PoE 2: Elemental Fury Monk Build

Time: 2025-02-03 by mmojugg Game: Path of Exile 2 Guide Tags: PoE 2 Elemental Fury Monk

This guide introduces a highly effective Monk build in Path of Exile 2 that is designed to kill bosses with an astonishing 20 million DPS. Combining elements of lightning, cold, and fire damage, this build demonstrates a versatile approach to both clearing maps and melting bosses.

Core Skills and Mechanics

Ice Strike

Function: Combines multiple strikes, with the third strike dealing significantly more damage. It converts physical damage into cold damage, increased by attack speed.

Support gems:

Melee Speed: Increases attack speed, thus increasing DPS.

Concentrated Effect: Increases area of effect damage while reducing area of effect for more concentrated hits.

Primal Armor: Increases weapon elemental damage.

Raid: Adds rage to melee attacks, increasing damage by up to 30%.

Ice Bite: Adds cold damage to attacks after freezing enemies, which is crucial for boss encounters as Heralds can't freeze bosses.

Charged Stuff:

Mechanic: Activated with Power Charges, adds lightning damage to attacks.

Support gems:

Overcharge: Increases the strength of shocks.

Conduction: Increases chance to shock enemies, essential for damage amplification.

Herald of Ice and Thunder:

Synergy: Herald of Ice shatters frozen enemies and Herald of Thunder uses the shock from Charged Stuff to clear screens with lightning bolts.

Support gems:

Lightning Infusion: Increases the lightning damage of Herald of Ice.

Long Shot: Increases damage done to distant enemies.

Magnified Effect: Increases the area of effect for better screen coverage.

Innervate: Increases lightning damage after killing shocked enemies.

Tempest Bell (Boss Melt)

Mechanic: Requires a four-strike combo to place a bell that deals massive damage on impact and shockwave.

Support Gems

Overabundance: Allows multiple bells to be placed without waiting for the combo to reset.

Heft: Increases maximum physical damage.

Heavy Swing: Increases melee physical damage at the cost of attack speed (irrelevant for Tempest Bell).

Soul Siphon: Converts physical damage into mana for sustainability.

Inspiration: Reduces the skill cost of frequent bell placement.

Melee: Increases damage done to nearby enemies.

Elemental Summoning for Eye of Winter

Use: Gathers energy from freezing, igniting or shocking enemies to use Eye of Winter, which is used to strike the Tempest Bell for colossal damage.

Support gems

Slow: Slow the projectile to ensure it hits the bell.

Chain: Allows the projectile to chain once, hitting the bell multiple times.

Cold Exposure: Applies Cold Exposure to critical hits for extra boss damage.

Survival Mechanics

Energy Shield: Achieved through Grim Feast, where defeating enemies grants Energy Shield regeneration or additional protection.

Wind Dancer: Provides passive dodge and damage to enemies when hit, triggering Herald effects for area clearing without direct combat.

Mind Management: Uses Clarity for mana regeneration, Precision for additional evasion, and manages Spirit through equipment and passives.

Equipment recommendations

Weapon (Long Quarterstaff): Look for high lightning and physical damage, critical strike chance and damage bonuses.

Gloves (Hands of Wisdom and Action): Boost damage per Intellect and Dexterity, with cold penetration as a bonus.

Belt (Belt of Intellect): Increases ring bonuses.

Rings: Focus on elemental damage, especially lightning and cold, with resistances and mana leech.

Amulet: Focus on energy shielding, spell damage and resistances.

Boots and helmet: Prioritise movement speed, intelligence, dexterity and resistances.

Body Armour: High Dodge and Energy Shield with additional stats such as Chaos Resistance.

Passive Skill Tree

Resonance: Essential for generating energy charges.

Chaos Inoculation: Trades health for immunity to Chaos damage, freeing up gear slots.

Critical Damage Nodes: Significantly increases damage output.

Elemental Damage Nodes: Elemental Damage Nodes:on the afflictions applied to enemies.

Survival Nodes: Focus on energy shielding, evasion and mind management.

Thank you for reading

This build exemplifies the potential for high damage, versatile elemental attacks, and solid survival mechanics in Path of Exile 2. It's tailored for players looking to dominate both map clearing and boss encounters, with an emphasis on critical hits and elemental synergy. Keep in mind that gear and skill choices can be adjusted based on player preference and game updates, but this structure provides a powerful starting point for a Monk build that will truly "melt" bosses.