Explode Everything With The Invoker Monk! | Path of Exile 2 Invoker Build Guide
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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Showcasing my Explode Invoker build in Path of Exile 2
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Thanks for watching!
Forgot to add the gear section I recorded so here is an imgur link to see all the gear: imgur.com/a/9jPVWCV
It's pretty straight forward, life, mana, resistances, dexterity, intelligence, and as many added melee skill gem levels as possible. Also, because it is an unarmed attack, shattering palm only scales from increased elemental damage with attacks on the weapon, so that is nice to get.
Holy, that gear is insane :D
So for the weapon you're basically getting +7 and the 125% ele dmg with attacks?
@@KohleJ yeah, second weapon for single target is also good to have, I have updated my written guide using weapon set points to get the best of both bossing and mapping damage
i need update.!!!!!!!!
@@Hypsudo I dont get it. Just bought one of those staffs and I deal way less dps. Is this normal? Went from 17k back to 7k
Actually the most original monk build I’ve seen so far, great job
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Yeah, most builds were boring, I did one myself finally, but this one looks really fun! I bet this vid will be a banger!
@@Dwojkatnice build ! Could you show your item? Wondering which weapon to use
Keyword “you’ve seen so far”
One of the best monk videos i have seen so far, brilliant job, thanks a lot
you didn't talk fast at all and it was very coherent and easy to understand, other people keep jumping between gems and skills and passive trees when explaining and it's a mess your explanation was clear and you even say what effects what after showing a node or skill. top marks
Wow genuinely well crafted build. Nice job dude
Thanks for this build guide, was really struggling with being tanky on my monk and switching my build to your defence format really helped me enjoy this game on maps.
Yeah after getting through campaign on raxx's darth maul build, i'm switching to this. His build is too glass canon. As I was leveling in act 3 I started noticing how effective the shotgun was with freezing palm and wanted to do more with it. This seems like exactly what monk is meant to do as an invoker.
oh my.. just goes to show how important reading is. I never cared about Herald of Ash thinking I needed fire damage for it. Great vid.
Wow, this build is crazy! Looking forward to trying it out once I get to that point in the game. Thanks!
Very very cool. This is what I been looking for
This was AWESOME info, using shattering hand active now. Boom!
wow, very nice. straight to the point! liked
Very interesting video packed with tons of information!
Not a fan of the explodish kinda vibes but i am definitely getting tons of valuable info here to explore more my idea of a tri-element build, as well as better knowing shattering palm, a skill that i love!
Thanks, looking forward for more from you. Ciao!
I thought you were making a pun with "We're a Tri-Herald build" for "We're a try hard build" but then i realized you actually meant tri-herald 😂
I’ve been running from feast for a couple days now shits a game changer
Sick build man ggs
give this man a raise
Great video, lots of useful info. Keep it up.
Amazing build, thanks dude! Now waiting for the skill tree, also a gear guide would be amazing 🙏
I added a build planner in the description to go over gearing and has a full skill tree.
@@Hypsudo Thank you so much, you got a new follower ;)
@@Hypsudo Just one question, which weapon model is best to use? Only looking for high elemental damage and melee skills? Thanks
@@PacifaeGaming1 Expert Slicing Quarterstaff is the best base and yes.
Great build! If you want even more damage at the cost of a little tankyness you can drop two auras (grim feast and/or ghost dance and/or herald of ash) to get Elemental Conflux which is a 67% MORE damage (with quality) buff that cycle through fire / frost / lightning. It's crazy
I considered this but since I am already 1 shotting everything, even rares, I didn't see the need to sacrifice defenses for damage.
@@Hypsudo True. My gear is nowhere near what you have so I struggle with some rare and bosses. Overall insane build, thanks man, this gave a much needed boost to my monk !
Btw there is another very interesting aura: Life Remnants. It can overflow the hp. According to planner it doesn't need any spirit to run. It also can spawn remnants on crits, so should be good for bossing too
I believe that is a skill exclusive to the Blood Mage Ascendancy. The planner shows all the ascencancy granted skills.
@@Hypsudo Yeah, you are right.
Lucidity node looks interesting for absorbing some potential instakills
@@overbe not a bad idea, we do get alot of mana back while killing alot of enemies
@@Hypsudo it shouldn't even drain mana until the shield is gone, so basically no downsides
@@overbe now to figure out what to drop for it haha
omg.....i just swapped it s insane, you are the goat.
very cool build good work young man
Great explanation. Insta subbed. Thanks!
Great build !
I hate that base Lightning attack but your video gave me ideas for my Ice Strike monk, I can achieve something in the same Spirit with charged staff on my ice strike to proc all the heralds
Nice work !
Got a build you can share? Thanks bro.
I’m Ice Strike invoker too. Pls share if u have a build already
Ice strike is amazing, but I will say that in Maps, being that close to enemies, even for only a moment can sometimes be the difference between living or not. I too despise the ranged lightning ability, and refuse to try hard into a lightning build since all lightning builds are overtuned.
I wish the two frost wave abilities were just as powerful, but they seem to be wildly lacking in comparison.
Hey guys ive seen your messages, im lazy lol maybe ill make a builder but im still on test, crushing T7 easy
This build ao good it really in details explained thank you for the sharing.
I was just telling a buddy of mine last night I was wondering why more ppl werent doing something similar to this. This is very similar to what I am running on my monk. Im still only 65 and leveling, and using ice strike as the primary instead of storm wave (i still use SW to trigger things). I'm running bell as well, but taking a lot of the similar nodes and essentially running tri element dmg to scale it. Your build has made me realize a few flaws/holes in mine, so I appreciate the video! Great build!
Jesus! I cannot even get my 5-8 ascendency points and this guy is wiping bosses in less than a sec FML
So many questions. It's spirit intensive. But to get the spirit, you need the evasion. So gear is critical. As well as being high enough level to make it to all the necessary nodes.
It seems like this is a build you would respec into as opposed to building from the start.
So what build would you suggest we use to farm the 1) gear and 2) levels? And then the breakpoints to make the switch?
I thought I'd ask. I know it's a hefty question(s). Truly appreciate the ingenuity. Bravo!
I swapped around level 80 and it was working well, you can still use storm wave and shattering palm with just herald of ice and thunder.
@ Awesome. Thanks for responding. I'm 50 now. Using freeze/bell build with herald of ice and combat frenzy.
Last question. Off topic a bit. But how much freeze buildup is "enough" freeze buildup? I've taken just about every node when I pass them. I can freeze bosses very quick, but just seems like overkill. Just curious if you know the right number to hit before we can stop taking more.
@@TwoFoxGibbon Depends on the boss, higher level and pinnacle bosses get much harder to freeze because they have higher ailment threshholds.
Really cool, didn’t know shattering palm was so good. P.S. ice bite and innervate don’t give EXTRA damage btw, they just convert.
holy crazy build
Would like to see this build on one of the end game boss’s. Great vid
Not really a great bossing build, I did difficulty 0 Xesht on stream, took about 1 minute.
I respect into this last night cause i was hating the charge stacking mechanic and its great you can run this with frozen strike until you unlock the frozen palm i even keep bell till i have enough spirit for all the buffs
Great build man 💪🏽 I’ll try this with my level 72 monk
Dude this is sick! I've been trying to keep up with all the invoker guides out there going to have to try it out!
I've been theorycrafting using the weapon swap for palm skills. You are RIGHT next to all the juicy unarmed nodes, the Mark nodes next to the big Dex node AND some huge curse nodes next to the elemental damage increase nodes. It seemed like it might be clunky but with the right set up it might be insane.
I've tried weapon swap setups but didn't like the weapon swap delay. I also opted for more generic damage points over the unarmed points because when using our storm wave to trigger the shatter our heralds and shattering palm explosions would no longer benefit from that increased area of effect, also 25% reduced damage is hefty price to pay for spreading ice crystals a bit further. Blasphemy ended up costing too much spirit and did not have enough radius even with the curse points since we need to use magnified effect on our shattering palm. However, if you want curse effect and mark effect for single target I could see that being good. I was only level 89 and there is still room to grow.
@Hypsudo I was worried the clunkyness would stay even with the investment. Great guide. Those herald setups with longshot/close combat and the icebite/innervate set ups solved the puzzle I was trying to piece together.
Looks great and fun play style
Awesome build sir!
Wtf is this build, crazy Work man 🙏
Nice build! I was wondering if and where melee level would scale and actually be worth pursuing. I'll be trying some variation of Shattering palm. Honestly surprised I hadn't even tested it yet considering I'm going hard on Herald of Ice already.
It has an exponential damage curve that can be seen on PoE2DB, this is allowing everything within our shattering palm range, including rares, to get one shot.
Bro this is a phenomenal build. You’ve got a new sub.
Just to clarify, we don’t gaf about power charges/ crit for this build, right?
Nope
that was really awesome, thank u for sharing, but for now in my level 45 really struggle, i don't get much information what should i build for that level, if you dont mind please share build for level, example level 10-15-20-25 an so on.
Ilterraly mine build 😅 Great job!
Thanks man. Easy sub.
bro how do you get the stats to get all these spells? I can't manage to get enough to get herald of Ash and grim feast while keeping the dex for everything else, just a gear issue? none of my attribute travel nodes are dex either lol i don't get it
I have some attributes on my gear yes, but also, only use the levels you can, my herald of ash is lvl 4
@@Hypsudo Ahh, ok, that makes sense. I don't have a spirit gem below level 13 atm, so the str req is massive lol
Was wondering if the upcoming change to freeze will change this build at all?
"It is now more difficult to chain-freeze enemies by reducing the amount of Freeze Buildup applied after a Freeze has been applied."
I doubt it will change, the cold damage is already way overkill, however, if freeze becomes less consistent fitting in the unique ring Polcirkeln will help us still get big shatters by just chilling enemies.
@Hypsudo Thanks for the quick response! :)
Love the build and idea, but can we get a Single target demonstration? i didn't saw any non-bell build doing great damage on ST.
It's definitely not what the build specializes at, in my tier 15 maps bosses die fairly quick in around 10 seconds. However, you will be much better off fighting the really high hp pinnacle bosses on another set up.
Awesome build, how does it perform against bosses? Can you share any clips of that?
Amazing build, Will switch to it! You didnt show your gear I Guess, can you tell any Key gear inportance, for example you have a unique ring on maxroll is it mandatory?
Not mandatory but makes the build feel much better for quality of life and clear consistency.
Great guide
Hello,
I watched your video and immediately purchased PoE2. Today will be my first time playing, and I’m really excited because I was captivated by the Monk’s fire skills.
I wanted to ask: Can I use the skill tree you showed in the video early on as well? Is it okay to follow it while progressing through the acts? Also, is there a specific order to allocate the skills?
Since I’m not a native English speaker, I have difficulty with listening, so could you please write down the instructions if possible?
Thank you!
I have a full written guide in the description, feel free to use a word translator on it. As far as leveling, the skill tree gets a lot of good generic points, so yes it can work.
Actually one of the best and well explained monk builds ive seen! Also how does it do in group play?
I have never played with groups, but I bet all the ailments your are applying will definitely help support them. If you're not careful there wont be anything left on screen for your friends to kill.
I do have one other question how does this work for bossing?
@@craigbooker3789 Great for map bosses, pinnacles can be a struggle. Will be working on a Pinnacle bossing setup for an upcoming video.
Make sure you're clicking out of kelee range for storm wave. Changes speed
Curious which herald you’d drop if picking one, was trying to make this work with ice strike/charged staff, was dropping thunder herald so I can still keep the element trifecta
Herald of Ash most likely.
*subbed, 'nough said 👍
Have you tried it with gathering storm instead of shockwave? would definitly get some style points for using that one. and it's more base dmg
Shattering palm already has a dash component and I wanted a more straight forward attack for fighting bosses, but it's worth a try.
Higher jewelers orbs are almost impossible to come by, how in the world did you unlock all support gem slots?
Can you do a follow up describing and showcasing game play…thanks!
MasterChef of Poe builds
would this build still work with ice strike + charge staff instead of storm wave?
I play that atm until I transition fully to the build in the video and it feels rly good as well in T1-8 maps. You have better single target if you use bell, but less clear cos of less explosions. Just try around a bit and do what feels best. I guess for red maps OPs build will be superior tho.
Are we sure exploding palm scales with the increased elemental damage with attacks on the weapon? i'm reading it's just local to the weapon, not global. which would only scale any elemental damage on the weapon itself.
It does, I allready tested this with 2 equal bases, one with WED and one without.
Can you share the level build you did to get to here? Thanks!
Campaign or early maps?
@@Hypsudo Campaign please.
@@louisl2906 Tempest Flurry + Tempest Bell with Herald of Thunder and Wind Dancer. Getting a good weapon makes all the difference. I got lucky early on and found one with +6 to levels and that scaled my damage alot.
@@Hypsudo Awesome, thank you so much. I'm end of campaign Act 3. How did you get enough spirit? I can run 3 heralds but not enough for ghost dance or grim feast
@@louisl2906 From the ascendancy and a 1600 evasion body armor.
I love it already
Would have liked an overview of the currently equipped items, and a showcase of boss kills
I messed up and forgot to add my footage going over the gear, but I've pinned a comment with a link to my gear, and I will be fighting some end game bosses tomorrow on stream to hopefully get some good footage.
If I don't get angry Jewel, will I not get angry even if I put an angry skill gem on the wind's dance?
You will get rage from wind dancer still. We really don't use wind dancer to generate much rage, just prevent it from expiring as easily.
Why do you focus on lightning dmg if the main dmg source is cold? btw my skill is level 26 and i have only 5k dmg, no ide ahow to reach ur dmg >.
We don't want to skimp out on lightning damage for our bossing skill which is storm wave, also there are not many good cold damage points nearby on the passive skill tree. Also with our buffs up even our cold skills are doing 50% as extra lightning.
Did you have trouble with monk while leveling? Im going through act 2 right now and its a struggle. Do you have any tips? I mainly use storm wave and frozen locus for aoe, since getting power charges is pretty rough right now with palm strike or whatever the name of the skill is. For bosses its like a who can tank more hits, since storm wave does very little damage i just put down a bell and smack it with tempest flurry as much as i can taking the hits.
I found using tempest bell with ruthless support helped a lot on bosses to stun them. You might also try Ice Strike instead of Tempest Flurry allowing you to get both a stun and a freeze on the boss. But yes, monk leveling was fairly rough in the early campaign, it suffers from all the same melee problems as warrior without being nearly as tanky. To help compensate for this a little bit I recommend the flat energy shield and evasion points at the start of the skill tree, they get a lot of value early on even though they will get out scaled by % increases later on.
I was using tempest flurry with herald of lightning and ice and it was a breeze
I was obliterating bosses through the whole campaing
Just make sure to get good weapons: if you're trade, just open the trade, limit by your level and stats and grab the best one you can for 1 ex, then i did that every act until the vendor gave me an insane 350pdps staff on the end of act 3, that carried me until maps
Just buy a good weapon for 1ex on market and blast the tutorial brother
I have only one question tho..is there a reason why you dont take ANY node on the Quarterstaff section? It sounds weird to me, i d like to know why you avoided that. Thanks a lot
It is more focused on crit which we are not scaling and is a little out of the way. Generic damage is much better to scale both our shattering palm and heralds.
@Hypsudo there s also a lot of attack speed. But yep i see the sense here 👍
do you think this will work with chayula? 🙃
Maybe with a much different set up using poison and Herald of Plague, but I've not tested it.
Damn this looks good. I'm lvl 46 will give this a try later on I think
I completely respected to it sometimes mobs explode in one hit other times not so much feel awkward in those moments should I swap grim feast for that other damaging rune. Also I only have +6 to melee on weap would the +2 to gloves help me out
every level helps alot, also flat damage on rings and gloves can help that happen more often
@ ok I’ll have to get some gloves for sure I want it to work.
I'm an idiot noob at lvl 30, really wanna make this build but I don't think i'll be able to. I wish there was a leveling option
Amazing video btw. If you could recommend a leveling build before switching to yours it would be much appreciated!!!
Use tempest flurry and tempest bell with herald of lightning and wind dancer. Worked pretty well for me to get through the campaign.
Great, thank you.
Last question and i'll stop bothering you haha: at what lvl should I switch to your build?
I made it really start to come together around level 80.
Damn thats sick, i wish could try this build. Unfortunately i went another ascendancy 😢
Can always make a new character!
The Better Mathil Build. GG
Is Radiant Grief Lace Hood an option to ignite the enemies?
This is better offensively yes, but a big loss of both evasion and energy shield, up to you.
maybe you can use "8% of mana cost taken from life" on Jewels and when you have the 4% life on kill support gem or Vitality gem it would top off your life whenever you killed mobs and it would help for bossing as well since you dont have to wait for a kill to regain mana it would just take a little bit of the life pool when casting
I thought about this but it disables some "while on full life" points on our passive tree, would have to spec out of those. Also, on bosses, unless we have very good life regeneration, we would end up killing ourselves. I found just the 2% mana on kill jewel to solve my mana while mapping, flat mana on kill on rings and gloves can also solve it.
@@Hypsudo yeah you're right losing dmg if it takes you off full life is bad
Interessting that Herald of Ash counts as ignite in PoE2, in PoE1 it doesn't it's just a DoT
I was actually wrong about this, it does count as an ignite but not as us. did some testing, will be revising in the written guide.
rly good job, but why u testing ur dmg against a 135k boss? when u can 1 shot him, we want to see actual numbers tho
Your not wrong, but since even a t15 boss would have 0 lightning resistance with our set up, our damage would effectively be the same. I will be uploading a future video showcasing a better boss set up.
Wondering which Venom Draught do you pick up?
Hey man, amazing work here! One question for a total PoE newbie, can one utilize this build at the 70-80 level mark or do I need to use another build in order to be able to progress to this one?
I transitioned into the full explode set up at 80, but I was using storm wave ever since finishing the campaign, makes for a smoother transition.
Can this build be used with a different skill than Storm wave? Perhaps a bow skill or naw?
I don't see why not, any skill that can quickly trigger the shattering palm should work.
How do u solo the boss? And which tier u able to run forward with this build?
Lastly, dont put ur video blocking the skills. Instead another side.
how do you get enough strenght for herald of ash, while also having enough stats for the rest?
Level 4 Herald of Ash.
Is it possible to use your curses on blasphemy instead of casting hand of chayula? Also is it required to get fire damage on your gear?
Blasphemy has a very high curse penalty as well as very little radius in exchange for a very high spirit cost. I tried to incorporate it and use some curse points on the tree to extend its range but it just didn't seem worth it. With my current set up I am already one-shotting every white monster in tier 15 maps without needing to make them have negative resistances, and for those enemies that do have resistance our penetration will be penetrating it. Since penetration is applied last, bringing a rare from 40 res down to 20 with a blasphemy conductivity set up will just lead us to get half value from our 40 penetration and serve no real benefit at killing them faster. Also you don't need any fire damage on gear, herald of ash will be igniting enemies for us while mapping, and for bosses you can use infernal cry to allow your storm wave to apply an ignite.
@@Hypsudo Thank you for the reply. Awesome build!
Thanks!!! Would it be affected if i have only 4 socket skill?
The build relies pretty heavily on having both enough damage to trigger shattering palm in one hit, as well as enough explosion damage to kill enemies in one hit. What it will take to reach that break point I can't quite say because it depends on the difficulty of content your doing. My gameplay footage was in a tier 15 Map and I had both my Storm Wave and Shattering Palm fully supported.
As I am unable to get 6Ls yet, are the supports on your mobalytics guide ordered by priority?
ie: Shattering Palm : Magnified > Ice Bite > Innervate > Cold Mastery > Cold Penetration
@@lmpoknya Yes, although they are almost all equally important for our main 6 links.
@@Hypsudo Thanks for confirming 👍
Could you tell me about the rotation for long bossing rotation? What do i spam or add regularly?
The bossing rotation is just applying the curse and mark with hand of chayula followed by shattering palm to help with freeze buildup, then use inferal cry and storm wave to apply a big ignite, after that just keep attacking with storm wave until infernal cry is back up or you need to reapply the curse and mark. You can also weave in a few shattering palms to help freeze the boss.
@Hypsudo love it, thanks
Hello i cant see your mobalytics on web. Can you share mobalytics username for search ?
It's called Explode Invoker and my username is just Hypsudo.
@@Hypsudo Thank you for reply. Is this patch nerf your build ?
From what I understand "Penetration" can only reduce the defenses to zero, but "Lowers Resistance" can go into negatives.
Two different mechanics, confusing af.
Good job on the build though.
Your exactly right, and because we only need more damage on bosses who are unlikely to be able to bring into the negatives, we just want a cumulative -75% from both sources.
cant put heightened curse in hand of chayula idk if that got patch
Need to have the curse in there first.
base physical damage on the weapon does matter? like if i get one with only 45-94 physical but 110% elemental and 6 melee levels is good or should i get one with more physical?
physical damage scales storm wave and the heralds but not the shattering palm explosion, ideally you want both, but with this set up the shattering palm will be dealing the majority of the AOE damage
@@Hypsudo i tried the build but after i hit them with shattering palm i need to hit them way too many times with storm wave for them to explode
@@puntrii There is a damage break point you want to reach to trigger it in one hit.
do you need 6 link gems for this?
or 4-5 link will suffice?
It definitely needs to reach certain damage break points to achieve the best results, I would recommend at least 5 links.
Do you start the fight with shattering palm then storm wave?
Yep
Outstanding build! Doesn't seem that it needs movement speed at all :)
How would Way of the Wind and nearby nodes affect this build?
Running between the sparsity of packs and backtracking is commonplace in PoE 2. I also just prefer how it feels to run fast.
So the higher damage you get on shattering palm the more damage the explosion will do when your proc it? I was thinking of doing shattering palm with flicker strike for some fun haha
Yes, shattering palm does about 5 times more damage then our heralds for example so it is doing the heavy lifting for exploding enemies, the heralds ensure things die and also help to kill off further enemies.
@ seems like the only way to make a cold monk work is to play all the elements due to so little of the amount of cold bonuses there are and so much lightning, also the fact that the magnitude of shock is also a damage bonus
Cold is perfectly viable, the damage points are a bit further to get, but the added safety of freezing everything is a trade off.
@@Hypsudo Which cold nodes you think are best to take if your planing on playing straight cold
@@DCUOCover I would still scale lightning and use call of the brotherhood ring. Works wonders.
Is this Build good for starting or only for near end Game ? :)
Better with investment, but can probably get it running sometime around mid tier maps.
I was playing around the idea of unarmed monk, wondering how I could use that cluster. It's a shame it turns out you're better off without it. Great video tho, nice build.
I think they are planning to add more unarmed skills in the future that might allow for a fully unarmed playstyle!
@@Hypsudo Maybe we'll see facebreakers again. Hope to see more tree nodes.
They could make an "ambidextrous" keystone that's gives you more unarmed attack speed for swapping to a different unarmed skill.
Hello, Can we do good damage without a 5th gem socket?
Most of the damage on shattering palm comes from melee skill levels, not the support.
@@Hypsudo many many thanks mate
@@Hypsudo One last question; would it be ok if the quarterstaff had +6 melee skill? :)
@@ftunahansakin yes, +7 much rarer
Clear looks really cool and the idea is fun but how does it performs on bosses/rares?
I almost always 1 shot rares in tier 15 Maps unless they have a lot of compounding mods that increase their life and resistances. Tier 15 bosses die in under 10 seconds.
@@Hypsudo how are you getting the dmg to kill bosses that fast? part of my issue was mana but the single target was pretty rough
@@KillocybeCubensis Swapping to a high phys damage weapon and making sure to only hit them while you have your big shock and curse on them, but yes mana is rough on bosses, ideally you kill them before you run out of mana flask charges.
great vid, also what you runes you have socketed in your staff?
Soul Core of Citaqualotl
1. What is the priority for unlocking the 5 slots on the skill gem?
2. Should I attach the support gems to the skills in the order shown in the video?
1. Storm wave, then shattering palm. 2. Yes
Doesn't biting frost cancel out herald of ice shatter effect? If you consume the freeze, u can no longer shatter enemies
Herald of Ice only triggers when already killing a frozen enemy, so it is effectively shattering and consumes the frost at the same time. Multiple on death effects can trigger at the same time just like in PoE 1.
Now I want to try a monk 😭 What would you recommend for leveling?
I used tempest flurry + tempest bell and herald of thunder for most of the campaign. Not sure if it is optimal because it was my first time playing monk, but with a good weapon it was destroying bosses.
@@Hypsudo Thank you