AAAANND cannot trade, so everything he has is selffound / crafted. which handicaps even more and still outplaying 99,9% other invokers that are not hc/ssf.
…A monk and “hasn’t died once” shouldn’t even be in the same sentence 😢. I’ve died like a gazillion times just trying to finish the champion! And when I first started mapping, I was dying faster than the speed of light-my exp bar kept shrinking every time I entered a map 😅.
@@amhowaye1605until you get back to the start of the level and realize you now have to re level a level that you already leveled but lost the exp for lol
Thanks for such a detailed guide and explanation. Much love in a world filled with "Trust me my build is best build" seeing it actually explained is absolutely amazing :)
you sounded like a physics professor when saying "go test it out".........which is the spirit of this type of game. there isn't a universal "the best" build. it's all gear specific, so listening to the explanation, finding out what each spec and skill function accordingly and testing out are the way to go. thank you very much for this great video.
I really like that you encourage players to test things out and see what works for them. You also answered alot of questions I had about specific things in the build and made them make sense. I would tend to put more trust in someone who has spent as much time as you have on this class and has tested things a bit more thoroughly. Fantastic video and explanation. Thank you for making this!
Thats honestly one of the best guides i have seen for quite some time. You explain everything nicely but fast and still entertaining. I have a build really close to this already but it was missing something :D(most importantly gloves and herald setup i think). Gonna try out yours tomorrow Thx a lot for it
I watched every second of the video, and got me even more hyped! Currenly 92 on softcore and will definitely be swapping to your build! Thanks a lot. Subbed!
20:00 and I appreciate you explaining the mechanics, tis my first poe game, and I'm in act 3 cruel utzall struggling for the first time, every encounter I have I am fighting an uphill battle, when before (I play a frost mage monk) I was blowing through the content (sorta) with my own homebrew build, despite others plowing through way faster, I was having fun. This is my first build video I've watched and you helped me open my eyes. So thanks for explaining and not going here's this, that and that, copy and paste.
0:00 Intro 0:35 Quick Passive Tree, Gems and Gear overview 1:08 Build Theory (Strenghts and Weaknesses) - Defense discussion 5:35 When to go Acrobatics 6:15 What if Grim Feast gets nerfed? Meditate! 7:09 How the build functions 7:49 Tempest Bell mechanics explanation 12:10 Heralds setup 15:38 Polcirkeln option 16:27 How to scale damage and HoWA 19:13 Skill Gems in-depth 29:35 Gear stat-priority 31:26 Mana sustain 32:16 Jewel stat-priority 32:43 Gearing/Crafting 33:39 Endgame options (Crit, CI vs Life) 36:05 Levelling 39:57 Ascendancy order
@@sarge2254i went from doing 60k with my previous build and ice strike and did this switch which was pretty pricey but my dps dropped by 30k is there something i’m missing
@@sarge2254 Hey man first thanks for the video, i switch to your build and now im clearing better and have a lot more survivability, but im not sure if my heralds are too low on dmg because im new to the game, my ice strike is 64k but my heralds only around 5K, i still clear well but bosses and mob with high elemental resistances become a problem sometimes, what you suggest i should focus to increase my dmg? oh btw my weapon have like 600 phys dps, with high attack speed i have those unique gloves HOWA but no unique belt, one ring with high cold flat damage other with lightning flat damage and both have a bit of phys plat as well. TY brother!
I've read/watched 4 different guides, and this is by far the best one (also laughed quite a bit). Just completely butchered my build going from one to another and HATE not having CI now. Switching back to this tomorrow lmao. That mixed with metin pfp, +1 sub
I started this build in SC SSF on PoE 2 EA launch, later rerolled it in HC SSF. Made a lot of small improvements based on what sarge does. Can recommend the build, it's lots of fun.
Man please do more build guides, your way of showing stuff around and then telling us to go find stuff out is exactly what I like, I don't want to follow a guide 1 to 1, I want to experiment a little bit aswell
I tried switching from Skyrah's(Zizaran's editor) build to Alkaizer's build because I wanted a lot more tankiness and it just did not work for me. This build has given me exactly what I was expecting from Alk's build. I am now much much tankier and I can kill T15 stuff easy. I also had a 450 PDPS weap with no base crit and no divines to buy one so this is perfect for me and my weap! Many thanks bro!
very good in depth guide, from my experience (lv90 invoker) and watching lots of different guides is that in generally most builds are very similar it mostly depends on if you wanna have more dmg by investing into crit or get more ES to never die. I run around with 4.5k ES and basically never die even tho my gear isnt as good since i despite Trading in this game to the point i just get the gear myself and that still works completely fine.
Great detailed video, you deserve way more subs and have gotten mine! I really like your way of explaining things, like your thoughts behind PMFH early into Acrobatics later.
Finally an invoker guide that plays with CI. Was looking for this since I switched myself. Looking very strong, I haven't seen this herald of thunder + ice explo tech. Will try it out for sure :)
Just wanted to come back to say that the explosion herald setup feels amazing. Procs even on T15 30% deli breaches. Also might consider Ice bite on Herald of thunder - less uptime than on ice strike but it allows for other supports on the main skill
Subbed. I love your energy 😁(no pun intended) and the way you explain things. If anything youre structure could be tightened up a bit and work on getting at least 1080p videos? Otherwise, great stuff here 👌
@@magicmulder monk has bad early game compared to other classes, after you get ice strike it gets a lot easier and more fun, give him another chance :)
I think CI counts as a scaling modifier to life. So if threshold is similar to conversion it won't be affected by modifiers to the thing it is converting from. You can also see this behaviour if you equip one of the uniques that give you a percentage of your life as extra ES. Even with CI they still give you the extra ES. I imagine the node that gives you base stun threshold based on 30% of your ES instead of life is just intended for preference if your ES is a lot higher than your base (before modifiers) life.
As a tipp , if u guys have a hard time early on bcs you have low live in the story mode . You can switch to storm wave and use both . Until you get a good enough weapon.
That's was my build, even the nodes taken, thinking on my own, changed soo many times, wasted currency trying to copy other streamers build, thought on stop playing, because i could not make my monk shine, and in the end, i was right all the time, just need a gear adjusts. Thank You.
I would find a second weapon, and spec into ES recovery rate with your second weapon set points (not delay), so you can switch onto your other weapon when you want to recover ES quickly using your skill. It’s pretty broken. Same works for mana if you really need it.
Nice video man, learned a bit for sure, even though my monk's 94, running flurry+flicker/charged/bell... 2 questions: 1. are the drop rates a bit different in SSF like, Do they balance around the build you're currently playing? Or is it identical to trade league 2. did you try flurry + flicker? Why Ice strike if you can freeze with flurry and it's even a ranged attack?
Have you tried out the Heft rune on ice strike ? I found it adds the biggest chunk of damage for a single rune, i think it buffs phys dmg by 30% before conversion from the strike ?? Currently running a very similar build to yours on SC lvl 91, it's amazing ! Thanks for the great video btwyou explain very well ❤️
@@sarge2254 would be great if you had it. A lot of good info. If you centralized it, would be even better! PS - Laughed a lot at all your goofy comments :D
question. im new to POE2 and attempting to run this build and im not getting any herald of thunder procs. i’m not sure if it’s the ring im using - brotherhood ring (all lightning converted to cold) or something else? any insight on what i can change ring wise is helpful.
no brotherhood ring, take the supports I show. If the heralds dont chain, you lack dmg in general. Upgrade weapon. Also getting 2 to 60 lightning dmg to attacks on ring is HUGE
what stats should i look out for on jewels, beside the one with rage? i think sapphire with energy shield should be good maybe go for ailments, like more chance or more magnitude, gain mana on kill i think is good or an emerald with evasion rating and more dmg, what do you recommend? and maybe add your jewels into your planner
Nice guide! Is your build planner passive tree ordered by priority while leveling, and have you considered making a dedicated leveling guide for this? Why do you choose not to go Sunder my Enemies to ignore elemental resistances, is it because you're not going a crit build? What made you make this choice? As couldn't you ignore lots of elemental resistance nodes in the skill tree itself? And exchange say I am thunder, or I am blizzard for it? Is it that stacking all the crit wouldn't be worth it? What's your crit chance with this build? Though, you do have quite high defenses which is nice, considering lots want to 1 hit bosses all the time but also get 1 hit themselves in turn and kind of lose the fun/soul of the boss fights. That 720P bitrate though on the intro
I applied his passive tree to my lvl 87 monk and i only get 23 crit chance and 200+ crit dmg...its so low but i get high evasion and a better es vs raxx endgame build passive tree...also i lost around 16k dps on ice stike after applying the passive tree from 48k on tooltip becomes 32k
So to be clear, for leveling, we use Shattering Palm with Ice Bite support? Because as long as it starts the freeze buildup, even if Ice Strike does the final freeze, that freeze will then cause Ice Bite? Nice! Learned something and I’ve been playing something like this build for weeks now, thank you!
Hi Sarge, thanks for the video. I can't recall what part of the video you said increase ele damage on the weapon isn't that great - could you please quickly explain again why?
@@Jesse-ly8nlI think that Suffix is a must. 500 Physical converted to 80% Cold with Ice Strike becomes 100 Phys + 800 Cold with a +100% Increased Ele Dmg suffix. More elemental dmg helps proc ailments more easily.
@@sarge2254 Thanks, by the way annointing "heavy buffer" instead of "pure energy" gives you an extra 10% maximum energy. I would think this is a better option for a CI build like yours.
How do you get Energy Shield Sustain in a longer engagement while running Eternal Youth? (I just died trying to fight first delirium boss because i ran out of health flasks and have no ES recharge with Eternal Youth) Is this where you have to switch off Eternal Youth ahead of time and use Meditate instead?
I saw a tech on Rax's latest ice monk vid using weapon swap. 1. Bind Meditate to Weapon Set 2. 2. Allocate Weapon Set 2 passives to optimize for ES Recharge rather than damage. 3. Wear Staff/Focus on Set 2 - Staff with +lvl spells and Focus with +ES Recharge Should cut down Meditate time significantly.
1. you dont need herald of thunder with polcirkeln 2. buff your herald of ice and maybe you use elemental focus support? You need to take care that your herald of ice can chill enemies
When you say don't go into acrobatics until you hit 20,000 evasion rating, do you mean 20,000 with stacks of wind dancer, or 20,000 natural without buffs?
I love explanation, I already knew about most of possibilities but most of people didn't. I really like also explanation about different builds crit VS yours ;)
Ever since I went CI I have died a total of 2 times in the past week and a half, and I’m on soft core. 1 was a one shot in Arbiter, and the other was because I didn’t understand that I couldn’t meditate while hit w corrupted blood running Ultimatums. (What I get for not reading the tool tip lol) I am running a Crit variant of this but am using tempest flurry and am lvl 94.
What are the links on charged staff? think you skipped that. Also, how do you deal with monsters with ele resist? Would be nice if you included link to the builder
I have question for leveling: Doesn't it make more sense to take "I am the Blizzard" and "Chill effect" for your first 2 ascendency points? As far as I understood you don't use shock and lightning until you have "Resonance". So skilling "I am the Thunder" does nothing to your build for a very long time in the early game. I thought you might skill Resonance asap but in your leveling tree 37:58 you didn't take it.
There's a lot of Invoker builds out here, but I'm gonna listen to the guy who is level 97 and hasn't died once. That's insane
AAAANND cannot trade, so everything he has is selffound / crafted. which handicaps even more and still outplaying 99,9% other invokers that are not hc/ssf.
…A monk and “hasn’t died once” shouldn’t even be in the same sentence 😢. I’ve died like a gazillion times just trying to finish the champion! And when I first started mapping, I was dying faster than the speed of light-my exp bar kept shrinking every time I entered a map 😅.
@@amhowaye1605until you get back to the start of the level and realize you now have to re level a level that you already leveled but lost the exp for lol
@@amhowaye1605 WTS hands
bro this build will be delete from the game in like 2 -4 days
Thanks for such a detailed guide and explanation. Much love in a world filled with "Trust me my build is best build" seeing it actually explained is absolutely amazing :)
you sounded like a physics professor when saying "go test it out".........which is the spirit of this type of game. there isn't a universal "the best" build. it's all gear specific, so listening to the explanation, finding out what each spec and skill function accordingly and testing out are the way to go. thank you very much for this great video.
I really like that you encourage players to test things out and see what works for them. You also answered alot of questions I had about specific things in the build and made them make sense. I would tend to put more trust in someone who has spent as much time as you have on this class and has tested things a bit more thoroughly. Fantastic video and explanation. Thank you for making this!
Thats honestly one of the best guides i have seen for quite some time. You explain everything nicely but fast and still entertaining.
I have a build really close to this already but it was missing something :D(most importantly gloves and herald setup i think). Gonna try out yours tomorrow
Thx a lot for it
I watched every second of the video, and got me even more hyped! Currenly 92 on softcore and will definitely be swapping to your build! Thanks a lot. Subbed!
I've been trying to find some good hc ssf guides. It's been frustrating looking at the ladder but not being able to see builds. Appreciate it!
This guide is straight up next level. thank you so much for being so detailed.
This is how you create a guide, u deserve my sub. I'm a lvl91 monk atm tried a lot of tweaking on my own but your video explains most of it.
20:00 and I appreciate you explaining the mechanics, tis my first poe game, and I'm in act 3 cruel utzall struggling for the first time, every encounter I have I am fighting an uphill battle, when before (I play a frost mage monk) I was blowing through the content (sorta) with my own homebrew build, despite others plowing through way faster, I was having fun. This is my first build video I've watched and you helped me open my eyes. So thanks for explaining and not going here's this, that and that, copy and paste.
Wow, you had 600 subscribers last night, you've blown up! You totally deserve it. Thanks for this super detailed build guide! Really helpful
just reached the end game and your video just makes sense with the build. thank you. liked and subbed!
0:00 Intro
0:35 Quick Passive Tree, Gems and Gear overview
1:08 Build Theory (Strenghts and Weaknesses) - Defense discussion
5:35 When to go Acrobatics
6:15 What if Grim Feast gets nerfed? Meditate!
7:09 How the build functions
7:49 Tempest Bell mechanics explanation
12:10 Heralds setup
15:38 Polcirkeln option
16:27 How to scale damage and HoWA
19:13 Skill Gems in-depth
29:35 Gear stat-priority
31:26 Mana sustain
32:16 Jewel stat-priority
32:43 Gearing/Crafting
33:39 Endgame options (Crit, CI vs Life)
36:05 Levelling
39:57 Ascendancy order
Bruh, I rewatched my own video and did them myself, thank you anyways tho Baseg
@@sarge2254i went from doing 60k with my previous build and ice strike and did this switch which was pretty pricey but my dps dropped by 30k is there something i’m missing
@@sarge2254 Hey man first thanks for the video, i switch to your build and now im clearing better and have a lot more survivability, but im not sure if my heralds are too low on dmg because im new to the game, my ice strike is 64k but my heralds only around 5K, i still clear well but bosses and mob with high elemental resistances become a problem sometimes, what you suggest i should focus to increase my dmg? oh btw my weapon have like 600 phys dps, with high attack speed i have those unique gloves HOWA but no unique belt, one ring with high cold flat damage other with lightning flat damage and both have a bit of phys plat as well. TY brother!
Big thanks for taking the time to make this video. Can't wait to try some of this out tomorrow and hopefully find those gloves!
Thanks for your time and effort in putting this together.
It is really nice to hear you talk, great job!
I've read/watched 4 different guides, and this is by far the best one (also laughed quite a bit). Just completely butchered my build going from one to another and HATE not having CI now. Switching back to this tomorrow lmao. That mixed with metin pfp, +1 sub
10k+ hours poe1 player here. This is what a proper guide is supposed to look like. Really well done. Liked&Subbed
Spec'd to this mainly and my invoker has improved 10 fold. Good stuff
How did you get blink to work?
Great video. POE2 noob (monk level 48, just finished act 3). I’ve still got a lot to learn! 😅 subbed👍🏻
I swear to god. This has improved my involer x2. Thank you for this.
Sold my headhunter for ingenuity belt in the process😊
I started this build in SC SSF on PoE 2 EA launch, later rerolled it in HC SSF. Made a lot of small improvements based on what sarge does. Can recommend the build, it's lots of fun.
Boom, well, that worked 💪 great video dude, new sub.
Love this build, been really enjoying respeccing into this tree on my SSF monk look forward to more content!
Extremely well made video, even though I play Lightning Arrow, this increased my general game knowledge by a lot!
Danke dir, weiter so.
Man please do more build guides, your way of showing stuff around and then telling us to go find stuff out is exactly what I like, I don't want to follow a guide 1 to 1, I want to experiment a little bit aswell
amazing guide, thank you. Please do more, you're amazing at explaining things!
tyvm
Amazing explanations and tons of info keep up the good work!
I tried switching from Skyrah's(Zizaran's editor) build to Alkaizer's build because I wanted a lot more tankiness and it just did not work for me. This build has given me exactly what I was expecting from Alk's build. I am now much much tankier and I can kill T15 stuff easy. I also had a 450 PDPS weap with no base crit and no divines to buy one so this is perfect for me and my weap! Many thanks bro!
Hardcore in POE2, that’s absolutely Crazy.
God Gamer 🤝🏻
very good in depth guide, from my experience (lv90 invoker) and watching lots of different guides is that in generally most builds are very similar it mostly depends on if you wanna have more dmg by investing into crit or get more ES to never die. I run around with 4.5k ES and basically never die even tho my gear isnt as good since i despite Trading in this game to the point i just get the gear myself and that still works completely fine.
THIS video made my monk stronger x10 big thanks!
glad it helped!
This passive tree is pure art. Look forward to making some adjustments to gain some of that defense.
The value of this character especially in HC is absolutely mind boggling.
i am subscribing instantly to the actual top player on a hardcore ssf lol
As a Monk who has had so much trouble surviving past lvl 90 this build is fantastic. Feels so good to have that extra ring slot back from Pulcirkiln
Great guide Sarge, nice to see a non crit version since most people are running crit and gives more perspective :D
Amazing video man, thanks a lot for the detailed explanation!
Great detailed video, you deserve way more subs and have gotten mine! I really like your way of explaining things, like your thoughts behind PMFH early into Acrobatics later.
i love this! you should be a teacher bro legit good way of explaining very impressed.
Finally an invoker guide that plays with CI. Was looking for this since I switched myself. Looking very strong, I haven't seen this herald of thunder + ice explo tech. Will try it out for sure :)
you're welcome
Raxx also showed a CI build but this is the perfected version especially for HC. It's also better for SC.
Just wanted to come back to say that the explosion herald setup feels amazing. Procs even on T15 30% deli breaches. Also might consider Ice bite on Herald of thunder - less uptime than on ice strike but it allows for other supports on the main skill
Subbed. I love your energy 😁(no pun intended) and the way you explain things. If anything youre structure could be tightened up a bit and work on getting at least 1080p videos? Otherwise, great stuff here 👌
Thanks so much, man, this makes me confident to try my monk again (started with one but struggled so I went for witch).
take it slow at the beginning, you are a trickster that needs his gear to ramp
@@sarge2254 Thanks, mate!
@@magicmulder monk has bad early game compared to other classes, after you get ice strike it gets a lot easier and more fun, give him another chance :)
18:07 LMAO exaclty.
thanks man great video!
Very good guide and explanation!
Damn i couldnt make heralds work together for chain effect till this video ty so much
goat, really liked this and your style!
ty :) but I cant take the goat compliment
This guide was brought to you by the hard work and sacrifice of one very unlucky beetle.
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the best guide. great. thx
ah yes good old 40 minute poe vids. forgot what we’d been missing with poe2
Thanks you just completed the game for me in 1 video 😅❤
Amazing video, easy subscribe.
Hmm how do you have so much energy shield when I have more nodes and more on gear?
great video, covers everything
I think CI counts as a scaling modifier to life. So if threshold is similar to conversion it won't be affected by modifiers to the thing it is converting from. You can also see this behaviour if you equip one of the uniques that give you a percentage of your life as extra ES. Even with CI they still give you the extra ES. I imagine the node that gives you base stun threshold based on 30% of your ES instead of life is just intended for preference if your ES is a lot higher than your base (before modifiers) life.
agreed
As a tipp , if u guys have a hard time early on bcs you have low live in the story mode .
You can switch to storm wave and use both . Until you get a good enough weapon.
THANK YOU!!!! U GOT A NEW SUB~~~~~~
That's was my build, even the nodes taken, thinking on my own, changed soo many times, wasted currency trying to copy other streamers build, thought on stop playing, because i could not make my monk shine, and in the end, i was right all the time, just need a gear adjusts. Thank You.
happy to be a confirmation bias help
I would find a second weapon, and spec into ES recovery rate with your second weapon set points (not delay), so you can switch onto your other weapon when you want to recover ES quickly using your skill. It’s pretty broken. Same works for mana if you really need it.
good idea, ty
Exactly why I imagined my HC SSF build would be. CI + Acrobatics.
Jetzt nochmal auf deutsch! Sehr guter guide danke dir
auto translate ist surely gut genug, right? :D
Damn i never thought there are people who really playing this game like this...NOT JUST HARDCORE BUT SSF TOO DAMN
Finally a good build
most german guide out there lol! looks great!
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Nice video man, learned a bit for sure, even though my monk's 94, running flurry+flicker/charged/bell...
2 questions:
1. are the drop rates a bit different in SSF like, Do they balance around the build you're currently playing? Or is it identical to trade league
2. did you try flurry + flicker? Why Ice strike if you can freeze with flurry and it's even a ranged attack?
Have you tried out the Heft rune on ice strike ? I found it adds the biggest chunk of damage for a single rune, i think it buffs phys dmg by 30% before conversion from the strike ??
Currently running a very similar build to yours on SC lvl 91, it's amazing !
Thanks for the great video btwyou explain very well ❤️
it works and if its good for your tooltip, you vibin. For me its worse than every other support
and ty for the cute compliment
I think I will just take Meditate anyway, even with Grim Feast as is. I would like to start the map at double energy shield as well as finish it.
This is what im looking for ssf hardcore!!subbed
Great Video. I missed the gloves thing. You have a red gem in it. What is this gem, and is the gem important?
not important, its a soul core that gives +5 to all ele res
do you have a planner so we can check it? tyvm
not yet sry
@@sarge2254 would be great if you had it. A lot of good info. If you centralized it, would be even better!
PS - Laughed a lot at all your goofy comments :D
I have approx. 15% mana leech and i am constantly out of mana while fighting bosses (with a 700pDps quarterstaff). Any tips ?
take inspiration supp for ice strike if needed and/or some mana passives
Grim feast will be removed?😢
we dont know anything officially yet, but it is to be expected that grim feast gets nuked
@ damn it’s hard enough to be a casual player..don’t want too many changes
Great vid btw
You got yourself a sub
question. im new to POE2 and attempting to run this build and im not getting any herald of thunder procs. i’m not sure if it’s the ring im using - brotherhood ring (all lightning converted to cold) or something else? any insight on what i can change ring wise is helpful.
no brotherhood ring, take the supports I show. If the heralds dont chain, you lack dmg in general. Upgrade weapon. Also getting 2 to 60 lightning dmg to attacks on ring is HUGE
wait? how does he have that much spirit, when hes got the hybrid chest instead of a 2k+ evasion chest?
Yeah I don’t know how either, let me know if you find out
es and evasion count cuz of asc note
Ty, finally well explained, newbie friendly, possible to run with shitty gear build!
what stats should i look out for on jewels, beside the one with rage? i think sapphire with energy shield should be good maybe go for ailments, like more chance or more magnitude, gain mana on kill i think is good or an emerald with evasion rating and more dmg, what do you recommend? and maybe add your jewels into your planner
pls go to my twitch and type !jewelsetup in chat
Nice guide! Is your build planner passive tree ordered by priority while leveling, and have you considered making a dedicated leveling guide for this?
Why do you choose not to go Sunder my Enemies to ignore elemental resistances, is it because you're not going a crit build? What made you make this choice? As couldn't you ignore lots of elemental resistance nodes in the skill tree itself? And exchange say I am thunder, or I am blizzard for it? Is it that stacking all the crit wouldn't be worth it? What's your crit chance with this build? Though, you do have quite high defenses which is nice, considering lots want to 1 hit bosses all the time but also get 1 hit themselves in turn and kind of lose the fun/soul of the boss fights. That 720P bitrate though on the intro
I applied his passive tree to my lvl 87 monk and i only get 23 crit chance and 200+ crit dmg...its so low but i get high evasion and a better es vs raxx endgame build passive tree...also i lost around 16k dps on ice stike after applying the passive tree from 48k on tooltip becomes 32k
Did I miss or you didn't show gems for Charged Staff?
take maxroll link in description
So to be clear, for leveling, we use Shattering Palm with Ice Bite support? Because as long as it starts the freeze buildup, even if Ice Strike does the final freeze, that freeze will then cause Ice Bite? Nice! Learned something and I’ve been playing something like this build for weeks now, thank you!
Hi Sarge, thanks for the video. I can't recall what part of the video you said increase ele damage on the weapon isn't that great - could you please quickly explain again why?
pdps on staffs can go higher than ele dps, it wouldnt make a difference if we could get 700 cold dps staff e.g.
@@sarge2254 oh, so by that you don't mean the suffix where increase elemental damage with weapons %, but rather flat ele rolls on the staff?
@@Jesse-ly8nlI think that Suffix is a must. 500 Physical converted to 80% Cold with Ice Strike becomes 100 Phys + 800 Cold with a +100% Increased Ele Dmg suffix.
More elemental dmg helps proc ailments more easily.
Hey, i heard that the rage gem on the bell doesn't actually work and people put it on Ice Strike instead. Did you notice this ?
yes, its wrong. It works
I have the same Setup for the heralds, but i only get like 3-5 mob explosions, never the full screen, what am i missing?
more dmg, try a ring with some flat dmg (2 to 60 lightning to attacks e.g.)
How do you sustain mana when you have +melee skills on weapon and mana hungry support skills like close combat on ice strike?
It must be his insane weapon. I have a 800dps weapon and the same mana revovery as he has but im oom in an instant at pinnacle bosses.
take inspiration supp for ice strike if needed and/or some mana passives
@@sarge2254 Thanks, by the way annointing "heavy buffer" instead of "pure energy" gives you an extra 10% maximum energy. I would think this is a better option for a CI build like yours.
how do you have 10 skill slots plus your unbound avatar?
asc skills dont fill up your base skill slots + 1 unset ring
How do you get Energy Shield Sustain in a longer engagement while running Eternal Youth? (I just died trying to fight first delirium boss because i ran out of health flasks and have no ES recharge with Eternal Youth)
Is this where you have to switch off Eternal Youth ahead of time and use Meditate instead?
I saw a tech on Rax's latest ice monk vid using weapon swap.
1. Bind Meditate to Weapon Set 2.
2. Allocate Weapon Set 2 passives to optimize for ES Recharge rather than damage.
3. Wear Staff/Focus on Set 2 - Staff with +lvl spells and Focus with +ES Recharge
Should cut down Meditate time significantly.
I cannot do chain explosion without the Porkey ring with this setup up, is my damage too low, i have 110k tooltip dps
1. you dont need herald of thunder with polcirkeln
2. buff your herald of ice and maybe you use elemental focus support? You need to take care that your herald of ice can chill enemies
@@sarge2254 thank you, i will try to buff my hearld of ice. Cheers!
Seems good, think I'll give it a try.
NB！strong man with strong build
jeez im a monk player and you're the best monk player imo if you hit rank 1 monk on hardcore
When you say don't go into acrobatics until you hit 20,000 evasion rating, do you mean 20,000 with stacks of wind dancer, or 20,000 natural without buffs?
with, still tho.. I just gave a number to have something to walk by. Not set in stone. Feel it out and all g
@@sarge2254 true, thanks
This can be done with Storm wave as well - Really enjoyed the build
so what support gems would you put on shattering palm? 👀
ice bite, glaciation (if you dont use glaciation elsewhere alrdy), nothing else matters rly
Very cool build :D
I vas creating monk and will transit to this.
What about amulet, what announcement?
I love explanation, I already knew about most of possibilities but most of people didn't. I really like also explanation about different builds crit VS yours ;)
movement speed or energy shield, whatever you prefer
what character are you playing next?
Ever since I went CI I have died a total of 2 times in the past week and a half, and I’m on soft core. 1 was a one shot in Arbiter, and the other was because I didn’t understand that I couldn’t meditate while hit w corrupted blood running Ultimatums. (What I get for not reading the tool tip lol)
I am running a Crit variant of this but am using tempest flurry and am lvl 94.
Curious how you're maintaining Resonance charges with Tempest Flurry?
What are the links on charged staff? think you skipped that. Also, how do you deal with monsters with ele resist? Would be nice if you included link to the builder
included link in description,
All mobs get frozen and thus 0 res,
Charged staff links are in maxroll link
@@sarge2254 Bosses though?
I have question for leveling: Doesn't it make more sense to take "I am the Blizzard" and "Chill effect" for your first 2 ascendency points? As far as I understood you don't use shock and lightning until you have "Resonance". So skilling "I am the Thunder" does nothing to your build for a very long time in the early game. I thought you might skill Resonance asap but in your leveling tree 37:58 you didn't take it.
totally reasonable and doable, yep. Personal pref I'd say
Hi! I was wondering how you are running 10 distinct skills? I am lvl 92 and can only run 9 (trying to fit in grim feast). Thanks
maybe unset ring?
correct, unset ring
So, the attack speed on the gloves is the answer there?
Would this build work also with Tempest Flurry instead of Ice Strike ? Also I noticed its very mana hungry build, Im out of mana pretty fast
didnt try tempest flurry. However, if mana problems, put in inspiration into your ice strike and/or mana nodes on tree