D3 Monk Leveling Guide S28 | 2.7.5

Greetings Monkies! Welcome to our Monk Leveling Guide! D3 Seasonal player? First timer? This build is friendly for either! Our leveling build can easily do any “type” of leveling up. Thankfully, Monk is one of the easiest classes to level up.

I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU OPEN our D3 Leveling Process (all classes). It answers the usual leveling questions. “Leoric’s?” “Grinding?” There’s a ton of supplemental info there.

S28’s Altar of Rites VASTLY affects leveling

S28 is the ‘Season of Massacre Leveling’ due to Node A in Alter of Rites:
“Double massacre exp bonus and duration”.
Every other method is made worse by this. Also, Node C is “no item level requirement”…

First of all, see our Altar of Rites guide / order to get a clearer picture of what I’m talking about. Basically, this hinges around “Opening your first Challenge Rift Cache”, and if you want to take it ASAP. Also, there couple notes on Node C there, specifically how to get Node C with or without the cache.

I’ll be pasting this reminder in all leveling related content. GL leveling your monk in S28!

Monk Leveling – Quick Navigation:
Full Leveling Build | Skills & Reminders | Leoric’s Crown? | Notes | Fresh Level 70!

!!! Challenge Rift Material Spending !!!

As mentioned in our general all classes leveling guide, you SHOULD be doing the Challenge Rift and WISELY be spending the resulting materials from it. TLDR: Challenge Rift -> Attempt Deaths Breath upgrade and Blood Shard gambles for a good legendary.

For a leveling Monk, the chances are only so-so…

Death’s Breath

Upgrade Daibo. This is only a 3.5/8 chance to be god/suck. Don’t get your hopes up. Balance, Incense and Flow are great. Flying Dragon is “fine”, and you got 50% chance for utter trash. Better start prayin’.

Blood Shards

Gamble for Boots at L1 to 15. The only two possible legendaries are Riviera Dancers which makes leveling GG, or Crudest Boots which is only a modest upgrade. Again, better start prayin’.

Monk Leveling: FULL BUILD per Level

This build is not SUPER optimized for MASSACRE (S28, you should be doing it)|
but it doesn’t need to be, given how easy it is to level.

Put your level in the box on the upper right – or hit back / next found in the bottom right!

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Monk Leveling: Skills & Reminders Summary

Monk Leveling & Leoric’s Crown – When, and is it worth it?

Review our D3 Leveling Process (all classes) for more notes on this. Summary:

It’s worth it || You must be minimum L16 (to be safe)
You must beat him in Campaign Mode | You must not have beaten him previously

Once you reach L16 you can get the process rolling. Personally, I don’t go for it ASAP, but do it when I wanna chill a bit. When you’re ready, the idea is get this process done as fast and painlessly as possible. Set the game to easy if you like.

Equip Dashing Strike-Way of the Falling Star, and Fleet Footed (Passive). Loosely kill guys while prioritizing travel speed. Exploding Palm is a good “set and forget” just to gain some residual EXP while speeding through.

Why wait? Some guys are extremely stubborn and continue to open the game on Campaign and switch to adventure on hitting Leoric. Imagine doing that without all of those mobility skills, garbage weapons, and forced to leave mobs. Yep, slow as hell.

Monk: Leveling Notes

Playing the Build

It’s hard to mess up a Monk! More so with this build to make leveling extra easy – you’ll be blazing through to max level in no time! Spirit generation is key to this build. WoL is the most expensive skill in the Monk repertoire, learn not to spam to the last man standing! Leave stragglers, use your generators, Templar and Mystic Ally to finish them off. WoL is expensive, man.

Dashing Strike – is the key to leveling up “fast”. This ultra versatile skill helps you re-position and travel. Learn to abuse this early and often as you’ll likely be using this no matter what type of Monk you’ll be playing.

Exploding Palm is the anti-elite skill here, and anti-chunk. Using it can be quite frustrating to learn but it’s worth it.

Mystic Ally-Air Ally: when using this skill, DO NOT wait for your Spirit to be dry. Use it at around half since the earlier you use it, the earlier it will come up.

You’re pretty much set in your build around level 30, but everyone’s path to max level is different, and you might pick up stuff (or NOT pick up stuff) that causes a little imbalance in your build. Use the below tabs to adjust your build if needed.

Followers – Hire them!

Templar is usually the BEST choice for healing and Spirit  generation. Choose all left skills.

Crafted Weapons

Once you reach level 8, craft a blue 2H axe. Then at level 16, craft the highest possible 2-handed axe you can to significantly increase your damage output. If you’re lucky enough to get a socketed weapon, stick another red gem into it. Don’t forget to “train” your Blacksmith to its highest possible level as often as you can. And occasionally check for craftable axe.

Don’t forget to craft armor to replace any low level ones, if you still have them at this point.

Monk: Gems while Leveling up

Red gems (Ruby) should always be combined as much as possible as it’s the best gem to put in BOTH your Helmet and Weapon during the leveling up phase.

Green gems (Emerald), for additional Dexterity, go into any other open socket.

Fresh 70 Monk, now what?

Congratulations on reaching max level Monk! As you know, the game is just beginning! Just a quick reminder – Craft a level 70 2-handed Mace and any other outdated items you may have. We highly suggest you check out our…

>> Fresh Level 70 Monk Guide <<<

… and our other Monk Guides below…

• Monk Fresh Level 70
• Monk Speedfarming General
• Monk BEST Speedfarm Build
• Harmony Passive Guide
• Inna’s Mantra | Inna’s Set Dungeon
• Monkey King’s Garb “Sunwuko” | Sunwuko Set Dungeon
• Raiment of a Thousand Storm | Raiment Set Dungeon
• Uliana’s Strategem  | Uliana’s Set Dungeon

Check our D3 Guide Directory if you need more help with other D3 related stuff! More guides and updates for D3 and other games!

Monk Leveling – Quick Navigation:
Leveling Build FULL | Skills & Reminders | Notes | Fresh Level 70!

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