I have been playing around with different skills.
Currently, I am using 3 x spirit regen skills
Fot - tele .......... maneuverability
HF - Blazing ....... ias & movement
DR - Foresight .... extra dmg & long range attacks
3 x regen skills + combo strike = huge dmg boost

You need more attack speed and dmg.
You have 3/7 slots with ias (8 if you count chest)
Jin & I have 6/7 slots with ias ... need 180k+ for mp10

I use 5.7LS weapons (LS sword + LS WKL) and can tank elites under plaque & desecrator ... borderline with arcane as well.
My migration / life regen is pretty good due to high dmg and ias.
I can maneuver and reposition quickly and not get frozen ... just gotta get away.
If I really need to get away, I drop bell and knock back monsters to get away ... at the same time, I regen life as well.

Can't predict jailer though ... just need enough ehp to wait it out.
Or tele out to the closest monster.
If stuck being jailed under plaque / desecrator / fire ... just DR , Bell and try to regen life.
If jailed & frozen under ground effects ... I am dead ... unless I have serenity.

Just gotta play with different skills and find your comfort zone.
What works for me might not work for everyone.

Ways to test if your are ready for mp10 ... or whatever mp you wanna play
Can you kill the goblin before you see his portal = dps / gear check
Can you face tank Azmodan = enough migration / enough ehp to sustain life regen during fights
Can you solo ubers in that mp
If yes to all 3 above ... you are ready for that mp

Vouch MONKster. He's my old godly monk friend. We probably did +100 mp10 uber runs together when we were obsessed with Hellfire ring. lol

Facetanking everything in MP10 is fun!

I gotta add Tokio's Tri-gen build. Sick damage buff build.

subbed!

thanks for the wealth of knowledge!

No problem!

I want to stress one more time that dropping the One With Everything will allow monks to get more creative in passive choices.

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1. Speed Palm Build
Ideal weapon set up : Fast weapon + LS WKL
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 3 2013 04:34pm

TR/WoL build is my fav.

much harder to get high dps with it. the std FoT build you can get 300k dps easily

personally i run a trigen/BoH build to pwn out everything i come across. any time i'm switching out skills to complement other players i feel wrong :/

I run a diff build than anything listed here. i believe. but its close to one of the last builds.

FOT - Quickening
Sweeping wind - Cyclone
Breath of Heaven - Blazing Wrath
Exploding Palm - Flesh is weak
Conviction - overawe
Cyclone Strike - implosion

Exhalted Soul, one with everything and guiding light

between guilding light, overawe and exploding palm, you get 16+48+9% dmg for the party roughly. which is a 73% dmg increase. i run with a wizard and we typically can do keeps 2 and fields fast. for a group, exploding palm is just nasty. on mp10, i'd say an average trash pack lasts maybe 5 seconds. the biggest issue here is spirit. i basically pool spirit, "pre dot" up mobs as we're running in with exploding, and by the time we get into position, im cyclone striking in mobs fast. it makes 50+ mob pulls evaporate in seconds.

most poeple would say that exhalted soul is a waste and maybe even overkill, but the issue is stuff dies so fast, that sometimes you dont have a mob close to you that you can even hit to generate any spirit. so the thought process is, with a 250 spirit pool, you basically "dump" it on a pull and by the time you run out, the entire pack should be dead. heres the build. it sacrifices defense but it provides a heck of a lot of offense.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aSXVkf!bfU!YcbaaZ

What is my build called: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aSXgYk!ZgX!acbYca

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