Welcome to Diablo3Monks and welcome to Patch 2.6.7a!

Hey guys, coming back from a very long hiatus, I thought it was 7 years ago but I can’t remember what I had for breakfast let alone when I quit gaming. I could really use some help as a lot of changes are a bit overwhelming on paper. I’m on PSN: zNels69SF

I like the fire one!

So I'm currently in the forensics psych ward, but I've fully recovered.

A nurse "donated" Diablo 3 for the patients. Before I get to what I love about Diablo, get a load of this. She told us "I hate this game, I played it for 5 hours and beat it, you can beat it just by pressing one button, and every dungeon looks exactly the same." Wow.

Anyway as a Taoist, I was looking for a game that would suit my lifestyle. I was going to settle for Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, but I decided to give Diablo a try. I was fascinated that there is a monk class playable, so I chose it and quickly found out; THIS IS THE TAOIST GAME OF MY DREAMS.

IT'S SO, SO FUN!!

I love the abilities and gear, I love dodging and attacking, I love managing my tactics and strategies, I love the presentation, I love the story, I love the enemies, especially the bosses, and I LOVE THE MONK!!!!

Thank you for being a great community for supporting the series and making a third installment possible.

Can't wait to play Spiritborn in Diablo 4.

Cheers!!

Looking for a game with gameplay similar to monk, love the playstyle and theme

Is there a reason no guides recommend 15% mystic ally dmg on chest or am I overlooking something? Feels like most dmg comes from allies so would make sense to boost it even more on chest piece.

Diablo Wiki says during Seven-Sided Strike, Monk disappears from the battlefield. So in theory, while Seven-Sided Strike is active, Zei's Stone of Vengeance Damage bonus should always use the maximum distance (as the distance with the Monk cannot be measured, it equals to infinite). What do you think ?

Question for Monk specialists.

Seven-Sided Strike / Pandemonium removes the spirit cost of Seven-Sided Strike

Rabid Strike duplicate Spirit Spenders.

• What does “Spirit Spender” means in the case of Rabid Strike ?
• Does “Spirit Spender” means the category of the skill ?
• Does it means to effectively spend 1 Spirit ?
• Does Rabid Strike duplicate Seven-Sided Strike / Pandemonium ?

Should I be manually casting Cyclone Strike and if so, how often? I know you have to stop with Tempest Rush to trigger the explosions, but manually casting Cyclone interrupts other stacks and just seems counterintuitive.

should i prioritize attack speed or damage? every 2 hand weapon i’ve found has been so slow

I have never used a monk before, what do I need 2 weapons or a 2 handed weapon?

why would the benefits or disadvantages of each option?

I last played a Monk before the big Inna nerf, when gear like my current gear level was sufficient to speed farm GR90s in under 3m. However now I find it takes twice as long, 6-7minutes, and I'm unsure how to progress to from here.

I'm mostly following the Maxroll build, with two deviations - no Squirts yet, so using Endless Walk instead. And I dropped TR for Dashing Strike since TR wasn't doing enough damage at GR90. Only exploding Fire Allies can effectively kill elite packs and bosses, so I use Fists generator + Obsidian Ring to reset Fire Ally cd for frequent explodes.

I need to be able to speed farm GR90s. Should I continue investing in this Inna set, or begin shifting to Maxroll S-tier builds like PoJ TR or LoD WoL?

Is it just bad RNG?

I recently returned to D3 after a long haitus and finished leveling an in-progress monk last week (not a seasonal character). I saw this build that looks promising: Diablo 3 Season 30 PoJ Tempest Rush Monk Guide - Maxroll.gg . I've gambled at for at least 100 pieces from Kadala and a couple dozen bounties at Torment 1-5 and I have not seen a single piece of this set. I've picked up pieces from other sets (Thousand Storms, Uliana, Inna, and Sunwuko). Is PoJ only available if I start a seasonal character? I'm sure I'm just noobing it up so I'm asking for some help. Thanks!

I was looking at the top builds for solo monk and don't understand why the pick the unity passive despite not having any mantras, how do they enable it? All the guides i find use Harmony instead.

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if i pile teh stacks up and get the 100% at 13 stacks, will i be able to activate tempest rush for free until i stop?

I’m new to the game on PC I have played it a good bit on console and just looking for people to play with.

Looking for help on pc I need a power lvl please and tyvm bnet: Dekae9#1774

hey! started this game a few weeks ago, I'm a 53-ish monk and just passed the blood swamp and killed the big meanies in the great hall. You know... the witch lady who was that girl's mother. Next time I play I'm going off to the heavenly gates to kill that malfeous dude. I must be like 2/3 done act 5?

Anyways, I've got one of those two handed legendary stick things and I've been having a terrible time actually clicking on and hitting all these spiders that have been everywehre on this level. it's like I click on them and it moves me to that spot. I thought it was my weapon so I traded it in for a legendary axe and a pretty neat fisty thing I found the axe in the gold room and the fisty thing after killing the witch mommie. But I'm still having the same problem! It has only seemed to be when I try to hit the smaller beasties on this level, we'll see what happens in the heavenly gates. Has anyone else had this problem?

And what is your preference with a monk? a two handed stick thing? or double fisting it with an axe and a fisty thing? I thought two weapons would be best until I picked up that legendary stick thing that did like 740 armor damage. I like that you put gems in more than one weapon too.

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Thanks!

TLDR: Melee Rogue is still the closest thing to D3 Monk (any set).

Here are some thoughts if anyone here is thinking about “Can I play like a Monk in D4.” Realistically, I bet everyone who would be in this sub has already purchased just because of franchise enthusiasm, which has gotten passe in some Reddit circles.

D3 Monk builds are diverse, and Rogue gets you the closest in terms of ops and literal mechanics. Leveled to 55, and 18ish on other classes.

Rogue feels halfway between D3 Monk and D3 DH. I played melee rogue builds almost exclusively. There is not really a PoJ or GoD style of constant-channel play.

Rogue is a generator/spender and trap class at the same tie. While the power’s delivered via the spender, it originates from the imbuements (poison for me; shadow or combination on some builds) applied to the spender and other skills.

You have an offensive ability (poison/shadow imbue) to use strategically, not unlike Mantra of Retribution in design, but is unlike in that it only applies to certain skills: Your spender and optionally traps and the “dash.”

You have a defensive ability (shroud), which is a little bit like Desert Shroud Epiphany, but no teleport, no increased resources, and instead of a cooldown you have “ticks” that decrease each time you’re hit. Perhaps D4 Shroud is most like D3 Desert Shroud in the way ham and hamster, car and carpet, Java and javascript are alike.

You can have a literal dash, which is fine but a little sloppy (too far; I always overshot). You can instead have shadow step (I suppose you could have both but you’d miss out on other critical things - no room on the bar). Shadow step is a targeted dash that actually feels more like SSS. Shadow step is imbueable. The damage is worth the QOL loss in sacking Dash (imo).

You have traps, which are not unlike D3 DH. What is very un-Monk like is traps are more or less required (for buffs/bonuses). Some of them are pretty nuts and I recoiled at having to place them early on but now wouldn’t go without.

Then you have your left-click / right-click with a spender choice of Flurry, Twisting Blades, and nonsense ranged stuff. The spender is where longtime Monks could probably argue the most about what is and isn’t akin to D3.

After a night of playing, I said Flurry was like SSS in another thread here. Actually, Shadow Step is more like SSS. Flurry is an outward/360 AOE attack. The AOE doesn’t feel like PoJ, it feels more like 5 fire WoL procs with a long cool in between (no Tzo Krin Gaze of course).

Twisting Blades could be imagined as PoJ-like (when I say PoJ I guess I really mean TR), in that you have blades in a ring around you. While the visual is similar, the application is more akin to pre-PoJ TR with periodic use only.

The reality is there is no fast-moving, wide AOE, trash-clearing go-to farmy mcfarm build like SoJ PoJ Electric. There are some nods to D3 Monk in the nomenclature of D4 Rogue skills and abilities.

I don’t know if I like D4 or not. The pace is way different than D3. WAY different. It feels like playing old Zelda games a la Link’s Awakening. I liked D3 Monk even before getting heavy into seasons, opto, and playing with a solved meta. I don’t like D4 Rogue in that same way.

Flurry Rogue - Punct punct punct, Flurry

Uli SSS - Palm punch punch, SSS

Has a good dash and an epiphany-ish defensive ability. Not a huge fan of the traps for CC; too much micro.

Paired up with a twist blades rogue and later a jank druid (is there any other kind?) and consistently out-damaged and out-QOL’d them.

If you like melee and dislike Barb, it’s definitely an option. The campaign so far is decent with this. Enjoyable, even. Much different and slower than D3.

LOTS of walking.

Hey everyone, been getting into this game and grinding on the wait for D4. Just wanted to reach out and see if there was any kind of community discord for PC players out there to join and continue the grind?

Haven’t played seasons in forever. On switch. Is there a general noob guide for me on how to structure my build with only 4pc so far.

I am clueless. I did figure out the altar of rites. But do I pretend I have the 6pc justice build and use a skill set for that. And slowly complete season rewards?

Completed 150 on monk for the first time. I know the altar is a huge crutch so figured this was the season to actually go for it. In past seasons I’ve never had the time to grind the paragon nor the desire/patience to fish/grind the right maps. This season it was fun to do with my WoL monk. I think I’m going to try Inna next. Maybe even PoJ (but probably not, lol).

Wassup I’d like someone to play with on Xbox. I currently have a lvl35 barbarian, he is a seasonal character. I’m thinking of starting a monk. I’d like some tips from the community and hopefully we can play together. I don’t care if you are higher lvl or lower lvl. My gamer tag is remixredix