Sunwuko Tempest Rush Monk Guide

1. Do the Challenge Rift for the materials to cube Legendary Powers. You can complete this once a week for additional resources and we always update the guide for you!

2. Gather the full Monkey King's Garb set. Each piece can be gambled from Kadala for Bloodshards. Do not salvage any duplicate pieces you find! Instead convert them to another part of the set with Recipe 4 in Kanai's Cube. If your last missing set piece is Sunwuko's Shines - don't gamble for it! Instead gamble for a cheap and easy item, like Sunwuko's Balance, and once again convert it with Recipe 4. If you have extra materials you can use Recipe 3 to craft the remaining pieces, but this is expensive and not recommended for new players.

3. Gamble from Kadala in this order:

1. The full Monkey King's Garb set
2. Cesar's Memento
3. Nemesis Bracers
4. Goldwrap
5. Mantle of Channeling

4. Craft using Recipe 3 in Kanai's Cube in this order:

1. Fist Weapons to get Won Khim Lau and Vengeful Wind
2. Daibos to get Balance
3. Create a level 1 Demon Hunter and upgrade Swords to get In-Geom
4. Rings to get Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac and Convention of Elements
5. Anything from the Gamble list in Step 3 that you haven't already acquired.

5. Do Bounties to acquire several important items for this build:

• Act 1: Ring of Royal Grandeur
• Act 2: Gloves of Worship (for your follower)
• Act 3: Avarice Band
• Act 4: Can drop any bounty item from any act
• Bounty Turn In: Recipes for Captain Crimson's Trimmings, Sage's Journey and Cain's Destiny

6. At this point you can somewhat comfortably farm Nephalem or Speed Greater Rifts where you can find all the remaining items you need for different variants of the build. It's better to spend your materials improving your set pieces, getting ancient weapon etc.

7. Use Primordial Ashes in Kanai's Cube with the new Curiosity of Lorath Nahr recipe to obtain a free Crafted Primal Ancient. Since you can only equip one of them, choosing the right item to focus matters! Great candidates are Weapons, Offhands, Jewelry or any item with an important multiplier. With that in mind, we recommend getting one of the following items:

• Won Khim Lau
• Cesar's Memento
• Squirt's Necklace

• Bane of the Trapped provides 60% increased damage to slowed enemies.
• Taeguk provides up to 80% additive damage and 20% armor as long as we continuously channel Tempest Rush.
• Boon of the Hoarder makes monsters spray gold everywhere for our Goldwrap and 30% increased movement speed for T16 content.
• Bane of the Stricken gives up to 2.3% increased damage on successive attacks against the same target. We'll need this gem if we want to solo push to kill the Rift Guardian.
• Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard is great for speed GR farming as it will protect our Squirt's Necklace which gives us 100% more damage.

• Tempest Rush Flurry is our damage dealer that blows up everything around us when we choose to release it. We will channel this skill until we have 100 stacks of Flurry to unleash an icy explosion of death.
• Sweeping Wind Inner Storm gives us increased spirit regeneration, and up to 19,500% damage from our Sunwuko set.
• Epiphany Desert Shroud gives 50% damage reduction, crowd control immunity, 20 Spirit per second and allows us to teleport to monsters with our melee attacks.
• Blinding Flash Faith in the Light gives us 29% additive damage and activates our Cesar's Memento.
• Way of the Hundred Fists Blazing Fists is used to proc Mythic Rhythm.
• Dashing Strike allows us to teleport around faster in speed content.
• Mantra of Salvation Agility gives 20% all resistance and 35% dodge.
• Cyclone Strike Wall of Wind can be used in speed content to active Cesar's Memento and is automatically cast from Won Khim Lau.
• Serenity Ascension is used in another setup to make us immune to damage and crowd controlling effects for 4 seconds, letting us build a couple of Squirt's Necklace stacks.

• Beacon of Ytar gives 20% Cooldown Reduction to keep Epiphany up.
• Momentum gives us 20% additive damage for 6 seconds after moving 20 yards.
• Harmony converts 40% of Secondary Resistances on items to All Resistance.
• Mythic Rhythm gives us 40% extra damage on our next Tempest Rush after hitting 3 times with a Generator.
• Some passives can be swapped around to get a bit of offense (Relentless Assault giving 20% damage against Blinded enemies) or defense (The Guardian's Path giving us 35% dodge).
• Other useful passives you can get from your Ethereal are:
  • Momentum
  • Near Death Experience
  • Sixth Sense

¹ Add a bit of Vitality if you feel too squishy (a total of 750,000 Life is recommended).

The Altar of Rites is a tree that grants tremendous powers to your entire account in exchange for sacrifices. It requires you to farm Bounties, kill the Ubers, craft the Staff of Herding, and more. Completing all 26 of these tasks, along with sacrificing 6 Primal Ancients grants you extra Damage, Defense, Quality of Life, Increased Drops and 3 Potion Super Powers. Read the full guides on Unlocking the Altar and the Altar Mechanics by Raxxanterax and Chewingnom to learn everything about this fantastic mechanic!

Optimal Path

Patch 2.7.0 revamped the follower system giving all 3 hirelings new powers and the emanate system. The first thing you should do is read our complete follower guide and remember the key takeaways:

1. The emanation system allows followers to share certain legendary and set powers with you. The most important ones are: The Flavor of Time, Nemesis Bracers, Avarice Band, Sage’s Journey and Cain’s Destiny. Click the guide above for the full list.
2. Follower’s powers are based on their main stat (maxed at 25.000, but they have a 2.5x multiplier so you only need 10.000). This means we stack Intelligence on the Enchantress, Dexterity on the Scoundrel and Strength on the Templar.
3. Guardian's Jeopardy (3) Bonus works for followers by improving their inherent stat multiplier from x2.5 to x3.5, making it slightly easier to hit the 25,000 main stat threshold if needed.
4. Followers share 20% of their Experience, Magic and Gold Find stats with you.
5. Legendary gems do not work on followers, except Esoteric Alteration and Mutilation Guard.
6. Cooldown Reduction does not work for any follower skill except the Templar’s Heal.
7. Followers never deal significant damage; you’re on your own to clear the content.

Select Follower

When you enter the rift activate Sweeping Wind once. The rest of the gameplay revolves your Convention of Elements. Generally you should follow this rotation:

1. Cast Epiphany every 15 seconds. If you can't reset its cooldown in time, use Serenity to cover the gap.
2. Hold down Tempest Rush.
3. At the end of Physical use Blinding Flash and try to kill a low HP monster to spawn an Oculus Ring.
4. Move into Oculus if it spawned, and at around 3 seconds into Cold use Blinding Flash again and release Tempest Rush.
5. Hit something 3 times with Way of the Hundred Fists to activate Mythic Rhythm.
6. Start channeling Tempest Rush again.

Wormhole and root attack from Tree-type elites will interrupt your Tempest Rush even if you are CC immune! One or two Wormholes on an open map you can usually dodge, but Trees must always be skipped.

This build can be extremely tanky if you drop Way of the Hundred Fists for Serenity. This also opens up a passive slot previously occupied by Mythic Rhythm so you can fit in Near Death Experience. Check out our dedicated Hardcore Survival Guide to learn more about how to succeed in this game mode!

• Gains 5 stacks per second, with a cap of 100 stacks. This takes 20 seconds which is a full Convention of Elements rotation, which is why you must start channeling immediately after you detonate.
• If you stop channeling Tempest Rush for any reason, your Flurry stacks reset to 0. This includes being: knocked back, frozen, stunned, wormholed, jailed, or even unwanted teleports from Epiphany, which are usually caused when you approach monsters with a very large hitbox.
• The explosion scales with Attack Speed as a separate multiplier.
• Mythic Rhythm buffs the channeling damage and the final explosion regardless of how long you choose to channel.
• You lose all stacks if you try to Tempest Rush in place by moving your cursor close to the screen's center. The radius of the "dead zone" in the middle of your screen is proportional to your Movement Speed times your latency. If you have just 25% from Paragon and less than 100ms ping, then this zone will be just a few pixels wide and it's nearly impossible to hit it without specifically trying. But if you stack some Movement Speed (e.g. Warzechian Armguards, Speed Pylon) and/or play not in your home region, the "dead zone" can become quite large and force you to consciously avoid it.

• The blind lasts for 3 seconds if the monsters are not under diminishing returns. You can use it at the start of the Cold Convention of Elements cycle and wait until the very end to release your Tempest Rush because Cesar's Memento lasts for 5 seconds.. In other words, the blind doesn't have to happen the instant you release your Flurry stacks, there is a window of time there you can sometimes use to your advantage, for example to spawn an Oculus Ring.
• The damage bonus from Faith in the Light rune is applied after a short delay, meaning that after you cast Blinding Flash you need to wait about 1s before releasing Tempest Rush. For this reason you shouldn't put Blinding Flash on your left mouse button as that will cause you to release Tempest Rush before you get the damage bonus.