Looking at the leaderboard I'd say a good portion of the other classes seem to be doing just fine. A few outliers that could probably be brought up but every class doesn't have to be amazing at the same things I don't think. Some classes will end up tankier, some burstier, some more consistent. We'll see though.

if you mean that the best boots for monk aren't the set ones, I agree... We can only hope that the new elite set(s) will address this...


+1

I think he meant the best boots in general are going to end up being insanely well rolled rares.

^ dunno, all the elite rare boots I've found so far (not many tbh) have less armor than the uniques I found and I'm using ( Shadow Dancers/Reviled March)...

How about you? Have you found some great yellow ones? How high can the +%Enhanced Armor get?

I have yellows disabled so I can't say. Rocking Reviled March myself as well. I'd probably switch back to Shadow Dancers if I was farming mobs that stunned as well.

Elite sabatons can reach 44 base armor and max out at 100% enhanced armor. So 88. It might make it interesting to bump the maximum enhanced armor value.

Then it's a lot less than the unique ones. Thx for the info Mael.
Imho I wouldn't bump it - at least not by much - set/uniques should be better than rares. And keep in mind rares don't have a lvl req. (edit: not saying they should!)

Yeah, I like Uniques being BiS for lore and gameplay purposes. Finding that super sick, rare Unique FINALLY is always the best feeling. Reviled March it is until further notice, it seems. I didn't wanna sift through yellows anyway >.>

Yeah, you're right vezio... btw I really like the concept of no level req on rares... I think that's one of the coolest ideas I've had. It gives rare items a niche.

Me too! They're great for levelling! And I've used some well rolled ones up to lvl 60ish on some chars.
Btw I always have loot filter on blue ( so I will find yellows and above ) exp whenI'm in late Nightmare/Hell where elites can drop...

If only this game allowed you to unlock tabbed inventory space...

If only

You guys are doing it wrong...

Had some ones that got to 292 and had some meh stats on it. Am sure you can get better.

That explains partially how you have quintuple my deaths XD

^ Wow some serious armor and sick deeeps!!

that deeps life.

Probably better off using something with better stats, though. I mean damage caps at 99,999. So if I crit with those like.. over 100k damage is just wasted.

Plus I die a ton so.. theres pretty good evidence that maybe more dps isnt more better. But it may be more fun...

> mfw the damage cap is actually being hit

So the monk is strong but the boots are the real culprit?

Wow, remember when hell was hard?

I feel partially responsible since i called for the monk buffs. 40k dps = 1200 health per second from cobra strike = total faceroll invincibility.

I have a high 90s monk so I'm by no means biased, but the kick damage scaling with boots needs to have a higher initial gain with diminishing returns. If anything it appears to have exponential returns and scaling entirely too high with the highest armor boots.

You can't be dying that much if you can pull off a 125 chain combo.

I don't think I changed monks that much, did I? Just buffed hand to hand damage... I think that was it?

tbh I'd have them straight up capped at whatever the new elite set boots can be upgraded to.

And this is coming from the guy who just got... wait for it..

I mean I really can. My dps rocks. Unless it drops. My setup pretty much requires 5 mobs to be up or I cant do any sort of dps near the numbers I like seeing/my chain ends early. If I get stunned I go splat pretty quick, even blind or dex debuffs can make me fall so hard I cant keep up with the damage. But to be fair I havent died in a bit.

I've pretty much been spamming D since I got into farming hell. Its gotten better with every upgrade I guess.

EDIT: Ok I'm still mega squishy. Blind or stun = splat.