Secondary stats on weapons you should look for are attack speed increase, life steal, and + life on hit. Buy whatever weapons have the highest DPS. Keep an eye out for cheap rings/amulets with +attack speed %. This is the point where you want to start picking up pieces of gear with dex, vitality, and all resist.

Passives are up to you to play around with depending on your weapon choices and gear set up. The extra heal for 3 secs is pretty nice ontop of the heal from transcendence for spending 50 spirit and definitely more preferable to dying. Hit this if serenity, breath of heaven, your potion are on CD and you still need a heal. Mantra of healing with the spirit regen rune is great for helping you crank out more lashing tail kicks. Pop it at the beginning of a fight even if you don’t need a heal right then, the DPS increase is worth it and the CD is short enough to allow you to do that safely. Always keep the 15% damage increase buff up from breath of heaven. Use serenity whenever you’re about to get hit by a big attack or laser and to avoid/escape from freezing/movement impairing effects. Serenity and breath of heaven are great for oh sh*t moments, but should also be used proactively. It’s wonderful AOE DPS and you can forget about it after you hit that button once. Couple that with the fact that transcendence heals you everytime you use the skill and you should have no trouble surviving.Īctivate sweeping wind at the beginning of each fight. It does great damage and the PBAOE(point blank area of effect) stun will make it so most mobs never actually even hit you. Lashing tail kick is your primary spirit dump. If you don’t an alternative is to use crippling wave until level 48 where you’ll switch over to way of the hundred fists with the spirited salvo rune(15% chance of generating 15 spirit). You should have at least +15 crit chance to use this rune. This build is focused around generating a ton of spirit so you can spam your Lashing Tail Kick and keep everything stunlocked.įists of thunder with the spirit gen rune is wonderful. If you find you’re dying a lot start picking up more vitality on your gear and stacking a few pieces of +all resist gear.

Things should start getting more challenging.

You can find part 1 here giving a guide for levels 30-45.

Diablo 3 monk gameplay