Path of Exile 2 Monk: Elementalist and Servant of Chayula Builds

Monk in Path of Exile 2 — a melee class that has mastered martial arts to perfection and uses all kinds of magic in battles. The monk is often played off of spells related to lightning and shock, and also uses frost and ice. The class is well suited for destroying crowds of enemies in the heat of battle: opponents will not be able to come close if they are frozen and shocked.

In this guide, we will examine in detail the most effective Monk builds in PoE 2, touch on the paths of leveling the Elemental Summoner and the branch of the Servant of Chayula. We will consider skills, passive skills, select skill stones and provide a list of informative video guides.

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PoE 2 Monk Builds for Leveling

Next, we'll look at the universal variations: the starting one and one for each low-level specialization.

Monk Starter Build for the Beginning of the Game

Once you start the game and choose the Monk as your starting class, you will have to complete the first two chapters for this character, after which it will become available The Test of Sehem. At the same time, it will be possible to complete the Ascension, transferring the hero with a combat staff to a completely different level. During the first two acts, you will have to get used to the hero's skills, master close combat and magic, and also decide on the further vector of development.

The starting build for the Monk should be chosen with the utmost seriousness in order to quickly clear the story content of the first acts and not linger in one place.

Equipment

To create a good build, you first need to figure out what equipment the hero needs and what items are suitable for the Monk. Class, as well as Witch, is somehow connected with magic. To open the necessary skills, the hero needs to upgrade Intelligence and Dexterity - these are its main parameters.

In equipment, pay attention to resistance to various elements, evasion, all sorts of parameters for enhancing attacks. The table lists universal and optimal options for modifiers for the Monk's equipment:

Subject	Modifiers
Helmet	Bronya Evasion Rate Evasion chance Resistance to fire, cold, lightning
Body armor	Evasion chance Maximum health Resistance to fire, cold, lightning Bronya
Gloves	Evasion chance Maximum health Max Mana Bronya Lightning resistance Draining physical damage at the expense of health
Belt	Maximum health Max Mana Resistance to lightning, fire, cold Increases the amount of spell charges received
Boots	Max Mana Movement speed Evasion chance Bronya Resistance to cold and fire
Rings	Physical damage from attacks Resistance to chaos and lightning Max Mana Compensate for physical damage with mana
Amulet	Level for all melee skills Critical Strike Chance Maximum health Bronya Evasion chance Lightning resistance
Weapon	Increased physical damage Extra physical damage Level for all melee skills Increased attack speed Life Siphon Draining physical damage at the expense of health

Afterwards, you can improve your equipment with runes; if you don't have any slots yet, add them using astromancy spheres:

• Can take Rune of Rebirth for regeneration for destruction.
• Install Rune of Inspiration to gain mana for killing enemies and increase base mana regeneration.
• Rune of Reason Suitable if you are experiencing a severe shortage of mana, which can happen in the early stages of the game.

Skills and support stones

The main skills for the Monk deal physical, electrical or frost damage. Most of them operate at close range, which allows the character to quickly deal with crowds of enemies. The hero begins the game with the skill "Staff Strike" and the first magic skill "Thunderclaps".

In the Battle Staff branch, focus on skills that use lightning. Some of the skills are aimed at using frost or physical attacks. The table shows the main set of skills and support stones.

Skill	Support Stones
Ice Strike	Martial Tempo Growing up
Falling Thunder	Lightning Infusion Perpetual Charge
Glacial Cascade	Cold Infusion Concentrated Effect
Killing Palm	Profusion LifeDrain
Wave of Frost	Deep Freeze
Tempest Flurry	Driving
Tempest Bell	Magnified Effect

Main attack skill - Tempest Flurry, reinforced Charged by Staff. The latter can be obtained by dodging with Lingering Illusion. Use Tempest Bell to further increase the numbers dealt to enemy groups and bosses.

Flicker Strike It is used against groups of mobs and bosses, since the skill's damage is extremely high and it is difficult to replace it with anything else, especially in stalemate situations.

Passive skills

First of all, it is worth pumping up to "Flow like water", and from it to "Flow State". These skills will increase agility and intelligence, allowing you to equip normal equipment, increase attack speed and cast spells. The state of flow will increase the speed of skills and mana regeneration.

The next key skill is "Stylish bend", it will increase the amount of armor destroyed by enemies under the influence of conditions. Additionally, the skill increases strength and physical damage.

Upgrade "Storm Splash" - the skill reduces enemies' resistance to cold and lightning. Along the way, you will be able to get bonuses to your stats.

Then take on "Inner strength"to get a bonus to critical hits and maximum energy charges. You can also pump up skills around for additional gain.

"Thirst for Power", which is located opposite the “Inner Strength”, will give an increase to the received energy charges, and also increase their maximum number.

Move to the edge of the passive skill tree to unlock "Power Over the Edge" — the skill will give you maximum energy charges. Leveling up a Monk requires increasing this parameter as often as possible, and you will also receive other useful buffs along the way.

From Storm Splash, go down to "Skills". This triangle will give a huge boost to the agility stat, which will be useful for both skills and equipment. Then open "Animal skin" - it will increase body armor evasion by 100%, closing another important requirement of the class.

Rotation

The Monk's playstyle is to increase damage in every way possible to quickly destroy bosses and enemies. Along the way, various skill combinations are used, mainly cold and lightning:

1. Lure enemies towards you, dodge attacks to create an illusion and gain a charge.
2. Strengthen your staff and use Tempest Flurry.
3. Always use Storm Bell when fighting bosses to get the buff.
4. When fighting crowds of enemies, alternate between frost and lightning to keep your enemies at a short distance and avoid taking damage if you can no longer dodge.

Elementalist Monk Builds for Leveling

The Elementalist combines a strong focus on two trees at once and can veer towards either one. The Elementalist ascension in PoE 2 includes the Lightning Caller and the Frost Monk, however the emphasis is on lightning to please the damager.

Developing along this path will allow you to use the already familiar lightning and frost skills. Talents will make it even stronger, increasing the main parameters.

Skills and support stones

Next, we will examine in detail the main skills that the Elemental Summoner build includes. In the table, you can find out about the support stones:

Skill	Support Stones
Storm Wave	Martial Tempo upheaval Primal Armament
Elemental Expression	scatter shot Elemental Focus Wildshards
Charged Staff	P Perpetual Charge Ruthless
Orb of Storms	Overabundance Lightning Exposure
Wind Dancer	Clarity Vitality
blasphemy	Temporal Chains Ritualistic Curse Magnified Effect
Herald of Thunder	electrocute Concentrated Effect
Combat Frenzy	Profusion
Ghost Dance	Fast Forward

Storm Wave — The main skill that the hero uses to destroy mobs and bosses. Although Upheaval reduces the power of each Storm Wave, the increased number of charges ultimately increases the damage when hitting a single target. Add Heft as a support gem to neutralize the negative effect.

Charged Staff, Elemental Expression, Orb of Storms will deal more damage from Storm Wave and critical hits, while Wind Dancer, Blasphemy, and Ghost Dance ensure survival. Combat Frenzy is used to generate staff charges along with Resonance in the passive skill tree.

Passive skills

Start leveling up your passives by getting "Mindfulness" to increase evasion and maximum energy shield, which will be useful for survivability and the beginning of the battle.

Open "AC" to increase the speed of mana regeneration if the enemy has recently been shocked. The skill buffs the strength of the shock applied, which is useful for all lightning skills.

Pay attention to the petal with "Multiple attacks". They will increase attack speed by default, and also give a boost if damage has been taken recently. In addition, there will be a buff to strength.

"Resonance" — one of the key passive skills, the skill grants:

• Energy charges instead of rage charges.
• Fury charges instead of endurance charges.
• Stamina charges instead of energy charges.

Go to the right side and open "The Throat-Cutter" - it will increase the bonus to critical hits, but will reduce the chance of a critical hit.

To the left of Dexterity, open "Falcon Technique" to increase attack speed by 1% for every 15 agility. So, by pumping the main stat, you can get a bonus.

Video Guides for Elementalist

For your convenience, we have selected the best video guides for the Elemental Summoner. From them, you can quickly learn about key skills, build features, and much more.

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Builds for Monk Servant Chayula during leveling

Chayula's Servant in PoE 2 uses the powers of darkness by exchanging resources spirit to absorb and enhance attacks. Instead of the elemental mastery that a normal Monk and Elementalist has, the Servant of Chayula focuses on dealing chaos damage combined with martial skill.

Skills and support stones

The build for the Servant of Chayula uses unique skills that were not used in previous builds. From the table below you will find out the main skill pool and about the support stones needed to strengthen the character:

Skill	Support Stones
Dark Effigy	Withering Touch Font of Mana
Into the Breach	Clarity Vitality
Sigil of Power
Essence Drain	Intense Agony Arcane Tempo
Hexblasting
Contagion	P Nuisance Swift Affliction
blasphemy	Temporal Chains Ritualistic Curse Magnified Effect

Into the Breach necessary for mana regeneration, Gasoline Drain и Contagion - to attack enemies and further spread AoE. Increasing the radius will allow you to destroy more enemies per cast.

Dark Effigy Required to apply debuffs to enemies and increase your own damage. The totem spams effects endlessly, allowing you to deal with enemies faster.

Passive skills

In addition to the standard nodes that the Ascension of the Monk opens, it is worth pumping a few more important cells.

Return to the beginning of the path. From “Mindfulness” go down to the “roots” and open "To walk like fog"to increase your movespeed, gain intelligence, and increase your mana regeneration rate. It will be very useful later.

From the branch with "Alternating current" go up and go left. There are two key branches here:

• Inescapable horror and the cells in front of it - enhance chaos attacks, increase the duration of the skill effect.
• A powerful spell and the cells in front of it - increase the damage from spells several times, but slightly reduce the speed of their casting.

Control zone, located near the previous two branches, will allow you to expand the area of ​​effect of curses and strengthen them. Additionally, it applies a small slowdown to enemies so that they do not corner the hero.

"Limited Opportunities" will increase damage from hits on shackled enemies and slow down movement speed if the targets have debuffs of the corresponding type.

The optimal branch for dark forces is "Withering", which allows you to additionally exhaust targets without debuffs, increases the effect of Exhaustion itself. Adjacent cell "Pure chaos" Deals additional chaos damage.

The last key tree is the Mana Trident:

• Witchcraft intensity Increases spell damage for every 100 maximum mana.
• Ether flow Reduces the regeneration rate when in one place, but increases it when moving.
• Raw Mana Increases the maximum mana reserve, but increases its cost for casting skills.

Video guides for Servant Chayula

To better understand the features of the Servant of Chayula, you can watch several detailed and informative video guides.

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Elementalist Monk Endgame Build

The late version of the Elementalist is quite easy to play, clears locations very quickly and has no problems defeating bosses or defending against enemy attacks. However, there may be some difficulties with the selection of equipment, in the worst case, the necessary items can always be purchased on the market from players.

Skills and support stones

In the late game, most players favor a combination of elements, moving away from a hard focus on lightning. The final skill set with support gems looks like this:

Skill	Support Stones
Ice Strike	Cold Infusion Martial Tempo Growing up Primal Armament Inspiration
Tempest Bell	Rage Heavy Swing Glaciation Overabundance
Shattering Palm	Run Blind Ice bite
Charged Staff	Perpetual Charge P Mai
Herald of Ice	Magnified Effect Cold Mastery Elemental Focus
Wind Dancer	Culling Strike Cannibalism Vitality
Ghost Dance	Fast Forward Clarity
Combat Frenzy	Profusion Precision
Charge Infusion
Unbound Avatar	Fire Mastery Lightning Mastery

This set gives fast clearing speed, high mobility and a good DPS indicator. In the case of a boss attack, you can swap Unbound Avatar for Cast on Shock. The rotation looks like this:

Ice Strike ×4 🡪 Tempest Bell 🡪 Charged Staff 🡪 Tempest Bell 🡪 Ice Strike for finishing.

Equipment

When choosing equipment, it is worth focusing on general recommendations for stats. As a good setup, you can choose the following set, adjusting it according to the situation:

Subject	Modifiers
Expert Veiled Mask	Resistance to chaos Evasion and Energy Shield Maximum health Max Mana Agility Fire and frost resistance
Expert Scalper's Jacket	Evasion chance Maximum Energy Shield Increased Evasion and Energy Shield Lowering the attribute requirement Resistance to chaos Health regeneration
Advanced Spiral Wraps	Increased Evasion and Energy Shield Additional physical damage from attacks Maximum health Attack speed Fire and frost resistance
Practical belt	Maximum health Increased Mana Bottle Regeneration Resistance to chaos, fire, frost Extra physical damage
Expert Frayed Shoes	Increased movement speed Maximum health Max Mana Fire resistance Lightning resistance Stun Threshold
Amethyst Ring	Fire Damage Accuracy Maximum health Agility Intelligence Lightning resistance
Amethyst Ring	Evasion Maximum health Resistance to fire, frost, lightning
Azure Amulet	Accuracy Increases maximum energy shield Maximum health Level of all spells Frost and lightning resistance
Expert Slicing Quarterstaff	Physical damage in percent Extra physical damage Accuracy Critical Strike Chance Critical Hit Bonus Attack speed

As runes, you can consider the following options for slots:

• Two Iron Runes in a staff.
• Takati's soul core in the helmet.
• Two Iron Runes in body armor.
• Storm Rune in gloves.
• Takachi's soul core in boots.

Passive skills

In passive skills, you need to continue to build up your base. First, you should look at "Deep Trance", it increases attack speed and reduces skill cost. There is a nearby "Inner Faith", increasing evasion, maximum energy shield, and reducing the effect of curses.

Once you reach the edge of the tree, you can take a look at the elemental passives:

• "The Discreet Killer" Increases critical damage bonus and increases critical hit chance.
• "Thin Ice" Increases the rate at which the Freeze gauge accumulates and increases the power of attacks on frozen enemies.
• "Severe frost" Increases the rate at which the freeze scale accumulates.

Go to the other side along the edge and open "Power Over the Edge", it increases the maximum energy charges.

Unblock "The Throat-Cutter" to increase the bonus to critical hit and decrease the chance of critical hit. Below you will find a number of useful skills:

• "Whirlwind Attack" to increase attack speed with staffs and knock back enemies on critical hits.
• "Unity with the River" to increase defense with a staff in hand and increase the rate of accumulation of the scale of numbness, freezing and stunning with combat staves.
• "The Art of Hand-to-Hand Combat" to increase accuracy and critical damage bonus.
• "Unity with the Storm": Quarterstaff skills that absorb energy projectiles count as having absorbed an additional energy charge.

Below you'll find a few key passives that the Invoker Monk build relies on:

• "Developed reflexes" - increased evasion and agility.
• "Animal Skin" - Increases evasion from body armor by 100%.
• "The Coming Disaster" Increases fire, cold, and lightning damage while under the influence of Heralds.
• "Heart Stopping" Increases intelligence and critical hit chance.
• "Heartbreaking" Increases critical hit bonus and gives strength.
• "A Strike Through" Increases critical hit chance.

Video Guides for Elementalist Monk

For a better understanding of the basics of building an Elemental Monk, you can check out a selection of video guides.

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Endgame build of Chayula Servant Monk

By the end of the game, the Chayula Servant Monk differs from the Elemental Summoner in that he focuses more on chaos rather than physical stats.

Overall power peak should be the same as Invoker, playstyle is almost the same except for skill pool. Good at clearing map and killing bosses, but has relatively high difficulty compared to the same Conjurer.

Skills and support stones

The Servant of Chayula's endgame skill set is rounded out by a number of key skills and a large number of support gems that will increase his peak power. The table below shows the entire setup:

Skill	Support Stones
Ice Strike	Martial Tempo Ice bite Primal Armament Inspiration Growing up
Tempest Bell	Overabundance P Lifetap Close Combat. Rage
Charged Staff	Driving Cold Exposure Lightning Exposure Strip Away Culling Strike
Shattering Palm	Ambush Cold Infusion Cold Mastery Cold Penetration Rising Tempest
Herald of Ice	Innervate Magnified Effect Momentum
Herald of Thunder	Concentrated Effect Lightning Infusion Shock Syphon
Combat Frenzy	Profusion
Into the Breach	herbalism Cannibalism Vitality Clarity Precision
Hand of Chayula	Heightened Curse Unbreakable
Mantra of Destruction	deliberate murderous intent Mobility

To clear bosses you can use the following skill rotation:

Hand of Chayula 🡪 Ice Strike ×3 🡪 Tempest Bell 🡪 Ice Strike ×4 🡪 Mantra of Destruction.

Equipment

When equipping the Servant of Chayula, it is worth following the general recommendations, but also choosing items to increase the most significant sources of damage and increase survivability. You can focus on the following setup, adjusting it according to the circumstances:

Subject	Modifiers
Expert Feathered Tiara	Maximum Energy Shield Increase energy shield Maximum health Resistance to fire, frost, lightning
Expert Hexer's Robe	Maximum Energy Shield Increase energy shield Intelligence Resistance to chaos and fire
Expert Spiral Wraps	Increased Evasion and Energy Shield Maximum health Increased Critical Damage Bonus Increase attack speed Lightning resistance
Rawhide Belt	Maximum health Max Mana Accelerated Health Bottle Regeneration Cells for amulets Resistance to chaos Accelerated receipt of bottle charges
Expert Lizardscale Boots	Movement speed Evasion chance Agility Frost and fire resistance
Amethyst Ring	Physical damage Lightning Damage Maximum of life Attributes Supplement Intelligence Elemental Resistance
Amethyst Ring	Physical damage Lightning Damage Maximum of life Intelligence Attributes Supplement Mana Regeneration
Star Amulet	Evasion chance Maximum Energy Shield Spirit Level of all melee skills Critical Strike Chance Critical Hit Bonus
Expert Barrier Quarterstaff	Physical damage Extra physical damage Accuracy Critical Strike Chance Attack speed Level of all melee skills

As for runes, you can take a closer look at the following options:

• Two Iron Runes in a staff.
• Two Iron Runes in body armor.
• Desert Rune in helmet.
• Glacier Rune in gloves.
• Storm Rune in boots.

Passive skills

First, pump up the triangle with the elements:

• "Ringing Frost" Increases elemental damage if the target has recently been chilled.
• "Rolls of Thunder" will increase elemental damage if the target has recently been shocked.

Then go to the skills on the right:

• "A Sure Strike" for agility and critical hit chance.
• "Hit where it hurts" for a bonus to critical damage and intelligence.
• "Deadly Force" to increase damage if there was a recent critical hit.

Scroll down and open "Flicker" to increase the energy shield recharge speed. "Intangibility" Allows you to dodge more often if your energy shield has recently started recharging.

At the edge of the tree are several key skills that could previously be encountered when leveling up Invoker:

• "Whirlwind Attack" to increase attack speed with staffs and knock back enemies on critical hits.
• "Unity with the River" to increase defense with a staff in hand and increase the rate of accumulation of the scale of numbness, freezing and stunning with combat staves.
• "The Art of Hand-to-Hand Combat" to increase accuracy and critical damage bonus.
• "Unity with the Storm": Quarterstaff skills that absorb energy projectiles count as having absorbed an additional energy charge.

Below you will find several key passive skills, they are universal for this class and will suit the Servant of Chayula:

• "Developed Reflexes" - Increased evasion and agility.
• "Beast Skin" - Increases evasion from body armor by 100%.
• "The Coming Calamity" increases Fire, Frost, and Lightning damage while affected by Heralds.
• Heartstop increases Intelligence and Critical Strike chance.
• Heartbreaking increases your critical strike bonus and grants strength.
• "Through and Through" increases critical strike chance.

Video guides for Monk Servant Chayula

To easily assemble the Servant of Chayula, you can watch several video guides on video hosting sites.

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