Barb vs. Monk - 2-player with a DH

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I'm going to roll an alt with a friend of mine who's going Demon Hunter. I'd like to play melee, as my current "main" is a Wizard. I'm trying to decide between monk and barb.

Some questions.

- Which one would allow me to pull the most DPS? (I don't like being extremely tank-y and unable to do any damage whatsoever).
- Which one generally does better in inferno?
etc.

Thx in advance.

EDIT: just to clarify - this is almost only for group play, with some odd single player thrown into the mix once in a while.

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Monk for group play.Monk for solo play.
Monk

[Chaosinciter]

I'd personally say roll a monk, the amount of survivability they have is pretty insane while not having to sacrifice damage all that much and between the passive "Resolve" ( 25% damage reduction for 2.5 secs after you deal damage) and the rune for Crippling Wave "Concussion" (20% damage reduction) combined with the "One with Everything" passive it allows you just stack 1 resistance and its applied to all of them.

On the other hand the barbarian IMO has the highest damage output in probably the game if you are able to use a certain setup, getting 9-12k HotA's at lvl 43 with a 80 DPS weapon. Combine that with the Ignore Pain "Ignorance is Bliss" rune which allows for 20% of the damage you deal during Ignore Pain to heal you its pretty much a toss up.

All in all i cant advise much about Inferno (too busy leveling alt's and that jazz) but id see Monk's being the more survivable of the two while retaining a decent amount of damage through not having to gimp your stats on inferno due to the required Resistances.

[Nyanmaru]

Go with a Barbarian, since the barb and the DH use gear that is exclusive to each other, so you got double the chance to get a new item. Highest convenience combo.

If you wanna go the maximum synergy route gameplay wise, pick the monk.

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Go barb, they seem to be less broken than monks in endgame.

[warex00]

Somthing he forgot to say (DH friend here) is that he dosnt like using shields. And I have a 60 barb halfway into act 1 inferno myself. And I know that If I dont use a shield I almost instantly die. So the question is. Can you play in a 2 player mode as a monk w/o using shield? just going for hard LoH stack?

[Deleted]

Not a chance.