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Increasing IPH / LPH As A Monk

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SwaggerJacks

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Alot of talk has been going around about MP10 and whether it is worth farming. Can't say I have jumped on the MP10 bandwagon yet. But there are other alternatives to increasing your legendary count and items per hour. As a monk I have endured hard times maximizing DPS to run DB on a higher MP. MPs are like dicks, the harder they are the more they hurt. After analyzing my options - mainly just trial and error - I have found an optimized way of farming Act 3 Inferno for Monks :)

First things first, you are going to need to invest in some gold to pay for your gear. If you are not into spending your gold on gear and rather give it away to a third party source then you have no reason to keep reading this.

Let's get down to business:
I have found out that MP8 is the sweet spot to bot on for a Monk.

Stats:
Unbuffed DPS should be around 200k, nothing less than 195k
Health should be above 55k
Resist should be at 350

Build:
Fists of Thunder: Quickening (you want to generate as much spirit as possible, and I have found out that if you chose the rune that teleports you will constantly die to molten core)
Wave of Light: Empowered Wave (the best option for conserving spirit, you'll need it later)
Sweeping Wind: Inner Storm (because 3 extra spirit per second is godly)
Breath of Heaven: Blazing Wrath (this is needed to increase your dps so you can kill Fallen Maniacs before they kill you)
Mantra of Conviction: Overawe (pretty much wanna maximize dps)
Serenity: Ascension (because 3 seconds isnt enough)

Passives:
OWE, ES, NDE

Gear:
Inna's Radiance: Should find one with %life
Inna's Vast Expanse: Vitality and Dex with a side of %life
Inna's Favor: The usual
Inna's Temperance
Note: Inna's 4 piece set bonus you will need for keeping up Inner Storm.

Vile Ward: Something like 150 Vitality and Dex
Amulet: Mainly you should be searching for more Dex than Vitality and Trifecta or Quadfecta (Attack speed, Average Damage, Crit Damage, Crit Chance)
Gloves: Dex, Attack Speed, Crit Damage, Crit Chance + Resist of your choice
Lacuni Prowlers: Dex and Vitality and over 5.5 Crit Chance
Ring: I know you must be thinking Stone of Jordan...WRONG! It's not going to save your ass from a barrage of Fallen Maniacs.

Natalya's Reflection: Don't really bother with Crit Chance (tends to be costly), get a Crit Damage one instead.
Natalya's Bloody Footprints: High Dex + Resist of your choice

Skorn: Try to find one with 6% Life Steal and over 175 Crit Damage and over 1300 DPS

Profile: Tinnvec's 0.9 works very well for MP8 but you don't want to do the whole run, so I edited the profile to only do Keeps 2 + 3 (Note: when the run is over instead of taking the waypoint in keeps 3 to town it will teleport instead because I didn't know how to edit the code to waypoint to Bastion's Keep)

You also want to use the latest trinity off the git repository.

Trinity 1.7.2.11 Settings:
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The rest of the settings should be default and the item rules should be adjusted to your liking.

Other notes:
The bot has trouble with Arcane and Desecrator, but you shouldn't die more than 3 deaths on average an hour. Of course if you followed my directions then the chance of getting deaths will slightly diminish.

Demonbuddy stats:
After 4 hours of botting...
Found 15 Legendaries
3.76 Legendaries/hour

IPH fluctuates between the lowest of 500 IPH to 800 IPH.
You can also try Tempest Rush in replace of Breath of Heaven when you get atleast 220k DPS and above 1.90 Spirit Regen on your Helm. You will see a better representation of what this build has to offer.

I added the profile for those of you who are interested, but please be aware that at the end of the run the bot will teleport instead of taking the waypoint next to Ghom. If someone can tell me how do I use the waypoint to Bastions Keep instead of teleporting, it will be greatly appreciated :D
 

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the skorn is the cockblock.

i also am not sure why you take inner storm over cyclone and then opt for life % on helm over 2+ regen. soj i can understand, but it also makes dem bells smash mp8 elites pretty well and gives 2 regen.

guardians path is a hugemongous spirit gen for skorn monks .... hard not to use it and drop nde or owe and stack ar. im not real sure where this is targeted but the skorn alone makes it non budget. if you are building for efficiency and not cost then guardians path over owe is obvious choice.

thought about trying this myself on 1 of mine but havent done it. currently liking TR and cant really stack ias with TR and ias is what makes 2h shine. pretty good numbers tho at over 3leg/hr
 
SwaggerJacks said:
Alot of talk has been going around about MP10 and whether it is worth farming. Can't say I have jumped on the MP10 bandwagon yet. But there are other alternatives to increasing your legendary count and items per hour. As a monk I have endured hard times maximizing DPS to run DB on a higher MP. MPs are like dicks, the harder they are the more they hurt. After analyzing my options - mainly just trial and error - I have found an optimized way of farming Act 3 Inferno for Monks :)

First things first, you are going to need to invest in some gold to pay for your gear. If you are not into spending your gold on gear and rather give it away to a third party source then you have no reason to keep reading this.

Let's get down to business:
I have found out that MP8 is the sweet spot to bot on for a Monk.

Stats:
Unbuffed DPS should be around 200k, nothing less than 195k
Health should be above 55k
Resist should be at 350

Build:
Fists of Thunder: Quickening (you want to generate as much spirit as possible, and I have found out that if you chose the rune that teleports you will constantly die to molten core)
Wave of Light: Empowered Wave (the best option for conserving spirit, you'll need it later)
Sweeping Wind: Inner Storm (because 3 extra spirit per second is godly)
Breath of Heaven: Blazing Wrath (this is needed to increase your dps so you can kill Fallen Maniacs before they kill you)
Mantra of Conviction: Overawe (pretty much wanna maximize dps)
Serenity: Ascension (because 3 seconds isnt enough)

Passives:
OWE, ES, NDE

Gear:
Inna's Radiance: Should find one with %life
Inna's Vast Expanse: Vitality and Dex with a side of %life
Inna's Favor: The usual
Inna's Temperance
Note: Inna's 4 piece set bonus you will need for keeping up Inner Storm.

Vile Ward: Something like 150 Vitality and Dex
Amulet: Mainly you should be searching for more Dex than Vitality and Trifecta or Quadfecta (Attack speed, Average Damage, Crit Damage, Crit Chance)
Gloves: Dex, Attack Speed, Crit Damage, Crit Chance + Resist of your choice
Lacuni Prowlers: Dex and Vitality and over 5.5 Crit Chance
Ring: I know you must be thinking Stone of Jordan...WRONG! It's not going to save your ass from a barrage of Fallen Maniacs.

Natalya's Reflection: Don't really bother with Crit Chance (tends to be costly), get a Crit Damage one instead.
Natalya's Bloody Footprints: High Dex + Resist of your choice

Skorn: Try to find one with 6% Life Steal and over 175 Crit Damage and over 1300 DPS

Profile: Tinnvec's 0.9 works very well for MP8 but you don't want to do the whole run, so I edited the profile to only do Keeps 2 + 3 (Note: when the run is over instead of taking the waypoint in keeps 3 to town it will teleport instead because I didn't know how to edit the code to waypoint to Bastion's Keep)

You also want to use the latest trinity off the git repository.

Trinity 1.7.2.11 Settings:
View attachment 86829View attachment 86830

The rest of the settings should be default and the item rules should be adjusted to your liking.

Other notes:
The bot has trouble with Arcane and Desecrator, but you shouldn't die more than 3 deaths on average an hour. Of course if you followed my directions then the chance of getting deaths will slightly diminish.

Demonbuddy stats:
After 4 hours of botting...
Found 15 Legendaries
3.76 Legendaries/hour

IPH fluctuates between the lowest of 500 IPH to 800 IPH.
You can also try Tempest Rush in replace of Breath of Heaven when you get atleast 220k DPS and above 1.90 Spirit Regen on your Helm. You will see a better representation of what this build has to offer.
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please upload this "so I edited the profile to only do Keeps 2 + 3"
Thanks!
 
I only have one question, since you guys are skipping elites i was curious what is your ilvl62-63 rares count (trinity log, not db), besides the supposed 3 legs/hour...
 
what about the bar ? any opinion of how a bar can have a safe bot at MP8 or higher?
 
bizzy1one said:
the skorn is the cockblock.

i also am not sure why you take inner storm over cyclone and then opt for life % on helm over 2+ regen. soj i can understand, but it also makes dem bells smash mp8 elites pretty well and gives 2 regen.

guardians path is a hugemongous spirit gen for skorn monks .... hard not to use it and drop nde or owe and stack ar. im not real sure where this is targeted but the skorn alone makes it non budget. if you are building for efficiency and not cost then guardians path over owe is obvious choice.

thought about trying this myself on 1 of mine but havent done it. currently liking TR and cant really stack ias with TR and ias is what makes 2h shine. pretty good numbers tho at over 3leg/hr
Click to expand...

Indeed for a good Skorn you're going to need to spend a lot of gold. I was fortunate to find one with over 1300 dps and 177 crit with 6 life steal%. So I had to make a choice to make some cash from it or use it to test out efficient botting in higher mps.

Well, of course if you already have a high EHP Chest you won't need to get % life on the helm, and can save it for 2+ regen if you want. I may do this in the future when I get a better a better EHP item. Having that extra 2+ regen would help a great deal. I could either add tempest rush and replace it with breath of heaven, or keep the current build and try out an MP higher than 8.

I do agree with you Guardians Path is needed to keep up tempest rush but since I'm not using tempest rush with this build I decided to get NDE instead because I kept dying to Fallen Maniacs or stuck when the bot was flip flopping to get a health globe in a Desecrator or Arcane Beam. My only other option is what you suggested to stack AR instead of relying on OWE. I'll have to weigh my options in the future, but right now I am comfortable with my IPH and build so far.
 
So what is the ilvl 63-62 rares count swaggerjacks ? You can find this stats in trinitylogs ->botname folder -> runstats.txt
 
skorn is cheap, about 120m or so, but i couldn't figure out the rest of the gear, building on calculator and checking auction house it seems your stats would could cost over 1,5bi, especially without witching hour, good lacunis alone would be 500m, could you share more details on the rest of the pieces?
 
lol this build is not worth the price hes putting into the gears this is like a 1bil monk
 
craft like me dude. u save alot gold. i crafted shoulders, neck, bracers and gloves. atm im sitting with 215 k dps unbuffed, 500 all res and 52k hp. running mp 8 with few deaths
 
question is it worth it? do u pick up rares? or only legendary? n how much did u spent on everything else
 
can someone confirm lph number on longer bot duration?

i can get 3-4lph with 4h farming on my mp0 20kk budget barb so i wish it was around 3lph confirmed with 24-48h run before i invest 1bil gold
 
zamocny why dont you w8 about 12 hours then post lph statistics... i dont beleive it is possible to hit 3lph stable stats over longer period of time on mp0. Maybe if lcuky in the first few hours, but not on a long period. More like 1.7-2.2 or so..
 
that's exactly what i said? i wanted someone to confirm the number at first post, because i belive 4h is too short period of time
 
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