Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

How is the new Raiment not exactly that? Any spirit spender is a dps loss because each generator attack is worth 1/3 of 3000%. And that's ignoring spenders resetting the 3 hit animation.

The monk changes looked promising at first but after some investigation, kinda meh. The new SWK has a 2s ICD on clones, so only tight packs and bosses are going to reliably receive that spender dps increase. New Raiment might have been fun if using DS as a dps move wasn't so janky.

datamined 2.1.2 patch_sl said:

Sentries cast your Hatred spender when you do and deal 100% increased damage.
Night Stalker Your primary skills generate an additional 4 Hatred. (reworked from Critical Hits have a chance to restore 1 Discipline)
Smoke Screen : Cooldown is now 3 seconds (up from 2).

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There's other DH changes here, just thought I'd post the ones that do some serious damage to the current top end DH builds. Hope that new set is awesome...

PTR Patch 2.1.2 datamined - News - Diablo Fans

I think Blizzard's reasoning was that the standard M6, usually called frostfire, was too passive. Lay down sentries and run around. The slow ball M6 build was not passive at all. I liked it, maybe requiring too much activity, and it was especially unforgiving on refreshing smoke screen.

Don't know how this new paradigm of requiring classes to use generators and/or spenders is going to mesh with how punishing high grifts are and DH's paper defenses.

Official patch notes for 2.1.2 are up:

2.1.2 PTR Patch Notes, PTR is Now Live! - News - Diablo Fans

some highlights_sl said:

Anarch
Maximum dash range has been reduced
Now has a short dash that will be used at close range
Corrupted Angel
Maximum dash range has been reduced
Unholy Shield has been removed
Punisher
Maximum leap range has been reduced
Stun duration has been reduced

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Good, fuck those mobs.


I still hate the concept of seasons but I have the itch to play a seasonal monk. Maybe it's just gimmicky, but spreading exploding palm on explosion seems like it would be a cool build for higher grifts. Especially abusing spirit or burning runes.

Likely the former. The question is how that damage increase is added to other increases like skill increases on gear and mantras.

I take back the burning essence rune being 'abusable'. The impending doom would be more straight up damage than burning essense. Fist/Rimeheart would work better with Gungdo Gear too.

I was thinking something like this for a new season 2 monk:

Monk - Game Guide - Diablo III

Wearing Frostburns, Gungdo Gear, SWK and Inna 4pc, Crudest Boots, Fist of Az, and Rimeheart. I've never used Frostburns before, is it safe to assume if a skill does cold damage, it can proc Frostburn's freeze? Or does it need to do cold damage and specify that it chills/slows?

I might try out a lightning monk with the new Raiment, but ping pong gameplay still looks tedious. The forums are talking up Cindercoat, SWK, Essence Torch(50% off bell cost), and that spirit stone that lets you cast bells at your cursor. I'm not totally convinced about that build from a survivability standpoint, seems like you're taking a monk and making him a DH with that build. Also, the spread of the clone debuff probably won't match the spread of fire bells, so half the mobs will die before others(which might not be a problem, just drag them on to the next pack).

How was your survivability though now that you had to stand and fire more often?