Im a DH and not a Monk, but still I agree. The fact that its tied to our main stat as our major defense sucks. Casters get Resist All from theirs, and Barbs get armor from theirs (which may as well be resist all). Freaking sucks that we get dodge, and that Blizzard decides to just fucking randomly disable it on certain affixes like Reflect.
Strength is better than Intellegence for damage reduction at endgame anyway. You can get up to 80 all resist on most pieces of gear, but you can't get the equivalent 800 armor without using up a slot for Strength. It's one more reason barbarians are so good.
I don't see this at all. If anything ever since the previous patches the game has been more accommodating to multiplayer and group play than single play. It is much better to play in groups. I think they messed up with the whole no MP levels in Public games but I am sure they are working on it for the next patch.
I always play with friends whenever I get a chance to. I don't mind going down 1 level or up 1 level to keep up with other player's gear. If anything I have had more help playing with others because I usually tag along while they are killing stuff super fast and I get mad experience, gold and loot just by playing a more supportive role. If you steamroll through MP5 then having another player in the party isn't going to hurt you that much but it will benefit the other player a lot more. My 1 and only good set piece I found (Zunimassa's Marrow) was because of this awesome group I was in and I was the weakest one in the group. I wasn't holding them back because they were going through content fast anyway.
I pretty much agree. It helps that the HP scaling is only 70% per player now. If you have at least 70% of the DPS as the person you're joining, then you're straight up helping, before anything else like support skills or helping spread out the damage enemies do (easier to heal when not everything's targetted at one player).
Why they didn't even allow MP1 public games is beyond me. The gap in terms of loot between MP0 and MP1 is so high that no one would want to do MP0 ever unless they're just starting out or trying to clear. At least in MP1 you get the benefit of all enemies being level 63 so you get level 63 rolls on everything.
I would much rather an improved rate of constant damage mitigation than damage spikes due to 60/40 chances of being hit and poor standard mitigation. Especially since, with the exception of poison pools, we can't dodge any of the stationary AOE attacks. Molten, Desecrator, Arcane and now Relfect Damage are all attacks that our main defensive strength is useless against.
I didn't even know Plague could be dodged. Not that it matters a whole lot since Plagued is pretty non-threatening unless you're killing slowly.
They should've just let dodge affect everything, and scale the dodge% you get per point of Dex appropriately. I'm not even sure dodge would be broken or anything at the current rate if everything was dodgeable.
Damage spikes become exceedingly frustrating for a monk when you consider our healing spells don't scale with total HP. Those guys on act one with the huge maces almost one shot me at MP5 and getting that health back can be challenging.
They really should've made the health globes increase affect monk healing too. Would've given that affix a nice niche.
Unrelated, I just found a Slovak's Madness. Except it was terrible. I'm playing a wizard and I didn't even want it.
