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Monk 2.3 - 4pc Uliana's and SWK

by mdcwdzies last updated Jul 9, 2015 ( Patch 2.2 )

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Skills

Crippling Wave Breaking Wave
- Crippling Wave
Generate: 12 Spirit per attack

Unleash a series of large sweeping attacks that deal 155% weapon damage as Physical to all enemies in front of you.

Every third hit also dazes enemies within 11 yards, slowing their movement speed by 30% and attack speed by 20% for 3 seconds.
Breaking Wave

Enemies hit by Crippling Wave take 10% additional damage from all attacks for 3 seconds.
Exploding Palm Impending Doom
- Exploding Palm
Cost: 40 Spirit

Cause an enemy to Bleed for 1200% weapon damage as Physical over 9 seconds. If the enemy dies while bleeding, it explodes and deals 2770% weapon damage as Physical damage to all nearby enemies.
Impending Doom

Exploding Palm no longer causes the enemy to bleed, but if the enemy dies while affected by Exploding Palm, they explode for 6305% weapon damage as Cold.
Blinding Flash Faith in the Light
- Blinding Flash
Cooldown: 15 seconds

Create a flash of light that blinds all enemies within 20 yards for 3 seconds. Elite enemies recover faster, but suffer a 30% chance to miss with attacks.
Faith in the Light

You deal 29% increased damage for 3 seconds after using Blinding Flash.
Seven-Sided Strike Sustained Attack
- Seven-Sided Strike
Cost: 50 Spirit
Cooldown: 30 seconds

Dash rapidly between nearby enemies, dealing 5677% weapon damage over 7 strikes.

This ability does not start its cooldown until after its effects expire.
Sustained Attack

Reduce the cooldown to 14 seconds.
Epiphany Desert Shroud
- Epiphany
Cooldown: 60 seconds

Have an Epiphany, increasing your Spirit Regeneration per Second by 20 and enabling your melee attacks to instantly dash to your target for 15 seconds.
Desert Shroud

Infuse yourself with sand, reducing damage taken by 50%.
Mantra of Salvation Agility
- Mantra of Salvation
Cost: 50 Spirit

Active: You and nearby allies gain an additional 20% increased resistance to all elements for 3 seconds.

Passive: You and your allies within 60 yards gain 20% increased resistance to all elements.

Only one Mantra may be active at a time.
Agility

Passive: Mantra of Salvation also increases Dodge Chance by 35%.

Beacon of Ytar
- Beacon of Ytar
Reduce all cooldowns by 20%.
Harmony
- Harmony
40% of your single elemental resistances from items instead increases your resistance to all elements.
Mythic Rhythm
- Mythic Rhythm
Every third hit from a Spirit Generator increases the damage of your next damaging Spirit Spender by 40%.
Relentless Assault
- Relentless Assault
You deal 20% more damage to enemies that are Blind, Frozen or Stunned.

Items

Madstone

Legendary Spirit Stone

Primary Stats

+330–524 Dexterity
+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Your Seven-Sided Strike applies Exploding Palm.
Sunwuko's Balance

Set Shoulders

Primary Stats

+91–100 Resistance to All Elements
+4 Random Magic Properties
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+416–500 Dexterity

+416–500 Strength

+416–500 Intelligence

Monkey King's Garb
Sunwuko's Paws
Sunwuko's Balance
Sunwuko's Crown
Sunwuko's Shines
Sunwuko's Soul
Sunwuko's Leggings
(2) Set: Your damage taken is reduced by 50% while Sweeping Wind is active.
(4) Set: Every second Sweeping Wind spawns a decoy next to the last enemy you hit that taunts nearby enemies and then explodes for 1000% weapon damage for each stack of Sweeping Wind you have.
(6) Set: Lashing Tail Kick, Tempest Rush, and Wave of Light consume a stack of Sweeping Wind to deal 3000% increased damage.
Sunwuko's Shines

Set Amulet

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+626–750 Dexterity

+626–750 Strength

+626–750 Intelligence

Monkey King's Garb
Sunwuko's Paws
Sunwuko's Balance
Sunwuko's Crown
Sunwuko's Shines
Sunwuko's Soul
Sunwuko's Leggings
(2) Set: Your damage taken is reduced by 50% while Sweeping Wind is active.
(4) Set: Every second Sweeping Wind spawns a decoy next to the last enemy you hit that taunts nearby enemies and then explodes for 1000% weapon damage for each stack of Sweeping Wind you have.
(6) Set: Lashing Tail Kick, Tempest Rush, and Wave of Light consume a stack of Sweeping Wind to deal 3000% increased damage.
Gungdo Gear

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Exploding Palm's on-death explosion applies Exploding Palm.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+18–23 Dexterity

+18–23 Strength

+18–23 Intelligence

One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

Physical skills deal 5–10% more damage.

Lightning skills deal 5–10% more damage.

Cold skills deal 5–10% more damage.

Fire skills deal 5–10% more damage.

Arcane skills deal 5–10% more damage.

Poison skills deal 5–10% more damage.

Holy skills deal 5–10% more damage.
Sunwuko's Paws

Set Gloves

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 8.0–10.0%
+4 Random Magic Properties
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+626–750 Dexterity

+626–750 Strength

+626–750 Intelligence

Monkey King's Garb
Sunwuko's Paws
Sunwuko's Balance
Sunwuko's Crown
Sunwuko's Shines
Sunwuko's Soul
Sunwuko's Leggings
(2) Set: Your damage taken is reduced by 50% while Sweeping Wind is active.
(4) Set: Every second Sweeping Wind spawns a decoy next to the last enemy you hit that taunts nearby enemies and then explodes for 1000% weapon damage for each stack of Sweeping Wind you have.
(6) Set: Lashing Tail Kick, Tempest Rush, and Wave of Light consume a stack of Sweeping Wind to deal 3000% increased damage.
Vigilante Belt

Legendary Belt

24 - 28 Armor

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Focus

Set Ring

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+416–500 Dexterity

+416–500 Strength

+416–500 Intelligence

Bastions of Will
Focus
Restraint
(2) Set: When you hit with a resource-generating attack or primary skill, deal 50% increased damage for 5 seconds.
Restraint

Set Ring

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+416–500 Dexterity

+416–500 Strength

+416–500 Intelligence

Bastions of Will
Focus
Restraint
(2) Set: When you hit with a resource-generating attack or primary skill, deal 50% increased damage for 5 seconds.
Shenlong's Fist of Legend

Set Fist Weapon

Primary Stats

+(610–745)–(731–926) Lightning Damage
+330–524 Dexterity
+4 Random Magic Properties

Shenlong's Spirit
Shenlong's Relentless Assault
Shenlong's Fist of Legend
(2) Set: When reaching maximum Spirit, all damage is increased by 1.5%, but you no longer passively regenerate Spirit and 65 Spirit is drained every second until you run out of Spirit.When reaching maximum Spirit, all damage is increased by 150%, but you no longer passively regenerate Spirit and 65 Spirit is drained every second until you run out of Spirit.

More Details

Head
- Madstone
- Sunwuko's Crown
- Stat Priority: None
Shoulders
- Sunwuko's Balance
- Stat Priority: Dex CDR Vit
Amulet
- Sunwuko's Shines
- Hellfire Amulet
- Stat Priority: Socket CHD CHC
Torso
- Stat Priority: Dex Socket
Wrists
- Gungdo Gear
- Spirit Guards
- Stat Priority: CHC Cold % Dex
Hands
- Sunwuko's Paws
- Stat Priority: Dex CHD CHC
Waist
- Vigilante Belt
- Stat Priority: None
Legs
- Stat Priority: None
Feet
- Stat Priority: None
Rings
- Focus
- Restraint
- Stat Priority: Socket CHD CHC
Weapon
- Shenlong's Fist of Legend
- Shenlong's Relentless Assault
- Stat Priority: None
Offhand
- Stat Priority: None

Legendary Gems
- Gogok of Swiftness
  Gogok of Swiftness
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Gain Swiftness with every attack, increasing your Attack Speed by 1% and Dodge by 0.50% for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 15 times.
  Gain 1% Cooldown Reduction per stack of Swiftness. (Requires Rank 25)
- Simplicity's Strength
  Simplicity's Strength
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Increase the damage of primary skills by 25%.
- Pain Enhancer
  Pain Enhancer
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Critical hits cause the enemy to bleed for +2500% weapon damage as Physical over 3 seconds.

This is for post 2.3 patch!

You will need 3 pieces of Sunwuko's and 3 pieces of the new Uliana's monk set.

Many people may have forgotten that Sunwuko's increases the damage of Exploding Palm by 500%, and with the new set and the ability of the Kanai's Cube, there will be many ways to boost the EP damage and spread rate.

Also, the new Monk Belt called Binding of the Lost gives you a 3-3.5% damage reduction for each hit of Seven Sided Strike. This should help mitigate damage after coming out of SSS.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Maximum Resource
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Damage
Critical Hit Chance
Attack Speed

Defense

Resist All
Armor
Life
Life Regeneration

Utility

Resource Cost Reduction
Area Damage
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Get movement speed to 25%, then get your spirit as high as you can, as this will increase the duration of the 300% damage buff from Shenlong's Spirit set.

Cooldown reduction will be key to keeping Seven Sided Strike up and Blinding Flash for the 29% damage increase from the run and 20% damage increase from Relentless Assault Passive.

Defense and Utility are obvious.

Build Guide

Many people may have overlooked the fact that Sunwuko's set increases the damage of Exploding Palm by 500% for 3 seconds after one of your Sunwuko's clones explodes. This build is an attempt to maximize Exploding Palm damage for maximum destruction!

This build relies on Shenlong's Relentless Spirit set that has 2 effects in this build: 1) It increases the damage of your spirit generators by 1% for each point of spirit you have, and you will be using spirit generators to get the Focus/Restraint combo going. 2) The 300% damage buff to ALL Damage once you reach full spirit.

You will use Seven Sided Strike (SSS for future usage) to spread EP with the help of the Mad Stone spirit stone, and to deal a boat load of damage with the 4 piece Uliana's set. Also, SSS has the ability to make you invincible while the animation happens. Also, the new Monk Belt called Binding of the Lost gives you a 3-3.5% damage reduction for each hit of Seven Sided Strike. This should help mitigate damage after coming out of SSS.

The missing pieces of gear from above are to be filled with Uliana's Chest, Uliana's Pants, and Uliana's boots. The belt will be the new 2.3 available Binding of the Lost.

Your Weapon Passive should be Fist of Az'Turrasq for 100% EP Damage, Depth Diggers Passive for 100% Damage (which works well with Simplicity's Strength Gem) or you could use the Spirit Guards passive (40% Dmg Reduction after Spirit Generator) for more surivability, and the Jewelry Passive must be Ring of Royal Granduer.

A 5th Passive if you want to get a Hellfire Amulet, wear the Sunwuko's Crown and make Mad Stone your armor passive and skip Depth Diggers armor passive you could have many choices, including Alacrity, Seize the Initiative, Unity for Group Play, or Exalted Soul. There can be several different passives that will be useful depending on your play style.

As soon as I can get on to 2.3 PTR and get the Uliana's pieces I need for this, I will test, record a video, and add a video link. Please tell me your thoughts below. Thank you!

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