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Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2)

PoE 2 Ice Lightning Chayula Monk Build

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This is an Ice Lightning Chayula Monk endgame build for Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2). Check out the Ice Lightning Acolyte build, including its gear, skills, and playstyle!

PoE 2 IconAttention! This build was last updated for patch 0.1.1g and may be outdated for the recent patches. For more up-to-date builds, please refer to our list of latest builds!

Ice Lightning Chayula Build Summary

Ice Lightning Chayula Endgame Build

Build Setup
Ice Lightning Chayula Monk Ice Lightning Chayula
Ghost Dance Icon Herald of Ice Icon Tempest Bell Icon Combat Frenzy Icon Wind Dancer Icon Storm Wave Icon Charged Staff Icon Shattering Palm Icon Into the Breach Icon
Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) Build - Pro High DPS and Crowd Control

Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) Build - Pro Excellent Mobility

Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2) Build - Con High Cooldowns

The Ice Lightning Chayula build utilizes Shattering Palm and Herald of Ice to prime enemies for Freeze while bursting them down with Tempest Bell and Tempest Flurry buffed by Charged Staff.

The build uses Combat Frenzy along with the Resonance keystone to convert the Frenzy Charges into Power Charges. This is important to have a reliable way of generating Power Charges for Charged Staff.

Ice Lightning Chayula Gear Setup

Equipment and Modifiers

Gear Modifiers
Helm ・Increased Evasion and Energy Shield
・Maximum Life
・Dexterity
・Lightning Resistance
・Chaos Resistance
Armor ・Increased Evasion and Energy Shield
・Maximum Life
・Fire Resistance
・Lightning Resistance
・Reduced Ignite Duration
Gloves ・Added Cold Damage
・Maximum Life
・Maximum Mana
・Dexterity
・Intelligence
・Fire Resistance
Belt ・Maximum Mana
・Increased Flask Recovery Rate
・Fire Resistance
・Cold Resistance
・Reduced Charm Charges Used
Boots ・Increased Energy Shield
・Maximum Life
・Increased Rarity of Items Found
・Cold Resistance
・Life Regeneration per Second
・Stun Threshold
Ring ・Added Evasion Rating
・Cold Resistance
・Lightning Resistance
・Increased Mana Regeneration
Amulet ・Added Spirit
・Increased Rarity of Items Found
・Cold Resistance
・Life Regeneration per Second
Ring ・Fire Resistance
・Added Physical Damage to Attacks
・Intelligence
・Lightning Resistance
Quarterstaff ・Increased Physical Damage
・Added Physical Damage
・Added Cold Damage
・Level to All Melee Skills
・Intelligence
・Grants Life Per Enemy Hit

It is preferred to have a weapon with Cold and Physical damage modifiers as well as Intelligence and Levels of All Melee skills to provide more damage to the build. Having a Cold Attack modifier lets the build generate Power Charges for the Charged Staff skill consistently. As for the weapon runes, we opted for more Physical Damage since that’s how the skills scale up.

For the armor, we focused on getting Elemental Resistance to 75% for survivability. Aim to get all resistances capped at 75% by allocating runes whichever resistance is lacking.

The Charm for the build is flexible according to the ailment you dislike the most. We decided to opt for charms that grant Immunity to Poison or Bleed as DoT can be devastating.

Ice Lightning Chayula Skills and Passive Tree

Active Skills

Skill Support Gems
Tempest Flurry IconTempest Flurry
Charged Staff IconCharged Staff
Storm Wave IconStorm Wave
Shattering Palm IconShattering Palm
Tempest Bell IconTempest Bell
Into the Breach IconInto the Breach
Combat Frenzy IconCombat Frenzy
Herald of Ice IconHerald of Ice
Ghost Dance IconGhost Dance
Wind Dancer IconWind Dancer

The build uses Tempest Flurry, Tempest Bell, and Charged Staff as a means to deal constant DPS to both mobs and bosses. Storm Wave with Ice Bite and Shattering Palm with Frost Nexus are used to freeze enemies to utilize Herald of Ice and Combat Frenzy.

Combat Frenzy with Profusion is used to gain Frenzy Charges, which will then be converted to Power Charges through the effects of the Resonance node in the passive tree. This combination maintains the use of Charged Staff in the build, keeping it available most of the time in combat.

For the Build's survivability, the build uses Ghost Dance and Wind Dancer for damage reduction and creating space between enemies; while Into the Breach with its support skills allows to build to sustain its life through leeching and flask recovery.

Passive Skill Tree

Ascendancy Tree
Reality Rending
Passive Nodes
1. Flow State 2. The Power Within
3. Lust for Power 4. Tenfold Attacks
5. Resonance 6. Falcon Technique
7. One with the River 8. Overflowing Power.

Full Skill Tree Pathing

For the Passive skill tree, focus on obtaining nodes that grant Cold and Lightning Damage, Attack speed, Mana Regeneration, Critical Chance and Damage.

For your Power Charges, be sure to take the Resonance keystone to take advantage of Combat Frenzy. You'll also want to take the nodes that increase your maximum Power Charges to increase the damage of your Charged Staff.

Finally, take the Frost Buildup, and Critical Damage bonuses on the Quarterstaff node group to Freeze enemies faster and gain an extra Power Charge effect when you use one.

Ice Lightning Chayula Playstyle and Skill Rotation

Skill Rotation

The Ice Lightning Chayula Build revolves around freezing enemies and bursting them down for AoE damage. The rotation is as follows:

  1. Use Shattering Palm to prime enemies for Freeze.
  2. Use Tempest Flurry with Charged Staff to shock and freeze enemies and activate Herald of Ice.
  3. Use Tempest Bell against Bosses

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Why Chayula?

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