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Kanai's Cube

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  • Solanium

  

  Legendary Mace

  • Primary Stats
  • • +(32–39)–(39–49) Holy Damage
    • +3 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Critical Hits have a 3–4% chance to spawn a health globe.
    • Empty Socket
  Solanium
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  • Pride of Cassius

  

  Legendary Mighty Belt

  • Primary Stats
  • • +85–108 Strength
    • +11–20 Resistance to All Elements
    • +3 Random Magic Properties
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Increases the duration of Ignore Pain by 4–6 seconds.
  Pride of Cassius
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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

Cooldown Reduction: Priority #1. You need enough cooldown that combined with Ring of the Zodiac you keep Ignore Pain up 100% of the time with absolutely zero downtime. That usually means you want CDR everywhere it's obtainable. If you can only have one thing, make it CDR.

Pickup Radius: Priority #2. This leads to more health globe pickups, which mean more mana for your DPS (especially Firebat Witch Doctor). It also means extra heals, and lastly less backtracking when your group kill elites as you'll quickly pickup the progress globes. Unlike the Support Monk, you want radius over Health from Globes because your skills don't scale with health from globes. See gameplay section for how this affects playstyle.

Health from Globes: Priority #3. Makes those globe pickups keep your group alive. (I don't know if it affects how much others are healed)

Defensives: Vit > Elite Dmg. Red (chest) > All Resists > Life% > RCR > LoH* = LoFS > Att.Spd. > Str > Arm. > CHC

A lot of your survivability will come from vit from paragon 800+.

*Life on Hit: Some believe that it lags the game, and you technically don't need it with careful play. There are gr118 clears with full LoH gear, and then those that avoid it like the plague. There is no consensus like there is for Area Damage. Make your own decision, though having it in your weapons might make some PUGs angry.

Do not take Area Damage on any gear, it lags the game.

Shoulders: Legacy Corruption have 7 pickup, but aren't available in seasons so you need to already have them. Current Corruption are still an easy craftable Ancient with 2 pickup and Health from Globes guaranteed. You don't need more damage reduction if you play carefully and are high paragon, but Mantle of Channeling with Globe pickup would be a more greedy choice for 25% damage reduction only to yourself as you'd lose the group Health from Globes bonus. Another option for more survivability would be to use wastes shoulders and cube Band of Might, as long as you use the ground stomp skill.

Bracers: You take nemesis for the group as you have greatest pull and mobility. If for some reason someone else is take strongarms for damage.

Belt: Equip Pride of Cassius if you have a 5-6 seconds with 2 pickup, and cube the harder to get perfect Chilanik's Chain. But if your chain has pickup or your Cassius sucks, do the reverse. You need 100% Ignore pain.

Amulet: Rondal's Locket has guaranteed 4-6 Pickup and Health From Globes, so is an easy choice. Make sure to get CDR on it.

Rings: 3 rings, cube the worst one. Try to get CDR, Attack Speed and vit.

Cube Weapon: There's no good options. Solanium now has an internal timer so you don't need CHC on gear, you'll hit the timer first. Otherwise pick whatever you like, lots of joke entries out there. Eun-jang-do might be good but mobs will be cc immune very quickly.

Gems: White Helm (CDR), White Chest+Pants (Resists), Purple Weapons (Life on Hit)

Leg Gems: Toxin* for group damage, Wreath* for mass mob agro and movement speed, gogok for toughness and attack speed. In 2s or without support monk swap wreath out for Esoteric for more toughness. Gem of Ease in weapon does not make a noticeable difference.

*Cap at Lv25 is followed by most players, though conclusive proof that higher causes more lag is inconclusive. It certainly isn't worth the gem levels though, which are better spent on augs.

Augs: Aug for vitality, but you can go very high with paragon alone.

Paragon Priorities

Core: Movement speed until 25% cap, Maximum Resource (optional) allows for more Ancient Spear while maintaining Aquila Cuirass damage mitigation. Vitality is worth more than Strength (which is just flat 1:1 armour for this build).

Offense: CDR for all buffs but 100% uptime Ignore Pain especially. Attack speed to trigger Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac more through WW hits. Last 2 are unimportant. Crit Chance to proc Solanium more, though you will likely hit the internal cooldown. Crit Damage so you can steal the last hit from your DPS and laugh.

Defense: As a Strength character you're going to have a lot of armour, so pick Resists first to maintain the 10:1 Armour:Resists ideal ratio for damage mitigation. More hitpoints before pitiful regen.

Utility: Resource Cost for more Ancient spear and keeping Aquila Cuirass up. Life on Hit (optional, see gear section above for note on Life on Hit) to stay alive. Gold Find for when you pop into a rift and are too lazy to switch. Do not assign any points to Area Damage, it lags the game.