Diablo Immortal: The Single Target Meta Monk Build

Fist of Thunder Inner Sanctuary Monk Skills and Equipment:

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Skills

1. Fist of Thunder (primary skill)

2. Inner Sanctuary

3. Seven-Sided Strike

4. Flying Dragon

5. Imprisoned Fist (PvM) and Mystic Strike (PvP)

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Main Hand

Leaping Shadow - Seven-Sided Strike now empowers you launching attacks at nearby enemies.

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Off-Hand

Fist of Aranoch - Flying Dragon increases your damage stacking up to 5 times.

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Main Hand 2

Order Without Sin - Causes every third hit of Fist of Thunder to continually damage the enemy (also triggers Pain Clasp).​

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Off-Hand 2

Vedenin's Sting (PvM) - Flying Dragon now shatters enemy armor increasing their damage taken.

Reticent Wind (PvP) - Mystic Strike now also causes you to become invisible for a short duration.

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Helmet

Humbled Horizon - Inner Sanctuary now follows you increasing you and your nearby allies primary attack speed.

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Chest

Nest of Vipers - Flying Dragon now causes your primary attack to release a damaging wave.

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Shoulders

Ripcurrent Shell (PvM) - Imprisoned Fist now causes your primary attacks to damage enemies while also slowing them.

Ascending Raincloud (PvP) - Mystic Strike increases your evasion rating significantly for a medium duration.

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Legs

Empty Cups - Flying Dragon now also releases damaging tornados. ​

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Recommended Sets

1. Grace of the Flagellant (4 Set) - Deals damage to enemies after every 5 hits against each target.

2. Vithu's Urges (2 Set) - Increases the duration of beneficial effects on you and your party members by 30%.

3. Banquet of Eyes (PvM 2 Set) - Increases damage to enemies by 15% when they have continual damage on them.

4. Untouchable Mountebank (PvP 2 Set) - Gives a 20% chance to gain an absorb shield when you take damage.

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Best Curses

1. Lashed - Your primary attacks give a chance to generate three crackling whips that damage enemies.

2. Wired - Useful for AoE to create a surge of lightning on kill that jumps between enemies on cooldown.

​3. Ghosted (PvP) - Optional for PvP to summon a minion to take some of your incoming damage.

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Best 5 Star Legendary Gems

1. Roiling Consequence - Increases your critical hit chance and causes critical hits to burn enemies.

2. Gloom Cask - Damages enemies in front of you with primary attacks and increases the damage of your primary attacks.

3. Golden Firmament - Causes multiple ranged wind attacks and increases your evasion rating.

4. Blood-Soaked Jade - Gives increased damage, reduces damage taken below 50% life, and increases movement speed.

5. Starfire Shard - Deals AoE damage and stuns enemies in PvP inside the Maw of the Deep legendary gem effect.

6. Blood Floe - Lower priority 5 star gem that increases damage, critical hit chance, critical hit damage, and causes bleed.

7. Maw of the Deep - Can be used at a high rank to deal damage, gain a damage buff, draw in enemies, and stun enemies.

8. Void Spark (PvM) - Deals AoE damage that's very effective for challenge dungeons, terror rifts, and speed farming.

9. ​Frozen Heart (PvP) - A strong legendary gem for PvP that gives an absorb shield and chills opponents.​​

Note: The Mother's Lament two star critical hit chance legendary gem can be used with the new Blood Floe critical hit chance and critical hit damage legendary gem in the place of Maw of the Deep at lower resonance levels.

 

Best 2 Star Legendary Gems

1. Pain Clasp - Gives high increased damage against enemies with a continual damage effect on them.

2. Viper's Bite - Deals damage over time and triggers the damage increase on the Pain Clasp legendary gem.

3. Mother's Lament - Increases your critical hit chance and causes a blood spike that makes enemies bleed.

4. Fervent Fang - Gives enemies a stacking damage taken increase when they are hit by an attack.

5. Specter Glass - Increases the damage taken by enemies after critical hits and increases your critical hit chance.

6. Power & Command - Alternates between increased skill damage and increased primary damage and it dispels you.​

7. Mourneskull - This legacy gem can be used to increase your damage and deal damage but it no longer drops.

8. Crimson Behelit (PvP) - This PvP legacy gem gives increased damage and reduced damage taken but it's drop disabled.

Note: Power & Command is the lowest priority two star legendary gem here and should be replaced first with a 5 star gem.

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Best 1 Star Starter Legendary Gems

1. Berserker's Eye (PvM) - Increases all of your damage and critical hit chance but also increases your damage taken.

2. Everlasting Torment - A budget option gem that deals damage over time on critical hits and increases your attack speed.

3. Entropic Well - A great budget one star legendary gem that increases your skill damage and attack speed.

Note: Berserker's Eye is a strong one star legendary gem and requires a high ranked up 5 star gem to match its damage.

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Best Familiars

1. Savior Duskprowler - Look for a 170+ Resilience legendary Duskprowler with the Savior skill which provides a cheat death. The 170+ Resilience is used to lower the cooldown of Savior but can be lower to make the familiar more affordable.

2. Broodtalon/Skitterwight - Look for Savior which provides a cheat death and Lingering Wounds for increased damage.

3. Rare Duskprowler - Relentless Strikes is the next best skill because it gives a chance to cast the Duskprowler shield twice. Innervate which gives a chance at resetting the player's skill cooldown, Steel Hide which gives a chance to block, Precision which gives critical hit chance, and Tenacity which lowers the cooldown of the shield are also desirable.

4. Magic Duskprowler - Duskprowler shields are hard to replace so a rare or magic ability Duskprowler is the budget option.

Note: Broodtalons and Skitterwights have status effects over a duration which increases the duration of Lingering Wounds.

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Normal Gems

Prioritize Tourmalines for added damage in red sockets and Citrines for Potency which increases harmful effects duration in yellow sockets. You should also socket your highest refinement Aquamarines and Sapphires which give increased armor and armor penetration in blue sockets. You can optionally combine all of your Rubies which give life and Topazes which give resistances into a couple Rubies and Topazes and use them inside your equipment for higher refinement. Refinement from gems is used to increase the attributes of the equipment that the gems are socketed in.

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Gem Notes

This is a primary attack build so the Gloom Cask legendary gem is highly recommended to increase the damage of your primary attacks and to repeatedly damage enemies in front of you when you use your primary attacks. The new Blood Floe gem is also a great option when it's combined with multiple sources of critical hit chance. Golden Firmament is a very strong 5 star legendary gem that has wind damage, increased evasion rating, and gives Firestorms which increase your wind damage when it's mixed with burning damage. The Seeping Bile legendary gem isn't recommended for this build because it's not needed to trigger the damage increase on the Pain Clasp legendary gem from having continual damage on the enemy. The Order Without Sin main hand essence already deals continual damage. Roiling Consequence and Mother's Lament are great for critical hit chance so you should consider rolling critical hit damage on every piece of gear with Reforge Stones when using these critical hit chance gems. One of your lowest priority legendary gems should also be switched to a Frozen Heart for PvP once you can get it to rank 4+ for an absorb shield and to chill opponents.​

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And that's all for the Fist of Thunder Monk Guide. For the meta PvP Monk you can also click here Meta PvP Monk Guide.​

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