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[Build] Tempest Rush Monk, Gearing, Build, and Setting guide

Gardettos

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This is my Demonbuddy Tempest Rush monk. It produces the highest IPH, exp, and GPH of any other build that I have tried. It is still a work in progress but wanted to make some kind of guide for it since a few people have asked me about it.

I have been trying to get this to work and thought what I have gotten to work best for me


Let's start with the build.

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  • Fist of Thunder - Quickening: As much as I wanted to rely simply on spirit regen with no spirit generators you have to have one. DB simply breaks down without one. From destroying barricades and killing solo enemies. So I choose the one with the highest spirit regen.
  • Tempest Rush - Tailwind: What the build is all about that 25% extra movement speed
  • Serenity: Ascension: Your main defense against reflect packs. Even if rarely used feels like a must
  • Sweeping Wind - Inner Storm: Helps with your spirit regen
  • Wave of Light - Empowered Wave: Best dmg to spirit cost
  • Mantra of Conviction: Submission - Does an excellent job once you get your dps over 100K for killing white mobs instantly at MP0

Passives
  • The Guardian's Path - 35% to spirit regen is must
  • Exalted Soul - To boost regen by 1 and more importantly give you a large spirit reserve.
  • Fleet Footed - To really make you as fast as possible. So you are at 34% MS base and another 25% from Tempest Rush.

Notice the lack of defensive specs. This is more of a glass cannonish monk build meant to be run at MP0.

Gear

This is the gear specs you want to hit at a defensive minimum

400 resistance, 4000 armor, and 40,000 HP

You also need a full Inna set, a SOJ, and a Skorn. I recommend having a min of 12 pickup radius, 10K health globe bonus, and 500+ life after kill.

Let's break down the Inna set first.

Inna's Radiance: (2 random rolls) You have to get spirit regen on the helm. I would not get anything below 1.9. For the other stats get either Armor, pickup radius, or health globe bonus. With Dex/vit rolls in the range of 160 dex and 65 vit.

Inna's Vast Expanse: (1 random roll). Similar to Radiance shoot for 160/65 with the random roll either being Armor, pickup radius, or health globe bonus.

Inna's Favor: (1 random roll). Recommend buying with 80 vit

Inna's Temperance: (1 random roll). Good spot to get pickup radius. Get the 8% IAS not the 9%

Stone of Jordan: Need 25% bonus to elite and 2 spirit regen. The actual bonus doesn't matter

So you have 5 pieces of your gear and yet to get any All Res yet. A good place to get it cheaply is the IK 2 piece set.

Immortal King's Stride - Get one with 180+ dex roll.

Immortal King's Irons - They make up the other half of the set. Get 170 dex and 55+ All Res rolls. I picked up the boots and gloves for 5M combined. You should be near 200 all res just on these 2 pieces of gear

With the remaining four pieces (ring, shoulders, amulet, and bracers) try to fill in your missing stats that you need. (Pickup radius, life on kill, dex/vit, all res, crit chance, crit dmg)

Get the best Skorn you can afford with no IAS on it. Good spot to get 200+ vit.

Trinity Settings

Combat - Misc
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Combat - Monk
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Advanced
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This build is still a work in progress but I am hitting 40M exp, 700 IPH, and 700 GPH with this setup. I am running Revenge 2.2 but also have a Tempest Rush monk profile in mind. Just trying to sort out the best area's.


Follower
Highly recommend Templar for additional Spirit Regen

Profile
Wrote up a new profile up. It is really straight forward. Goes from FoS WP to Siege to Crater 1 to ToD 1 to ToD 2 to HoD to Crater 2 to Cursed 1 to Cursed 2

Putting up some sick IPH with it

Added Keep 3 at start of Run. It will also do half of Skycrown and if it has 5 NV stacks it will TP out. If it doesn't it will finish the Skycrown run. Keep 3 is great place to get stacks quickly.
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Ik gloves + boots... Crazy yet brilliant :D That should solve the problem with fleet footed instead the One with Everything :D
 
It seems sweet! Just bought gear to try it out, will post results when I get it working after maintenance :D
 
Could you add in a little more regarding stats to shoot for?
life after kill
dps
life on hit
lifesteal
crit chance
crit damage
minimum dex

and anything else relevant
 
Could you add in a little more regarding stats to shoot for?
life after kill
dps
life on hit
lifesteal
crit chance
crit damage
minimum dex

and anything else relevant

I dont believe there is any lifesteal involved in this build harmacintyre, mp0 is pretty much a walk in the park with high enough dps. Serenity should provide all the survivability your character needs when facing elites.
 
I dont believe there is any lifesteal involved in this build harmacintyre, mp0 is pretty much a walk in the park with high enough dps. Serenity should provide all the survivability your character needs when facing elites.

I just threw together some stats for suggestions to help make his guide even better.
 
You just want 2 sources of life regen. Pickup radius and globe is a smart one. Life on Hit will cost a lot more than 800 Life on Kill. Biggest problem is reflect packs. I edited Monk.cs to HP under 25 percent to go for Serenity. It still feels like it can be a lot better. Shoot for 35% crit chance and 350 CD with 2500 dex.
 
amazing guide.. doing it right now.. 20 min so far.. gph 850.. never passed 700 even in the luckiest runs in the first minutes..
I only edited one thing.. the avoid.. I turned it on.. and change everything to zero.. only left molten core at 90% cause was dieing for moltens when I killed 3 or 4 elites at same spot.. lol
 
Gardettos i believe you missed out an important part here, that is the follower. Here I believe that scoundrel or templar is the right way to go. Although the Enchantress might seem tempting at first, the as aura will actually cause your tempest rush to drain more spirit/sec due to the 3% as. I know that it might not look like a bid deal, but here i believe scoundrel is the way to go. Not only will you save on spirit/sec but at least on my monk the 3% crit chance gives me like 1.5k more dps than the 3% as aura from enchantres...
 
1. How much gold does gear with those stats in first post cost?
2. So tempest rush is for movement only as i see in the trinity settings. Whats the point then, only mobility?
 
I did your trinity settings and when tempest is set to movement it literally never uses tempest rush. Any idea what's up?
 
i think its more 50-60+ :)

First 5-6 items in the post are 25m on EU.

I was able to pick the innas set up for 10m and the IK pieces for 2.7m. Havent picked up the stone of jordan yet but im guessing somewhere around 3-7m for that.

I know you said EU, but just saying :P
 
i think with the higher dex items with pickup radius are quite expensive, id say 40-60m+ in my opinion
 
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