I need some help with my Build. Monk Invoker

Hi guys,

As the title says, I need some help with my build.
I just started the endgame and I am struggling with Tier 1 maps......
I can kill most of the mobs and bosses without any problem because I'm running Combat Frenzy with Resonance for Power Charges which i use for my Charged Staff combo with the Tempest bell which works great.

But somehow..I cannot complete the 4th tier 1 map for endgame , I can select from Swamps and Forest tier 1 maps because these are the nodes that I have next to my "homebase" in the endgame map

Somehow, I keep getting one-shotted from somewhere I do not even see.. i just don;t really understand this...

I feel like I farmed currency to buy the items for nothing.
I really don;t get what I'm missing

I was thinking that I'm missing armour and block chance or something like that but I ran out of exalts/divine orbs and It's very unlikely that I'll be able to find something with these stats + block chance or extra armour or something.


For resistences I have 75% fire,lighting and cold with 60% Chaos
I converted my Life to Shield Energy and this gave me a small edge, I am surviving more after I converted my Life to the Shield, yet this is not enough.


Here is my build:
Armour CORRUPTED:
Armour CORRUPTED:
QUALITY: +20%
ENERGY SHIELD: 246
60% INCREASED Armour, Evasion and Energy SHIELD
+100 TO MAXIMUM ENERGY SHIELD
+31% TO CHAOS RESISTANCE
50% OF MAXIMUM LIFE CONVERTED TO ENERGY SHIELD

Weapon Corrupted:
PILLAR OF THE CAGED GOD LONG QUARTERSTAFF :
QUALITY: +20%
40% INCREASED PHYSICAL DAMAGE
16% INCREASED RANGE
2% INCREASED AREA OF EFFECT FOR ATTACKS PER 5 INTELLIGENCE
2% INCREASED ATTACK SPEED PER 5 DEXTERITY
10% INCREASED WEAPON DAMAGE PER 5 STRENGTH

RINGS Corrupted:
RAPTURE EYE BREACH RING s CORRUPTED:
RING 1:
REQUIRES: LEVEL 44
MAXIMUM QUALITY IS 50%
16% INCREASED CHAOS DAMAGE
+156 TO ACCURACY RATING
20% INCREASED RARITY OF ITEMS FOUND
+28% TO LIGHTNING RESISTANCE
+19% TO CHAOS RESISTANCE
48% INCREASED MANA REGENERATION RATE

RING 2:
REQUIRES: LEVEL 56
MAXIMUM QUALITY IS 50%
10% INCREASED LIGHTNING DAMAGE
16% INCREASED CHAOS DAMAGE
+129 TO EVASION RATING
+16% TO ALL ELEMENTAL RESISTANCES
+27% TO FIRE RESISTANCE
+39% TO COLD RESISTANCE


Boots Corrupted:
NEMESIS ROAD EXPERT PADDED LEGGINGS
ARMOUR: 146
ENERGY SHIELD: 51
REQUIRES: LEVEL 65, 61 STR, 61 INT
+12% TO COLD RESISTANCE
20% INCREASED ARMOUR, EVASION AND ENERGY SHIELD
10% INCREASED MOVEMENT SPEED
26% INCREASED ARMOUR AND ENERGY SHIELD
+40 TO MAXIMUM LIFE
+29% TO FIRE RESISTANCE
+35% TO COLD RESISTANCE
+32% TO LIGHTNING RESISTANCE

BELT Corrupted:
SOL BUCKLE DOUBLE BELT
CHARM SLOTS: 1
REQUIRES: LEVEL 61
23% INCREASED CHARM CHARGES GAINED
+162 TO MAXIMUM LIFE
+166 TO MAXIMUM MANA
38% INCREASED FLASK MANA RECOVERY RATE
+40% TO FIRE RESISTANCE
28.4 LIFE REGENERATION PER SECOND
18% REDUCED CHARM CHARGES USED

Gloves Corrupted:
LOATH FINGERS LAYERED GAUNTLETS
QUALITY: +9%
ARMOUR: 33
EVASION RATING: 27
+12% TO LIGHTNING RESISTANCE
20% INCREASED ARMOUR, EVASION AND ENERGY SHIELD
16% INCREASED ARMOUR AND EVASION
ADDS 4 TO 7 FIRE DAMAGE TO ATTACKS
ADDS 1 TO 19 LIGHTNING DAMAGE TO ATTACKS
+14 TO MAXIMUM LIFE
10% INCREASED RARITY OF ITEMS FOUND
+18% TO COLD RESISTANCE

Amulet Corrupted:
MIND SCARAB LAPIS AMULET
REQUIRES: LEVEL 44
+12 TO INTELLIGENCE
+12 TO INTELLIGENCE
20% INCREASED SPELL DAMAGE
+24 TO MAXIMUM ENERGY SHIELD +42 TO SPIRIT
+25 TO STRENGTH
+27% TO FIRE RESISTANCE
40% INCREASED MANA REGENERATION RATE


I attached here screenshots with the items/equipment.























Edit to include the Skills:
I'm running these skills because I don;t have additional Spirit to get more Buffs

I used to have another Quarterstaff that gave me 10k damage for Ice Strike, but for whatever reason it works better with the PILLAR OF THE CAGED GOD LONG QUARTERSTAFF even though it shows only 3.2k damage per hit
In reality, the admage goes way higher, maybe because of the increased speed of attacks ? No idea why/how it functions liek that


Ice Strike
Charged Staff
Tempest Bell
Herald of Ice
Herald of Thunder
Grim Feast


I mainly use this guide for help:
Therefore my Skills/Buffs are a replcia of this with the same support gems ,skilsl and buffs
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/kq5ye0fj

Which skills/gems do you use ?
Maybe add additional pictures from the skills and Gems.

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Baldwithgun#9712 wrote:

Which skills/gems do you use ?
Maybe add additional pictures from the skills and Gems.

You are right I updated this now
I mainly use this guide for help:
Therefore my Skills/Buffs are a replcia of this with the same support gems ,skilsl and buffs
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/kq5ye0fj

If you play exactly this build your body armor is the point maybe
In the guide they use the "all spirit comes from body armor evasion and shield rating" (middle of the tree)
so based on that your I guess your spirit is not enough to activate all skills.

I had a similar Problem all my Spirit skills shown as active but it feels like something wrong. That was a display bug. After disable some and try to re-enable I see the problem. I changed to a armor with 1000 Evasion and 300 shield - problem gone

maybe I´m wrong in that case but check if you have the same bug maybe

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Baldwithgun#9712 wrote:

If you play exactly this build your body armor is the point maybe
In the guide they use the "all spirit comes from body armor evasion and shield rating" (middle of the tree)
so based on that your I guess your spirit is not enough to activate all skills.

I had a similar Problem all my Spirit skills shown as active but it feels like something wrong. That was a display bug. After disable some and try to re-enable I see the problem. I changed to a armor with 1000 Evasion and 300 shield - problem gone

maybe I´m wrong in that case but check if you have the same bug maybe

If you're referring to the Ascendency skill from the Ascendency menu called "Lead me through Grace" then unfortunately I do not have that one yet

Lead me Through Grace has the following bonuses:
Gain 1 Spirit for every 6 Energy Shield on equipped Body Armour.
Gain 1 Spirit for every 15 Evasion Rating on equipped Body Armour.
Cannot gain Spirit from Equipment


I do not have this one yet because I do not have any new ascendency poitns available, I'm struggling with Set 3 for Trial of Sekhemas and Trial of Chaos from teh 2n floors/ 10 trials

I do not have trial of chaos with 10 trials and for Trials of Sekhemas I loose on the "2nd floor" because of the honor
So I'm still trying to obtain two new additional ascendency points

I noticed your stacking attributes, I assume for your staff.

When I first swapped to this build (I was in your same spot, but at T13+) the first item I got was the staff also because I dropped 4 of them and figured why not. BUT, HOWA is the key piece for attribute stacking a monk, I don't even used caged God anymore because I saw a massive damage increase using a 2 attk per sec. Crit/crit bonus staff with HOWA. just having the caged god staff isn't really enough, as even with strength stacked to the moon your damage won't be great. AOE bonus is great for heralds, etc.

Also, a 3 charm belt is very helpful, because I can almost guarantee the out of the blue one shots are actually not one shots, but a stun that results in getting dead faster than you can track. I say this from experience.

I just broke down and dropped 2 divine on a 3 charm slot Fine belt and run gold/thawing/stone charms and saw a night and day difference, especially in Vaal heavy maps.

But anyway, stuns and freezes are your worst enemy, and they seem like a one shot, but really it's a stun that results in getting hit by 100 little hits all at once.

I could be wrong, but I would say at least look into that.

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NotPivot#9831 wrote:

I noticed your stacking attributes, I assume for your staff.

When I first swapped to this build (I was in your same spot, but at T13+) the first item I got was the staff also because I dropped 4 of them and figured why not. BUT, HOWA is the key piece for attribute stacking a monk, I don't even used caged God anymore because I saw a massive damage increase using a 2 attk per sec. Crit/crit bonus staff with HOWA. just having the caged god staff isn't really enough, as even with strength stacked to the moon your damage won't be great. AOE bonus is great for heralds, etc.

Also, a 3 charm belt is very helpful, because I can almost guarantee the out of the blue one shots are actually not one shots, but a stun that results in getting dead faster than you can track. I say this from experience.

I just broke down and dropped 2 divine on a 3 charm slot Fine belt and run gold/thawing/stone charms and saw a night and day difference, especially in Vaal heavy maps.

But anyway, stuns and freezes are your worst enemy, and they seem like a one shot, but really it's a stun that results in getting hit by 100 little hits all at once.

I could be wrong, but I would say at least look into that.

Hi Bro, thank you for your reply, I think you might be right here.
You're right, i think the stuns are what get me..they stun/freeze me and they keep hitting me at the same time too fast to realize that the stuns are the problem.

Add me ingame if want, I got a ton of old monk weapons and gear and will be running maps this evening around 1800 GMT. Usually couple of us just burning through maps.

I’m U.K. and play 1800-0000 mostly :)

Character name: Valenthee

I'm new in POE so if I tell stupid things don't kill me but maybe try to kick out Herald of thunder.
Try wind dancer in combination with Ghost dancer - one gives you evasion and the other one pushes your energy shield based on evasion.
Heorld of thunder was the last what I activated in my build after everything else was working. (was not part of my build but after I have spirit left was in my head why not, try it)

Btw. i have as well just the points from campaign in my Ascendency but that's already enough to run 14-15 maps if everything else works.

I run this build right now : https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides/ice-strike-invoker-build-guide because im completely new and there is enough other stuff I have to understand :P

I think it's a combination of not having a belt with 3 charm slots to equip cahrms with immunity to freeze, poison and stun and also nto having Block and Armour on my gear.

I'll need to drop back to act 3 endgame and redo the enditre act to farm some items that I can use to dissenchant to get more regals and exalts to use later on to buy something extra
Like a good bgelt with charms and a good armour with evansion,energy shield and with armour starts...

I'm stuck on tier 1 maps which is a shame, so..after 120 hours I think I'll need to rethink everything from scratch

Maybe start a new calss from scratch.

Thanks guys, I think its just me being unlucky and focusing on the wrong gear and wasting my exalts to buy them :)))