DS+Shenlong Hybrid Monk

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by TPA_Uberjager last updated Sep 2, 2015 ( Patch 2.3 )

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Skills

Way of the Hundred Fists Blazing Fists
- Way of the Hundred Fists
Generate: 12 Spirit per attack

Unleash a rapid series of punches that strike enemies for 190% weapon damage as Physical.
Blazing Fists

Critical Hits increase your attack speed and movement speed by 5% for 5 seconds. This effect can stack up to 3 times.

Way of the Hundred Fists's damage turns into Fire.
Dashing Strike Radiance
- 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.
Radiance

Gain 15% increased attack speed for 4 seconds after using Dashing Strike.

Dashing Strike's damage turns into Fire.
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.
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%.
Breath of Heaven Infused with Light
- Breath of Heaven
Cooldown: 15 seconds

A blast of divine energy heals you and all allies within 12 yards for 69735 - 91192 Life.

Heal amount is increased by 30% of your Health Globe Healing Bonus.
Infused with Light

Gain 14 additional Spirit from Spirit generating attacks for 5 seconds after using Breath of Heaven.

Alacrity
- Alacrity
Increase the attack speed of Spirit Generators by 15%.
Mythic Rhythm
- Mythic Rhythm
Every third hit from a Spirit Generator increases the damage of your next damaging Spirit Spender by 40%.
Seize the Initiative
- Seize the Initiative
Dealing damage to enemies above 75% Life increases your attack speed by 30% for 4 seconds.
Beacon of Ytar
- Beacon of Ytar
Reduce all cooldowns by 20%.

Items

Mask of the Searing Sky

Set Helm

Primary Stats

+626–750 Dexterity
+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket

Raiment of a Thousand Storms
Mask of the Searing Sky
Mantle of the Upside-Down Sinners
Heart of the Crashing Wave
Scales of the Dancing Serpent
Eight-Demon Boots
Fists of Thunder
(2) Set: Your Spirit Generators have 25% increased attack speed and 100% increased damage.
(4) Set: Dashing Strike spends 75 Spirit, but refunds a Charge when it does.
(6) Set: Your Spirit Generators increase the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to 12500% for 6 seconds and Dashing Strike increases the damage of your Spirit Generators by 1250% for 6 seconds.
Mantle of the Upside-Down Sinners

Set Shoulders

Raiment of a Thousand Storms
Mask of the Searing Sky
Mantle of the Upside-Down Sinners
Heart of the Crashing Wave
Scales of the Dancing Serpent
Eight-Demon Boots
Fists of Thunder
(2) Set: Your Spirit Generators have 25% increased attack speed and 100% increased damage.
(4) Set: Dashing Strike spends 75 Spirit, but refunds a Charge when it does.
(6) Set: Your Spirit Generators increase the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to 12500% for 6 seconds and Dashing Strike increases the damage of your Spirit Generators by 1250% for 6 seconds.
Hellfire Amulet

Legendary Amulet

Secondary Stats
Heart of the Crashing Wave

Set Chest Armor

Primary Stats

+416–500 Dexterity
+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket

Raiment of a Thousand Storms
Mask of the Searing Sky
Mantle of the Upside-Down Sinners
Heart of the Crashing Wave
Scales of the Dancing Serpent
Eight-Demon Boots
Fists of Thunder
(2) Set: Your Spirit Generators have 25% increased attack speed and 100% increased damage.
(4) Set: Dashing Strike spends 75 Spirit, but refunds a Charge when it does.
(6) Set: Your Spirit Generators increase the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to 12500% for 6 seconds and Dashing Strike increases the damage of your Spirit Generators by 1250% for 6 seconds.
Spirit Guards

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5–6.0%
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Your Spirit Generators reduce your damage taken by 30–40% for 3 seconds.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+416–500 Dexterity

+416–500 Strength

+416–500 Intelligence
Fists of Thunder

Set Gloves

Primary Stats

+626–750 Dexterity
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 8.0–10.0%
+4 Random Magic Properties

Raiment of a Thousand Storms
Mask of the Searing Sky
Mantle of the Upside-Down Sinners
Heart of the Crashing Wave
Scales of the Dancing Serpent
Eight-Demon Boots
Fists of Thunder
(2) Set: Your Spirit Generators have 25% increased attack speed and 100% increased damage.
(4) Set: Dashing Strike spends 75 Spirit, but refunds a Charge when it does.
(6) Set: Your Spirit Generators increase the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to 12500% for 6 seconds and Dashing Strike increases the damage of your Spirit Generators by 1250% for 6 seconds.
String of Ears

Legendary Belt

145 - 164 Armor

Primary Stats

+416 - 500 Strength
+416 - 500 Dexterity
+416 - 500 Intelligence
+416 - 500 Vitality

Secondary Stats

Reduces damage from melee attacks by 25 - 30%.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Scales of the Dancing Serpent

Set Pants

Primary Stats

+416–500 Dexterity
+4 Random Magic Properties
Empty Socket

Raiment of a Thousand Storms
Mask of the Searing Sky
Mantle of the Upside-Down Sinners
Heart of the Crashing Wave
Scales of the Dancing Serpent
Eight-Demon Boots
Fists of Thunder
(2) Set: Your Spirit Generators have 25% increased attack speed and 100% increased damage.
(4) Set: Dashing Strike spends 75 Spirit, but refunds a Charge when it does.
(6) Set: Your Spirit Generators increase the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to 12500% for 6 seconds and Dashing Strike increases the damage of your Spirit Generators by 1250% for 6 seconds.
Eight-Demon Boots

Set Boots

Raiment of a Thousand Storms
Mask of the Searing Sky
Mantle of the Upside-Down Sinners
Heart of the Crashing Wave
Scales of the Dancing Serpent
Eight-Demon Boots
Fists of Thunder
(2) Set: Your Spirit Generators have 25% increased attack speed and 100% increased damage.
(4) Set: Dashing Strike spends 75 Spirit, but refunds a Charge when it does.
(6) Set: Your Spirit Generators increase the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to 12500% for 6 seconds and Dashing Strike increases the damage of your Spirit Generators by 1250% for 6 seconds.
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.
Shenlong's Relentless Assault

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
- Mask of the Searing Sky
- Stat Priority: None
Shoulders
- Mantle of the Upside-Down Sinners
- Stat Priority: None
Amulet
- Hellfire Amulet
- Stat Priority: None
Torso
- Heart of the Crashing Wave
- Stat Priority: None
Wrists
- Spirit Guards
- Stat Priority: None
Hands
- Fists of Thunder
- Stat Priority: None
Waist
- String of Ears
- Stat Priority: None
Legs
- Scales of the Dancing Serpent
- Stat Priority: None
Feet
- Eight-Demon Boots
- Stat Priority: None
Rings
- Focus
- Restraint
- Stat Priority: None
Weapon
- Shenlong's Fist of Legend
- Stat Priority: None
Offhand
- Shenlong's Relentless Assault
- Stat Priority: None

Legendary Gems
- Bane of the Stricken
  Bane of the Stricken
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Each attack you make against an enemy increases the damage it takes from your attacks by 0.8%.
- Bane of the Trapped
  Bane of the Trapped
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Increase damage against enemies under the effects of control-impairing effects by 15%.
- 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)

Kanai's Cube

Flying Dragon

Legendary Daibo

Primary Stats

+495–787 Dexterity
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Chance to double your attack speed when attacking.
One of 7 Magic Properties (varies)

+(732–894)–(877–1111) Arcane Damage

+(732–894)–(877–1111) Poison Damage

+(732–894)–(877–1111) Lightning Damage

+(732–894)–(877–1111) Holy Damage

+(732–894)–(877–1111) Cold Damage

+(732–894)–(877–1111) Fire Damage

+(732–894)–(877–1111) Damage
Flying Dragon
Cindercoat

Legendary Chest Armor

Primary Stats

Fire skills deal 5–10% more damage.
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Reduces the resource cost of Fire skills by 23–30%.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+85–108 Dexterity

+85–108 Strength

+85–108 Intelligence
Cindercoat
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 4.0–5.0%
Critical Hit Chance Increased by 4.5–6.0%
Reduces cooldown of all skills by 4.0–7.0%.
Reduces all resource costs by 5.0–7.0%.
+1 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Ignores Durability Loss
Reduce the remaining cooldown of one of your skills by 1 seconds when you hit with a resource-spending attack.
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac

Gearing Variations

Hellfire: Harmony.

With decent IAS on gear seize the initiative can be swapped out.

Build Logic:

You'll hit 5 APS easily which leads to easy spirit generation.(i have no idea why APS is capped at 5).

Which allows for DS spamming every 0.67 seconds with mythic rhythm buff AND Shenlong's buff. At present without bane of stricken I regularly crit on DS for about 2.7b. Single target DPS on rift guardians is about 5-6B eDPS.

DS spam = cooldowns from obsidian + LoH off bracers/ weapons.

You should have perfect uptime on all buffs if you're playing correctly. (i.e. not spamming inner sanc unless the previous one has expired)

Cindercoat can be swapped for Depth Diggers depending on preference (I believe depth diggers gives slightly more damage output but at a cost of lower cooldown reduction)

I play on NS. But I assume because of the ridiculous APS bane of the stricken will be OP for this setup.

Here's a URL to my monk, items might be changed from guide due to experimentation/ theorycrafting:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Uberjager-6563/hero/22448519

Paragon Priorities

Core

Primary Stat
Vitality
Movement Speed
Maximum Resource

Offense

Attack Speed
Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Life
Armor
Resist All
Life Regeneration

Utility

Area Damage
Resource Cost Reduction
Life on Hit
Gold Find

Not changing this portion. You should know what to add.

Build Guide

Add comments below to debate/ discuss build.

Edit:

And Yes. If you're wondering. I wrote this in 2013:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/7199913320

And this is 2014:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/14277647739

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