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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!
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 Ice Lightning Chayula |
 Ghost Dance Periodically Gain Ghost Shrouds. If you are Hit while you have a Ghost Shroud, it is immediately consumed to recover Energy Shield based on your Evasion.
 Herald of Ice While active, Shattering an enemy with an Attack Hit will cause an icy explosion that deals Attack damage to surrounding enemies.
 Tempest Bell Build Combo by successfully Striking Enemies with other skills. After reaching maximum Combo, use this skill to cause the Bell on your staff to grow to massive size as you drop it on the ground. The Bell damages enemies on impact and can be Hit by your skills, creating a damaging shockwave. Elemental Ailments applied to the Bell cause its shockwaves to deal extra damage of the corresponding type, and Hits which would have caused Knockback increase the area of effect of the shockwaves.
 Combat Frenzy While active, grants you a Frenzy Charge when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin an enemy. This can only occur once every few seconds.
 Wind Dancer Grants a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by a Melee Attack while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.
 Storm Wave Sweep your Quarterstaff, projecting a bolt of Lightning through the ground in a long wave ahead of you.
 Charged Staff Consume all Power Charges to infuse your Quarterstaff with electricity, adding Lightning damage and a Lightning shockwave to your Quarterstaff Attacks. Reusing this skill while the Buff is active adds to the Buff's duration and damage.
 Shattering Palm Dash to an enemy and strike them with an unarmed attack that manifests a wave of cold, coating nearby enemies in shards of Ice. Dealing enough damage to these enemies will shatter the shards, causing an icy explosion that deals Attack Damage. This skill always strikes with your bare fist, even if you have a quarterstaff equipped.
 Into the Breach A Flame of Chayula manifests nearby every X seconds;Flames of Chayula fade after 25 seconds if not picked up
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 High DPS and Crowd Control Excellent Mobility  High Cooldowns |
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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.
| Gear | Modifiers | |
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| Helm | ・Increased Evasion and Energy Shield
・Maximum Life ・Dexterity ・Lightning Resistance ・Chaos Resistance |
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| 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 |
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| Belt | ・Maximum Mana
・Increased Flask Recovery Rate ・Fire Resistance ・Cold Resistance ・Reduced Charm Charges Used |
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| Boots | ・Increased Energy Shield
・Maximum Life ・Increased Rarity of Items Found ・Cold Resistance ・Life Regeneration per Second ・Stun Threshold |
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| Ring | ・Added Evasion Rating
・Cold Resistance ・Lightning Resistance ・Increased Mana Regeneration |
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| Amulet | ・Added Spirit
・Increased Rarity of Items Found ・Cold Resistance ・Life Regeneration per Second |
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| Ring | ・Fire Resistance
・Added Physical Damage to Attacks ・Intelligence ・Lightning Resistance |
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| 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.
| Skill | Support Gems |
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 Tempest Flurry Tempest Flurry Perform a series of aggressive Strikes. When used in quick succession, the third use Strikes three times, and the fourth performs a Final strike that calls down a powerful Shocking bolt.
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 Martial Tempo Martial Tempo Supports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.
 Crescendo Crescendo Supports Strikes that perform a Final Strike at the end of a combination of attacks, allowing you to use the Final Strike twice in succession.
 Concentrated Effect Concentrated Effect Supports any skill with an area of effect, causing that area to be smaller but any area damage it deals to be higher.
 Inspiration Inspiration Supports any skill, making it cost less to use. Cannot support skills which reserve Spirit.
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Charged Staff Charged Staff Consume all Power Charges to infuse your Quarterstaff with electricity, adding Lightning damage and a Lightning shockwave to your Quarterstaff Attacks. Reusing this skill while the Buff is active adds to the Buff's duration and damage.
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 Supercritical Supercritical Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal more damage with Critical Hits but have less Critical Hit chance.
 Innervate Innervate Supports attacks you use yourself. Killing a Shocked enemy with supported skills infuses all of your attacks with Lightning damage for a short time.
 Perpetual Charge Perpetual Charge Supports skills that consume Power, Frenzy, or Endurance Charges on use, giving them a chance not to remove each Charge while still gaining the benefits of Consuming them.
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Storm Wave Storm Wave Sweep your Quarterstaff, projecting a bolt of Lightning through the ground in a long wave ahead of you.
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 Ice Bite Ice Bite Supports attacks you use yourself. Freezing an enemy with supported skills infuses all of your attacks with Cold damage for a short time.
 Magnified Effect Magnified Effect Supports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.
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Shattering Palm Shattering Palm Dash to an enemy and strike them with an unarmed attack that manifests a wave of cold, coating nearby enemies in shards of Ice. Dealing enough damage to these enemies will shatter the shards, causing an icy explosion that deals Attack Damage. This skill always strikes with your bare fist, even if you have a quarterstaff equipped.
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 Frost Nexus Frost Nexus Supports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to create patches of Chilled Ground around Frozen enemies.
 Blind Blind Support any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on hit.
 Cold Exposure Cold Exposure Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing it to deal less damage but inflict Cold Exposure when it Critically Hits an enemy.
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Tempest Bell Tempest Bell Build Combo by successfully Striking Enemies with other skills. After reaching maximum Combo, use this skill to cause the Bell on your staff to grow to massive size as you drop it on the ground. The Bell damages enemies on impact and can be Hit by your skills, creating a damaging shockwave. Elemental Ailments applied to the Bell cause its shockwaves to deal extra damage of the corresponding type, and Hits which would have caused Knockback increase the area of effect of the shockwaves.
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 Overabundance Overabundance Supports skills which can have a Limited number of effects active at once, increasing that Limit at the cost of their duration. Only applies to restrictions that use the word “Limit”.
 Heavy Swing Heavy Swing Supports Melee Attacks, boosting their Physical damage at the cost of Attack Speed.
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Into the Breach Into the Breach A Flame of Chayula manifests nearby every X seconds;Flames of Chayula fade after 25 seconds if not picked up
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 Precision Precision Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased Accuracy while the skill is active.
 Vitality Vitality Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the skill is active.
 Herbalism Herbalism Supports Persistent Buff skills, causing you to gain increased Life recovery from Flasks while the skill is active.
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Combat Frenzy Combat Frenzy While active, grants you a Frenzy Charge when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin an enemy. This can only occur once every few seconds.
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 Profusion Profusion Supports skills that can generate Charges, giving them a chance to generate and additional Charge when they do so.
 Clarity Clarity Supports Persistent Buff Skills, causing you to gain increased mana Regeneration while the skill is active.
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Herald of Ice Herald of Ice While active, Shattering an enemy with an Attack Hit will cause an icy explosion that deals Attack damage to surrounding enemies.
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 Cold Penetration Cold Penetration Supports any skill that Hits enemies, making those Hits Penetrate enemy Cold resistance.
 Maim Maim Supports Attacks causing them to Maim enemies.
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Ghost Dance Ghost Dance Periodically Gain Ghost Shrouds. If you are Hit while you have a Ghost Shroud, it is immediately consumed to recover Energy Shield based on your Evasion.
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 Fast Forward Fast Forward Supports any skill that has a duration, making that duration shorter.
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Wind Dancer Wind Dancer Grants a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by a Melee Attack while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.
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 Expanse Expanse Supports any skill that you use yourself, granting it significantly higher Area of Effect but causing it to gain a long cooldown. Cannot support skills which already have a cooldown.
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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.
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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.
The Ice Lightning Chayula Build revolves around freezing enemies and bursting them down for AoE damage. The rotation is as follows:
 Mercenary |
 Monk |
 Witch |
 Sorceress |
 Warrior |
 Ranger |
 Lightning Tempest Invoker |
 Killing Palm Dash to an enemy and Strike them with an unarmed Attack, Culling enemies if their life is low enough. Each enemy killed by this strike grants a Power Charge. Enemies around you that can be Culled will be highlighted. This skill always Strikes with your bare fist, even if you have a Quarterstaff equipped.
 Herald of Thunder While active, killing Shocked enemies with Attack damage, will cause subsequent Attack hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.
Tempest Flurry Perform a series of aggressive Strikes. When used in quick succession, the third use Strikes three times, and the fourth performs a Final strike that calls down a powerful Shocking bolt.
Tempest Bell Build Combo by successfully Striking Enemies with other skills. After reaching maximum Combo, use this skill to cause the Bell on your staff to grow to massive size as you drop it on the ground. The Bell damages enemies on impact and can be Hit by your skills, creating a damaging shockwave. Elemental Ailments applied to the Bell cause its shockwaves to deal extra damage of the corresponding type, and Hits which would have caused Knockback increase the area of effect of the shockwaves.
 Blasphemy Turns socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies.
Storm Wave Sweep your Quarterstaff, projecting a bolt of Lightning through the ground in a long wave ahead of you.
 Lingering Illusion Creates a short-lived illusory copy of yourself whenever you dodge roll. The copy can be damaged by enemies, and copies that are destroyed by an enemy will grant you a Power Charge.
 Flicker Strike Teleport to an enemy and Strike them. Consumes Power Charges to perform additional teleporting strikes on nearby enemies.
Focus: DPS, Crowd Control |
| Lightning Wave Invoker |
 Orb of Storms Creates an Orb of electricity that fires Chaining Lightning bolts at nearby enemies.
Ghost Dance Periodically Gain Ghost Shrouds. If you are Hit while you have a Ghost Shroud, it is immediately consumed to recover Energy Shield based on your Evasion.
Herald of Thunder While active, killing Shocked enemies with Attack damage, will cause subsequent Attack hits to release lightning bolts which deals Attack damage to all surrounding enemies.
Combat Frenzy While active, grants you a Frenzy Charge when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin an enemy. This can only occur once every few seconds.
Wind Dancer Grants a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by a Melee Attack while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.
Blasphemy Turns socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies.
Storm Wave Sweep your Quarterstaff, projecting a bolt of Lightning through the ground in a long wave ahead of you.
Charged Staff Consume all Power Charges to infuse your Quarterstaff with electricity, adding Lightning damage and a Lightning shockwave to your Quarterstaff Attacks. Reusing this skill while the Buff is active adds to the Buff's duration and damage.
 Elemental Expression Creates a fiery explosion, an arcing bolt of lightning, or an icy wave of projectiles. The chance for an explosion is proportional to your Strength, for a bolt proportional to your Dexterity, and for a wave proportional to your Intelligence.
Focus: DPS, Burst Damage, Bossing / Mobbing |
| Ice Lightning Chayula |
Ghost Dance Periodically Gain Ghost Shrouds. If you are Hit while you have a Ghost Shroud, it is immediately consumed to recover Energy Shield based on your Evasion.
Herald of Ice While active, Shattering an enemy with an Attack Hit will cause an icy explosion that deals Attack damage to surrounding enemies.
Tempest Bell Build Combo by successfully Striking Enemies with other skills. After reaching maximum Combo, use this skill to cause the Bell on your staff to grow to massive size as you drop it on the ground. The Bell damages enemies on impact and can be Hit by your skills, creating a damaging shockwave. Elemental Ailments applied to the Bell cause its shockwaves to deal extra damage of the corresponding type, and Hits which would have caused Knockback increase the area of effect of the shockwaves.
Combat Frenzy While active, grants you a Frenzy Charge when you Freeze, Electrocute, or Pin an enemy. This can only occur once every few seconds.
Wind Dancer Grants a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by a Melee Attack while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.
Storm Wave Sweep your Quarterstaff, projecting a bolt of Lightning through the ground in a long wave ahead of you.
Charged Staff Consume all Power Charges to infuse your Quarterstaff with electricity, adding Lightning damage and a Lightning shockwave to your Quarterstaff Attacks. Reusing this skill while the Buff is active adds to the Buff's duration and damage.
Shattering Palm Dash to an enemy and strike them with an unarmed attack that manifests a wave of cold, coating nearby enemies in shards of Ice. Dealing enough damage to these enemies will shatter the shards, causing an icy explosion that deals Attack Damage. This skill always strikes with your bare fist, even if you have a quarterstaff equipped.
Into the Breach A Flame of Chayula manifests nearby every X seconds;Flames of Chayula fade after 25 seconds if not picked up
Focus: Crowd Control, DPS, Burst Damage |
| Base Class | |
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 Monk |
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| Ascendancies | |
| Invoker |
Acolyte of Chayula |
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