How do you think the passive One With Everything will play out? de

[Such Violent Storms]

One With Everything - "Your resistance to all elements is equal to your highest elemental resistance."
In summary this passive allows a monk to pile up one resistance from items instead of finding items with "+20 to all resistances."

One question is, well, how common are large single-res bonuses compared to all-res bonuses? If you're using a bunch of inferno/hell items and they all give "+all res" then there's no point in going out of your way to find single res bonuses. On the flip side if there's good items for a Monk that give large single-res bonuses (think Andariel's Visage from D2) then One With Everything instantly becomes very very useful.

If OWE allows a Monk to free up space for items that may not provide resistances, but provide a ton of damage, then OWE could become a staple passive.

Do you think OWE will be extremely useful in late game? In early game? Is it worth excluding it for another passive: perhaps a passive vital to a build strategy, or something like Seize The Initiative?

[Autti]

you also have to balance that with how much intelligence you will have, and also dodge chance which will be very high with a Monk.

Because intelligence increases you're resistance anyway, if you are wearing items with large amounts of intelligence then all your resistances will be high already. Although i'm not sure if they are doing the hell -100 resist mechanic ala D2.

Also with dodge chance, when it comes to actual damage sustained it might not be worth it. Sure get 10% higher resist, but with a dodge of 50% it lowers the total effect of the 10% extra resist, also diminishing returns when at high levels.

Unless you are wearing specific items that give you a lot of one resist and no +all, i doubt it will be that useful compared to some of the other passives.



Edit: there will be a few calculations to make for passive choices. Like the choice between The Guardians Path +15% dodge while dual weilding
and Sixth Sense, your dodge chance is increased by 30% of your critical hit chance. So at any time you have above 50% crit chance, Sixth Sense becomes a better option.

[Chaboi]

There is still much to see, however if you look at rings in diablo 2, the frostburn (i think thats what it was) had like 50% cold resistance. Using that, if you have a total of 75 resist all amongst your other pieces + 50 from the ring, the buff works quite well.

I look at it understanding that picking up an item that only has 1 form of resistance will make me better regardless of the resistances on my other gear.

[ElementEight]

There is still much to see, however if you look at rings in diablo 2, the frostburn (i think thats what it was) had like 50% cold resistance. Using that, if you have a total of 75 resist all amongst your other pieces + 50 from the ring, the buff works quite well.

I look at it understanding that picking up an item that only has 1 form of resistance will make me better regardless of the resistances on my other gear.

Pretty sure you mean Ravenfrost.

Anyway, here's a demonstration of how I think it works:

Your resists:

0/0/0/0/0

You grab 50% cold resist

Anyone else's would be at 50/0/0/0/0

You'd be at 50/50/50/50/50

[Coolhwip]

The skill will still not protect you from poison damage. It only works on arcane, lightning, fire and cold.

[ElementEight]

The skill will still not protect you from poison damage. It only works on arcane, lightning, fire and cold.

Good catch. Let's just act like my 5th /50 was Holy damage (which is included in Arcane iirc)

[Coolhwip]

Holy is not an element either. I forgot about that one too. They worded it carefully so as to not make monk v monk pvp battles a bore fest battle of who has the most stacked resistance.

[Torr]

I'm always wondering about holy damage, as I don't see the obvious benefit to a skill like Wave of Light over something like SSS. But if Holy damage is relatively unresistable, then Wave of Light is an excellent skill for high level. I do wonder though whether there is a kind of Holy resistance similar to Damage Reduction in D2 that certain creatures might possess.

Is it confirmed that One With Everything works against Arcane? I remember having a debate about this before where some people put forward the notion that it might only affect the "classic" elements of lightning, fire, and cold. I don't follow monk information religiously (get it? religiously?) so perhaps I missed a confirmation on this.

[ElementEight]

I'm pretty sure Arcane and Holy resistance are shared on the character sheet.

edit: yeah: http://www.diablo3builds.com/wp-cont...el-Changes.gif

[Coolhwip]

I stand corrected.

This begs the question though: Is arcane really an element? I personally don't think so which is why they paired it with holy, so I'm with Torr on that. Someone that knows for sure, please chime in.