Unleash the Thunder： Ultimate Monk Lightning Build Guide ｜ Path of Exile 2

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faster. Welcome back to the video. So I've

discovered the best electrical mercenary

build in Path of Exile 2. It goes like

this. Hello, welcome back to a new monk

build. So today I'm going to show you my

electric lightning build for fast leveling

in Path of Exile 2. So it's going to

mainly revolve around this skill called

Stormwave. So the problem with Monk is

he's pretty good at DPS in melee, but the

other problem is his defenses are not very

good and he's kind of squishy. So the only

way to get kind of a ranged AoE attack is

using Stormwave. And you've also got this

move which I can't use at

the moment because I don't have any orbs,

but basically he just puts down a big bell

and then if you hit the bell, it does an

AoE wave against enemies.

I'll show it to you now.

I think you only get them when you do

melee, actually. So the melee is like

basic hits, and then they'll get this orb

above their heads, which means you can do

a Killing Palm, which will instantly kill

them. See, like that, it does massive

damage. And then you can do this Tempest

Bell, and then if you hit the bell, it

stuns enemies and does this AoE radius

around. And that's pretty good and

everything if you need to take out a large

group of enemies. The problem is the

enemies have to be around the bell, and

you're probably going to get hit. And if

you get hit by a large group of enemies,

uh, you're gonna die if you're very

squishy. So what I've resorted to doing is

I use a Storm Wave to just

spam at them from a distance. That way I

don't get struck by melee hits.

I found it to be very effective against

large groups of enemies that are advancing

towards you. So for the skill tree, I just

went like that, and I got this armor

stuff, physical damage boosts,

Lightning damage. Hmm,

yeah, there's not really much lightning

damage buffs. Oh, there's one. 8%,

8%, 10%. So I guess if you have the

points, get rid of all that and then go

straight into lightning, which I might

actually do now.

So we want to maximize lightning damage so

Stormwave does the most damage it can

So we go to the Hooded One, and basically

I want to get rid of all this stuff

because this is just physical damage, and

I don't think Stormwave is gonna benefit

from all that physical damage. So get rid

of this, get rid of that, because you want

to go for the lightning damage, which is

down there. And this is crit

damage. I might get rid of that too,

bit boring. Okay,

so let me go down and get rid of these as

well.

So I want to aim for the lightning damage,

go along,

and we'll get 1, 2, 3, 4.

What's that? Take 50% less damage over

time if you started taking damage over

time. Boring. Okay, what else

do we have? Uh, oh, crit chance with

quarterstaves. Oh,

more lightning. Can I reach that far? I

need 1, 2, 3, 4 5, 6, 7,

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. I've nearly

got 15. 16. Well, there's a lot of

lightning stuff there, which is pretty

good.

Or I could go this way. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

7.

Hmm.

I guess I'll refund these

2 because I need about 16 and

then go back up

over here.

And then we want to get these lightning

bonuses. Well, it's a lot of lightning

damage here. Lightning, lightning,

lightning, lightning, and lightning.

Okay, okay, so we got the lightning build,

got lightning cluster there, got lightning

cluster there. What's that?

Electrocute.

Unfortunately, the mercenary tree is just

too far away, and ranger— oh, there is

this tree. But you'd need 1, 2, 3,

4, 5, 6, 7, 8— need about 15 to get it.

And then what about this side? We've got

lightning, lightning. Okay, let's just

test out this build. Should do way more

damage now. Actually, I should have

checked the DPS on Stormwave. And as for

the gems,

well, why am I pinging everywhere?

Okay, so Stormwave,

Golem.

Where is it?

622 DPS and we don't have any gems on it.

Oh my god,

if you get the elemental gem,

it should boost it by a lot,

but my mercenary has it and I can't be

bothered to log into my mercenary, log

out, and then log back in.

Um, lightning exposure.

I think I took all my gems out and I gave

it to my mercenary, so I can't really—

because if you were to get elemental

bonuses Uh, you could buff the DPS on this

Stormwave by quite a lot.

The playstyle is really boring because you

just stand there and you hold down the

right mouse button and you

kite them around.

It's so funny how

much hype this game had when it first came

out, and now it's just so boring and so

dull. But that's what game hype is like.

When it comes out, everyone's saying it's

the best game ever. Oh my god, look at

these mechanics. Oh, it's so great. And

then about 3 or 4 weeks pass,

and then no one cares about it anymore.

Back to

the soil.