Monk Class Needs an Overhaul

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IcyMistV#5121 wrote:

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.

KEKW, oh, yeah, mb should nerf trading then, cuz as SSF monk I have no clue what u're talking about.

I agree with OP.
I think part of the issue is that the Hit box for some melee attacks is wrong and so when you are swarmed you are not actually hitting anything and so just die.

Ranged is stupidly king again in POE2 as it is in POE1

Seems GGG just hates melee

Invoker/Elemental monk builds are performing very well. Acolyte of Chayula desperately needs attention on multiple fronts.

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gotcha8itch#2885 wrote:

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IcyMistV#5121 wrote:

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.

KEKW, oh, yeah, mb should nerf trading then, cuz as SSF monk I have no clue what u're talking about.

He missed the part where the build killing bosses with bell had a 200 div 750dps weapon, lmao

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Gods Horseman#8260 wrote:

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

I've leveled a Monk to 76. Used level 42 weapon up until level 74 and oneshot everything. Actual bosses (not yellow mobs) took literally 4 seconds to kill.Cleared t7 maps with level 42 weapon.

Monks have insane damage since early levels.

My Ice Strike at level 42 was doing 6.8 k damage.

Lightning build is even more op.

Monks need evasion/energy shield.

Ice Build doesnt require you to have high defences,because you freeze everything and you kill long before mobs unfreeze.

And ye. At level 76 on my monk , total gear investment was 14 ex. Ice Strike 29 k damage.

My Warrior has over 70 ex invested in gear and his main damage ability does 14 k damage.

I'm kinda baffled about leveling part someone mentioned. I'm leveling all classes, and Monk is definitely the strongest. Good Staff (achievable by normal means, not trade) and Tempeest Flurry with Herald of Thunder literally mows through levels, you just go forward. Add Tempest Bell for bosses and it's literally a joke of a game. It's first class to be nerfed in my opinion.

So I played monk to 78 so far and some ranger and sorceress to like level 10 but monk feels pretty powerful. I can slap through anything with the bell and ice strikes with permanent power charges and high crit.
Sometimes I do get like one or two shot by random archers or the wierd spear throwingg goats.

My monk is insane, you should go play a slammer warrior.

monk is very fast and tanky once you get evasion+es online.

I would say 99% of my deaths as a monk are because of tempest flurry running directly INTO fire, why can I not attack in place with this ability? it feels AWFUL

All I want is to not run into crap thats going to kill me, ffs.

I feel like all melee weapons could use a form of projectile protection built into them.

Given the often narrow hallways, and the abundance of - often quite heavily hitting - projectile attacks even on white mobs, this can lead to quite a bit more deadly combos hitting onto melee characters than on ranged.