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T13 Speed - Monk LoN Wrath Of Ytar Cold Build

by DarthKitty1 last updated Feb 12, 2017 ( Patch 2.4.3 )

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Skills

Lashing Tail Kick Hand of Ytar
- Lashing Tail Kick
Cost: 50 Spirit

Unleash a deadly roundhouse kick that deals 755% weapon damage as Physical.
Hand of Ytar

Enemies are chilled at long range, Slowing them by 80% for 3 seconds.

Lashing Tail Kick's damage turns into Cold.
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.
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.
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%.
Mantra of Conviction Dishearten
- 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.
Dishearten

Passive: Mantra of Conviction also slows the movement speed of enemies by 80%.

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.
Momentum
- Momentum
Moving 25 yards increases your damage by 20% for 6 seconds.
Seize the Initiative
- Seize the Initiative
Dealing damage to enemies above 75% Life increases your attack speed by 30% for 4 seconds.

Items

Gyana Na Kashu

Legendary Spirit Stone

Primary Stats

+45–55 Dexterity
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Lashing Tail Kick releases a piercing fireball that deals 1050–1400% weapon damage as Fire to enemies within 10 yards on impact.
Empty Socket
Lefebvre's Soliloquy

Legendary Shoulders

59 - 68 Armor

Primary Stats

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

Secondary Stats

Cyclone Strike reduces your damage taken by 40 - 50% for 5 seconds.

+ 4 Random Magic Properties
Hellfire Amulet

Legendary Amulet

Primary Stats

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

+626–750 Intelligence

+626–750 Dexterity

+626–750 Strength
Tyrael's Might

Legendary Chest Armor

Primary Stats

+81–85 Resistance to All Elements
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

+10–20% Damage to Demons
Ignores Durability Loss
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence
Nemesis Bracers

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Shrines and Pylons will spawn an enemy champion.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+85–108 Dexterity

+85–108 Strength

+85–108 Intelligence
The Witching Hour

Legendary Belt

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 5.0–6.0%
Critical Hit Damage Increased by 26.0–50.0%
+4 Random Magic Properties
Swamp Land Waders

Legendary Pants

218 - 246 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

Adds 2 - 3% to Fire Damage
Adds 1% to Cold Damage
Adds 1% to Holy Damage
Adds 1% to Lightning Damage
Adds 1% to Poison Damage
Adds 1% to Arcane Damage
Sacrifice deals 300 - 400% additional damage against enemies affected by Locust Swarm or Grasp of the Dead.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Rivera Dancers

Legendary Boots

Primary Stats

+11–20 Resistance to All Elements
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Lashing Tail Kick attacks 50% faster and deals 250–300% increased damage.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+18–23 Dexterity

+18–23 Strength

+18–23 Intelligence
Litany of the Undaunted

Set Ring

Primary Stats

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

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence

Legacy of Nightmares
The Wailing Host
Litany of the Undaunted
(2) Set: While this is your only Item Set bonus every Ancient item you have equipped increases your damage dealt by 100% and reduces your damage taken by 4%.
The Wailing Host

Set Ring

Primary Stats

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

+220–349 Dexterity

+220–349 Strength

+220–349 Intelligence

Legacy of Nightmares
The Wailing Host
Litany of the Undaunted
(2) Set: While this is your only Item Set bonus every Ancient item you have equipped increases your damage dealt by 100% and reduces your damage taken by 4%.
Scarbringer

Legendary Fist Weapon

Primary Stats

+(32–39)–(39–49) Holy Damage
+128–163 Dexterity
+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

The damage of Lashing Tail Kick is increased by 300% to the first 5–7 enemies hit.
In-geom

Legendary Sword

More Details

Head
- Gyana Na Kashu
- Stat Priority: Socket CHC Dex Vit
Shoulders
- Lefebvre's Soliloquy
- Stat Priority: Reduced Resource Cost CDR Dex Vit
Amulet
- Hellfire Amulet
- Stat Priority: Cold % CHC CHD
Torso
- Tyrael's Might
- Tal Rasha's Relentless Pursuit
- Stat Priority: Socket Dex Vit
Wrists
- Nemesis Bracers
- Stat Priority: Cold % CHC
Hands
- Stat Priority: Reduced Resource Cost CHC CHD
Waist
- The Witching Hour
- String of Ears
- Stat Priority: CHD AS Dex Vit
Legs
- Swamp Land Waders
- Pox Faulds
- Stat Priority: Cold % Socket Dex Vit
Feet
- Rivera Dancers
- Stat Priority: Skill: LTK Dex Vit
Rings
- Litany of the Undaunted
- The Wailing Host
- Stat Priority: CDR CHC CHD
Weapon
- Scarbringer
- Stat Priority: Dmg % CDR Dex
Offhand
- In-geom
- Stat Priority: Dmg % Reduced Resource Cost Dex

Legendary Gems
- 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)
- Bane of the Powerful
  Bane of the Powerful
  
  Gem
  
  Primary Stats
  
  Gain 20% increased damage for 30.0 seconds after killing an elite pack.
  Gain 15% increased damage versus elites and take 15% reduced damage from elites. (Requires Rank 25)
- 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

The Furnace

Legendary Two-Handed Mace

Primary Stats

+(39–47)–(47–59) Fire Damage
+3 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Increases damage against elites by 40–50%.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+192–245 Strength

+192–245 Intelligence

+192–245 Dexterity
The Furnace
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

Stat priority

I'd say that %Elemental Dmg, CHC and CHD, are most important, you need to kill elites as fast as possible in order to maintain in-geom.

While in-geom is off, you have to have enough RCR to keep spamming LTK and enough CDR to spam The Laws of Seph for spirit refund, when you have a sufficient amount (I'd say around 40% each) you can also increase your AS.

You can use either a Topaz or a Diamond in head, CDR or RCR location is unimportant, just make sure you have around 40% each.

Items/Skills

Jewelry slot on cube is Obsidiain Ring Of The Zodiac.

Hands slot is Frostburn Gauntlets (from some odd reason can't select it)

Stack Secondary Res on everything.

5^th passive should be NDE, unless you're tanky enough and then you can go with something like Relentless Assault since you're spamming Blinding Flash and also freezing with Frostburn proc.

If you have trouble surviving at the beginning, switch your Mantra to Mantra Of Salvation - Agility, once you have sufficient ANC pieces (for LoN DR) and Secondary Res you can switch back to Mantra of Conviction.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Maximum Resource
Primary Stat
Vitality

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Attack Speed

Defense

Life
Resist All
Armor
Life Regeneration

Utility

Life on Hit
Resource Cost Reduction
Area Damage
Gold Find

Core - Max MS first.

Build Guide

Intro

This is a LoN cold build variation for Davlok's One Kick Monk.

I really like SWK LTK build, it does however have a very annoying issue with the stack management, as there is absolutely no way to maintain it while fighting a single enemy such as the rift guardian or a goblin, costing you A LOT of DPS.

It happened to me more than once, that I was crashing a rift while using SWK and then encountered multiple goblins just to have them open their portal while I'm desperately shouting at the screen: "Please Mr Goblin, please wait for my Sweeping Wind stack so I can kill you!"

This build specializes in freezing and slowing enemies, making it also very efficient as a ranged build, although it really shines in melee range since the Hand of Ytar has a small AoE radius which you can use with Cyclone Strike.

Rift Guardians/Goblins should be extremely easy to deal with.

Game Play

The way you play is quite straight forward:

Dash to an enemy to receive the 15% IAS from Radiance.
Hit Cyclone Strike to gather as much enemies on you.
Hit Mantra of Conviction to get an additional damage bonus.
Hit enemies with LTK:HoY where they are most crowded.

Make sure to keep your Epiphany up when fighting enemies, Cyclone Strike every 5 seconds when you're dashing around the rift to receive the 50% DR from Lefebvre's Soliloquy.

As you can see from the attached video, I ran a GR65 which is equivalent to T13 with 4 players, without a follower and without using any shrines.

This build is optimized for clearing T13 rifts extremely fast, but can also push higher GR by switching In-Geom with Crystal Fist.

Make sure to visit this guide for future updates.

Have fun!

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