The Monk Temple

[Shayuki]

How's that strange? For Monk I'd value skill speed higher than crit, actually. Crit has diminishing returns and Skill Speed has increased returns, so the more of both you have, the better skill speed is. Combine with Infernal Release and Bootshine lessening crit's effect even more and it should be an obvious conclusion. The softcap I'd place at 2.00 on 3 greased lightning stacks because when you go lower than that, you lose dps while using skills that are off GCD.


Furthermore, I've noticed that with very low, minimal skill speed like in your sets, I actually cannot use 5 skills after Perfect Balance, at least while using non-GCD skills in between them. That's why in you post-T5 BiS list at least, I definitely would swap Hero's Necklace of Slaying with Allagan Choker of Striking and Allagan Tassets of Striking with Hero's Belt of Striking, giving you 32 more skill speed and 32 less crit. Probably can do similiar swaps all around, because I just don't see how crit could possibly be better than skill speed for monk. Bootshine takes approximately 1/6.666 of your GCDs so at least 15% of your crit for your skill damage is 100% wasted(or was it 1/6.333? Either way...).