LoN LTK Monk

[Guest Athropos]

Dont bother with this build. It's about as squishy as the raiment generator build without the sustained dps of it, and you WILL run out of sweeping wind stacks and be absolutely worthless half the time. All this talk about the spirit costs of the build is useless because the true limitor is your ability to crit and recoup some of your sweeping wind stacks. I imagine it's doable if you stack your crit to like 60%+ and run the armada rune but at this point just use some inna/raiment generator build and save yourself the hassle. It's a shame because the build looks fun but in practice it doesnt work for me.

[Orthios 271]

1 minute ago, Guest Athropos said:

Dont bother with this build. It's about as squishy as the raiment generator build without the sustained dps of it, and you WILL run out of sweeping wind stacks and be absolutely worthless half the time. All this talk about the spirit costs of the build is useless because the true limitor is your ability to crit and recoup some of your sweeping wind stacks. I imagine it's doable if you stack your crit to like 60%+ and run the armada rune but at this point just use some inna/raiment generator build and save yourself the hassle. It's a shame because the build looks fun but in practice it doesnt work for me.

If you have the Kyoshiro's Soul belt then keeping up Sweeping Wind is thoughtless, and it gets even easier if you have the Vengeful Wind weapon.  I've played this build and the Wave of Light variation, and once you have the Belt and Weapon all you do is pop SW at the beginning of the GRift and then wait 1-2s for stacks to build up and from there on it should never drop so long as you keep hitting something.

[Guest Athropos]

Maybe I spam too much but I will definitely run out of stacks on tankier enemies or smaller packs on T13 since you consume a stack per hit while only regaining a stack maybe 50% of the time according to crit rate. So if you don't crit, you run out. I would guess the strategy is not to engage unless you can hit a lot of enemies at once to make sure at least a few of them crit, but it doesnt seem to work for me and I will just sometimes be forced to disengage completely waiting for the kyoshiro to give me back stacks. This is with paragon 600ish on a caracter that can clear GR 70 with an Inna generator spec. 

[MercifulCamel 0]

I'm having problem with keeping Sweeping Wind up when encountering small grps or elites/bosses, not really sure why. 

https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/TheCamel-21763/hero/91584913

 

Edited April 20, 2017 by MercifulCamel
RNG God blessed me with luck and got a bunch of Ancients

[Guest Shynran]

Hello,

Why take Blinding Speed (Dashing Strike) "Dashing Strike's damage turns into cold" and take fire damage => wrists  and amulet ?

Thanks.

[Orthios 271]

5 hours ago, Guest Shynran said:

Hello,

Why take Blinding Speed (Dashing Strike) "Dashing Strike's damage turns into cold" and take fire damage => wrists  and amulet ?

Thanks.

Because 40% dodge buff is invaluable for toughness and general survivability.  If you're going for speedfarming, then you take the radiance rune, but for pushing high GRs, having the dodge is invaluable.

[Guest Shynran]

thanks

[Guest Alandra]

On ‎19‎.‎4‎.‎2017 at 0:19 PM, MercifulCamel said:

I'm having problem with keeping Sweeping Wind up when encountering small grps or elites/bosses, not really sure why. 

https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/TheCamel-21763/hero/91584913

 

yes, have same problem. Because Kyoshiro's Soul stack Sweeping Wind only if does not deal damage to any enemies, but you must go to melee range so can't get stack from this belt. I am usin LoN build, damage is lesser but you don't have this problem at all.

[Guest brot]

After reading through this thread because I was struggling with the build at the beginning - like many others here - I thought I needed to share my observations on how to get started with the build.

It certainly can be a problem to maintain the Sweeping Wind stacks - especially in low density. Try to aim for at list 50% CHC and run the Sweeping Armada rune - this is going to help you to hit more targets and regain those stacks. At first you will need to keep an eye on the stacks and try to get a feel for how quickly you will lose them in lower density. Once you have gotten used to it, however, you should not run out of stacks too often .

If you have trouble surviving in the middle of elite packs, try to cube the Crystal Fist for that 50% Damage reduction for 6 seconds after a dodge. If you maintain a 100% uptime of this buff it will help you a lot. Epiphany and Blinding Flash are used on Cooldown obviously.

Single target damage can be annoying with this build. For Rift guardians, wait for your CoE elemental proc (Fire or Physical, depending on your LTK rune), pop Epiphany and Blinding Flash and unload on the boss during that time frame, always observing the SW stacks.

 

[Guest Altair]

On 5/5/2017 at 0:59 PM, Guest brot said:

After reading through this thread because I was struggling with the build at the beginning - like many others here - I thought I needed to share my observations on how to get started with the build.

It certainly can be a problem to maintain the Sweeping Wind stacks - especially in low density. Try to aim for at list 50% CHC and run the Sweeping Armada rune - this is going to help you to hit more targets and regain those stacks. At first you will need to keep an eye on the stacks and try to get a feel for how quickly you will lose them in lower density. Once you have gotten used to it, however, you should not run out of stacks too often .

If you have trouble surviving in the middle of elite packs, try to cube the Crystal Fist for that 50% Damage reduction for 6 seconds after a dodge. If you maintain a 100% uptime of this buff it will help you a lot. Epiphany and Blinding Flash are used on Cooldown obviously.

Single target damage can be annoying with this build. For Rift guardians, wait for your CoE elemental proc (Fire or Physical, depending on your LTK rune), pop Epiphany and Blinding Flash and unload on the boss during that time frame, always observing the SW stacks.

 

Question: why isn't there an variant in this build to use the Focus and Restraint rings? It looks like the guys at the very top of the solo leaderboards (1 and 2 at least) are using them.

[Valks 2,375]

On 5/4/2017 at 10:02 AM, Guest Alandra said:

yes, have same problem. Because Kyoshiro's Soul stack Sweeping Wind only if does not deal damage to any enemies, but you must go to melee range so can't get stack from this belt. I am usin LoN build, damage is lesser but you don't have this problem at all.

This is why Dash is included in the build though. You can use it to retreat, allow stacks to build and simply re-engage with the Dash defensive buff.

[Valks 2,375]

On 5/5/2017 at 0:59 PM, Guest brot said:

After reading through this thread because I was struggling with the build at the beginning - like many others here - I thought I needed to share my observations on how to get started with the build.

Thanks for sharing your tips with everyone!

[Valks 2,375]

17 hours ago, Guest Altair said:

Question: why isn't there an variant in this build to use the Focus and Restraint rings? It looks like the guys at the very top of the solo leaderboards (1 and 2 at least) are using them.

If you run F+R, you have to use a generator. I can't find anyone running an LTK build and using F+R. They use LoN often, but it's far harder to gear for.

[Guest Sup Monks]

Yo, add different waist for ring set. 

[Guest Mizt]

What are the caps i need to go for ?

I have this now:
Attacksspeed: 34.8%
Critical Hit chance: 34.0%
Critical Hit Damage: +523.0%
Area Damage 111.0%
Physical Damage Increase: 20%
Lashing tail Kick Damage: 98%

 

Im struggle in 75+ rifts

What should i change ?

[Deadset 108]

21 hours ago, Guest Mizt said:

What are the caps i need to go for ?

Heya, it's really hard to judge that from raw numbers alone. If you can link your character from battle.net, I can give you some more solid tips.

[Guest guyy]

uh wheres the sunwuko build?

[positiv2 953]

6 hours ago, Guest guyy said:

uh wheres the sunwuko build?

Here's the link. You can also access the build from the side menu, from Contents.

[Guest Guest1]

Hello,

I couldn't find the SWK LTK thread. So I posted here.

Here is a link to my build.....http://www.diablofans.com/builds/94923-swk-ltk.

FD...this should help with spirit regen, sustain via LOH, and I believe will help stack stricken. Correct? I've also read there are "break points" to aim for when using FD. Not sure what they are.

I figured furnace would help with elites and the RG, but I also use Stricken. So is it really needed? If used, should I look to add some attack speed rolls given I use STI passive and radiance?

Not sure which to use in the cube?

Any thoughts on the need for RCR are greatly appreciated.

Thank you for any advice.

[Guest Mentally_Freaky]

wear Rabid strike and cube the wind or scarbringer, ur losing a 30-35% CHD from not wearing Rabid, great guide btw

 

[Guest Guest1]

Thanks for the comment M_F. The advice is appreciated. I updated the guide on December 29, 2017. Unfortunately, the build is not using Epiphany. So I can't use Rabid Strike. I'm trying to avoid CDR to reduce gearing difficulty. However, Witching Hour is there for the  CHD. I don't have to roll off CHD on one of the rings though. I would love it if someone had the breakpoints or an attack speed calculator to reach the required breakpoints with the generators.

[Valks 2,375]

On 01/01/2018 at 1:03 PM, Guest Mentally_Freaky said:

wear Rabid strike and cube the wind or scarbringer, ur losing a 30-35% CHD from not wearing Rabid, great guide btw

 

Scarbringer is probably the best choice, since it has the highest legendary affix variable, as opposed to Wind that has a variant of only 1.

[grimnir 0]

Wondering why this build doesn't use Kyoshiro's Soul belt. It adds 2 stacks of Sweeping Wind per second, which, added to the Vengeful Wind I have in the Cube, gives me 10 stacks of Sweeping Wind, and they never run out.

Edited October 12, 2018 by grimnir