Darkness should replace ES and not Spirit.

As the title says, while it is nice having basically a second ES I also like having the ability to have heralds running and cast on (X) depending on my build. Wanted to test out Edgelord Monk and have to say it really sucks having my damage drop because all my spirit gems have become worthless to what is a required mechanic for the Acolyte of Chayula. And no I don't want to play Aang so don't tell me to play invoker I want to play AoC and I want it to be viable in all builds not just chicken with a bow.

Just use Lightning Spear.

Missing the point broham, I want to use what makes the monk a monk, I like quarterstaffs and want to keep up the combo and crescendo style combat while also utilizing darkness and also having access to my spirit for heralds and passive buffs, or perhaps have heralds and buffs act as they did in poe1 and reserve mana instead of spirit and leave spirit for summons and minions.

Darkness should be reworked completely.

Theres this great idea that works around Light Radius i saw on reddit.

Just use the feedback and push the balancing "team" so they work more.

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Miller385i#9616 schrieb:

Just use Lightning Spear.

just use ls xD what you gonna do when they nerf that? then you'll have to face the problems with the game

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Turbo#0122 schrieb:

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Miller385i#9616 schrieb:

Just use Lightning Spear.

just use ls xD what you gonna do when they nerf that? then you'll have to face the problems with the game

Gotta love when someone doesn't pose anything helpful they just spout "use X busted/broken skill/spell" because they are a low effort [Removed by Support]

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Evergrey#7535 schrieb:

Darkness should be reworked completely.

Theres this great idea that works around Light Radius i saw on reddit.

Just use the feedback and push the balancing "team" so they work more.

Sounds like that would work, could also be used to increase the area radius of Waking Dream for "Into the Breach" seeing as the breach is darkness and you could also use the light radius part to boost area also. I just feel that Darkness is underperforming and I don't want to have to be spearheaded into using a bow, xbow, or spear. I want to use the combo system for the quarterstaff and be a monk. I like the elemental monk but the Darkness ascendancy should also be just as viable and just as fun to use with a quarterstaff instead of having to use some other weapon.

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Abyssinal_Roy#9671 schrieb:

Sounds like that would work, could also be used to increase the area radius of Waking Dream for "Into the Breach" seeing as the breach is darkness and you could also use the light radius part to boost area also. I just feel that Darkness is underperforming and I don't want to have to be spearheaded into using a bow, xbow, or spear. I want to use the combo system for the quarterstaff and be a monk. I like the elemental monk but the Darkness ascendancy should also be just as viable and just as fun to use with a quarterstaff instead of having to use some other weapon.

Yup, Chaos Monk theme feels like it is a middle child - they forgot about it and it just went into early access as unpolished filler.

This league however, I figured Original Sin Shattering Thunder build, which works great actually.
https://poe2.ninja/pob/a553

I wish Withering Touch wasn't absolute garbage. I liked it last league.


As for the Darkness, I did some math and genuinely the only two abilities that can work with it are Gas Arrow and Gas Grenade. These don't require spirit whatsoever. Topped it off with Kaom's body armour for great hp and you can scale poison cloud to be doing 5-10M dps, dependent on defensives investment.

PS. I don't think combining Darkness and Into the breach in one build is synergistic, you go one or another. Into the Breach favors ranged builds, so Darkness should be melee choice, but atm it's a dead choice lmao.