Monk Class Overview

• Provides 2% Spirit Generator damage for each point of Spirit you currently have. With Maximum Spirit rolls on both Weapons, Spirit Stone, Paragon Points and Exalted Soul it provides a maximum x8.9 damage multiplier.
• When reaching full spirit, provides a separate x4.5 generic damage multiplier and forcibly sets your passive Spirit Regeneration to negative 65. While the buff is active you can only gain spirit by hitting enemies with Spirit Generators, basic attacks and Blinding Flash Replenishing Light or by using Air Ally and Blinding Flash with The Laws of Seph.

• Applies the debuff to all enemies damaged by Cyclone Strike, i.e. all enemies within 15 yard radius around the monk.
• Cyclone Strikes cast by Won Khim Lau can apply the debuff.
• Cyclone Strikes cast by Rabid Strike clones cannot apply the debuff.

• 4% chance to proc on any action, including hitting air or even talking to an NPC.
• The Double Attack Speed buff lasts for 7 seconds.
• Upon activation, the item goes on Internal Cooldown (ICD) for 5 seconds, meaning there is a 2 second window when it can be re-procced before you lose it. With 5 APS and Alacrity, you have roughly 44% chance to re-proc it by attacking with a Generator.

• Exploding Palm is applied after the damage is dealt, meaning that palms can only create a chain reaction when the enemies can survive at least one explosion, unless Essence Burn is selected.
• The applied Palms are the exact copies of the original detonated one and retain Mythic Rhythm bonus.

• Exploding Palm is applied before damage is dealt, which lets you instantly apply and detonate palms when combined with Uliana's Stratagem (6) Bonus.

• The extra ally also provides their passive effect, doubling its magnitude.
• The passive effects granted by Inna's Mantra (6) Bonus are doubled in the same way.
• Also doubles the number of allies you summon with Inna's Mantra (6) Bonus. Effectively, that means you need to hit 4 enemies one time or one enemy 4 times to summon the maximum number of Allies.
• Increases the duration of Water Ally, Earth Ally and unruned Mystic Ally active effects to 30 seconds.

• Epiphany needs to be active to get the clone.
• The clone is considered a Mystic Ally. It gets buffed by Enforcer, The Crudest Boots and Bindings of the Lesser Gods, but not Mystic Ally damage.
• Instead of picking a random value between the Minimum and Maximum Damage from your Weapon, the clone always uses the average of their sum.
• When dual wielding, the clone alternates between your Main-Hand and Off-Hand Weapons to calculate its damage.

• Uses the equipped rune of Cyclone Strike.
• Can proc every time Tempest Rush damages an enemy, including the Electric Field aura and Flurry explosion.
• The frequency of Cyclone Strike casts is based on your Attack Speed. For most setups it procs on every other Tempest Rush tick for a total of 2.5 casts per second. Some high APS builds with Flying Dragon can proc it twice as often - on every Tempest Rush tick.

Mechanics
Increase the attack speed of Spirit Generators by 15% multiplicatively.

Best use
This passive is amazing for Raiment Gen Monk, providing a straight 15% DPS and recovery boost. For all other builds it's very underwhelming. For zMonk in particular it's no good at all, because healing from Soothing Mist has an ICD based on your general APS rather than skill APS and this passive can actually reduce your healing in some cases.

Mechanics
Reduce all cooldowns by 20% multiplicatively.

Best use
This is one of the best passives a Monk has and is taken in most builds to keep up Epiphany and to synergize with Captain Crimson's Trimmings set.

Mechanics
The Spirit costs of Mantra activation effects are reduced by 50% and you gain 4 Spirit every second when you have a Mantra equipped.

Best use
This is a popular passive to take with the support zMonk as it lets you spam Mantra of Healing to shield and heal your teammates.

Mechanics

• When you hit an enemy with a Spirit Generator you get a 3 second buff giving you 10% additive damage
• Hitting an enemy with a different Spirit Generator adds another stack to the buff up to a maximum of 4 stacks
• Hitting an enemy with any Spirit Generator at any time resets the timer on the buff

Best use
This is not a popular passive because multiple spirit generators are rarely used, the only exception to that is the RGK version or Raiment Gen Monk, which uses 3 different Generators!

Mechanics
Each enemy within 12 yards increases your damage by 4%, up to a maximum of 20% additively.

Best use
This is a nice offensive passive as we only need 5 enemies to be near us to get the full 20% value, but it's usually outclassed by other Monk Passives due to it being very weak vs Rift Guardians.

Mechanics
Increase Maximum Spirit by 50 and increase Spirit Regeneration by 4 per second.

Best use
This passive is only used while leveling or in Generator-based builds with Shenlong's Spirit set, where it provides approximately 13% DPS.

Mechanics
Increase movement speed by 10%.

Best use
This is a decent passive to take in speed content. This can go beyond the normal 25% cap for a player, meaning you can take the full paragon points for 25% and this passive for a combined total of 35% increased movement. Movement Speed is not so great on Monks because most of the movement is done via Dashing Strike spam.

Mechanics
Your secondary single elemental Resistance secondary rolls on gear also increase Resistance to all other elements by 40% of its value. One item can provide up to 210 Resistance to a single element, with this passive it also gives 84 Resistance to all other elements.

Note that All Resistance primary roll and Single Resistance secondary roll are mutually exclusive. For that reason builds using Harmony usually place less value on All Resistance rolls if a similarly powerful alternative is available (e.g. Elite Damage Reduction on Chest)

Best use
This is a fantastic defensive passive if your gear has a lot of secondary resistances. If you're missing those rolls, there are better defensive options like Sixth Sense or The Guardian's Path. With secondary resist rolls on everything this passive provides about 35% extra toughness.

Mechanics
Moving 25 yards gives you 20% additive damage for 6 seconds.

Best use
This is a great offensive passive especially for speed content, where you don't have to do anything special to proc the bonus as you are constantly running forward. In push it's usually not used because you need to waste your Dashing Strike charges to activate it and because there are better options available.

Mechanics
After hitting an enemy with the 3rd strike of a Generator combo you get a buff that increases the damage of your next Spirit Spender by 40% multiplicatively. This buff lasts forever. If you use Tempest Rush its damage will stay increased for as long as you keep channeling.

Best use
This passive can be used with the Uliana's Stratagem Exploding Palm Monk in order to get +40% damage throughout the rift. Precise play and understanding are needed with how this interacts with that set which is explained in that build guide.

It can also be used by Tempest Rush monks, but it costs those builds a lot of toughness so it's only done at high Paragon.

Mechanics
When receiving fatal damage, you instead restore 35% Life and 35% Spirit and are immune to damage and control impairing effects for 2 seconds. This effect may occur once every 60 seconds. When this effect procs you also knockback all surrounding enemies.

Best use
This is the standard cheat death passive and is extremely popular for the Monk, although the knockback effect can be very annoying especially on zMonk in 4-man group who tends to sit right in the middle of all enemies.

Mechanics
You deal 20% more damage to enemies that are Blind, Frozen or Stunned. The damage bonus is multiplicative.

Best use
This is one of the best offensive Monk passives, but the CC requirement makes it more suited to builds using burst damage skills such as Tempest Rush Flurry or Exploding Palm.

Mechanics
Damage you deal reduces enemy damage by 20% for 4 seconds. The debuff from different Monks doesn't stack.

Best use
This is an excellent passive to take in groups because it helps keep everyone alive.

Mechanics
Dealing damage to enemies above 75% Life increases your attack speed by 30% for 4 seconds.

Best use
This is a very popular offensive passive for any build not starved for spirit as 30% attack speed is very hard to come by.

Mechanics
Reduce all non-Physical damage taken by 25%.

Best use
This is a popular defensive passive to boost your elemental toughness. Usually outclassed by The Guardian's Path and Harmony.

Mechanics
While dual-wielding, you gain a 35% chance to dodge incoming attacks. While using a two-handed weapon, all Spirit generation is increased by 15%.

Best use
This is a popular passive for dual-wielding specs as 35% chance to dodge is a tremendous toughness boost. This passive is very strong on paper, providing about 50% extra toughness, but it comes from dodge and that makes it unstable. Monks can easily have very high dodge chances from skills like Mantra of Salvation Agility and Dashing Strike Blinding Speed. While adding The Guardian's Path on top of that still gives you 50% more toughness, it's not good to have too much of your toughness coming from dodge. When that happens you can get randomly oneshot when dodge doesn't proc, and you are also very vulnerable to ground effects which ignore dodge.

Mechanics
Every point of Spirit spent heals you for 429 Life. Heal amount is increased by 0.4% of your Health Globe Healing Bonus.

Best use
This passive is usually pretty weak but if you happen to have a couple of Health Globe rolls on your pushing gear and are playing a Spirit-heavy build like PoJ Tempest Rush Monk, then it can be a decent defensive passive.

Mechanics
You get 5% additive damage for each ally affected by your mantra. Allies include your Follower, your Mystic Ally, other players and their pet. When using Inna's Mantra (4) Bonus you get 3 stacks for each affected ally, one stack per mantra (Mantra of Conviction doesn't affect allies). This bonus can stack up to 4 times for a 20% damage increase.

Additionally all allies affected by one of your mantras get their damage increased by 5% additively.

Best use
This passive is mainly used in groups to boost our teammates' damage by 5%. The increased damage bonus we get can be better attained through other passives like Momentum. Note that if you're playing in the 4 Player party, you only get +15% increased damage (3 allies x 5) out of the maximum 20% increase. In order to get the full 20% someone in the party needs a pet or minion that's impacted by our mantra.

• Allows you to teleport to monsters when you punch them from at least 7 yards away with any melee attack. If you want to avoid the teleport there's two ways to do it. Hover over a monster that is within 7 yards of you or hover over nothing and hold down the Force Stand Still button.
• Can teleport through walls, but you need a vision of a monster behind the wall (either from a teammate or if the wall in question has a window).
• Maximum teleport range is 100 yards, although it can be extended if either the monk or the mob is moved during the animation (Wormhole, Rage Flip).

• Casting any ability heals yourself and your allies within 30 yards.
• Healing effect has an ICD equal to 1/APS.
• This ICD uses sheet APS instead of skill APS so using skills with Attack Speed coefficient greater than one results in desync (the ICD of Soothing Mist will not be ready when you hit with your generator).
• When attacking with any generator, you proc the heal every 2 out of 3 attacks, but adding either Alacrity or Raiment of a Thousand Storms (2) Bonus changes that to every other attack, resulting in less healing per second despite higher Attack Speed!
• The visual effect has a static 0.5 second cooldown, but it has no effect on your actual healing output.
• The value of the healing is a base of 16,093 HP in addition to 4% of your Health Globe Bonus. You can get up to 270,375 Health Globe Bonus (7 * 38,625), which means that you can buff the base healing of Soothing Mist by up to 10,815 HP, for a grand total of 26,908 HP per heal. In other words, the difference between having no globe bonus and having perfect globe bonus results in ~67% more healing. Missing Health Globe Bonus in one slot loses ~6% healing.

• Uses your own Attack Speed as a separate damage multiplier for both basic attack damage and active ability damage.
• Basic Attack rate is based on player Attack Speed and can be increased by Tasker and Theo.
• Mystic Ally damage on gear acts as a separate damage multiplier.

• 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.