This is my monk and my build: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Sven-1755/hero/20696029
Maghda can cast insects, which make brutal dam, even when she is frozen or am I wrong?

This post was edited by TCAvenger on May 17 2013 02:26pm

Your monk looks good. Dont know why you are dying! I usually use both blinding and serenity since cc effect from blind and anti cc from serenity helps a lot.

I am looking forward to see them.

ADDED UBER BUILDS ON THE BOTTOM

1. Speed Palm Build
Ideal 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

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For all these Uber Monk Builds, if you must use OWE passive, you can just swap Beacon for it.

EASY UBER BUILDS

#1 http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aYSXgk!VfX!accbYa
If you die with this build, don’t uber or bump down the MP lvl.

#2 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSYgk!gVX!aZccYa
Blazing Fist give you great mobility to kite around if you need to

HARD UBER BUILDS

#3 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSYbk!geX!aZccca
Monks with high unbuffed dmg will scale much better with this trigen build. Pacifism will save you many times from cc effects

#4 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSXVk!gfX!aZcbaa
This is great for party uber runs because of Guilding Light + Overawe bonus + Palm dmg bonus. This is HUGE for the entire party.

#5 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aUSXek!gfX!YZcbba
Quickening with high aps will fill up the spirit globe fast. I usually like to fill up the globe to almost full and press down the bell to spam. It’s better than belling every time you get the spirit. But 1 bell should get you shitload of life back, so if you are in danger, just bell away to survive.

UBER BUILDS FOR SKORN (2Hander Users)

#6 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aYSjek!dcX!YcYbba
Passive Variation:
Either Guardian or Chant can be swapped for either Pacifism/NDE/OWE
Air Ally takes the aggro off of you A LOT. It basically take the hit for you during ubering. It’s like a shield. And it can be recasted when it dies. It does give you good amount of spirit per run to spam more bell. 2H Bell monks literally live off the lifesteal from the bell, so more spirit = more survival.

#7 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aYSgek!dcX!YcYYba
This is easier version with Serenity instead of Ally. Less edps per uber run but safer.

This post was edited by jinshin85 on May 17 2013 03:37pm

U really need to stream and get sponserd right away

Agreed. Jinshin definitely needs to stream.

i need few gear tips for speed palm build
this is my monk (currently bell spec but this is all of my gear atm)
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/fidodido-2756/hero/9512949

i'll try to make better shoulders / bracers (or should i get lacuni for speed?)
i wont be getting crit mempo prolly ever so i wonder should i just get better
stat Inna's or get good stat mepo for speed?

and last part that im puzzled about is soj or speed/crit ring?

roughly my budget is 100-200 mils (i got 1kdps / socket / chd / LS / dex sword & axe ready, wkl prices are silly..and tbh rares now even)

This post was edited by throoper on May 18 2013 10:29am

Your inna helm looks fine.

100mil for decent butcher axe with 100mil decent ef is good budget weapon set up. Or two rare swords are good choice too.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Quasi-1960/hero/31797786

what should I focus on when I start upgrading to make this monk be able to uber in mp 10 and to do a1-3 mp 10 runs

Budget?