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Kanai's Cube

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  • Incense Torch of the Grand Temple

  

  Legendary Daibo

  • 359.15 Damage Per Second
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Reduces the Spirit cost of Wave of Light by 50% and increases its damage by 450 - 550%.
    • One of 2 Magic Properties (varies)
    • +66 - 132 Minimum Damage
    • +88 - 176 Maximum Damage
  • + 3 Random Magic Properties
  Incense Torch of the Grand Temple
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  • Spirit Guards

  

  Legendary Bracers

  • 8 - 10 Armor
  • Primary Stats
  • • Critical Hit Chance Increased by 1%
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Your Spirit Generators reduce your damage taken by 30 - 40% for 3 seconds.
  • + 3 Random Magic Properties
  Spirit Guards
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  • Ring of Royal Grandeur

  

  Legendary Ring

  • Primary Stats
  • • Attack Speed Increased by 5 - 6%
    • +152 - 224 Life per Hit
  • Secondary Stats
  • • Reduces the number of items needed for set bonuses by 1 (to a minimum of 2).
  • + 2 Random Magic Properties
  Ring of Royal Grandeur

This is one of the strongest PTR build for solo monk, I am only 2300 paragon, with great gear and augment I finished 108 with little effort - and spent only around 30 keys to clear 109.

I am not sure if fire is stronger, but one player cleared 116 already with 4800 paragon and perfect gear, with explosive light (fire). But this one clearly keeps up, I copied my build to d3planner.com (w/o augment) and the numbers show:

- 585B bell dmg & 723B DoT dmg (lighting)

- 802B bell dmg & 992B DoT dmg (lighting) with 3 or fewer enemies hit.

while explosive light shows me,

- 741B (fire)

- 1T (fire) with 3 or fewer enemies)

Explosive light has a better direct damage as you can see and it spreads 8 mini bells before the bell hit the ground, which makes it a pretty nice area of effect skill. But for me, pillar of the ancients (lighting) is more fun to play, and if you spam it well enough you can have almost all your mob pack in DoT at the same time, it's a decent AoE spell also. Oculus spawn is really nice because of you'r ability to move. The way I see it, if the fire setup is stronger it has to hit the same enemy twice with one cast. If not, it might be a better AoE spell & even better AD trigger.

Well, let's get down to gearing and stats next. There are variations between F/R and CoE + Unity but, F/R brings you 100% damage all the time while CoE brings 200% every 16 seconds, but don't worry about Unity, this build is squishy with bad mob types, bogans, beasts, spear mobs and bad elite affixes especially, but just make sure you have LoH on 1 weapon, physical resistances, around 800k life, diamond gems (all res) and maintain the reduction from Spirit Guard's in big action (60% for 3 seconds). Beacon of Ytar is the passive for your dashing strike, I feel no need to stack CDR on my gear though some of the players roll 1-2 items. I found the sweet spot for spirit cost reduction, that's Topaz on head, and 2 RCR 8% stats on your gear.

Area Damage is a huge factor also, I have 137% If I can remember correctly, and remember.. Life per _Kill_ is a good stat along with LoH. I was lucky to find pants that I could roll a secondary stat.

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