I've just decided to give a different class a try, maybe finish my WD's. Currently waiting for my gear to sell before I give it a go again. Honestly there have been many threads about the ninja buff on fire damage in act 3 and 4. Everyone who actively farms that on the forums has agreed, there was even a blue post about them looking into it. I know affixes are random, however the rate in which they spawn arcane and desecration is just silly when 4 people are alive. It's one thing if you can split up and kite, however playing 4 guys all it takes is about 3 spawns of desecration and my monks just drain like mad after the ninja patch. Before I wasn't having any issues, but now it's just unplayable. The amount of money you have to spend on gear just isn't realistic to farm when the gear you farm is trash anyway most of the time.

on a side note; I saw this video and will probably give barbs a try if my WD's don't work out -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x3VCUMWLUE&t=0m48s LOL! There are a lot of these vids floating around now and i'm sure it's going to get nerfed, however most people are doing this with under 150M worth of gear (all you really need is a decent LOH weap and you stay perma health as long as there are multiple mobs)

@ d0z3rr; as melee the mobs are already "to them" you have to be able to take some hits or you just spend most of your time re-gathering those who died. I have tried quite a bit of dps, but to get 50-60k on each one it would cost quite a bit. The problem is that it takes so much money to invest in survival and dps now n' days and when you want it for 4 guys at the same time; it's pretty brutal. It's only the arcane and desecration that kills me at the moment in act 3 nothing else phases me at all. When there are 4 guys alive on the same screen it just spawns WAY too fast to realistically avoid + still dps as melee.

@ Ellay; did you make that video? I'd love to see you doing act 3 or ANYONE doing act 3 with 4 monks vs arcane/desecration after the ninja buff. I've tried nearly every build, it doesn't seem to matter though as serenity is the only thing that allows me to dps, by then if they have any other CC ability it's basically gg. I can't kill elites within the first 4 seconds and generally it's easiest for me to just let 2 monks die and then I can kill the elites with the remaining 2. -- so sad, but it's the only way I could kill elites with those affixes, which is just lame.

Do any of you farm act 3 with 4 players in inferno? I see people talk about it, however I don't see any vids anywhere of people actually doing it. =(