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Thundercleave - T6+ Lightning Build

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Types: Lightning, Attack Speed, Critical Hit Chance (CHC)

Skills

  • Deadly Reach Scattered Blows
  • Exploding Palm Shocking Grasp
  • Sweeping Wind Cyclone
  • Inner Sanctuary Forbidden Palace
  • Mantra of Retribution Transgression
  • Dashing Strike Quicksilver
  • Alacrity
  • Sixth Sense
  • Seize the Initiative
  • Transcendence

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Build Guide

Hello everyone,

I wanted to create a build that is Tanky, got alot of Selfhealing and aswell heavy cleave damage.
Here is what i've just tried and it worked out quite well.
This Build is based on Weapon proccs, the new Depth Diggers and the Cyclones of Sweeping Wind.

Stats
-> Lightning Damage
-> Attack Speed
-> Crit Chance
-> Crit Damage
-> Life on hit on weapon(s) (thanks to the new Item that allows u to add a socket u can reroll a stat like vitality for example to LoH)

Why those stats?
-> It's a lightning build so u want to get lightning damage of course.
-> Attack Speed for more Weapon Affix proccs, more healing from Life on Hit, more Cyclones of Sweeping Wind and more Spirit.
-> Crit Chance for more damage and more Cyclones of Sweeping Wind aswell.
-> Crit Damage simply for more damage.
-> Life on hit for healing - with the latest adjustments made to LoH it's extremely strong with that build.

Some skills u could change
-> Deadly Reach for Way of the Hundred Fists (with Lightning damage rune). I use Deadly Reach for more defensive and for the Strongarm Bracer proc.
-> Inner Sanctuary - u can go for Blinding Flash with the 29% damage boost rune if u like that damage boost or take Serenity if u like the Immunity.
-> Mantra of Retribution - u can use any mantra u like. my reason for taking retribution with transgression is the 10% attack speed boost.


Passive Skills
-> Alacrity - with the latest PTR build this became an 15% Attack speed boost to our Generators. Since we are mostly spamming the Generator Spell in this build, its a nice boost.
-> Sixth Sense - changed to 25% non-Physical damage reduction recently. Decent Suvivability Passive.
-> Seize the Initiative - very good for burst damage and if u got alot of mobs around.
-> Transcendence - since the new PTR build this is healing for so much. Good for sustain.
-> you can go for Harmony instead of Transcendence if u dont want the healing but to boost your Resistances.

Gearing options
For solo play of couse u want to use the Unity Ring if u have two, one for you and one for your follower. The good thing about this build is u dont need a RoRG only if u like to play with 3p Aughild u can switch the shoulders and wrists with Aughilds.
If u want to play in groups u can switch the Unity with Wyrdward and use the Ancient Parthan Defenders just for more tankyness. U could also use Cyclone Strike instead of Inner Sanctuary just to support your group. With the high amounts of Attack Speed u should have in this build and since its Lightning based the Wyrdward should proc faily often.

Weapon choise

EDIT: The new Seasonal Monk Fist Weapon that increases the Sweeping Wind stacks could be very good for this build i guess. Will test it if i find one.
Personally i would go for Odyn Son and Shard of Hate. Thunderfury and Fulminator will work too if u dont have anything else.
The reason i would use Odyn and Shard is because the procs of them both are very strong.


Testing so far
I've done Greater Rifts till 29 with this build, i dont have too good rolls on my items, wearing no cains and got no decent Odyn Son so thats faily well so far i guess. Just done 1 try to test the Damage and Survivability that was brought to the Monk in the latest PTR build. But i'm pretty sure u can get to a higher Greater Rift level with this build.

Legendary Gems
EDIT: Tested the gem that gives stacks of Attack speed, just feeling like im doing more damage then with the Primaly skills one.
I just tested out 2 of them, one is the Mini Conduit one and the other the one that boosts the Damage of your Primary skills.
I just upgraded them to level 2 so this is nothing special i guess.

Play style
Sweeping wind asap to get 3 quick stacks so the cyclones can proc of it.
Deadly Reach for weapon proccs and spirit
Exploding Palm for more damage (isnt to huge, but the explosion is good AoE, u can use it on low hp mobs to blow up the other ones around if u are smart ;) ).
Dashing strike to get out of Evil Affixes or Situations asap. u can use it to move faster or to port into a big group of mobs aswell.
Inner Sanctuary for a damage boost and tankyness boost for tough elites or champions.



After all this build is alot of fun to play because its very fast, deals crazy AoE dps, is tanky and got alot of Selfhealing.

Have fun with this build, hope i could help you reaching higher difficulties !
Let me know what u think about the build and if you know any improvements, u can post it into the comments.

sorry for my english by the way, hope u can understand everything :)