why don't people mix ice with lightning monk more ?

[Buurt]

All I see is the same ice and the same lightning monk but mixing that up seems to be even stronger.
A mix of Ice Strike, Charged staff and Tempest bell with unlimited power charges feels even stronger than just focusing on one of them I have to say, I tried now ice, lighting and the mix and the mix feels by far the best

[NaRf]

Well not everyone follows builds online.....

[Dr. Rockso]

How do you find the time to play with 500k+ people to come to this conclusion?

[Havok]

I actually use that exact setup, with Call of the Brotherhood to covert lightning damage from charged staff into cold, and stack cold, freeze buildup, and ice bite on charged staff. It works incredibly well. I started as a Cold/Lightning hybrid but moved off when i started trying to push maps

[Overheadace]

Alot of people dont follow builds/ or look at reddit so there might be a few people that do mix. When i try monk im definitely gonna try it myself because it sounds fun.

[Lieutenant Dan]

How do you know what people are playing? you mean influencers?

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by Buurt:

All I see is the same ice and the same lightning monk but mixing that up seems to be even stronger.
A mix of Ice Strike, Charged staff and Tempest bell with unlimited power charges feels even stronger than just focusing on one of them I have to say

Ice strike monk builds still mostly use charged staff and bell. Nothing out of the ordinary about that. You generate plenty of power charges with combat frenzy to keep charge infusion going with plenty left over to keep charged staff on. An ice strike monk using charged staff and bell really is still 90% an ice monk.

People mostly focus cold because it's easy to reduce any enemy to zero cold resist without having to waste a support gem slot on your main damage skill on cold penetration support. You can make enemies have zero cold res whenever they're frozen from a notable on the tree. You can also use other cold pen nodes and frost bomb for exposure instead to reduce them to barely any resist.

Trying to get adequate amounts of both cold and lightning penetration to make a truly mixed build work doesn't really have much upside. With the extra points you'd spend having both high cold and lightning pen, you could just take more damage instead.