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  • Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker

  

  Legendary Sword

  • Primary Stats
  • • +(32–39)–(39–49) Lightning Damage
    • +2 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Chance on hit to blast your enemy with Lightning, dealing 279–372% weapon damage as Lightning and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Each enemy hit has their attack speed and movement speed reduced by 30% for 3 seconds. Jumps up to 5 targets.
    • Empty Socket
    • One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +128–163 Dexterity

    • +128–163 Strength

    • +128–163 Intelligence

  Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker
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  • Illusory Boots

  

  Legendary Boots

  • Primary Stats
  • • +11–20 Resistance to All Elements
    • +10–12% Movement Speed
    • +2 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • You may move unhindered through enemies.
    • One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +24–29 Dexterity

    • +24–29 Strength

    • +24–29 Intelligence

  Illusory Boots
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  • Ring of Royal Grandeur

  

  Legendary Ring

  • Primary Stats
  • • Attack Speed Increased by 2.0–3.0%
    • +27–60 Life per Hit
    • +2 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Reduces the number of items needed for set bonuses by 1 (to a minimum of 2).
    • One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

    • +24–29 Dexterity

    • +24–29 Strength

    • +24–29 Intelligence

  Ring of Royal Grandeur

 

this screenshot was taken during our legit 7:23 grift 73. if you and the zdps barb don't make mistakes and the agility dps monk stays alive, you can stay buffed like this with 100% uptime.

edit: The guide is slightly outdated, as HotA+HotA or HotA+SWK are much better dps now that fire Uliana doesn't stack endlessly anymore. just replace any reference to uliana dps (which is bad now) with HotA or SWK dps.

What the build essentially does:

-Provides the maximum bonus damage for the team a monk can provide. for maximum bonus damage, you would have to get rid of epiphany and mantra rune, so you can spam physical ep with uliana (shoulders+helm, replace weapon with in-geom if possible) and crippling wave:breaking wave.

-has more than 1 "pulls per second" without generator and can carry around mobs over the whole map easily and pretty fast as well.

-extremely tough, can survive multiple molten explosions at once until 65+

-provides a few hundred thousand life/s to anyone nearby. this synergizes perfectly with uliana monks who are immune to damage for ~1.5s every 2.8s. if they don't die during down times, they're full after every sss.

-provides some serious damage reduce to the party: inna's mantras, resolve=20% less damage taken from pulled mobs, 55% less damage taken inside inner sanctuary

-crowd control from pull

-Bonus XP gear viable:

if you want the +xp from born set, you need rorg. if you don't, you can use pretty much any shoulders+weapon, and get a free ring slot (rogar isnt great but viable).

you can also get rid of the pet boots and string of ears, and wear 2p cain instead.

if you want to use hellfire ring as well, get rid of oculus. taking off zodiac or rorg is not an option, both are required for the build to work.

and for the biggest XP buff, get a ruby in your helmet. this will lead to short down times on epiphany, but full XP groups usually have 2 supports anyway, and the other one can take over when you're out of spirit.

for now it seems both blood brother reduce and coven's criterion reduce don't work at all. it's still not a big problem to survive grift 70+ without them.

this leaves a lot of freedom of choice for weapons. we dont need in-geom, but it's still the best choice for now, followed by the dash weapon i guess.

Gems:

Since 2.3 is live, bane of the stricken does not stack for team members anymore.

you can replace alteration with any gem you want, moratorium will reduce all damage taken by 25% and not interfere with your gizzard's shield. as you heal up in an instant anyway, it might be worth a try.

Cube:

rorg and boots are set. the weapon can be anything you like; i dont feel like vigilance does a lot. thunderfury would cast a slow on your enemies, proccing bane of the trapped for your team. in geom will make it a lot easier to get the xp gem in your helmet, but it won't have much uptime in very high grifts.

Mystic Ally: Enduring Ally

this skill won't be activated. i put it on left click and forget about it. increases life reg by a lot with inna 2p and boots. if you activate, zodiac will proc for this and cause a downtime on either inner sanctuary or epiphany. only do it when you panic, and not even then.

Dashing Strike: Blinding Speed
to be able to keep moving. i use this rune because it's just a little bit more toughness, and its buff has 100% uptime thanks to cdr+zodiac. i can survive just fine without the dodge though. this can be changed to blinding flash: whatever the heal rune is called (+laws of seph) if you want for the so called "quin" build. but keep in mind this will count as crowd control and make them immune faster while not increasing damage either.

Cyclone Strike: Implosion
traditionally, the main purpose of a support monk. can screw up pull barbs, and we have to spam this to proc zodiac. not an issue though as long as you're careful not to pull the same mobs over and over again. you can try the fire tempest rush for the knockback as well, but i don't think it's necessary or good.

Epiphany:Desert Shroud
if you have chosen to get defense over RCR, you will need the increased spirit rune there. don't worry, i switched to rcr+desert shroud because it's better, not because it was necessary to survive. you should try not to lose epiphany ever, or your amazing crowd control will have a hiccup, potentially killing careless dps.

Inner Sanctuary: Forbidden Palace
party dmg buff. party defensive buff. 100% uptime. provides some spirit if you choose to use the mind's eye.

Mantra of Healing: Sustenance (sorry, i picked the wrong rune at first, fixed)
in lower/speed grifts, this can be changed to anything you like. i'd advise against mantra spam as you need your spirit to keep the epiphany and inner sanctuary cooldowns low (zodiac pull).

Paragon Priorities

Core
Movement Speed: 25% required.
Maximum Resource: because we can reg longer and get more spirit from level ups.
Vitality: because it's more defense than dex.

Offense
Cooldown Reduction: lots required.
Attack Speed: does something
Critical Hit Chance does nothing. Critical Hit Damage does nothing.

Defense
Life Regeneration: this build's main focus.
Resist All: highest toughness available for most builds, idk probably armor is better for this... just choose according to sheet toughness. ignore recovery when choosing, as you regenerate your whole life in <2s anyway.

Utility
Resource Cost Reduction: the more we have, the more often we can pull.
Life on Hit: won't hurt i guess.
Gold Find: does nothing.
Area Damage: does even less than gold find.