I can lag out, walk through hordes of monsters, and not do a d*** thing, and never lose health. Freaking ridiculous.
Hating the monk life very much right now.
Except... how long does it take you to kill said horde of monsters? I haven't played my Crusader since the patch, but prior to that, it took
forever in comparison to my Monk. Although, I think my Crusader only has three legendaries, and the rest are all yellow items.
Since I never found the Jekangbord, I'm tempted to craft the shield that reduces the cost of Shield Bash by 40-50%. I recall someone saying that Shield Bash's pathing isn't so broken anymore -- it used to knock your target out of the way half of the time! I'm tempted to use it since Shield Bash has a built-in charge effect, which is a nice change of pace to being a ranged Crusader with Justice (the throwing hammer move -- i.e. Thor) and Blessed Shield (the throwing shield move -- i.e. Captain America).
I also might take a peek at Lightning-based abilities. My Stone of Jordan (not equipped at the moment) has a +17% lightning damage, and I'm too cheap to enchant rings/amulets. So, it might not be a bad idea as lightning abilities normally stun, which increases your survivability even more. That's the reason why I use the Burst rune with Justice!
I was playing last night, didn't have any freezes or crashes, but my game seemed about 1/4 second out of sync. I would click on an enemy, sometimes multiple times, and suddenly the hits would come out in a flurry and dead enemy. Could have just been lag I guess but seemed sporadic instead of constant.
I've seen that sort of sporadic bits of lag, but it's just very, very random as to when it occurs. Does your latency indicator ever change when you're seeing those problems? I've had mine drop into the red with the worst value being around 1000ms.
As for the freezing, it finally seemed to subside after I restarted my machine. Maybe Blizzard is in cahoots with Microsoft to get me to finally restart after installing Windows updates... I think I left that dialog down there for about three weeks! I didn't really suspect that anything was wrong with my PC given that just about everything works fine. The only other flaky software that I use is Firefox, but Firefox is notoriously awful if it gets over 2GB of RAM used. I checked the RAM anyway, and it was fine. I also watched GPU temps while playing, and they were well within limits (highest was 68C).
Also, thanks for the comment about damage resist versus dodge, that makes a lot of sense. DR reduces all incoming damage, very evenly, dodge sometimes negates completely but you might fail to dodge 4-5-6 times or whatever and just...die.
It's also worthwhile to note that some bonuses aren't nearly as good as they seem. For example, the Monk's Mantra of Evasion states that it gives you 17% chance to dodge. So, if you had 20% dodge chance, you would expect to have 37% dodge chance, right? Unfortunately, that is
not how it works. Dodge chance is multiplicative, and using the above example, you calculate it by 1 - ((1-.2) * (1-.17)), which results in .336 or 33.6% chance to dodge. Because of this, when I activate Mantra of Evasion (grants an additional 17% chance to dodge), I gain a paltry
4% chance to dodge.