132 Life per Spirit Spent / 49.5% Crit Hit Transcendence Build | Diablo 3 Monk Build

The idea here was to incorporate life on spirit spent and the transcendence passive to create a super-healing-mantra-spamming monk. The experiment was a success 🙂 There’s two versions of this build here, the mantra of conviction spamming DPS build and then the mantra of evasion super tanky build.

DPS build

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#aVigXk!ZYU!YccYba

Fists of Thunder with Quickening Rune – With 49.5% crit and 15 spirit everytime you crit you have spirit. A lot of it. A metric shit ton of it. All this spirit means you can spam…

Mantra of Conviction with Overawe Rune – Giving you almost a constant 48% increase to your DPS.

Transcendence – I’m wearing a helm with +29 life per spirit spent and using a weapon with +41.1 life per spirit spent, giving me a total of 132.1 life per spirit spent, or 6605 life everytime I hit mantra of conviction. This is more than enough to keep me up with most mob packs.

Exploding Palm with Essence Burn rune – This is just something fun I was trying out with the build. You have some room to play around with as far as skills go here. Exploding palm is a lot of fun with trash packs. Give it a shot. It’s not too bad of damage for the spirit spent either. 40 spirit 250% weapon damage without the exploding portion, a good way to use this against elites is to cast it on a rotation on different mobs so that it ticks on several at the same time.

The other skills are pretty standard and should be self explanatory.

Tank build

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#adigXh!WYU!YccYba

Fists of Thunder with Quickening Rune – With 49.5% crit and 15 spirit everytime you crit you have spirit. A lot of it. A metric shit ton of it. All this spirit means you can spam…

Mantra of Evasion with Hard Target Rune – You should be spamming this along with…

Dashing Strike with the Blinding Speed Rune – Coupled with Mantra of Evasion spamming you should be running at +35% dodge ontop of the flat 15% from regular Mantra of evasion.

Passives – Transcendence of course, sixth sense is really good with high crit, with my crit at 49.5% this passive gives me 14.85% more dodge, and then the resist passive is always good.

Equipment

You should build just like a crit monk for every piece of equipment, except in addition to the normal +crit damage on weapons you want to look for life on spirit spent(I think it caps out around 50/spirit spent, my weapon has 41.1) and also you want to get +life on spirit spent on your helmet along with +crit chance and a socket if you can. Generally this combo won’t be TOO expensive as nobody buys +life on spirit spent right now.

Screenshot of every piece of equipment I’m using in this build along with all stats, please like to reveal.

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