Lvl 1 to Maps in less than 5 hours | Hollow Palm Storm Wave Monk | All Skill points and Ascended

Leveling 1-5 First Skill gem is always frost bomb If you have a good Quarterstaff, you can go Glacial Cascade I use any magic weapon basic attack combined with Contagion to clear packs. For bosses I use basic attacks This will be the most painful part of your journey Leveling 6-22 Take one node of Strength to equip Nettle Talisman (lvl 5). Make sure to respec that node later Take Wing Blast at lvl 6 and use rend for both clear and single target. Exchange Magnified Area of Effect with Concentrated area of Effect for single target. Use Wind Blast to generate Power charges for Rend when enemies are primed for stun. Add Pounce as soon as possible for mobility. Add Opening Move support ASAP, it will decrease the time you need to stun the enemy boss = more DPS. Keep pounce at level 3, dont level it too high because of attribute requirements Post Level 23 From here you want to use Hollow Palm technique for leveling. Now your gloves become the primary source of damage. Most IMPORTANT stat is +level to melee skill gems on gloves, each level is 10% dps. After that you are looking for sources of flat damage # to # to attacks. Make sure to always use highest level to skill gems, as each level is 10% dps. Rings with flat damage are also helpful. Frost Bomb levels require high Intelligence. If you cant maintain the levels use elemental weakness. You can go either Wind dancer or keep Herald of Ash for your second Spirit gem. If you want to press more buttons you can go Devour with Charged Staff. You have to be FLEXIBLE If you get a lot of flat cold damage or #% of attacks gained as extra cold from Way of the Stonefist, you have to go Herald of Ice with ICE BITE. Really important to freeze later on in maps for double herald explosions