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PoE 2 Build

Tri's Simple Tempest Flurry Invoker

Monk

Invoker

Creator

TalkativeTri

Starter

0.1 Early Access

By Talkative Tri

Updated on Feb 25, 2025

Feb 25, 2025

Build Overview

Hey exiles! This is a feel-good, powerful beginner build for Monks in Path of Exile 2. I've cobbled this together by venturing around the tree looking for nodes that make sense, grabbing skills and supports that mesh well together, and just experimenting with things as I go. It BLASTED the campaign, did well in the early endgame (white/yellow waystones), and is now doing quite well in t15+ alongside pinnacles, but it is no where near optimized. I say it provides an ethical experience, especially bossing.

Latest update 2/25/2025: Smoothly clearing t16/17/18 waystones and downed T3 Arbiter.

Enjoy!

Equipment

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Helmet

Expert Face Mask

Main Hand

Advanced Slicing Quarterstaff

Left Ring

Ring

Right Ring

Amethyst Ring

Amulet

Amber Amulet

Body

Expert Waxed Jacket

Gloves

Expert Spined Bracers

Belt

Ornate Belt

Boots

Advanced Hunting Shoes

Your weapon is the MOST important part of the build. Focus on a good increased physical damage, +X to +X physical damage, and increased elemental damage with attacks rolls. Extras are attack speed, stun duration, increased crit chance/damage, and leech/gain mana/life on hits. The LARGEST DPS INCREASE in the "extra" category are the crit-based affixes, but they are super hard to secure with the important base damage increases in the must-have category.

All armour bases should be a mix of evasion and energy shield. Energy shield is big and powerful right now. I was using evasion bases until t13 maps, swapped to energy shield, and instantly stopped dying every other map. I've also decided to NOT go CI and just stack a good chunk of Life/ES/Evasion alongside capped resistances and it's working out well.

Charms/flasks are fluid. Use what works for you. I still only use one charm, the Thawing Charm.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 40

Dex 60

Int 25

Expand all

Tempest Flurry

Tempest Bell

Charged Staff

Combat Frenzy

Ghost Dance

Wind Dancer

Herald of Thunder

Hand of Chayula

Gem Priority

+26

Tempest Flurry: auto attacks/clear/bosses

Charged Staff: aoe/clear

Tempest Bell: tanky rares/bosses/stunning, DOUBLE BELL

Hand of Chayula: curse bosses/tanky rares and lightning expose

Herald of Thunder: Electrocute generation + charges

Combat Frenzy: Power charge generation

Wind Dancer/Ghost Dance: defensive buffs

Passive Tree

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

Going for: Criticals, Lightning, Shock, Evasion, Energy Shield, Attack Speed, and Quarterstaff nodes.

How it Plays

Super fast and smooth. Active dodging needed for AOE slams, projectiles are a non-issue now with evasion. Feels melee most of the time but can act as pseudo-melee with Charged Staff power.