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Lazy's Hollow Palm Speed Alt Leveling | Monk Variant

0.3 TTE
Speed Leveling
presentationMonk
Verified
Updated on Nov 20, 2025
Nov 20, 2025

Build Overview

Hey guys, I'm Lazy Exile, and this is my leveling guide for your Alt Character in PoE 2, the Third Edict.

Summary

What is Alt Leveling?

In an alt leveling guide, I assume you already have a high level characters with access to gold, support gem tier 5, currencies to purchase the required powerful unique item. This will give you the most player power throughout the campaign from Act 1 to the Interlude. Destroy everything with ease on any class.

What is the setup?

The setup with Hollow Palm Technique is CLASS AGNOSTIC. We'll stack + melee skill levels, scales that with the physical damage from Hollow Palm, and this allow us to scale our damage throughout the campaign, from the moment you pick up Hollow Palm, until the end of Interlude.

About the Monk Variant

Being near Hollow Palm Technique make this one of the premium class to benefits from this leveling setup. You can swap as early as Act 1, and enjoy a smooth power curve until the Interlude. The Invoke ascendancy have I am the Thunder... for some extra lightning damage and fits in the build very well.

Ascending is optional and you should not need to ascend at all.

Other Class Variant

Witch Variant

Sorcerer Variant

Huntress Variant

Ranger Variant

Mercenary Variant

Warrior Variant

Disclaimer

  • This build is not intended for endgame content and is meant to take you through the campaign from level 1 to 65 only. This build uses a specific tree and will require you to respec later on to your build.
  • You'll also need some currency to get started because there are some required unique items in this build, and if you don't have it, expect the player's power to drop drastically.
  • Toward the end of the campaign, this build feel squishy, but you can very easily replace Foxshade and Meginord's Girdle with rare ES/Evasion Body Armour and rare Belt with resistances to make your character tankier

How to Use the Guide?

Equipment

Detail step-by-step gearing level-by-level, all you need to do is equip the right setup at the right time.

Skill Gems

Detail step-by-step on what skill to use level-by-level, all you need to do is follow the setup during the Act, and I'll tell you if anything change from the previous Act.

Passive Trees

Detail step-by-step on what points to prioritize and take first, with checkpoint at certain level for the correct power spikes.

Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Simple and effective setup from level 1 - 65
  • Minimum gear swap (and cheap)
  • Reusable across multiple class
  • Hollow Palm damage does NOT fall off
  • Squishy toward the end of the campaign (using level 1 Foxshade)

Build Variants

Equipment

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Note:

The only thing you need to pick up in this build is Flasks, always pick up the highest level one, and craft with Orb of Transmutation and Augmentation.

Leveling Equipment

Level 1

  • Equip Pillar of the Caged God (Weapon Set 1)
    • Socket with Lesser Storm Rune (x3 if you can get corrupted with extra socket)
  • Equip Wings of Caelyn
    • To get enough dexterity requirements
  • Equip Foxshade
  • Equip Meginord's Girdle
  • Equip Luminous Pace
  • Equip Splinter of Loratta (Weapon Set 2)
    • To use Disengage (if you don't want to, then skip this item)
  • Equip Northpaw

Level 5

  • Equip Crown of the Victor
  • Equip Torn Gloves (any bases) - replace Northpaw
    • Any gloves that give +1 to level of all Melee Skills
    • Int / Dex for attribute requirements
    • Optional: Can get corrupted for +1 to level of all Melee Skills

Level 8

  • Equip Jade Amulet / Lapis Amulet
    • Required stat here is +1 to level of all Melee Skills
    • Int / Dex for attribute requirements

Level 11

  • Equip Wanderlust - replace Luminous Pace
  • Equip Ruby
    • The only mandatory stat on this is Gain 1 Rage on Melee Hit

Level 14

  • Remove Pillar of the Caged God because you spec into Hollow Palm Technique here

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 35

Dex 45

Int 20

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Falling Thunder

Falling Thunder
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Disengage

Disengage

Killing Palm

Killing Palm
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Tempest Bell

Tempest Bell
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Herald of Thunder

Herald of Thunder
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Tempest Flurry

Tempest Flurry
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Follow the Gem Crafting Priority

The skill gems are placed in order of priority.

Use Support Gem Tier 5 to craft all of the support link whenever you get a new skill gems.

Rotation

AoE Clear

  1. Use Falling Thunder for AoE clear
    1. Use Killing Palm to get Power Charge and empower Falling Thunder
    2. Herald of Thunder will also helps with AoE clear

Single Target

  1. Use Falling Thunder with Power Charge from Killing Palm to shotgun the projectiles damage on target if possible, otherwise just spam Falling Thunder

After getting Tempest Flurry (level 14+), use Tempest Flurry + Tempest Bell instead

  1. Tempest Flurry to build up combo
  2. Drop Tempest Bell on top of target where your Tempest Flurry can hit both

Passive Tree

main:
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set 1:
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set 2:
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Beeline to Hollow Palm Technique (level 14)

Whenever you get there, remove Pillar of the Caged God, and you should be ready to fight Act 1 boss.

Attributes

Mainly get strength, but if you lack intelligence/dexterity on gear, you can also spec into intelligence/dexterity as well.

Changelog

9/15 - Add 4 link support gem

Video Guide

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