Monk Support Build

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by thefotios last updated Apr 5, 2023 ( Launch )

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Skills

Fists of Thunder
- Fists of Thunder
Teleport to a nearby enemy and unleash a rapid succession of punches that each deal 1239 to 1980 damage. You can teleport again after every third hit. Each enemy player can be a teleport target only once every 3 seconds.
Mystic Strike
- Mystic Strike
Dash forward 4.5 yards and leave a spirit behind that will return, pulling all enemies in its path to you and dealing 993 damage. A player can only be pulled once every 3 seconds. Maximum 3 charges.
Inner Sanctuary
- Inner Sanctuary
Place a runic circle of protection for 8.8 seconds that reduces all damage taken by you and your allies within the circle by 50%.
Shield of Zen
- Shield of Zen
Protect yourself or an ally with a shield that absorbs 1668 damage for 5 seconds. This shield also prevents all effects which cause loss of control of a character. Protecting an ally will cause you to charge to their location and grant you both this shield.

Items

Empathy's Blessing

Legendary Helm

Inner Sanctuary is now Blessed Sanctuary, increasing all damage done by you and your allies while within the circle.
Disciplined Respite

Legendary Chest Armor

Inner Sanctuary Cooldown decreased by 15%.
Luminary's Urge

Set Bracers

Increases the duration of all beneficial effects on you or your party members by 30%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Increases the target's Attack Speed by 30% for 3 seconds each time you use a skill to grant a beneficial effect to yourself or a party member. (4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you use a skill to buff yourself or a party member, you create an area of apotheosis for 12 seconds that grants 12% Life Drain to yourself and any party members within the area. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Exemplar's Urge

Set Belt

Increases the duration of all beneficial effects on you or your party members by 30%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Increases the target's Attack Speed by 30% for 3 seconds each time you use a skill to grant a beneficial effect to yourself or a party member. (4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you use a skill to buff yourself or a party member, you create an area of apotheosis for 12 seconds that grants 12% Life Drain to yourself and any party members within the area. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Companion's Melody

Legendary Pants

Mystic Allies duration increased by 30%.
Intervening Law

Legendary Main Hand

Shield of Zen now causes you to charge to a target location, granting you and all nearby allies a shield that absorbs damage.
Respite's Sigh

Legendary Off Hand

Inner Sanctuary duration increased by 30%.
Beacon's Urge

Set Boots

Increases the duration of all beneficial effects on you or your party members by 30%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Increases the target's Attack Speed by 30% for 3 seconds each time you use a skill to grant a beneficial effect to yourself or a party member. (4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you use a skill to buff yourself or a party member, you create an area of apotheosis for 12 seconds that grants 12% Life Drain to yourself and any party members within the area. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Awakener's Urge

Set Necklace

Increases the duration of all beneficial effects on you or your party members by 30%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Increases the target's Attack Speed by 30% for 3 seconds each time you use a skill to grant a beneficial effect to yourself or a party member. (4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you use a skill to buff yourself or a party member, you create an area of apotheosis for 12 seconds that grants 12% Life Drain to yourself and any party members within the area. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Modest Urge

Set Ring

Increases the duration of all beneficial effects on you or your party members by 30%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Increases the target's Attack Speed by 30% for 3 seconds each time you use a skill to grant a beneficial effect to yourself or a party member. (4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you use a skill to buff yourself or a party member, you create an area of apotheosis for 12 seconds that grants 12% Life Drain to yourself and any party members within the area. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)
Shameless Urge

Set Ring

Increases the duration of all beneficial effects on you or your party members by 30%.(2 Set Items Equipped)
Increases the target's Attack Speed by 30% for 3 seconds each time you use a skill to grant a beneficial effect to yourself or a party member. (4 Set Items Equipped)
Each time you use a skill to buff yourself or a party member, you create an area of apotheosis for 12 seconds that grants 12% Life Drain to yourself and any party members within the area. Cannot occur more often than once every 40 seconds.(6 Set Items Equipped)

More Details

Head
- Empathy's Blessing
- Stat Priority: Damage Increase
Shoulders
- Stat Priority: None
Torso
- Disciplined Respite
- Stat Priority: Cooldown Reduction
Wrists
- Luminary's Urge
- Stat Priority: Beneficial effect duration increased Attack Speed increased Life Drain
Waist
- Exemplar's Urge
- Stat Priority: None
Legs
- Companion's Melody
- Stat Priority: Beneficial effect duration increased
Weapon
- Intervening Law
- Rod of Echoes
- Stat Priority: None
Offhand
- Respite's Sigh
- Stat Priority: Beneficial effect duration increased
Feet
- Beacon's Urge
- Stat Priority: None
Amulet
- Awakener's Urge
- Stat Priority: None
Rings
- Modest Urge
- Shameless Urge
- Stat Priority: None

Legendary Gems
- Bottled Hope
  Bottled Hope
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  When you use a skill to grant a buff, increase the damage and Movement speed of the target by 24.00% for 6 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 20 seconds per target. Skill cooldowns decreased 6%.
- Bottled Hope
  Bottled Hope
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  When you use a skill to grant a buff, increase the damage and Movement speed of the target by 24.00% for 6 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once every 20 seconds per target. Skill cooldowns decreased 6%.
- Phoenix Ashes
  Phoenix Ashes
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  Prevents fatal damage, and then grants a shield for 6 seconds that absorbs damage equal to 1050% of your base damage. When the shield expires, heal for 80% of the remaining value. Cannot occur more often than once every 180 seconds.
- Unity Crystal
  Unity Crystal
  
  Legendary Gem
  
  All party members within 6 yards of you take 1.50% decreased damage and deal 1.2% increased damage for each additional nearby party member.
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- No Gem Selected

Since this is a support build, "Vithu's Urges" is the no brainer choice because of the duration increase (at 2) and bonus speed for buffs (at 4). 6 items adds life drain, so you could do that or mix in 2 from another set. If you go that route, the other 2 can be from "Windloft Perfection" (increased movement speed), "Untouchable Mounteback" (gain shield on damage), "Shepherd's Call to Wolves" (increased summons damage), or "Gloomguide's Prize" (increased damage after Dash)

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"Inner Sanctuary" is the core skill of this build. "Empathy's Blessing" (Head), "Disciplined Respite" (Torso), and "Respite's Sigh" (Offhand) are must haves. The other 3 skills can be mixed and matched depending on your needs.

- "Shield of Zen" is almost required and "Intervening Law" (Weapon) is good since it applies shield to all allies (rather than just one). The only reason you might not include it is if you're only concerned with buffing Damage and your party doesn't need the extra shielding.

- "Mystic Strike" is a staple for Monk builds, but with the other skills, really the only essence available is "Ascending Raincloud" (Shoulder, not available in this tool for some reason) which adds some evasion after dash. If you're using "Imprisoned Fist", you'll most certainly prefer one of it's essences for Shoulder

- "Mystic Allies" can add some passive damage while you focus on support. "Companion's Melody" (Legs) can increase the duration. If you don't use "Shield of Zen" (or only want it for you and 1 ally), "Rod of Echoes" (Weapon) decreases the cooldown.

If you don't use all of those, you could consider adding an overall damage dealer. Since support builds are generally focused on single targets (bosses, Immortals, etc) opt for high damage or DoT. "Imprisoned Fist", "Seven-Sided Strike", "Wave of Light", and "Flying Kick" appear to have the most available essences depending on which skill you drop from the above list.

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Gems should focus on buffing support (obviously), keeping you alive (every second you're dead is a second you're not buffing; it's compounded badness), retribution (you're going to get hit a lot, might as well put it to good use), and summons (let somebody else do the fighting while you support). Don't worry about your own damage; the increase you grant your party with support will make up the difference.

- "Bottled Hope (5)" is a no brainer to increase buff duration and "Unity Crystal (2)" helps reduce party damage even more

- "Phoenix Ashes (5)" is pretty much a no brainer unless you're indestructible

- "Blessing of the Worthy (5)", "Frozen Heart (5)", "Kir Sling (2)", "The Black Rose (1)" do damage/summon when you're attacked

- "Howler's Call (5)", "Hellfire Fragment (5)", "Echoing Shade (5)", "The Abiding Curse (2)", do damage/summon when you attack

"Concentrated Will (5)" is good too, but only procs on "Mystic Strike" (or other dash skills if you tweak the build)

- "Battleguard (2)" can help reduce damage you take so can "

- "Follower's Burden (2)" and "Freedom and Devotion (1)" help if you have multiple summons (from "Mystic Allies" or other gems)

- "Blessed Pebble (1)" and "Heartstone (1)" are good if you use "Shield of Zen" ("Hearthstone" gets way better if it also increases shields you apply to party, but I haven't been able to confirm)

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Active Tree

Running support isn't really a good task for lower level players, so we're not going to talk about the progression. Since the paragon skills don't really affect support we'll mainly focus on Mastermind and keeping you alive. These numbers don't reflect a realistic allotment; they're more raw numbers for min-maxing.

- The skills from Mastermind can be maxed out at 60 (there are 25 Armor and 15 AP points after that)

- You can max Health at 398 and then Mastermind for 8 more

- You can max Armor at 233 and then Mastermind for 28 more (including 20 in Health)

- You can max them both at 495 and then Mastermind for 1 more

Build Guide

This build focuses pretty much everything on support. There are some suggestions for additional stuff for the leftover skills/essences.

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