Lvl 85 Monk needs help with swapping to ES
Playing my own variant of Raxx’s ice strike invoker monk but at 2.5k EHP (60 70 70 72 res) (1.5 life) (1es) I keep seeing people have 3x my hp thru using more ES. I was wondering how people gear/set ups look to achieve this, would love to hear some anecdotes/look at gear sheets to see some t13+ viable monks who aren’t getting one shot nearly as often thanks to ES
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I have 80 phys reduc 86 evasion. Drops to 55 60 with acro, should I slot acrobatics in this scenario
Go Chaos Inoculation with Eternal youth and essentially become unkillable. Focus on getting high evasion and energy shield on your 4 main equipment slots, with at least a 1000 evasion / 400 es chest. The real kicker is that on the monk's side of the passive tree, there are tons of nodes that give you both Evasion and Energy Shield, when combined with "..and Protect me From Harm" this gives you a ton of power with every one of those nodes.
Aim for at least 3k energy shield, and make sure you are running Grim Feast, and you should be good.
Dude the monk passive tree has lots of nodes boosting both es + evasion
I personally have 64% armor 75% evasion 2k es and 1k total ho, really tanks lol
You need to cap elem resist minus chaos. Any map with elem pen or extra elem dmg will kill you
Get high eva/es chest and es helmet. Take spectral ward on tree and patient barrier above CI and then all the other hybrid es/eva nodes in monk should get you a good amount of es
What I did on my xbow monk:
- Got a high ES/Evasion chest + spectral ward notable on the passive tree
- Got a high ES helm + subterfuge mask notable on the passive tree
- Here is the pathing I used on the passive tree for my defensive setup
- Got an amulet that had +flat ES and +40-50% maximum energy shield
- Got 3-4 jewels with +15-20% maximum ES
The above setup with a decent chest/helmet should get you at least 3k ES. With further investment, you can get more - I am at about 5k ES right now.
If you want to go Chaos Inoculation, don't do it too early. Because you will be relying on grim feast/ghost dance for ES recharge, you want to have good complementary defences:
- At least 3k ES
- Evasion ~75% with protect me from harm allocated
- Capped, or near capped elemental resists
On top of what others have said, meditate with a weapon swap is also highly underrated. Get a wand with + skills and a focus with recharge rate and take a bunch of recharge rate on your weapon swap tree. You can recharge and double your energy shield in like 1 second whenever you want.
Pure Int helmet. Hybrid everything else. Take every evasion/es combo node.
Cap your res. Chaos is less important but the other 3 need me be 75%