pillar of the caged god help

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googley_eyes#2107 wrote:

so how does this weapon work... does the weapon damage per strength mean i don't have to go into any passive damage nodes at all? what about if i have gain 25% of damage as chaos, wouldn't i want to scale chaos? what do i scale besides crit and flat damage? also is this viable without gemling legionnaire? i'm playing chayula monk right now and wondering if i can even use this weapon lol

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ex_IllusionisT#8571 wrote:

It does exactly what it says. 10% increased weapon damage per 5 strength.
Gemling passive only grants you the LIFE out of the strength. It doesn't double your strength, it doubles your life out of your current strength. So you can use this on Monk no problem.

However you need to know that you need to make a build that revolves around STR stacking. How much is this viable for monk I have no idea.

1. What about your gear? If you invest in STR, will you be able to equip your DEX/ES gear?
2. If you invest enough in DEX + INT, will the remaining dedicated STR points be beneficial enough?
3. What about Gems? How much INT + DEX or STR you need for your currently equipped gems?
4. Any damage. Doesn't matter if its chaos or elemental. Depending on what you got on your weapon. For best results I'd try to get 2-80 lightning damage. The more flat damage on the staff itself the better. Any damage node with EXTRA damage granted benefits you.

There's gloves with strength that can satisfy the attribute requirements of weapons and skill gems. Will using them take away much from your build?

You need to think about this. What you want to achieve, and first if its possible to do it. And if you have respec coins, try experimenting.

I had 30k dps on my tempest flurry with 500 strength. But my build was armor. So gearing wasn't an issue.