Ultimate Lightning Monk Build for Speed Leveling in Path of Exile 2

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video. So in today's Path of Exile 2 Monk

build, I'm going to be showing you the

best lightning build for leveling up and

basically killing everything using this

skill.

So it's called Storm Wave. It's probably

one of the best lightning skills that Monk

has, and basically shoots a bolt of

lightning directly in front of you, kind

of like a golf swing. And instead of

shooting out a golf ball, you shoot out

balls of lightning. It's pretty cool. And

so to make it as powerful as you possibly

can, you want to put in Elemental Focus.

This will give you 25% more elemental

damage, and also Primal Armament will give

you 25% more weapon elemental damage. And

then for my gear, I got this cool to Stave

staff does 20 to 41 physical damage but

also does 1 to 24 lightning damage, which

is pretty good damage. And I got this

orange epic legendary helm, gives me 5%

increased rarity of items found, got 26

to strength and 1 rage on melee hit. And

then I've also got this orange legendary

Blackheart iron ring, gives you 1 to 4

physical damage and 3.3 life regen.

Adds 3 to 4 chaos damage. So it's pretty

good and it looks cool because it's

orange. And then as for the skill tree,

basically just going to go into all DPS,

put all these points here, and then get

these. And then you want to get these:

increase critical damage bonus and 25%

increased damage bonus if you've dealt a

non-critical recently. And then we go up

here because I want to get that elemental

damage bonuses. You get 10, 10,

30, 40, 50, 60— there's 70%

increased elemental damage bonus in this

little area. Plus you get Echoing Thunder,

gives you 30% increased elemental damage

if you shocked an enemy recently, and you

got another 10% in the middle. So that's

pretty good for lightning damage and

elemental damage in general.

And then you've also got these, pretty

good. 20% increased damage bonus if you

gained a power charge recently.

And, um, 30% increased damage.

This stuff's pretty good for damage too.

So you got enough points to get for the—

go for those. But you could go all the way

up here and then all the way up there and

then go there. I don't know what this is.

Power charges instead of frenzy charges.

But I already get power charges. I don't

get frenzy charges, so that's kind of

weird. Uh, chaos damage for these purple

things. Yeah, the tree is kind of weird

for monk because the central

monk tree is like, it's all evasion

and armor stuff, like increased evasion

And mana regen,

evasion and energy shields, accuracy.

It's like really boring stuff. Attack

speed.

And then you get to the end of the Monk

tree and it's all just trap throwing

speed. Okay, I didn't know monks have

traps. It's more like a Ranger thing,

isn't it? And increased spell damage while

we're in mage. You've got some crit chance

there. You got this effects of withered

and chaos damage, and I don't know what

that is. Maximum life becomes 1.

You got 1 life, but then you become immune

to chaos damage. That's very specific.

And then here you got Trap throwing speed,

daggers. I don't know if you use daggers

as a monk. And then you're basically going

into the Ranger skill tree where you just

got bow stuff. I don't know what all this

is, like elemental

stuff, flask stuff.

You got more electric stuff, General

Electric. So yeah, the Monk

skill tree is kind of weird. You do have

this one here, Quarterstave, increased

Um, but there's nothing really in the

Ranger tree that you want to steal,

is there? Poisons? No thanks.

Maybe in the one above. So this one is

probably like a mage class build

for the tree. So maybe you can like

sneak into the mage part of the skill

tree and get some electric or

elemental stuff. Increased chance to

shock, gain lightning damage as extra cold

damage. Yeah, I don't really know what

to go for with the skill tree. Just get

anything that increases my damage as much

as possible, I guess. Now this could be

good, critical Hit chance increases.

Nothing is really drawing my eye.

If you got enough points,

no, that you can't get into the warrior

part because it's on the other side. You

would have to go bam bam bam bam bam bam

bam bam bam. But there's not really like a

single way to get all the way around

there. You would need at least 30 points.

You would have to go like that and then go

all the way around to be able to get stuff

like 2-handed weapon buffs,

block and armor stuff. Not really worth

it. Okay,

so for the playstyle, basically the reason

why I've made this build is because I

realized Monk kind of sucks when it comes

to AoE. So you got the belt, Tempest Belt,

which is pretty good against mobs of

enemies. Problem is you need to build up

combos, so you gotta hit people 4 times

before you can use it, and then you can

put down— you gotta whack the bell and

does AoE damage. So that's good, but by

the time you got the bell down, you've got

4 combos and you've got like 100 enemies

coming at you. It's kind of risky that

you're gonna die, so that's not very safe.

And then you've got Falling Thunder,

Falling Thunder, which does really rubbish

damage unless you've got one of those orbs

charged up. It's not really good.

See, look, it's just— it's not very good,

is it? These are the weakest enemies and

it took like 4 hits.

Look at that damage, it's terrible. So you

end up just whacking them like that, get a

palm strike, and now you can do like a

super buffed up one. Now that's a bit

better, but it's hard. You keep getting

the palm strikes to build up a charge.

It's a real pain in the backside. So then

I got this new skill. It's called Storm

Wave. It's probably the best one because

it's ranged. You don't have to get into

too much danger. It does AoE and it does

pretty good damage. So watch. See that?

Look at that. Don't even need to be near

them as well. It does pretty good damage.

2 or 3 hits, most things are dead.

Like that. Finish it off with a Palm

Strike.

See, look, it is probably the best ranged

AOE thing Monk has that I have so far.

It's kind of like playing golf with

electricity. It looks funny. So I just

spam it. You're gonna need to use a lot of

mana, so just spam it

like that whilst backpedaling,

give myself distance.

Make sure you got a powerful mana regen

potion flask equipped. Uh,

look at this big group of enemies. You

really want to funnel them down somewhere

narrow like that. It's pretty good. Maybe

do a Falling Thunder if you have a charge.

Just stab them like that to pick up a

charge, just in case you need it for

an emergency like this.

God, the damage is really nice on this,

mainly because I've got those 2 gems that

are giving 25% bonus elemental damage

Yeah, just funnel them through that little

gap. Look at that, it's such a great

ability. The Monk is a very fragile

character, he can't really tank much, so

getting right in the thick of all the

enemies trying to do AoE with Tempest Belt

is not a very safe way to play.

You want to play it safe, keep back, spam

That's what I found to be the most

effective,

which is a shame because it's kind of

boring just holding that down.

Look at these guys, just backpedal,

everything just dies. Easy,

give me that spirit gem. Oh,

I nearly two-shot that.