I'm sure he meant this:
EDIT: In case you don't know the effect of Prophet:
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I'm sure he meant this:
EDIT: In case you don't know the effect of Prophet:
I assume he means get the damage reduction % from armor to 92%. I do the same with my barbarian through leap quake (rune that gives 50% additional armor for each enemy you hit with leap). Basically when I jump into a large pack I am sitting at around 95% damage reduction from armor with a 50-60% up time (since I can leap 3 times). It is very effective at keeping you alive, personally I like it more than the stun rune (since 99% of my deaths come from ground effects not mobs hitting me, making the stun rune pretty worthless).
bah, beaten!
I'm still confused as to why they changed StI and all our +armour runes on skills. Did they think they would be OP? If they're not OP for barb/Sader...
Such a mess the class is right now
Yep. Now we get Harmony, which gives 30%(!) of any secondary resist as AR. That's our sole defensive passive now, other than the useless dodge ones, and Resolve, which is conditional, and only helps vs physical dmg
well you get armor from dex too, now
plasticpassion
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Does anyone want to join my 29 witch in questing/playing? I'm in act 2, shadows in the desert - expert. My game is public.
Not sure if I need to link my name/acct name for people to join...
Not sure if I need to link my name/acct name for people to join...
It would've been an auto include in every Monk build if STI stayed as is (it already was which was what they were trying to avoid). A change was necessary although them flipping the switch completely from a defensive to an offensive passive was puzzling.I'm still confused as to why they changed StI and all our +armour runes on skills. Did they think they would be OP? If they're not OP for barb/Sader...
Such a mess the class is right now
Yep, which puts us on an even playing field with barb/sader.
Problem is, they both get skills to massively boost their defenses on top of that (see earlier posts) whereas monk gets...nothing so far.
I just logged on to look and it's still the same. So the changes are only in the PTR? I guess I need to read up on all the changes going on or I'm gonna be way too lost come 2.1 :/
This is another case of one skill on Monk preventing them from getting the proper buffs. Before EP was preventing Monks from getting various offensive boosts... now it's going to be Serenity that will keep them from getting good boosts.
Most Blizzard devs probably think "well Monks can get near perma Serenity up they don't really NEED Defensive skills any way..."
Most Blizzard devs probably think "well Monks can get near perma Serenity up they don't really NEED Defensive skills any way..."
Yeah, that's PTR.
@Dahbomb: That's the problem with none of the devs having played monk at any level higher than T1 or 2. They have absolutely no idea about the problems with the class.
There are pages and pages of solid suggestions from players who have the experience playing monk at higher difficulties, but for some reason Blizzard (Don Vu?) continues to ignore it.
Yes, near-100% uptime is possible with Serenity, but that requires an absolute focus on stacking CDR, which means monk suffers in the dps department. I do fear that Serenity is going to get nerfed to a 1-2 sec duration with a longer cooldown, simply because perma-serenity is possible.
We'll see what they have in store for us. Spirit buffs were a good start, but when monks are using that spirit solely to spam our defensive mantra to proc dmg via Sunwuko (simply because our actual spenders are crap), I somehow doubt that was what Blizz had in mind...
I mean for what it's worth most of the good barbarian defensive stuff is from active skills (which means taking up a valuable slot). Most of our passive defensive talents are shit as well. Increased health globe healing? Joke passive. Increased armor? barely noticeable boost. MORE increased armor? Even worse then the other one. Superstition is good, but we have so many good offensive passives that it's not worth using.
Rampage is really the only defensive passive most T6 barbs use and that is solely because it works for offense and defense.
Fenderputty
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What's the math behind CDR? I've got 77% added up amongst gear, set bonuses, paragon & passives. It doesn't appear to be additive though as my stats only reads 56% CDR. For some reason I thought it was additive .. Doh
Crusader is awesome, definitely one of the top classes if not the best. They're in a better place than barbarian I'd say, but really just play whatever is fun for you.
Oh cool, I'll put some more into them when 2.1 drops then. Thanks.
Yeah I definitely agree that Blizzard doesn't actually have many people playing Monks in their internal teams. Before RoS came out the devs showed some of the builds for the internal players and there wasn't a single Monk on there.
The recent changes to Monk were good though so MAYBE they are learning.
The recent changes to Monk were good though so MAYBE they are learning.
Boogalogist
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It's one of the top tier classes at the moment, second only to WD.
Since you've been power levelled to L70, I suggest you join RiF community and keep running it to get blood shards. Use blood shards to gamble for Akkhan set. Almost every sader build requires Akkhan set. If you need rift fragments, speed through Act 1 normal. You'll get rift fragments (to open rift for rift runners), and a chance to get ring of royal grandeur from the cache (might be required for some sader builds).
Good luck!
p/s do NOT salvage the two-handed mace called The Furnace.
Finished Act V last night. Yep, that one act is better than all of launch D3. The mood, atmosphere, everything was closer to what I loved about D2.
From here should I do bounties and stuff in adventure mode to grind to 70, or just step up the difficulty and play through again? Not sure of the most efficient method.
From here should I do bounties and stuff in adventure mode to grind to 70, or just step up the difficulty and play through again? Not sure of the most efficient method.
Boogalogist
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PTR is down.... MOAR changes incoming? Let's hope for good buffs to wiz and monk.
Bounties are definitely quicker, and you'll want the rift fragments to start rifting whenever you hit 70.
Yea Act V is so great. By far my favorite in D3.
And I'd jump into Adventure mode on the highest difficulty you can do (effeciently) and just clear bounties. Probably the fastest way to level up and you'll get rift keys.
An alternative is to grind a bunch of bounties, and then use your rift keys to buy your way into Rift It Forward T6 runs. You can powerlevel to 70 in an hour. Just make sure you stay well out of range of boss attacks to stay alive for the XP.
I hope they fix the Realm of Trials because that is a good idea.
IMO though all Greater Rifts should just be a wave survival level as well. It sucks to hunt down stray enemies in sparse levels.
Fenderputty
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Semi random, but yes.
Boombloxer
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I'm over the Greater Rifts for the most part. Would prefer the waves tbh.
Fenderputty
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This is exactly why I have not played the PTR lol
Ricerocket
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I'm burnt out on PTR too for the same reasons. The greater rift wave trial ruins the fun of normal greater rifts. The waves make so much more sense for leaderboards, no need to have people run into dead ends or get unlucky with density. It would also solve the horrible problem of getting locked into a higher than intended level rift where it could take 25+ minutes to upgrade a gem.
Just depends really. If you want to get gear as fast as possible opening for RIF is probably the best way to go, but I've never been a fan of that myself (since I prefer actually killing dudes and shit). Personally I've been doing the opposite, very few rift runs (and always a runner in RIF when I do them) and more time spent doing bounties to collect fragments so I will be able to run hundreds of rifts in the patch (whenever I get back to playing non-seasonal characters anyway).
Recorded a vid last night of my first attempt at a T6 rift using the new Tempest Rush Flurry paired with Sunwuko / FoE / SSS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb2yLjCcnWM
Worked out decent. Clear time was average (15 mins) but there were a lot of high HP A5 elites in there which slowed things down a bit.
Note to self: Avoid speed shrines in future as it makes aiming TR damn near impossible.
Worked out decent. Clear time was average (15 mins) but there were a lot of high HP A5 elites in there which slowed things down a bit.
Note to self: Avoid speed shrines in future as it makes aiming TR damn near impossible.
Looks infinitely more fun to actually play then the dashing strike build. I think I have all the needed items except a daibo (haven't actually seen a single level 70 daibo drop at all that I can recall).
It's unbelievable how long this patch is taking. Live servers have to be dead by now.
Damn, crusaders are better than Wizards? I find myself wrecking mobs with my Wizard but I'm getting my ass kicked on my crusader. I'm going to mine those shards on the wiz and use them on the crusader.
Fenderputty
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Just T1, I'm only p101 though and I found a lot of sought after gear or at least that's what people are telling me.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Nemo-1996/hero/50324695
Aha, they cleaned up the PTR leaderboards. They're much easier to look at without those bugged level 255 results.
Here are the ranks cleared by the #1 and #10 for each class.
DH 39, 36
WD 39, 34
Barb 37, 32
Wiz 37, 33
Monk 35, 31
Crus 34, 31
4 person group: 39, 34. The top group has a monk, but about 3/4 of the top 10 don't, so it looks like the exploding palm change was mostly successful. It doesn't look like many people are bothering with groups. Definitely need some people in the group with a Furnace to be competitive.
I'm surprised that the 4 person groups aren't outperforming the soloers. That unity + immortal follower combo goes a long way.
Here are the ranks cleared by the #1 and #10 for each class.
DH 39, 36
WD 39, 34
Barb 37, 32
Wiz 37, 33
Monk 35, 31
Crus 34, 31
4 person group: 39, 34. The top group has a monk, but about 3/4 of the top 10 don't, so it looks like the exploding palm change was mostly successful. It doesn't look like many people are bothering with groups. Definitely need some people in the group with a Furnace to be competitive.
I'm surprised that the 4 person groups aren't outperforming the soloers. That unity + immortal follower combo goes a long way.
Ricerocket
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That's surprising, I figured crusaders (holy shotgun) would be able to do way better. Everytime I grouped with one, it feels like they're doing all the work with everything compared to what I'm doing on my WD.
Boombloxer
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I might check out the Lightning changes, but don't have a lot of faith that it's better than my fire set-up now.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1ZVZz0w3Y81
I recorded this for the accent thread and figured you guys would get a kick out of it.
I recorded this for the accent thread and figured you guys would get a kick out of it.
Just give it a while, Crusader will pass Monk soon enough.
They have to do a reset/patch again to fix the fast level cheese in seasons right now.
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