[0.4] Flicker Strike & Falling Thunder Invoker!

Welcome to my Monk Build 2.0 (Invoker) — a fast, high-crit Flicker Strike + Falling Thunder setup built for speed mapping and big damage on a relatively low budget.

Flicker Strike isn’t a skill so much as a lifestyle choice.

The real magic of Flicker is the loop: kill → flick → kill → flick. When your power charges stay online, it becomes a self-feeding engine where you’re not “clearing,” you’re vacuuming.

Packs disappear, rare monsters get melted, and the map turns into a delivery service for currency.

Yeah—Flicker is chaotic. It doesn’t politely path around danger; it’ll happily teleport you into a slam, a jacked up Abyssal monster, or the boss’s personal space if you’re asleep at the wheel. That’s the trade: unmatched speed and aggression, but you need to respect mechanics and keep moving like your loot depends on it… because it does.

If you love builds where the reward is more loot per minute, Flicker Strike is the purest form of that addiction: flicker in, explode the screen, and let the ground sparkle while you already flickered into the next pack.

Mapping

1. Hit a few enemies with Whirling Assault

2. Use Reaper's Invocation activate Profane Ritual and get a power charge

3. Activate Charged Staff

4. Press Flicker Strike the flick around the map while holding Reaper's Invocation skill

5. Reaper's Invocation will be available again, press the skill to proc Profane Ritual for more power charges allowing you to Flicker Strike again.

6. If you have Cast on Critical, this will do it for you automatically.

7. When you build up 20 combo for Mantra of Destruction, activate for max charges again.

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Bossing

1. Hit the boss with Whirling Assault to generate combo for Mantra of Destruction

2. Use Mantra of Destruction to gain power charges

3. Activate Charged Staff

4. Repeat steps 1 and 2

5. Flicker Strike that thing or use Falling Thunder for huge damage!

Generating Power Charges - Mantra of Destruction or HoC

Every time you hit, you build combo in whatever skill you have Ailith's Chimes and Culmination II socketed (melee for Culmination II). Once you expend this combo, you gain power charges.

We use Mantra of Destruction to generate charges.

In order for it to work, it needs to be added in this order:

1. Socket Delayed Gratification into Mantra of Destruction
2. Socket Ailith's Chimes
3. Socket Charge Profusion II

This will allow you to use Mantra of Destruction when it reaches 20 combo to generate max charges instantly, Delayed Gratification allows you to generate power charges again after 10s. We use Whirling Assault as this generates combo insanely fast!

Also, don't forget to use Reaper's Invocation with Profane Ritual for more charge regen.

Generating Power Charges - Reapers Invocation or CoC

Reaper's Invocation works off melee hits, so every time you use Flicker Strike, you will have enough energy to use Reaper's Invocation, this will activate Profane Ritual and get power charges from the dead corpses. This allows you to rinse and repeat Flicker Strike.

In Reaper's Invocation we want to shorten the duration as much as possible, this is why we take Compressed Duration II, Overabundance I and Swift Affliction III, then we socket Charge Profusion II for power charges.

Cast on Critical is the same as Reaper's Invocation but it is based on crit. Every time you crit, you generate energy, this will then get Cast on Critical to proc automatically and cast Profane Ritual to consume the corpses to gain power charges.

05.01.26 updated build added to Endgame Section.