2.4.2 SWK WoL Speed T13 (updated)

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by user-16864486 last updated Aug 11, 2016 ( Patch 2.4.2 )

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Skills

Wave of Light Explosive Light
- Wave of Light
Cost: 75 Spirit

Focus a wave of light that crushes enemies for 835% weapon damage as Holy.
Explosive Light

Release bursts of energy that deal 830% weapon damage as Fire to nearby enemies.
Mystic Ally Air Ally
- Mystic Ally
Cooldown: 30 seconds

Active: Your mystic ally has its damage increased by 50% for 10 seconds.

Passive: A mystic ally fights by your side. The ally deals 130% of your weapon damage as Physical per swing. When the ally dies, it is reborn after 5 seconds.
Air Ally

Active: You gain 100 Spirit.

Passive: A mystic ally fights by your side that increases your Spirit Regeneration by 4.
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.
Dashing Strike Blinding Speed
- Dashing Strike
Cost: 1 Charge

Quickly dash up to 50 yards, striking enemies along the way for 370% weapon damage as Physical.

You gain a charge every 8 seconds and can have up to 2 charges stored at a time.
Blinding Speed

Gain 40% increased chance to Dodge for 4 seconds after using Dashing Strike.

Dashing Strike's damage turns into Cold.
Sweeping Wind Inner Storm
- Sweeping Wind
Cost: 75 Spirit

Surround yourself in a vortex that continuously deals 105% weapon damage to all enemies within 10 yards. The vortex lasts 6 seconds and is refreshed each time you strike an enemy with a melee attack. Landing a Critical Hit has a chance to increase the vortex effect up to 3 stacks for a total of 315% weapon damage.
Inner Storm

As long as your vortex is at 3 or more stacks, you gain 8 Spirit per second.

Sweeping Wind's damage turns into Holy.
Mantra of Conviction Annihilation
- Mantra of Conviction
Cost: 50 Spirit

Active: Damage bonus is increased to 16% for 3 seconds.

Passive: Enemies within 30 yards of you take 8% increased damage.

Only one Mantra may be active at a time.
Annihilation

Passive: Killing an enemy that is affected by Mantra of Conviction grants you and your allies 30% increased movement speed for 3 seconds.

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.
Seize the Initiative
- Seize the Initiative
Dealing damage to enemies above 75% Life increases your attack speed by 30% for 4 seconds.
Exalted Soul
- Exalted Soul
Increase maximum Spirit by 50 and increase Spirit Regeneration by 4 per second.

Spirit fuels your defensive and offensive abilities.

Items

Tzo Krin's Gaze

Legendary Spirit Stone

Primary Stats

+330–524 Dexterity
Increases Wave of Light Damage by 125–150% (Monk Only)
+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Wave of Light is now cast at your enemy.
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.
Sunwuko's Soul

Set Chest Armor

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket
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.
Pinto's Pride

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1.5–2.0%
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Wave of Light also Slows enemies by 80% for 3 seconds and deals 125–150% increased damage.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+24–29 Dexterity

+24–29 Strength

+24–29 Intelligence
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.
Kyoshiro's Soul

Legendary Belt

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Sweeping Wind gains 2 stacks every second it does not deal damage to any enemies.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+49–60 Dexterity

+49–60 Strength

+49–60 Intelligence
Sunwuko's Leggings

Set Pants

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket
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.
The Crudest Boots

Legendary Boots

Primary Stats

+8–9% Movement Speed
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Mystic Ally summons two Mystic Allies that fight by your side.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+18–23 Dexterity

+18–23 Strength

+18–23 Intelligence
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Ignores Durability Loss
Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 3.5%

Secondary Stats

Reduce the remaining cooldown of one of your skills by 1 second when you hit with a resource-spending attack.

+ 1 Random Magic Properties
Stone of Jordan

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Increases damage against elites by 25.0–30.0%
+2 Random Magic Properties
One of 6 Magic Properties (varies)

+8–10 Maximum Discipline (Demon Hunter Only)

+7–8 Maximum Fury (Barbarian Only)

+7–9 Maximum Arcane Power (Wizard Only)

+105–119 Maximum Mana (Witch Doctor Only)

+13–14 Maximum Spirit (Monk Only)

+7–8 Maximum Wrath

One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence

One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

Physical skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Lightning skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Cold skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Fire skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Arcane skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Poison skills deal 15–20% more damage.

Holy skills deal 15–20% more damage.
Kyoshiro's Blade

Legendary Fist Weapon

7 Damage Per Second

Secondary Stats

Increase the damage of Wave of Light by 150%. When the initial impact of your Wave of Light hits 3 or fewer enemies, the damage is increased by 200 - 250%.
One of 2 Magic Properties (varies)
+66 - 132 Minimum Damage
+88 - 176 Maximum Damage

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
In-geom

Legendary Sword

4.2 Damage Per Second

Secondary Stats

Your skill cooldowns are reduced by 8 - 10 seconds for 15 seconds after killing an elite pack.
One of 8 Magic Properties (varies)
+10 - 15% Damage

+(132 - 308) Physical Damage

+(132 - 308) Fire Damage

+(132 - 308) Lightning Damage

+(132 - 308) Cold Damage

+(132 - 308) Poison Damage

+(132 - 308) Arcane Damage

+(132 - 308) Holy Damage

+ 2 Random Magic Properties

More Details

Head
- Tzo Krin's Gaze
- Stat Priority: CHD Dex Socket Vit
Shoulders
- Sunwuko's Balance
- Stat Priority: Dex CDR AR Vit
Amulet
- Sunwuko's Shines
- Stat Priority: Fire % CHC CHD Socket
Torso
- Sunwuko's Soul
- Stat Priority: Dex Vit Life Socket
Wrists
- Pinto's Pride
- Stat Priority: Fire % CHC Dex Vit
Hands
- Sunwuko's Paws
- Stat Priority: Dex CHD CHC CDR
Waist
- Kyoshiro's Soul
- Stat Priority: Dex AR Vit Life
Legs
- Sunwuko's Leggings
- Stat Priority: Socket Dex Vit Armor +
Feet
- The Crudest Boots
- Stat Priority: Skill: WoL Dex Life Armor +
Rings
- Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
- Stone of Jordan
- Convention of Elements
- Stat Priority: CHD CHC CDR Socket
Weapon
- Kyoshiro's Blade
- Stat Priority: Skill: Bash Dmg % Socket
Offhand
- In-geom
- Stat Priority: Dex CDR Dmg % Socket

Legendary Gems
- Bane of the Powerful
  Bane of the Powerful
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Gain 20% increased damage for 30 seconds after killing an elite pack.
- Bane of the Trapped
  Bane of the Trapped
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Increase damage against enemies under the effects of control-impairing effects by 15.00%.
  Gain an aura that reduces the movement speed of enemies within 15 yards by 30%. (Requires Rank 25)
- Zei's Stone of Vengeance
  Zei's Stone of Vengeance
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Damage you deal is increased by 4% for every 10 yards between you and the enemy hit. Maximum 20% increase at 50 yards.

Kanai's Cube

Vengeful Wind

Legendary Fist Weapon

Primary Stats

+626–750 Dexterity
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Increases the maximum stack count of Sweeping Wind by 6–7.
One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

+(981–1199)–(1175–1490) Arcane Damage

+(981–1199)–(1175–1490) Poison Damage

+(981–1199)–(1175–1490) Lightning Damage

+(981–1199)–(1175–1490) Holy Damage

+(981–1199)–(1175–1490) Cold Damage

+(981–1199)–(1175–1490) Fire Damage

+(981–1199)–(1175–1490) Damage
Vengeful Wind
The Laws of Seph

Legendary Spirit Stone

Primary Stats

+128–163 Dexterity
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Using Blinding Flash restores 125–165 Spirit.
Empty Socket
The Laws of Seph
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

Itemisation: what's the difference? Removed the torch and therefore equipped Vengeful Wind in the cube . Why? You will not kill every enemy with one hit, so very often you get attacked and therefore you will loose stacks granted by your equipped belt (needed for maintaining at least 3 stacks while not attacking). Tested some hours, definitely the best setup for speed farming. With Seize the Initiative (absolutely required) you will be quite fast and burn your windy stacks, with Vengeful Wind you will not get below (assumed) 5. Belt only: everytime annoying recasting Sweeping Wind, not effective gameplay. You are free to switch Venegeful Wind vs. In-geom in offhand or cube, whatever you like or has better stats.

Head, mainhand and bracers: of course required (do not switch to cube), +XXX% dmg for your devastating range bells. Equip a topaz in your helmet, you need around 25% RCR (topaz, paragon, obsidian). Formerly a diamond, but with CDR on shoulders, gloves, paragon, beacon, obsidian ring you and in-geom will have enough cooldown reduction to cast dashing strike (+MS% rune also possible), blinding flash and air nearly ally all the time.

No torch? No cindercoat?!! That's right, Laws of Seph, Sweeping Wind, Air Ally, Exalted Sould and RCR will be enough to maintain your spirit needed to slay through the battlefield. Maybe needs some practice, but there definitely more difficult builds out there.

And Epiphany?? *Sigh* same old story - great to have, but bugged in terms of damage: sometime no damage to mobs at all, after one minute of gameplay you will know why to turn down Epiphany

Rings and amulet Sunwuko amulet required, so no Hellfire Passive available. Obsidian is needed (Critchance, RCR, CDR), Stone of Jordan is recommended (more consistent damage), but conviction of elements is also fine (but hard to get 200% dmg increase and monk has still 5 damage element types, so in avergae only +40% -> SoJ in case of elite up to 50%). No F&R (no primary attack, otherwise 2 slots and only +50%), no travellers set (we are way too fast). In cube RoRG needed due to equipped helmet (always worse granted stats than equipped rings)

Mantra of Conviction: for speed and especially OP in groups Mantra of Conviction. Otherwise free to choose, I do not need to much toughness (about 100k), I am too fast for being hit critically

What else? Bane of the Trapped will work because of bracers' slowdown, Zei's is a great damage boost (we are range monks)

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Maximum Resource
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Attack Speed

Defense

Armor
Resist All
Life
Life Regeneration

Utility

Resource Cost Reduction
Area Damage
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Paragon priorities pretty clear, D3 is based on speed so Movement Speed is first option to chose. Second in the row is spirit as maximum ressource, can't have enough by constantliy rebulding via Blinding Flash, Sweeping Wind and Air Ally

Stack CDR and RCR first, then move down in priority as listed above. Area Damage still fairly nice, but not crucial for this build due to being insanely fast and not spending one second in creating density.

Build Guide

Basically same as last build of Sunwuko One Punch monk (here: say Two_to_Three-Punch-Monk) in 2.4.1, but some changes for still excellent
speed farming on regular rifts at Torment 13. Based on formerly published build One Punch Monk by Quin69 aka Quinsane aka Quinrex aka...

Basic gameplay:

try to kill elites every 15 seconds
move permanently by dashing strike (should have no cooldown) and dodge away from any danger (that's most of your "toughness", sometimes a litte bit squishy)
place your firebells from farest position possible (bells do cover a large area, Zeis' Stone will boost your damage siginificantely)
don't stay too long on one place and "work" on one mob, dodge around and keep your Seize the Initiative up all the time (+30% attackspeed is HUGE), the left mobs will die while smashing down new ones (as mentioned above wide area coverage)

Have fun to play!

Version history:

2016-08-04: InitiallyCreated

2016-08-08: Item stats priorities added, basic gameplay description added

2016-08-09: Build renamed to more common term "WoL" (=Wave of light)

2016-08-11: Gameplay vid added

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