Raiment Generator 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. Gather the full Raiment of a Thousand Storms set. Each piece can be gambled from Kadala for Bloodshards. Do not salvage any duplicate pieces you find! Instead convert them to another part of the set with Recipe 4 in Kanai's Cube. If you have extra materials you can use Recipe 3 to craft the remaining pieces, but this is expensive and not recommended for new players.

3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:

1. The full Raiment of a Thousand Storms set
2. Depth Diggers
3. Spirit Guards
4. Lefebvre's Soliloquy
5. The Witching Hour

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

1. Fist Weapons to get Shenlong's Spirit set
2. Daibos to get Flying Dragon
3. Rings to get Convention of Elements, Unity and The Compass Rose
4. 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 1: Ring of Royal Grandeur
• Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Captain Crimson's Trimmings set

6. This build is extremely bad at farming so you will have to farm on another build/character and spend materials building this monk until it's ready to push. The one remaining piece not listed in this section The Traveler's Pledge is too expensive to either Gamble or Upgrade so you'll just have to find it.

• Simplicity's Strength is the strongest gem for us with it's massive 100% damage increase and 4% Life on Hit.
• Bane of the Trapped gives us 60% increased damage and is in most DPS builds in Diablo 3.
• Bane of the Stricken will be taken for solo pushing and in groups to kill the Rift Guardian.
• Boon of the Hoarder is used for the T16/Speed build as it grants us a 30% Movement Speed bonus.

• Crippling Wave Mangle is our main source of damage and hardest hitting Spirit Generator.
• Way of the Hundred Fists Assimilation 5% increased damage for every enemy hit by the 3rd swing. This is used as a buff not for DPS.
• Dashing Strike Radiance is used for mobility and 15% increased Attack Speed buff.
• Cyclone Strike Implosion helps us to group all the enemies tightly around us to maximize our Area Damage.
• Mantra of Salvation Agility gives a massive defensive boost.
• Breath of Heaven Infused With Light 14 additional Spirit generated per hit for 5 seconds to keep our Shenlong's Spirit buff up longer.
• Blinding Flash Replenishing Light restores 10 Spirit per blinded enemy.
• Mantra of Conviction Annihilation can be taken for mobility in T16 and speed group farming in place of Cyclone Strike Implosion.

• Exalted Soul grants us 50 additional Maximum Spirit.
• Alacrity Multiplicatively increases Attack Speed of Spirit Generators by 15%.
• Seize the Initiative gives 30% additive Attack Speed for 4 seconds after hitting an enemy with >75% health.
• Near Death Experience allows us to cheat death.
• Harmony gives us a bonus to our All Resistance based of 40% of our Secondary Resistances.
• Combination Strike gives us 10% damage for each generator used, which is helpful for the RGK set up where we take 3 generators.

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 mainstat (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. Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
4. Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
5. Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
6. Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.

With these in mind, let’s get into our recommendations for this build.

GR Pushing Scoundrel

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. Don't choose either of the first skill options as they apply crowd controls that we want to avoid. If you accidentally select one, you'll either have to live with it or make a new character to fix it as there is no way to de-select a follower skill 🙁

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.

The most important thing to mention with this build is that the vast majority of our damage comes from Crippling Wave and not Dashing Strike. However we need to use Dashing Strike as well as our other skills and mechanics to really cause devastating damage with out Spirit Generator, let's see how we can accomplish this:

1. Pull enemies together and try to form a good pack, utilize your Cyclone Strike to group enemies up on a Oculus Ring if available. Once we have a decent pack it's time to get them together and go through our cycle to do damage.
2. Cast Dashing Strike and Cyclone Strike every 6 and 5 seconds respectively to keep the buffs up.
3. Use Mantra of Salvation when you start losing health.
4. Use Breath of Heaven when you start losing Spirit while attacking.
5. We use Crippling Wave all the time, and do 3 hits of Way of the Hundred Fists every 5 seconds to keep the buff up. The only time this changes is when our Convention of Elements cycle turns to Physical where we will spam Way of the Hundred Fists the whole time.
6. Your Convention of Elements goes Physical - Cold - Fire and you deal most of your damage on Fire and a bit on Physical. After the Fire you have 8 seconds of downtime - the perfect opportunity to move your pull forward.

Once the lesser enemies are thinning out and we're left with just elites it's important to drag the elite along with you as you continue to gather more enemies. The bigger the pack you have the more damage you are going to do to all of them. Try to spend as little time as possible attacking singled out elites and always focus on gathering as much as you can.

This build is very squishy and not very well suited for Hardcore play. Replace Exalted Soul with Near Death Experience and use String of Ears for extra toughness. You can also switch the last skill of your Scoundrel to Vanish. Unity instead of Convention of Elements is a solid option to trade some damage for double the toughness.

• Dashing strikes looks tempting from the 60,000% damage, but it does no damage compared to our Generators and is only used to buff their damage.

• Gives a 350% damage buff and drains 65 spirit per second once you reach max spirit. This buff and debuff stop once your spirit reaches 0. The idea is to activate this buff once we've created large packs of density, and then to generate spirit against the 65/sec drain to keep it up as long as possible.
• There is a bug where sometimes Shenlong's won't activate even at max spirit.

• Has 4% chance to double your Attack Speed for 7 seconds.
• Has a 5 second internal cooldown (ICD).
• Can proc from any action, including talking to a NPC.
• This means you have a 2 second window to re-proc it while still having the double Attack Speed.