My class layout with information on why it's amazing

[farmouss]

you're right, let's get back to the quad group
Congratulations for leveling, I guess that you're 60 by now.
Let us know your final build when you think it's optimal and the stuff as well I was actually wondering if you use shields or not (on each)

cheers

[dancook]

Thanks I'm level 60 now, just started A1 inferno - happy to find enough stash in my chest to get me started without having to visit the AH.

I'm using shields on all, I don't know if it's needed.. will reassess as I get more gear. But since you're going to be stood still tanking the hits, it might be worth it. It'll also give you breathing time to recover if your group gets split. I don't know for sure.

I've gone with this for now

Barb - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...igP!Ybg!YZcYbZ
M1 - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...gXj!aYf!YYabbb
M2 - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...fXj!bYf!ZYZZbb
M3 - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculato...gXj!bYf!cYcbbb

[farmouss]

That's very cool, thanks for sharing this.
Now, I'm wondering, how do you configure your keybindings as Barbarian skills are not all usefull at the same time as some of the monks, for example WOTB, I guess that it's being activated not always when you want it?
Would you be okay to share your in-game keybindings?

cheers

EDIT : I guess the question would be : can you activate a skill on 3 characters only? Ellay said that he was round robin Breath of Heaven on the monks, but how do you do it without activating a skill on the barb?

[Ellay]

I apologize for the delay and keeping everyone in suspense, been busy in RL.

Barb - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/T.../hero/24948353
Monk 1 - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/T.../hero/17608353
Monk 2 - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/T.../hero/17608360
Monk 3 - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/T.../hero/17608348

I am pretty sure the abilities are the correct layout in the link. I was messing around with a few things to try them out but ultimately the main build I talked about in the original post is the core.
I haven't taken out Diablo in act 4, it is on my to do list, I just haven't touched act 4 because it's not as good for farming as act 3 is. Can't image it would be difficult.

I'm not sure if I talked about the general gameplay of it but I'll give a run down..
I have the mantras and warcry on the same key and refresh that every 30 seconds, right after hitting that I use battlerage / mystic ally ( earth ally) to conserve on how many keys are hotkeyed and mystic ally is a very low cost spirit spender. With Transcendence, each ability heals you in the process anyways. I am working on dropping this passive for Fleet Footed eventually which will give me a very nice speed boost to increase overall farming. Note my gear for the monks is focused on spirit regen of at least 4 per character and 8+ for the monk with cyclone strike. With that amount of spirit regen, spirit really isn't an issue so feel free to use your abilities without being conservative.

Fighting non elites, I run into a clump - usually skip stragglers. Use Cyclone Strike for the pull to you, use Sweeping Wind on the monks and Overpower for 10% more crit on the Barb. I also have another hotkey for Overpower that I will hit during the fight if it is somewhat longer to refresh it. But the only ability you really hit other than that while engaged is the Mantra for increased dps /survivability / heals. It's a nice all in one ability
If you get into a bind with desecrator or frozen, you can use serenity and spam those heals on round robin!
For elites I have another special key just for Wrath of the Berserker... seriously just pop that thing on a boss with your monks in tow and all the buffs going. It just Shreds them. I am to the point now where I usually run into another elite pack before the ability is off cooldown so I only use it on packs that have affix's I dislike. Overall it's the same style of fighting but you just use that extra ability for Elites.
The barb has I think 6% life leech which is enough to keep topped off and I eventually want to get the monks to that point with life leech or life on hit, it's hard to balance when Spirit regen is a huge factor to my build, making it easy and on weapons it seems to be a pretty cheap attribute. With the new patch out, there is a ton of items now that have this affix so gearing up should be even easier.
Also with the extended search options, drilling down and getting resists + affix on armor is much easier too. My resists are decent unbuffed but buffed are awesome. Being able to completely clear the game I am not sure if I need more resists and am thinking more DPS might be the way to go.


That's my mind dump for today, will think of more later

[dancook]

Thanks Ellay, interesting stuff. Now I have some more res, I will play with some DW!

[Ellay]

How do you like the combo so far dancook?

[dancook]

How do you like the combo so far dancook?

Awesome my Witch Doctors have now been sidelined to this group.

I got some of those set weapons your monks have with nice crit damage gems and I'm flying through content. The only small issue is that my warrior sits on about 500 res buffed and I'm using Andariel's Visage (was cheap, but the fire damage taken hurts.. maybe it'll get better with more res).

I've just done the Covetous Shen quest in A2, my damage out put is pretty awesome with this group after making some cheap upgrades based on your char links.

[Ellay]

Awesome my Witch Doctors have now been sidelined to this group.

I got some of those set weapons your monks have with nice crit damage gems and I'm flying through content. The only small issue is that my warrior sits on about 500 res buffed and I'm using Andariel's Visage (was cheap, but the fire damage taken hurts.. maybe it'll get better with more res).

I've just done the Covetous Shen quest in A2, my damage out put is pretty awesome with this group after making some cheap upgrades based on your char links.

Great to hear. I think soon I have the courage to make some small films showing the power of it
The barbs resists on mine are about 400-500~ unbuffed, maybe slightly less. It seems to be good enough though and I don't really have trouble in Act 3 at all. I think what helps is all the defensive buffs the group offers. You can dodge pretty much anything so the mantra of evasion when used is giving the entire group 30% extra dodge is quite the buff.

[MiRai]

I think soon I have the courage to make some small films showing the power of it

Courage? WTF is this "courage" crap? Where is the Ellay that would toss out PvP videos left and right.

WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET SOME VIDEOS OF ELLAY KICKING ASS AT DIABLO III?

[Ellay]

Courage? WTF is this "courage" crap? Where is the Ellay that would toss out PvP videos left and right.

WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET SOME VIDEOS OF ELLAY KICKING ASS AT DIABLO III?

Ya you're right, courage is probably the wrong word. I'd go with lazy - I got me some motivation!