One of the six classes available in early access, Monk combines melee and ranged attack capabilities. While Monk may seem weak at the beginning of the game, a well-built Monk can become a very powerful endgame character.

If you are looking for specific advice on how to effectively build a strong Monk, or want to know which specific skill combinations are best suited to your current play style, then the following content will be very helpful to you.

Monk Overview

The initial Monk is good at using a continuous long stick melee attack, as well as some basic ranged elemental skills. At the beginning of the game, it is recommended that players should not be too picky about which type of damage to use, but should make full use of all available skills to quickly increase the character level. At about level 10 or so, consider investing some POE2 Exalted Orbs to develop specific types of damage to synergize the build.

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Improving Dexterity and Intelligence is crucial for Monk. As one of the most mobile classes in the game, Monk not only needs to flexibly shuttle across the battlefield to avoid enemy attacks from both near and far ends, but also needs to ensure that he has enough mana to release those powerful elemental skills.

Improving Dexterity allows monks to move faster and more easily avoid enemy attacks. Improving Intelligence ensures that you have enough mana to cast elemental skills.

In the early stages, since you have less POE2 Currency and cannot unlock more powerful equipment, it is recommended that players make full use of quarterstaff melee attack. Although these simple means of damage may be replaced by more complex and efficient elemental skills in the long run, at the beginning, they can cause effective damage to the enemy without consuming mana.

Skills

Monk is a profession with extremely flexible and powerful output capabilities, especially in utilizing lightning skills. By combining lightning skills with air skills, you can create a highly efficient character build.

For example, in the early stages of the game, you can freely combine lightning and air skills with a frost skill. Among them, Glacial Cascade is one of the best frost skills. If you can cast this skill a few meters away from the boss, this ranged attack will form a continuous frost path on the ground, and explode after reaching a certain distance, causing tremendous damage.

Here are the skills we recommend for a Monk:

• Falling Thunder
• Killing Palm
• Staggering Palm
• Tempest Bell
• Tempest Flurry
• Whirling Assault
• Gathering Storm
• Flicker Strike

Tempest Flurry skill is a combo melee skill that deals lightning damage. After completing the combo, the skill ends with an AoE lightning strike. Players can unlock it after reaching level 12. This skill basically replaces the basic quarterstaff attack.

You can use Tempest Flurry in conjunction with Tempest Bell. To achieve this combination, you need to get a four-hit melee combo. Once you successfully complete this combo, you can throw the next big bell, and each attack will cause damage. By default, the bell deals air damage, but if you hit it with a lightning attack, it will deal the same type of damage.

When you drop Tempest Bell and stand still to hit it, enemies will continue to attack you. Using Falling Thunder skill is an effective strategy if there are too many enemies around.

When enemies are low on health, you can use Killing or Staggering Palm to finish them off. In the late game, you can unlock some new skills such as Whirling Assault, Gathering Storm, and Flicker Strike. Whirling Assault clears large groups of enemies, while Flicker Strike allows you to jump from one enemy to another to deal damage.

Support And Spirit Gems

Support Gems can enhance the effects of your skills. In addition, Spirit Gems can be used to provide additional buffs to Monk.

Here are some Support Gems and the best Spirit Gems to use:

Support Gems

• Perpetual Charge (Falling Thunder)
• Lightning Infusion (Falling Thunder)
• Ruthless (Tempest Bell)
• Magnified Effect (Tempest Bell)
• Life Drain (Killing Palm)
• Profusion (Killing Palm)
• Overpower (quarterstaff attack)
• Conduction (Tempest Flurry)

Spirit Gems

• Herald of Thunder
• Lingering Illusion

Dexterity is one of the most important attributes of a Monk. Therefore, Dexterity Support Gems are essential, which can increase elemental damage, increase potential charge, and increase the range of effect to help better play to Monk’s strengths.

Passive Skills

Every time you level up your Monk, you will receive some points that can be allocated to Passive Ability skill tree. The following nodes are very worthy of priority investment:

• Conservative Casting
• Killer Instinct
• Flow Like Water
• Step Like Mist
• Essence of the Storm
• Immortal Infamy

Ascendancy

In PoE2, Monk has two Ascendancy options: Invoker and Acolyte of Chayula. For the build in this guide, Invoker is a meaningful choice. It can strengthen the use of elemental attacks and accumulation. Enables players to use more lightning attacks to cause higher damage and can shock the surrounding ground.

In summary, building a strong Monk character requires players to make wise choices. By focusing on improving Dexterity and Intelligence, and handpicking a skill combination that suits their play style, players can create a flexible and powerful endgame character. Finally, don’t forget to pay attention to the game giveaway information on IGGM Discord. You may get some free currency, including POE2 Exalted Orb, POE2 Chaos Orb, etc. Good luck!