You'll want a fast weapon over a high DPS weapon in that case, then you can provide your spirit regeneration through attacks rather then through runes and can go purely support. If I were you i'd go with a low dps weapon with high stats, life on hit, and +%Attack speed. If you are really lucky you'll find a weapon like mine with a good amount of life on spirit spent (more then the passive) and can just spam your mantra's 3 seconds for self heal and 100% uptime while whaling away at things.
Also considering that even with 4 men in the server if at least two of them have damage (WD,DH,Wiz) you won't be hitting any enrage timers any time soon if you keep the enemies on you (thus they can stack DPS), i'd say go for it.
I managed to find a sweet spot for myself where I can do both at once, but even then I keep a seperate set of gear for group runs that gives me more survivability and less DPS (duel weilding life on spirit spent weapons with life on hit rings and lots of mitigation, I don't worry about Vit, my heals are useless with stacked vit).
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Oh and in response to the guys saying you have to carry your own weight in the DPS department. Considering that the highest monk DPS i've seen so far is around 1/4 of the highest WIZ/DH DPS I wouldn't worry about it at all
I have been doing this for 3 days now, most effective farm my group has found in the game yet.
For those wondering:
Difficulty EXP Gained for both quests (if I remember correctly from doing them all about 700 times each).
Normal 12,500 x 2
Nightmare 44,000 x 2
Hell 105,000 x 2
Also the rare drop chance seems a lot higher in this area than in others and the gold income isn't half bad (once you factor in the AH as well). Oh and since Az is probably the easiest actual boss in the game its easily doable in Hell without relying on slow farming nightmare forever to get 60. You just have to watch the occasional Freeze Vortex Mortar/Molten mobs.
Even at level 59 running the hell difficulty one I was getting 1/5 of my full exp bar per run, making it damn efficient.
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Also considering that even with 4 men in the server if at least two of them have damage (WD,DH,Wiz) you won't be hitting any enrage timers any time soon if you keep the enemies on you (thus they can stack DPS), i'd say go for it.
I managed to find a sweet spot for myself where I can do both at once, but even then I keep a seperate set of gear for group runs that gives me more survivability and less DPS (duel weilding life on spirit spent weapons with life on hit rings and lots of mitigation, I don't worry about Vit, my heals are useless with stacked vit).
*Edit*
Oh and in response to the guys saying you have to carry your own weight in the DPS department. Considering that the highest monk DPS i've seen so far is around 1/4 of the highest WIZ/DH DPS I wouldn't worry about it at all
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Buy or craft a good rare weapon.
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Well since you can't enter the next difficulty until you hit the right level and the quests give the same exp regardless of party size.....
Run yourself through it solo, easier kills anyway.
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600k on hell? Really doubt that stands for boosting them through normal / nightmare as well. Also 600k even on hell is crazy.
Pray tell.
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For those wondering:
Difficulty EXP Gained for both quests (if I remember correctly from doing them all about 700 times each).
Normal 12,500 x 2
Nightmare 44,000 x 2
Hell 105,000 x 2
Also the rare drop chance seems a lot higher in this area than in others and the gold income isn't half bad (once you factor in the AH as well). Oh and since Az is probably the easiest actual boss in the game its easily doable in Hell without relying on slow farming nightmare forever to get 60. You just have to watch the occasional Freeze Vortex Mortar/Molten mobs.
Even at level 59 running the hell difficulty one I was getting 1/5 of my full exp bar per run, making it damn efficient.