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[0.3] The True Power of Flicker Strike!

0.3 TTE

End Game

Monk

Invoker

Creator

By KevlarPeterson

Updated on Nov 9, 2025

Nov 9, 2025

Build Overview

The Monk 5.0 is the definitive evolution of the Flicker archetype — a high-speed, high-impact powerhouse capable of over 9 million damage per Flicker hit and exceeding 23 million total DPS when fully buffed. This version delivers unmatched consistency and survivability, combining lightning-fast aggression with heavy defensive layering for true endgame dominance.

Designed for both mapping and bossing, Monk 5.0 delivers fluid movement, relentless damage, and enough defences to thrive deep into endgame content. It’s the most complete version yet — no gimmicks, no wasted nodes, just pure efficiency and destruction.

Our core setup revolves around Flicker Strike powered by Cast on Critical & Profane Ritual to stack power charges infinitely. To keep the chaos rolling, we use Tempest Flurry for fast clears — it generates combos that feed Staggering Palm, giving us the defensive and offensive edge we need.

Key strengths:

100% Crit Chance: Every hit crits, eliminating RNG and ensuring maximum consistency.
Cast on Crit: Crits trigger linked spells, providing layered damage and utility.
Profane Ritual: Generates power charges on crits to sustain endless Flicker loops.
High DPS Scaling: High DPS with guaranteed crits allows instant pack and boss destruction.
Monk Mobility: Teleports across the map with each attack, enabling rapid map clearing.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Amazing Map Clear Speed & Damage
Great Single Target Damage
Absolute Tank

Requires Initial Start Up
Flicker Can Get You in STICKY situations
Everything Else Will Feel Slow after This

Build Variants

The most powerful Monk build yet, centred on Flicker Strike for unmatched speed and destruction.
Now running Unbound Avatar, paired with Wind Dancer & Staggering Palm for high amounts of survivability!
Balances raw damage, survivability, and momentum, defining the true endgame Monk experience.

Equipment

Set 1

Set 2

Equipment Priority

Helmet

Ancestral Tiara

Main Hand

Razor Quarterstaff

Left Ring

Unset Ring

Right Ring

Unset Ring

Amulet

Lunar Amulet

Body

Sleek Jacket

Gloves

Baroque Gloves

Belt

Headhunter

Boots

Sekhema Sandals

If you are struggling with currency, take body armour that has the suffix "#% increased Spirit Reservation Efficiency of Skills"
This will allow you to get a cheaper body armour at the cost of Evasion and Energy Shield, but you will keep that 240 spirit threshold.

If you do not have 75% on all resistances, take a belt with the resistances you need.

When you take Chaos Inoculation, this will make you immune to chaos damage, thus freeing up points to spend on more DPS or Abasement and/or Shimmering Mirage.

This is due to thresholds being based off HP, as you only have 1HP, your thresholds are VERY LOW!
We have factored in this and taken Dampening Shield to mitigate some of the threshold loss.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 65

Dex 115

Int 70

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Cast on Critical

Skeletal Warrior

Sacrifice

Profane Ritual

Flicker Strike

Wind Dancer

Unbound Avatar

Charge Regulation

Infernal Cry

Charged Staff

Staggering Palm

Herald of Thunder

Tempest Flurry

Gem Priority

+50

If you are struggling for spirit, you could take Reaper's Invocation and socket the same skills that are in Cast on Critical, this will free up roughly 70 spirit to be used elsewhere.

NOTE: Reaper's Invocation will need to be manually triggered after each melee kill (5 charges)

Passive Tree

main:

123

set 1:

set 2:

Energy shield, evasion and power charges are the main priority here! The more ES and EV, the more you'll survive. Aim for a EHP (hit points) over 60k. I currently have 77k EHP so I am very tanky.

Everything in RED is in WEAPON SET 1

Everything in GREEN is in WEAPON SET 2

Jewels

Get yourself jewels that give you the following:

Critical Damage Bonus, Elemental damage or added damage to chaos, Increased Energy Shield & Critical Hit Chance

The Jewels I have are:

Heart of the Well: 8% increased Skill Speed, 11% increased Critical Damage Bonus, Gain 12% of Damage as Extra Chaos Damage, Gain additional Stun Threshold equal to 10% of maximum Energy Shield

From Nothing: Passives in Radius of Walker of the Wildscan be Allocated without being connected to your tree

Time-Lost Sapphire: Small Passive Skills in Radius also grant 2% increased Chaos Damage, Small Passive Skills in Radius also grant 2% increased Cold Damage, Notable Passive Skills in Radius also grant 7% increased Critical Hit Chance, Notable Passive Skills in Radius also grant 10% increased Critical Damage Bonus

How it Plays

Mapping

1. At first start, swap to weapon set 2 and use Sacrifice on your Skeletal Warrior's to generate power charges.

2. Activate Charged Staff

3. Swap back to weapon set 2 and use Sacrifice on your Skeletal Warrior's to generate power charges again.

4. Press Flicker Strike the flick around the map

5. Cast on Critical will proc Profane Ritual for more power charges allowing you to Flicker Strike again.

6. Struggling for charges, use Profane Ritual on corpses to gain charges, also Staggering Palm paired with Culmination II & Ailith's Chimes will give you power charges when you expend a combo.

Bossing

1. At first start, swap to weapon set 2 and use Sacrifice on your Skeletal Warrior's to generate power charges.

2. Activate Charged Staff

3. Swap back to weapon set 2 and use Sacrifice on your Skeletal Warrior's to generate power charges again.

4. Double Infernal Cry for a huge increase in damage!

5. Destroy the boss!

6. Celebrate with a nice cup of tea.

If your Flicker Strike DPS is low, upgrade your gear and take more physical damage, or step back on, repeat steps 1-6.

How it Works

When you hit, due to 100% crit chance, this will cause Cast on Critical to activate, therefore proccing everything that is in there.

Flicker Strike attacks fast, so it crits a lot, so it generates charges from Profane Ritual, this paired with Rapid Casting II, Overabundance II and Compressed Duration II means you get power charges back almost instantly, allowing you to flicker again.