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Yea you'll get more use out of it once you get Ice Strike/Tempest Flurry like the others are saying. Those skills also build up combo quickly.
just gotta limp along until then
It's better to always try positioning the bell in a way that it just gets hit while you're hitting the enemy rather than hitting the bell itself. If you're standing too far from the enemy and just hitting the bell, it's not as great unless you really just want the bell's AOE damage for clearing swarms around you.
You can also use the bell before then but you have to build up the combo with basic attacks then hit the enemy+bell with something like cascade. It's better once you have tempest flurry and probably best used with ice strike or flurry.
Since it will come up for you sooner or later:
A really neat consistent way of generating power charges is in a slightly convoluted combo:
There is a spirit gem skill in the ranger tab that generates Frenzy Charges when you Shock or Freeze an Enemy, and a Node in the Passive Tree that switches Frenzy Charges for Power Charges. So with both of those active you'll generate a power charge every few seconds just by shocking or freezing enemies.
Has nothing to do with the bell, but with the lackluster way the monk generates powercharges otherwise :D
Where exactly is this skill gem? Is that where you apply a variation to a skill to change it up? What's it called? I need to apply it specifically to these elemental melee combos that I'll unlock?
Oh and what's the passive called? (I found it, Resonance right?)
The skill gem is called combat frenzy, and you won't be able to get it until you're a higher level. You can see the gem by searching for it after clicking to see all gems rather than just the monk recommended ones. The passive is called resonance, and it's near where the monk passive tree starts.
It's also worth noting that you need to be able to freeze or ELECTROCUTE the enemy, not shock the enemy as the above poster said. Shocking and electrocute are two different things, and it's harder to find things to apply the electrocute status outside of using a support gem called electrocute. It's easier to do this power charge generating combo with ice strike, which freezes enemies.
Keep in mind that Combat Frenzy is a spirit gem, not a skill gem. It's a constant buff that you will need at least 30 spirit to have on.
Yea I know. You'll understand what it is later. I was just letting you know for when you get there so you have it in the back of your mind. Spirit is just another resource like mana but it's used for buffs.
Spirit is what you use to keep persistent buffs like heralds, auras, and minions on. And spirit gems are special skill gems that allow you to pick these persistent buff skills.
You get your first 30 spirit in act 1 when you beat a certain mini boss.
It's intuitive. When you kill the boss that gives you the spirit, you can cut the gem and see what abilities require spirit to use.
Like I said in my post. Use normal attack. Cut a support gem by going into the "all gems" and find martial tempo for attack speed, and get another support gem that gives you extra cold damage, and slap them on your normal attack.
Level up to 11 or 14 I think, and find a gem which you can cut into tempest flurry or ice strike, and start using those skills as your primaries. Use the bell with them.
Don't worry about frenzy charges until you reach lvl 26. You'll get another spirit gem of a higher level which you can cut a combat frenzy gem which gives you frenzy charges. You need to pick the resonance keystone in the passive tree to swap the frenzy charges to power charges.
Then on every shocked kill/ignite/freeze you'll gain power charges. Still, you won't be using these actively until you get Charged Staff ability that directly benefits and buffs your main strike skill, and it makes it shoot projectiles and shockwaves depending which strike ability you pick.
Asking all these things will only confuse you at the stage you're at.
Don't forget the bell "reflects" your attacks, that works with fallen lightning as well, it basicly increases the range of the projectiles. This can help when you get rushed by lots of mobs and need to back up, usually fallen will clear or should clear the whole screen. However you will hit enemies even far off of your screen should you hit the bell. The projectiles can also go through the enemy, hit the bell and hit the enemy again.
So it is almost always a dps increase should you use it.