k) and they all took the same amount of time to kill larder within 1-2 seconds, over 6-12 runs with each setup. That means the WKL wins out due to increased spirit regen over Skorn, and no fear of the EF.
Surely there are places I can bring up my DPS with 1.5b but the obvious choices like Mempo and Witching Hour are ~2b each for decent ones. The ring would probably be a good first step. I thought about replacing my amulet but I'm already borderline too squishy with 675 res, sacrificing the 12k HP and 30 res might hurt more.
It's burning a hole in my pocket so if some of the 200k+ monks could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.
I actually just checked it out and even the best 2b crit mempos are only bringing 3k damage to the table.
I checked witching hours and found those can bring me up nearly 13k, and while losing less EHP than the Mempo! Of course this is also shopping in the 1.5b+ range for a belt but I might be leaning towards one of these. I'm having a hard time shopping for rings since they can roll so many stats that effect dps.
Go for Inna 4 set or Inna chest + mempo + TWH
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/I82-6462/
TY it wouldn't let me post it as a link since it was my first forum post.
I appreciate everyone's input especially heavensmoker. I did a lot of comparing on the lacuni and the 9% IAS is such a small increase I can't justify the price. A ring will be my first upgrade I think my current one is in dire shape. My amulet will be up after.
As for chest I have an Inna with the same stats as your but removing the Blackthorne + bonus makes me pretty damn squishy.
I was considering do 2 part Inna pants + helm and using witching hour belt with tal rasha chest. Thoughts?
1) you dont need that much res. Im at 240kish unbuffed, 42k hp, 450 res, 5k armor and comfortably do mp5-6 alkeizer runs in less than 15 min. I can switch out helm gem and get up to 48k when i want to do mp8+ ubers. You dont need that much res/hp IF you have LS and the dps to back it up.
2) 1.5 billion is more than enough gold to make some nice upgrades at your gear level. You can get a pair of nats boots with higher dex for not too much. another 60-70 dex shouldnt be absurd. Thats 4-5k dps right there. Echoing Fury is the way to go if you are just looking for a straight paper dps increase, youd gain a bunch with a 1100 dps/50+cd/socket/.23 or greater one.
You have the money to spend. you can lose hp, you can lose res and youd still be fine. Again, with my stats, i farm mp5-mp7 comfortably. Unless you are planning to do mp9-10 farming, then i guess keep your res/hp numbers.
my toon is diddy#1916 on US servers if you want to peek at my setup. The amulet i have on isnt the one i usually use, was just playing with crafting.
Other than that, I bought a new Unity ring, a new high trifecta amulet, and a good witching hour.
This altogether significantly raised my DPS and lowered my EHP.
Here is the original link to the build I first posted in this thread: old gear
And here is the new setup (MY BRACERS ARE GONE :(): new gear
Overall it was a big improvement in mp1-8 however in 9-10 I felt a little too squishy which was a disappointment, I ended up benching my amulet for these MPs and going with this:
New gear mp10 setup: defensive amulet
To the guy above I do mp5-6 comfortable enough for me as is, I'm really trying to gear towards doing mp9-10 with more speed, ideally for ubers.
BTW I think these upgrades ran me around 650m, overall I'm not super pleased with the results but 150k DPS is reaching closer to my target... getting higher now will be even more difficult.
P.S.: how OP is this guy?
I'm at 300k self buffed and mp10 is still a chore to do.
I use this site when figuring what kind of stats to look for on gear
http://www.d3maxstats.com/?class=monk&weaponsetup=onehandedshield&legendaries=yes&layout=slots
I really cant suggest any thing beyond whatbi did earlier besides saying if you wanna farm mp10 like i farm mp 5(1 shotting every thing) then its going to cost you a dump truck full of gold. You wanna be geared like the guy i linked at the start of this post then its going to cost 1-2b per slot. GL bro. Hit me up if ya need any thing else.
http://d3up.com/b/287047/view/slug/henrytudor
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Facemelter-1652/hero/21451124