ADDED SKILL/PASSIVE VARIATIONS FOR THE BUILDS

1. Speed Palm BuildIdeal weapon set up : Fast weapon + LS WKL
Passive Variation:
STI or NDE
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSYVk!gVX!aZccaa

No EF since you need the Palm-ed mob to stand still to maximize the aoe palm dmg. This is GREAT for high mp games since mobs have very high hp. Most of the elites all blow up with 1 palm-ed aoe dmg.
Do NOT palm the reflect pack. You WILL die to that palm explosive reflected back at you. You can use NDE passive to prevent this, but I just don't palm them and use STI which obviously extremely beneficial for us in terms of ehp.

2. Skorn/TR/Bell
Ideal weapon set up : Skorn or Doom Hammer
Skill Variation:
FoT Quickening or Crippling Wave Rising Tide
Air Ally or Serenity or BOH Blazing Wrath or Blinding Flash Faith in the Light
MoC Overawe or MoH Circular Breathing
Passive Variation:
Exalted Soul or STI
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aejSck!dcb!YbbYZa

This is a godly build for VOTA essence runs. This is what makes us one of the fastest essence runners. Infinite TR around the map. Locate the elites. Melt them with bells. Rinse and repeat.

From my regular gear set up, I just change out my
Mempo -> Spirit regen Inna's helm
DW -> Lifesteal Skorn
Litany -> Bell SOJ

3. BlowJob Monkey Build (Nirvana)
Ideal weapon set up : Slow weapon MH + Crit EF
Skill Variation:
SW Cyclone or SW Blade Storm or SW Fire Storm
Passive Variation:
Beacon or Guiding Light
STI or Guiding Light or NDE
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSXfk!gVX!abcYZa

This is my favorite support build. And this is where EF comes in handy.

Pop BOH Infused light
Use Fist of Fury on 2-3 mobs
Pop Overawe bonus
Infinite Cyclone Strike for 5 seconds

It's great to have EF on this build because you need to get as high aps as possible to spam cyclone strike as much as possible within 5 seconds window.

This works EXTREMELY WELL with

HOTA Barb
CM Wiz
Bear WD
CoB WD
Bell Monk
Trap DH

This is by far the best supporting monk build in my opinion.

You have to be careful with nasty elites though as your permanent buffed dmg isn't as high as the palm build or other regulars.

But the main focus is to suck up everything in the screen for other party members to kill everything around you.

4. Infused Bell Build (Nirvana)
Ideal weapon set up : Slow weapon MH + Crit EF
Passive Variation:
Exalted Soul or Beacon or Guiding Light
STI or NDE
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSXek!gbX!abcYaa

This utilizes the same Nirvana mechanic but with Bell instead of Cyclone Strike.

You can literally drop as many as 12 WALL OF LIGHTS within 5 seconds. Insane burst dmg. Best to spam these when the elites are against the wall since Bell knockbacks the mobs.

5. Smoothing Guiding Light Support Build
Ideal weapon set up : Fast weapon + LS WKL
Skill Variation:
Blinding Flash or Exploding Palm Flesh
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSYfk!gfX!aZccca

Cyclone Strike Smoothing Breeze works with Guiding Light
So, if anyone wants to use guiding light but not boh, you can do this. Great for permanent party dmg boost as well as sucking it up.

6. Full Party / Solo Monk Support Build
Ideal weapon set up : Fast weapon + LS WKL
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSXfk!gfX!YZcbZa

Using quickening rune on FoT lets you spam Overawe bonus/Cyclone Strike all time.

You can swap out Blazing Fist for Palm for more support and effective party dps boost.

7. Full Party / Solo Monk Main DPS-er Build
Ideal weapon set up : Fast weapon + LS WKL
Skill Variation:
Exploding Palm or Wave of Light Empowered Bell
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSXVk!gfX!aZcbaa

This is great when you are the main DPS-er for the party.
8. Tokio's Tri-Gen DPS-er Build
Ideal weapon set up : Fast weapon + LS WKL or LS EF + LS WKL or LS EF + Slow weapon

8a) Guiding Light + Breathe of Heaven Wraith variation
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSXbk!gfX!aZcbca

8b) Bell variation (Quickening can be used instead of Thunderclap)
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSebk!gcX!aZcbca

8c) Blinding Flash variation
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSYbk!gVX!aZccca

8d) Palm variation
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSVbk!geX!aZcaca

This build gives us so much damage buff. It's all 99% permanent buff in the run as well.

BF : 15% attack speed
Foresight : 18% damage boost
3 Combo Strike : 24% damage boost

boh wraith : 15% damage boost
guiding light : 18% damage boost

This post was edited by jinshin85 on May 13 2013 12:12pm

nice work man

I made a guide for the cookie cutter monk as some people still seemed to be struggling with it, also the 1.04 dodge monk in unified guides was looking a bit dated
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=67307062&f=142

I use the setup you showed me in combination with WoL. Even with a lot of attack speed the 829% damage is a lot

Edit: now run 276k dps 100% uptime buff with litany, 305k dps 100% uptime buff with unity

This post was edited by Shawnyboy on May 13 2013 05:53pm

Nice. Yep, bell works very well.

I would personally run Litany with those numbers.

Fun stuff.



Thanks man

my bad. just looked. litany im hitting 291.7k dps 100% uptime buff.

Man!

I can't believe that I can actually get more HP and still maintain the same resistance with Inna's pants dex/ar and Inna's chest dex/vita/life%

I feel so stupid >.<

/sigh...

I had the same problem!!

Just shows how much we know about Monks.

He told me and I'm like... But... I...


OH..... MY........ GOD

I've been watching some old Monk builds and explanation on how to get your Monk to solo MP10 Uber.
Sadly though I am too poor for such builds >.<