LoD Tempest Rush Monk Guide

1. Do the Challenge Rift for the materials to cube Legendary Powers. You can complete this once a week for additional resources and we always update the guide for you!

2. This is a Legacy of Dreams build and its success is heavily dependent on this gem's rank. The first order of business is to equip a(n ancient) Legendary or Set item in every slot to take advantage of its power. Make sure to not have any Set Bonuses equipped or the gem will be nullified and you will deal no damage! Farm speed Greater Rifts (in under 5 minute clears) to find the items and level your gems as high as possible.

3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:

1. Cesar's Memento and Nemesis Bracers
2. Goldwrap
3. Mantle of Channeling
4. Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan
5. Leoric's Crown
6. Ice Climbers
7. Stone Gauntlets
8. Tyrael's Might

4. Craft using Recipe 3 in Kanai's Cube in this order:

1. Fist Weapons to get Won Khim Lau
2. Daibos to get Balance
3. Create a level 1 Demon Hunter and upgrade 1-Handed Swords to get In-Geom
4. Rings to get Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac, Convention of Elements and Stone of Jordan
5. Anything from the Gamble list in Step 3 that you haven't already acquired.

5. Do Bounties to acquire several important items for this build:

• Act 2: Gloves of Worship (for your follower)
• Act 3: Avarice Band
• Act 4: Can drop any bounty item from any act
• Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Sage's Journey and Cain's Destiny sets (for your follower)

6. At this point you can comfortably farm Nephalem Rifts or low GRs where you can find all the remaining items you need for different variants of the build. It's better to spend your mats improving your set pieces, getting ancient weapons etc.

7. Use Primordial Ashes in Kanai's Cube with the new Curiosity of Lorath Nahr recipe to obtain a free Crafted Primal Ancient. Since you can only equip one of them, choosing the right item to focus matters! Great candidates are Weapons, Offhands, Jewelry or any item with an important multiplier. With that in mind, we recommend getting one of the following items:

• Won Khim Lau
• Cesar's Memento
• Squirt's Necklace

• Legacy of Dreams is the core of the build providing up to 9,750% increased damage and 52% damage reduction.
• Bane of the Trapped provides 60% increased damage to slowed enemies.
• Boon of the Hoarder makes monsters spray gold everywhere for our Goldwrap and 30% increased movement speed for T16 content.
• Bane of the Stricken gives up to 2.3% increased damage on successive attacks against the same target. We'll need this gem if we want to solo push to kill the Rift Guardian.

• Tempest Rush Flurry is our damage dealer that blows up everything around us when we choose to release it. We will channel this skill until we have 100 stacks of Flurry to unleash an icy explosion of death.
• Epiphany Desert Shroud gives 50% damage reduction, crowd control immunity and allows us to teleport to monsters with our melee attacks.
• Blinding Flash Faith in the Light gives us 29% additive damage, activates our Cesar's Memento, and refills our Spirit globe thanks to The Laws of Seph.
• Mantra of Salvation Agility gives 20% all resistance and 35% dodge.
• Way of the Hundred Fists Blazing Fists is used to proc Mythic Rhythm.
• Serenity Ascension makes you immune to damage and crowd controlling effects for 4 seconds, letting us build a couple of Squirt's Necklace stacks.

• Beacon of Ytar gives 20% Cooldown Reduction to keep Epiphany up.
• Seize the Initiative gives 30% Attack Speed when hitting enemies above 75% health.
• Mythic Rhythm provides a 40% multiplicative damage increase.
• Harmony gives 40% of Secondary Resistances on items to All Resistance.
• The Guardian's Path gives us 35% dodge. It replaces Harmony when we don't have enough Secondary Resistance rolls.
• Near Death Experience is used in Nephalem Rifts to prevent accidental oneshots.

¹ Add a bit of Vitality if you feel too squishy (a total of 750,000 Life is recommended).

Patch 2.7.0 revamped the follower system giving all 3 hirelings new powers and the emanate system. The first thing you should do is read our complete follower guide and remember the key takeaways:

1. The emanation system allows followers to share certain legendary and set powers with you. The most important ones are: The Flavor of Time, Nemesis Bracers, Avarice Band, Sage’s Journey and Cain’s Destiny. Click the guide above for the full list.
2. Follower’s powers are based on their main stat (maxed at 25.000, but they have a 2.5x multiplier so you only need 10.000). This means we stack Intelligence on the Enchantress, Dexterity on the Scoundrel and Strength on the Templar.
3. Guardian's Jeopardy (3) Bonus works for followers by improving their inherent stat multiplier from x2.5 to x3.5, making it slightly easier to hit the 25,000 main stat threshold if needed.
4. Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
5. Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
6. Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
7. Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.

Select Follower

T16 Enchantress

GR Pushing Scoundrel

GR Pushing Enchantress

• T16 Enchantress
• GR Pushing Scoundrel
• GR Pushing Enchantress

For T16 we recommend this Enchantress setup because she is the only follower that gives Cooldown Reduction, allowing you to spam your abilities more. Since this is T16 content, she’ll stay alive with Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard and use Hand of the Prophet to gain all skills. This will give us Cooldown Reduction, Elemental Damage, Reduced Damage from Ranged Attacks, Armor, Attack Speed, and a Cheat Death.
Stat Priorities:Since we do not have the immortality focus, we need to stack survivability on our Enchantress.

Intelligence > Vitality > Life % > Armor > All Resistance > Life Per Hit > Attack Speed.

Key Items:

• The Flavor of Time: For double duration on Pylons.
• Nemesis Bracers: For extra Elites, Death’s Breaths and In-geom procs.
• Avarice Band: For the insane pickup radius.
• Ring of Royal Grandeur: To complete our sets.
• Gloves of Worship: For 10 Minute Shrine Buffs.
• Sage’s Journey: For double Death’s Breaths.
• Cain’s Destiny: For 25% more Greater Rift Keystones.

For Greater Rift Pushing we recommend this Scoundrel setup for the Critical Hit Chance from Anatomy, 10% increased damage from Piercing Shot, and the insane Critical Hit Chance cloud from Night’s Veil.
Stat Priorities:Since we have the immortality token, we do not need to stack survivability on our Scoundrel.
Dexterity > Attack Speed.
Key Items:

• The Flavor of Time: For double duration on Pylons.
• Nemesis Bracers: For more progression from Elites.
• Oculus Ring: For 85% increased damage.
• Unity: For 50% damage reduction if you're also wearing one.
• Ice Climbers: To make your follower immune to Freeze and Immobilize effects.
• Leoric's Crown and Cain's Destiny: For more Experience and Attack Speed.

For Shi Mizu's Haori Solo Push version Scoundrel's Crit Chance buffs are useless, so we recommend this Enchantress setup for the Damage Reduction and Armor from Powered Shield, and the cheat death from Fate's Lapse. You can choose between Prophetic Harmony and Amplification depending on how much Cooldown Reduction you have on your gear.
Stat Priorities:Since we have the immortality relic, we do not need to stack survivability on our Enchantress.
Intelligence > Attack Speed.
Key Items:

• The Flavor of Time: For double duration on Pylons.
• Nemesis Bracers: For more progression from Elites.
• Oculus Ring: For 85% increased damage.
• Unity: For 50% damage reduction if you're also wearing one.
• Ice Climbers: To make your follower immune to Freeze and Immobilize effects.
• Mempo of Twilight and Cain's Destiny: For more Attack Speed.

The entire gameplay revolves your Convention of Elements. Generally you should follow this rotation:

1. Cast Epiphany every 15 seconds. If you can't reset its cooldown in time, use Serenity to cover the gap.
2. Use Blinding Flash each time your Spirit dips below 1/3 of the globe. Be careful to never run out as that will stop your channel and you will lose Flurry stacks.
3. Hold down Tempest Rush.
4. At the end of Physical use Serenity and Blinding Flash and try to kill a low HP monster to spawn an Oculus Ring.
5. Move into Oculus if it spawned, and just before Serenity expires use Blinding Flash again and release Tempest Rush.
6. Hit something 3 times with Way of the Hundred Fists to activate Mythic Rhythm. You can Epiphany teleport to a far away mob if staying inside the pull is dangerous.
7. Start channeling Tempest Rush again.

You should always have either Epiphany or Serenity active. Any form of crowd control (Jailer, Frozen, Vortex, Knockback, Nightmarish) fill interrupt your Tempest Rush making you lose Flurry stacks! Wormhole and root attack from Tree elites will do so even if you are CC immune! One or two Wormholes on an open map you can usually dodge, but Trees must always be skipped.

Use Near Death Experience instead of Seize the Initiative or Harmony. If you want more toughness drop Stone of Jordan for Unity (don't forget to change your Elemental rolls to Cold if you do). Check out our dedicated Hardcore Survival Guide to learn more about how to succeed in this game mode!

• Gains 5 stacks per second, with a cap of 100 stacks. This takes 20 seconds which is a full Convention of Elements rotation, which is why you must start channeling immediately after you detonate.
• If you stop channeling Tempest Rush for any reason, your Flurry stacks reset to 0. This includes being: knocked back, frozen, stunned, wormholed, jailed, or even unwanted teleports from Epiphany, which are usually caused when you approach monsters with a very large hitbox.
• The explosion scales with Attack Speed as a separate multiplier.
• Mythic Rhythm buffs the channeling damage and the final explosion regardless of how long you choose to channel.
• You lose all stacks if you try to Tempest Rush in place by moving your cursor close to the screen's center. The radius of the "dead zone" in the middle of your screen is proportional to your Movement Speed times your latency. If you have just 25% from Paragon and less than 100ms ping, then this zone will be just a few pixels wide and it's nearly impossible to hit it without specifically trying. But if you stack some Movement Speed (e.g. Warzechian Armguards, Speed Pylon) and/or play not in your home region, the "dead zone" can become quite large and force you to consciously avoid it.

• The blind lasts for 3 seconds if the monsters are not under diminishing returns. You can use it at the start of the Cold Convention of Elements cycle and wait until the very end to release your Tempest Rush because Cesar's Memento lasts for 5 seconds. In other words, the blind doesn't have to happen the instant you release your Flurry stacks, there is a window of time there you can sometimes use to your advantage, for example to spawn an Oculus Ring.