DatModz - ZDPS Monk | 50B+ XP/Hour - Monk - Diablo III Builds

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DatModz - ZDPS Monk | 50B+ XP/Hour

by DatModz last updated Apr 25, 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.
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%.
Inner Sanctuary Forbidden Palace
- Inner Sanctuary
Cooldown: 20 seconds

Create a runic circle of protection on the ground for 6 seconds that reduces all damage taken by 55% for all allies inside.
Forbidden Palace

Enemies inside Inner Sanctuary have their movement speed reduced by 80%.
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.
Cyclone Strike Implosion
- Cyclone Strike
Cost: 50 Spirit

Pull up to 16 enemies within 24 yards towards you, followed by a furious blast of energy that deals 261% weapon damage as Holy.
Implosion

Increase the distance enemies will be pulled towards you to 34 yards.
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.

Harmony
- Harmony
40% of your single elemental resistances from items instead increases your resistance to all elements.
Chant of Resonance
- Chant of Resonance
The Spirit costs of Mantra activation effects are reduced by 50% and you gain 4 Spirit every second when you have a Mantra learned.
Beacon of Ytar
- Beacon of Ytar
Reduce all cooldowns by 20%.
Sixth Sense
- Sixth Sense
Reduce all non-Physical damage taken by 25%.

Items

Leoric's Crown

Legendary Helm

72 - 89 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)
+626 - 750 Strength
+626 - 750 Dexterity
+626 - 750 Intelligence

Secondary Stats

Increase the effect of any gem socketed into your helm by 100%. This effect does not apply to Legendary Gems.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Born's Privilege

Set Shoulders

Primary Stats

+6 Random Magic Properties

Born's Command
Born's Frozen Soul
Born's Privilege
Born's Furious Wrath
(2) Set: +15% Life
(3) Set: Reduces cooldown of all skills by +10%.+20% Experience. (0.2*10|1| % at level 70)
The Star of Azkaranth

Legendary Amulet

Secondary Stats

Prevent all Fire damage taken and heal yourself for 10 - 15% of the amount prevented.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Born's Frozen Soul

Set Chest Armor

660 - 759 Armor

Born's Command
Born's Frozen Soul
Born's Privilege
Born's Furious Wrath
(2) Set: +15% Life
(3) Set: Reduces cooldown of all skills by 10%.
20% Experience. (2% at level 70)
Nemesis Bracers

Legendary Bracers

8 - 10 Armor

Secondary Stats

Shrines and Pylons will spawn an enemy champion.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Cain's Scrivener

Set Gloves

Cain's Destiny
Cain's Insight
Cain's Habit
Cain's Scrivener
Cain's Travelers
(2) Set: Attack Speed Increased by +8%
(3) Set: 50% Better Chance of Finding Magical Items+50% Experience. (0.5*10|1| % at level 70)
Vigilante Belt

Legendary Belt

24 - 28 Armor

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
Reduces cooldown of all skills by 4 - 7%.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Cain's Habit

Set Pants

660 - 759 Armor

Cain's Destiny
Cain's Insight
Cain's Habit
Cain's Scrivener
Cain's Travelers
(2) Set: Attack Speed Increased by +8%
(3) Set: 50% Better Chance of Finding Magical Items
50% Experience. (5% at level 70)
Cain's Travelers

Set Boots

Primary Stats

+6 Random Magic Properties

Cain's Destiny
Cain's Insight
Cain's Habit
Cain's Scrivener
Cain's Travelers
(2) Set: Attack Speed Increased by +8%
(3) Set: 50% Better Chance of Finding Magical Items+50% Experience. (0.5*10|1| % at level 70)
Hellfire Ring

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

45% Experience. (4.5% at level 70)
Leoric's Signet

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

20% Experience. (2% at level 70)
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5 - 6%
+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Born's Furious Wrath

Set Sword

Primary Stats

+(981–1199)–(1175–1490) Holy Damage
+5 Random Magic Properties

Born's Command
Born's Frozen Soul
Born's Privilege
Born's Furious Wrath
(2) Set: +15% Life
(3) Set: Reduces cooldown of all skills by +10%.+20% Experience. (0.2*10|1| % at level 70)

More Details

Head
- Leoric's Crown
- Stat Priority: Socket Dex Vit Life
Shoulders
- Born's Privilege
- Stat Priority: CDR Dex Vit Life
Amulet
- The Star of Azkaranth
- Xephirian Amulet
- The Flavor of Time
- Stat Priority: CDR Socket Vit Dex
Torso
- Born's Frozen Soul
- Stat Priority: Socket Dex Vit Life
Wrists
- Nemesis Bracers
- Strongarm Bracers
- Stat Priority: Dex Vit LPS Armor +
Hands
- Cain's Scrivener
- Stat Priority: Dex Vit CDR Reduced Resource Cost
Waist
- Vigilante Belt
- Stat Priority: Dex Vit Armor + Life
Legs
- Cain's Habit
- Stat Priority: Socket Dex Vit Armor +
Feet
- Cain's Travelers
- Stat Priority: Dex Vit MS Armor +
Rings
- Hellfire Ring
- Leoric's Signet
- Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac
- Stat Priority: CDR Socket Vit Dex
Weapon
- Born's Furious Wrath
- In-geom
- Sledge Fist
- Stat Priority: Physical % Socket Dex
Offhand
- Stat Priority: None

Legendary Gems
- Gogok of Swiftness
  Gogok of Swiftness
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Gain Swiftness with every attack, increasing your Attack Speed by 1% and Dodge by 0.5% for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 15 times.
- Gem of Efficacious Toxin
  Gem of Efficacious Toxin
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Poison all enemies hit for 2000% weapon damage over 10 seconds.
  All enemies you poison take 10% increased damage from all sources and deal 10% less damage. (Requires Rank 25)
- Esoteric Alteration
  Esoteric Alteration
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Gain 10.0% non-Physical damage reduction.
  While below 50% Life, your resistances to Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison, and Arcane are increased by 75%. (Requires Rank 25)

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Maximum Resource
Vitality
Primary Stat

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Attack Speed
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Resist All
Armor
Life
Life Regeneration

Utility

Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Area Damage
Gold Find

Paragon Point Allocation is dependent on your current attributes so they will vary form person to person.

Core

Max Movement Speed(Make sure it says 25% on your character sheet) - Maximum Spirit - Vitality

Offensive

Cool Down Reduction - Attack Speed - Critical Hit Chance - Critical Hit Damage. This build is CDR dependent, you want as much CDR as possible so you can have 100% up-time on Epiphany, Inner Sanctuary: Forbidden Palace and are able to control the mobs better with the added spirit regeneration.

Defensive

All Resist - Armor - Life% - Life per Second

Utility

Resource Cost Reduction - Life on Hit - Area Damage - Gold Find. The most important stat is RCR so you can spam your cyclone strike more and keep your team mates alive!

Build Guide

Hello, DatModz here with the updated Season 3 ZDPS Leech Monk, that is able to achieve 50B+ XP/Hour and is virtually unkillable in Greater Rift 35-55!

Basics

MAX your Experience Gain on your Gear!
Maintain your Pools of Reflection Buff(25% more XP), disappears if you die
MAX CDR so you can keep up your debuffs and have 100% Ephiphany, use this CDR Calculator
Socket Gem of Ease into one of your Weapons
Activate Pylons for the Free Elite Granted by your Nemesis Bracers
Hellfire Rings are crafted item that drop obtained by completing Uber Bosses.
Your Role: Group up monsters for your party and keep them alive! You do little damage yourself, but increase your groups damage a bunch! Make sure to keep auto-attacking to maintain your Crippling Wave Debuff(10% more damage done) and keep Inner Sanctuary:Forbidden Palace Active(30% more damage done) ,Activate your Mantra at least every 2.99s (20% more damage done) & group up mobs with Cyclone Strike:Imposion (Best way to apply 10% damage buff from your Toxin Gem procs from all attacks, even Hellfire Ring Lava Pools)

Stat Priority

Helmet - Socket, Vitality, Life %, Dexterity Secondary Attributes - Stacking Resist, Make sure the roll on your Leoric's Crown is as close to 100% as possible for MAX Leech)
Shoulders - Dexterity, Cool Down Reduction Vitality, All Resist Secondary Attributes - Monster Kill Grant +xxx Experience
Chest - 3xSocket, Vitality, Dexterity, Life % or Reduction from Elites Secondary Attributes - Stacking Resist, Monster Kill Grant +xxx Experience
Gloves - Cooldown Reduction, Vitality, Dexterity, Resource Cost Reduction Secondary Attributes - Stacking Resist, Monster Kill Grant +xxx Experience
Bracers - Vitality, Dexterity, Life on Hit, Armor Secondary Attributes - Stacking Resist
Belt - Cool Down Reduction, Dexterity, Vitality, Armor Secondary Attributes - Stacking Resist, Monster Kill Grant +xxx Experience
Pants - Socket, Vitality, Dexterity, Armor Secondary Attributes - Stacking Resist, Monster Kill Grant +xxx Experience
Boots - Vitality, Dexterity, Movement Speed, Armor Secondary Attributes - Stacking Resist, Monster Kill Grant +xxx Experience
Amulet - Socket, Cooldown Reduction, Vitality, Dexterity Secondary Attributes - Stacking Resist
Rings - Socket, Cooldown Reduction, Vitality, Dexterity Secondary Attributes - Stacking Resist & (Make sure the %XP Bonus on your Leroics(20-30%) is as close to MAX as possible.
Weapons - Cooldown Reduction, Socket, Vitality & Dexterity Secondary Attributes - Monster Kill Grant +xxx Experience

Alternative Setups

Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard - If you are having survivability problems and are constantly dropping your Pools of Reflection(25% bonus XP gain), drop Gem of Efficacious Toxin for this, then prioritize life per second on gear over armor.
Strongarm Bracers - Can use as a alternative if you don't have Nemesis Bracers or something else in your group is wearing the, will increase the damage done to mobs by 20-30% for 5 seconds that are hit by a knockback ie. Cyclone Strike
Near Death Experience - If you are playing hardcore or are constantly dying, swap out Chant of Resonance for NDE.
Mantra of Salvation:Agility - If your group is survivability problems, drop Mantra of Conviction and run this instead -20% damage and movement speed for 40% All Resist + 35% Dodge. You do 0 Damage when you are Dead!

if you have any questions/suggestions feel free to leave a comment below or you can ask me Live @ twitch.tv/datmodz! Good Luck and Happy Farming in Season 3!

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