Monk is boring and kinda crap?

[Lucifer_]

Heard good things about monk so made a new character but found monk to be very boring and tedious. First playthrough was as sorc and I sailed through the game wrecking everything but monk takes so long to kill enemies and bosses. Survivability wasn't an issue but damage was.
Ofc my gear isn't great but sorc was outperforming it with even worse gear.

So far I've tried mercenary and monk apart from sorc and both were underwhelming.

[Drosta]

It's kinda boring I agree. It's not crap. But it has only one really viable loadout. And only has 2 or 3 ways to generate power charges. It needs fleshing out for build diversity to be a thing for it.

[EvilHare]

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No, you just need to know what you are doing instead of gauging how well other classes should do based on one of the 2 easiest classes to play.

Sorc and Ranger is easy to play. No real thinking for builds.

Witch and Merc are moderate. You do need some planning.

Warrior and Monk are hard. Melee has been a bit hard to work with in EA. More skillful playing and planning your build ahead helps a lot.

[Xersin]

Monk is basically easy mode if you take the Ice Strike ability and keep up with your gear. You just hold left click to win.

[Nirh]

Monk has been fun for me, first PoE character going blind. At times it was painful, he really needs a decent weapon, but I really liked his mobility.

Somehow I had more trouble clearing certain areas than killing campaign bosses.

[Havok]

Monk is neither. Has a few options but the most popular is ice strike monk atm. Incredibly strong and fun to play.

The funny thing is I built a second monk to endgame before any other class could finish the campaign because I find everything else boring and uninspiring. So if it isn’t for you, it is what it is. No harm no fowl

[Sheaf]

I enjoy the monk but I do agree that there isn't much diversity in their builds, its either ice strike/tempest flurry with tempest bell, currently having fun with ice strike and poison tempest bell tho.

[drakk]

The most complicated thing with him is reaching lvl 12 and after this stage the game becomes easy.
none of my other characters reach his dps and yet his equipment is below average. even the ranger is more "complicated" to play at the start of the game

[gachi is manly]

I have a blast playing my ice strike monk personally. Feels very powerful and melts bosses.

Starts off kinda slow, but once I got a good lightning damage staff in act 2 it was pretty much smooth sailing all the way.

[Lucifer_]

ak47님이 먼저 게시:

Monk is neither. Has a few options but the most popular is ice strike monk atm. Incredibly strong and fun to play.

The funny thing is I built a second monk to endgame before any other class could finish the campaign because I find everything else boring and uninspiring. So if it isn’t for you, it is what it is. No harm no fowl

i think everybody likes their first class best lol. For me sorc is the same way, after playing it everything else feels slow

[Lucifer_]

Xersin님이 먼저 게시:

Monk is basically easy mode if you take the Ice Strike ability and keep up with your gear. You just hold left click to win.

Ice strike is the one ability I didn't get for some reason. I'll go back to it and see

[Xersin]

Lucifer_님이 먼저 게시:

Xersin님이 먼저 게시:

Monk is basically easy mode if you take the Ice Strike ability and keep up with your gear. You just hold left click to win.

Ice strike is the one ability I didn't get for some reason. I'll go back to it and see

It's a little silly. I was trying to use the other abilities, and putting in like ten times the effort, and then I just got IS, Bell, and Herald of Ice, and everything dies. Which does bear the question of why other early builds kinda suck, but that's not exclusive to Monk. There are plenty of trap skills in the early selections for every class. Like, Warrior pretends to be all about those Heavy Stun or Armor Break combos, but if you go hard into the fire skills instead, you just delete everything anyway. I've got a Leap Slam build I'm just crushing things with, as well.

[Havok]

Lucifer_님이 먼저 게시:

ak47님이 먼저 게시:

Monk is neither. Has a few options but the most popular is ice strike monk atm. Incredibly strong and fun to play.

The funny thing is I built a second monk to endgame before any other class could finish the campaign because I find everything else boring and uninspiring. So if it isn’t for you, it is what it is. No harm no fowl

i think everybody likes their first class best lol. For me sorc is the same way, after playing it everything else feels slow

Honestly, that is kind of what it seems like haha. I am trying to give everything a fair shot though. Building a sorc and merc now and starting to see some potential, even early campaign.

Ah well, if a class doesnt click, there are 6 more coming, so either way, I think if you build it right, every class has some potential for fun

[Kabaale]

It's hard to know when you can't stay alive for more than 2 seconde in a fight.

[Nefser]

I have found that many of the classes are fun to play. Sorc, witch (minions or curses), merc, monk. If you want easy mode, you really can't beat using minions, but overall most builds can be pared back to only a few main skills, with decent and complementary support gems.

[SidneyBoo]

Lucifer_님이 먼저 게시:

Heard good things about monk so made a new character but found monk to be very boring and tedious. First playthrough was as sorc and I sailed through the game wrecking everything but monk takes so long to kill enemies and bosses. Survivability wasn't an issue but damage was.
Ofc my gear isn't great but sorc was outperforming it with even worse gear.

So far I've tried mercenary and monk apart from sorc and both were underwhelming.

Build issue.