Home Brew Lightning Monk - Advice

EDIT: Meant to post this in POE2 Builds, not the early access discussion. My bad.

Hello! I've been playing monk with my own build, seen in the images.

I've gotten to the point where I can handle most damage, but now am being one shot against certain attacks in juiced t10 maps.

I can 1-2 tap all white mobs and magic/rare mobs die in about a second or two. Bosses die in about 5-10 seconds.

Main attack is tempest flurry with charged staff activated with 6 power charges. Tempest bell is dropped for magic/rare mobs and bosses.

Looking for advice on where to improve the build, passive wise or item wise. I know my health is low, but not sure where it would be best to spend my currency on upgrades for health without losing other stats.

Ideally, I want to keep the iir otherwise grinding would be pointless haha

Any seasoned experts out there willing to help?

Your passive skill tree needs some work.

I'm not sure how you get power charges but resonance with combat frenzy is quite popular.

https://maxroll.gg/poe2/passive-tree/z315pd01

You're wasting about 12 passive skill points on stuff that would be better used on defensive traits. I also have 5 jewel nodes. Jewels are probably the best nodes on the passive skill tree, you can make them rare with 4 traits that help you where most nodes on the tree do 1 or 2 things. If you don't have great jewels you can usually trade for some decent ones pretty cheap.

Also, are you using Wind Dancer? This greatly increases your evasion and physical damage reduction. I don't have that much evasion and I'm at 10k for 78% evasion and 70% physical damage reduction. You could easily get over 14k with good gear. Without Wind Dancer I have 6.7k evasion with 60% physical damage reduction.

If you're using cast on freeze you may want to skip out on that until you can get a chest piece with 1650+ evasion. You need either 180 or 210 spirit to run everything, combat frenzy, ghost dance, herald of ice, herald of thunder, wind dancer, and cast on freeze, with herald of ice or herald of thunder being optional, but you need at least one of them.

Since you don't have an energy shield helmet work on getting one of those, and if you can't get one then skip the Subterfuge mask nodes until you can get a great energy shield helmet. All of this should help, but unfortunately I'm almost in the same boat as you. I have 2.7k effective health, doing tier 15 maps currently and I survive just fine but can get 1 shot still from things like expedition remnants or boss slams. Getting this build into the 4-5k effective health range seems quite difficult without great gear.