Monk Class Needs an Overhaul

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The quarterstaff is very, very viable. The skills are just more limited then in PoE1. Personally I think that's better, because it's easier to balance. And it will get better in time as the other weapons and skillgems get released. The amount of uniques is also quite low right now, and those usually open up more builds.

So I think you have valid points, but it's too early in development to truly say something about it.

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Gods Horseman#8260 wrote:

Hey folks,

A little background as a player. I binged POE 1 briefly after my brother's passing and have been looking forward to POE 2 since its announcement. I have logged over 100 hours since launch, and in that time, I have played the monk class exclusively.

I love the game, and I realize it is early access, so I will only be giving feedback that GGG can use to improve the game.

1) Survivability

The monk is extremely squishy. Please give us more damage or more survivability.

2) Where is fire support?

The monk is basically relegated to shock or ice, and there is little to no synergy between them. Ironically, there is a support gem for ignite and frost synergy, but there are no fire skills.

3) It doesn't know what it wants to be

The monk does not do long-range or close-range well. This is due to the monk getting one shot seemingly out of nowhere when playing it close or being unable to deal with massive mobs as a long-range monk during endgame map encounters (especially delirium encounters).

4) Synergy

I would take a note from Black Myth Wukong and give us skills that synergize. Give us replicates, more elemental skills, and give us skills that play off of each other.


This post is half-baked, but I like to be brief.

Feel free to discuss.

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Gods Horseman#8260 wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but are there ANY quarter staff builds clearing tier 15?

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alcoholic of chayula

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immortal shield leecher with BOW.

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There are multiple versions.

I'm using my own cold/lightning CI + Eternal Youth version, currently 94 without weapon swap.

Herald of Ice + Storm Wave + Polcirkeln for multiscreen AoE.



Tempest Bell + Flurry + Orb of Storms for ST.

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ty for sharing your thoughts. ill post more later , one thing i want to share right now is this:

I hope they nerf the Bell. It takes down bosses far too quickly and deserves a reasonable nerf of at least 25-30% damage at minimum imo.

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Gods Horseman#8260 wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but are there ANY quarter staff builds clearing tier 15?

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Even cleared T18 with mine for the last 2 Atlas Boss points. T15s are chill and I was only getting murked when I was overreaching and mixing Delirium with other league mechancis.