Reckless Haste is a better cover hex then Suffering - mainly cause it uses the strength of SS to cause even mroe damage. Course some Monks don't like the sudden attack rate increase.
You just kill faster is all.
Basic pattern (as I learned from cerb/sno's posts):Once your monk has fully engaged the smites (important to wait til all smites are in range of monk), then cast Sympathetic Visage on the Monk (if you have a + to enchant duration mod weap use it here).
switch out to your normal casting weap/focus. Cast Arcane Echo. Pay attention to its recharge cycle (ie did you get the faster recharge bonus or not).
If you did not get the faster recharge bonus, then once Arcane Echo has spun to just past 2o'clock, cast Spiteful Spirit on one of the attacking Smites, quickly tab to another and cast your echo'd SS.
Now you have a choice it depends on your comfort level with spell timing.
If you know your timing and the Monk is competent, then wait until the smite you are targeting is down to roughly 1/3rd health life. Cast Desecrate Enchantments to deliver the death blow - your goal here is to hit the smites before they bring on Divine Intervention. You're doing it right if DE is the last damage you see.
If your SS is getting smited off, then follow up your second SS cast with Reckless Haste (or Suffering if you don't have RH yet). The area affect means the smites will take the cover hex off themselves and not touch the dual SS you have running. Switch to your extra energy off weap set and caste DE as above.
Trying to slip a cover hex in right after you cast SS is a tough call. You have to hope your reduced cast time bonus kicks in.
BTW, as sometimes happens, your monk is running smite damage and causing the smites to not hit as often or causing them to scatter.... IF you can't get the monk to stop trying to do damage, then you don't have a great set of options. I try to maintain SV on the monk and then echo SS. I cast the covering hex in between the SS casts (waiting a bit on the second SS). This gives you a small window when the smite hex is recharging for your second SS to do some damage. Yes the monk just took a huge smite spike, but... he's not helping you by smiting and chasing off the smites is he? (damn lot of smite words in that last sentence).
Hope that helps (and thanks again to sno and cerb for their awesome guides way back when)
