Monk - mid game

[True Circa]

I'm newish to poe, i did play poe1 on and off but never was good at it. I'm trying my own build for once and i'm doing a crit lighting build for the monk. I had seen people talking about how the monk wasnt doing well, and was wondering if this is just due to me not being at late game? Currently I 1 shot most every normal mob, and can delete elites and bosses with almost no issue.

[TyresTyco]

The only thing that is bad with monk is the early game because he has no defenses and getting him to do dmg requires certain skills. In endgame.. monk shreds. Maxed out evasion.. 2,2 k+ hp, 1,5 k energy shield coupled with 500% crit dmg and 50% crit rate surely is a sight to behold.

A lot of people start the game.. die against bosses in act 1 and come here yelling how badly balanced the game is. Thats mostly it. Has nothing to do with the potential of the classes.

[thawn4444]

no monk is great, I am in end game tier 15 and he still blasts.

little squishy though, but only until you take the evasion convert to armor keystone

because evasion sucks.


people complaining probably took the chaos ascendancy and not the invoker

[Havok]

Monk was fine for me, however I did change my build about 5-6 times throughout my journey to where I am now.

I went cold/lightning hybrid, then pure lightning, then pure cold, then cold with lightning support, and now I am using call of the brotherhood to covert all lightning to cold damage.

I would say I didn't struggle through 1-3, but def had some spicy fights, cruel was a breeze and melting everything, start of maps I struggled until I reworked my class, and now im kind of flying through midgame.

Alot of what changed for me was my weapon and body armor. I have such high evasion (and it can go higher) that due to protect me from grace, I have like 70% evasion, 60% armor, 60% resistances on everything but chaos, and I have a phys based weapon I am about to upgrade to that is juiced, and I have like 2800 ES with Grim Feast.

Biggest upgrades were a 1500+ evasion body armor and a 200+ phys damage quarterstaff, and I suspect to see a big dmg increase with my new 300+ phys damage quarterstaff when I level up next.

[Ginebro]

Im doing top tier maps like a champ with monk right now and my gear isn't that good but i focused on defense a bit more than most people, currently at 1.5k Life and 3.3k ES, go invoker, acolyte of chayula needs a rework there's no synergies for it on the skill tree.

Monk can be ranged, melee, spell proccer or all at the same time, it plays super cool, is super good but if your weapon sucks your life is miserable, i made about 5 builds, 3 worked and can share my current one if you wish but i think figuring it out is part of the fun.

First i made a witch to become a blood mage (needs life) and as soon as i saw no life nodes on tree i rerolled to monk, this was at launch before finishing act1.

There's 2 bad things on the tree, first no life nodes and second the crit nodes are lacking, i also consider evasion better than armor for now and energy shield WAY better than life, there's some uniques that can make stuff work but eva/es is the best defense at the moment imo.

[FeelsGoodMan]

I started a monk and Im now in act2 beginning at its hell. I dont know why but as sorc was the game way more ez lol... I die to everything. Im this close just the drop and try out a nobrain minion build lul

[True Circa]

Originally posted by FeelsGoodMan:

I started a monk and Im now in act2 beginning at its hell. I dont know why but as sorc was the game way more ez lol... I die to everything. Im this close just the drop and try out a nobrain minion build lul

Have you speced into defenses vs the elemental types? its reccomended that you get those up asap

[Nix Navi]

Originally posted by thawn4444:

no monk is great, I am in end game tier 15 and he still blasts.

little squishy though, but only until you take the evasion convert to armor keystone

because evasion sucks.


people complaining probably took the chaos ascendancy and not the invoker


:exalted:

Chaos ascendancy isn't bad though, if anything it makes the game a little easier. Class passive makes it so you never run out of health or mana.

[GregorMendel]

Trying to get to the end of act 2 with a 680 life, 160 es monk lol. Hit some roadblocks lol

[True Circa]

Originally posted by GregorMendel:

Trying to get to the end of act 2 with a 680 life, 160 es monk lol. Hit some roadblocks lol

I'm in act 3 with 664hp and only 56es. my evasion is 47% though and i have 30% defences mostly and life leech in my build.

[GregorMendel]

Originally posted by Nix Navi:

Originally posted by thawn4444:

no monk is great, I am in end game tier 15 and he still blasts.

little squishy though, but only until you take the evasion convert to armor keystone

because evasion sucks.


people complaining probably took the chaos ascendancy and not the invoker


:exalted:

Chaos ascendancy isn't bad though, if anything it makes the game a little easier. Class passive makes it so you never run out of health or mana.

Where are class passives on the tree? Looking for ways to boost health...