Inna Mystic Ally Monk Speed Farming Variation
Inna Mystic Ally Speed Farming Variation
The Inna Mystic Ally Monk is a very capable speed Greater Rift farming and regular Rift farming build, handling all those tasks and more (e.g. bounties) with ease and minor alterations for each particular task.
Within the limited scope of difficulty of Greater Rift farming tiers and normal (Nephalem) rifts up to T16, the necessary damage and toughness to triumph over the enemy is significantly smaller. Thus, your best course of action is to improve utility and speed.
Adapting Skills
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Adapting Rotation
When you are speed farming normal rifts and low tier Greater Rifts, your playstyle should at least partially reflect the circumstances by focusing on massive pulls, generic bonuses against enemies and chaining pylon effects.
With the cooldown reducing bonuses of In-geom at your disposal, you
will be able to spam
Epiphany for protection and
Dashing Strike
for incredibly rapid teleportation across the rift, further empowered with the
movement bonuses of
Mantra of Conviction
Annihilation. Your generator skill,
Way of the Hundred Fists, will largely be used to maintain the damage bonus
of
Focus and
Restraint and the
Flying Dragon buff.
Your
Mystic Ally usage will vary according to content; when you are
clearing standard rifts, you can be trigger happy and pop it at will to replenish
Spirit, but in speed Greater Rifts (especially as you approach your upper limits),
you should be a lot more judicious with its use and only activate it once the
"waves" portion of the animation is over and the Allies are back to humanoid
form.
Adapting Skills and Passives
Parts of the skill and passive selection will overlap with the base Greater Rift progression build, but others will have to change according to the task at hand. Ability to cross over great distances faster and more efficiently take precedence.
Mystic Ally is still your main damage dealer, but the timed burst of
Earth Ally is ill-suited in the speedier content, where the consistent damage and reliable AoE of
Water Ally performs a lot better. Staying on
Earth Ally should only be considered in groups, since the Physical rune has superior overall damage, and the Freezing effects of the Water Allies might be considered undesirable.
Way of the Hundred Fists remains in the build, since the damage buffing angle of the rune
Assimilation retains usefulness in GR speeds, while the alteration to the rune
Blazing Fists will net you decent extra movement speed in standard rifts and bounties.
Cyclone Strike
Implosion remains a vital skill in the build due to its unrivaled enemy grouping capabilities.
- While it is a decent damage increase for GR progression purposes,
Blinding Flash
Faith in the Light is overkill for any type of speed content and should be replaced by the generic usefulness of
Epiphany, which delivers a utility Swiss knife of damage reduction, Spirit Regeneration and additional movement capabilities. Its massive cooldown will be reduced to a spammable state via the powers of
In-geom. You can either use the defensive
Desert Shroud rune, or the extra Spirit generation from
Insight.
Serenity
Ascension should stay during speed Greater Rift farming for an extra layer of spammable safety, but in any form of lower tier content — i.e. normal rifts or bounties — should be replaced by
Mantra of Conviction
Annihilation for the extra movement speed.
- You will maintain the majority of your progression passive lineup —
with
Near Death Experience still safeguarding you against accidental burst,
Seize the Initiative and
Beacon of Ytar providing valuable attack speed and cooldown reduction bonuses respectively, and
Relentless Assault bringing a smattering of extra damage.
Adapting Gear
Most of the gear from the Greater Rift progression build will still make sense for speed farming, but a few variations will be necessary in order to maximize your productivity and momentum during regular Rift clears.
The Inna's Mantra set is still worn
almost in its entirety, and it is recommended that you use 2 pieces of the
craftable Aughild's Authority set, in order to capitalize on your elite fighting
prowess and snowball your performance throughout the rift; the loss of damage
reduction items should be negligible during speed GR farming and standard rift
clearing. Of course, this necessitates the use of Ring of Royal Grandeur in
your jewelry Cube slot to complete the 6-piece Inna bonus.
During Greater and standard rift speed farming, the timing and
positioning-reliant bonuses of the Endless Walk set are greatly diminished in
usefulness. You can still use this jewelry split, but will be slower and only
suitable when you explore the upper GR limits of your speed farming. In their
place, we suggest wearing a combination of Squirt's Necklace and the
Bastions of Will set,
Focus and
Restraint, instead.
Squirt's Necklace is a glass cannon staple which doubles your damage with
a separate multiplier, but has considerable drawbacks — requirement not to
get hit and a penalty of increased damage taken if you do. You will offset these
drawbacks with the shield of
Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard lvl 25 bonus, and
the combination of control you apply to the enemies plus your tremendous kill
speed in GRs, or a combo of
Boon of the Hoarder in one of your ring
sockets plus a cubed
Goldwrap in standard rifts. The Bastions of Will
set,
Focus and
Restraint, bring the highest damage
multiplier possible from jewelry at the mere cost of weaving generator and
spender attacks — a trivial ask in an Inna Mystic Allies build, where you
naturally interplay between
Way of the Hundred Fists and
Cyclone Strike usage.
In order to ensure very high uptime of Serenity and
Epiphany
during speed farming, you should drop the usual suspects for solo GR progression,
the Shenlong set weapons, and use a combination of
In-geom and
Echoing Fury.
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To help you with farming the gear you need for your builds, we have two very useful guides that you can access by clicking the links below: a Salvage Guide to help you quickly check whether or not you can safely salvage a piece of gear and a Legendary Farming Guide to help you efficiently farm legendaries and set items.
Adapting Gems
Both Enforcer and
Bane of the Trapped remain universally
desired damage amplification gems for the build.
When using Squirt's Necklace, you will have to introduce a shielding
layer of protection in order to maximize its bonus. The most convenient way for
most builds to do so, including this one, is to socket a
Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard as a legendary gem. Its level 25 bonus provides
a Life Regeneration-scaling absorption shield after not taking damage for 4
seconds, and is rather easy to keep up with the crowd control capabilities of
this build. If you are playing normal rifts, you can achieve the same effect
with even greater strength by using
Boon of the Hoarder (and pairing it
with a cubed
Goldwrap).
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
In speed Greater Rifts, you should still use Flying Dragon from the
progression build, as it still provides a potent damage boon to this attack
speed-dependent build. When doing standard rift farming, you can drop this proc
for an additional source of cooldown reduction from a cubed
Messerschmidt's Reaver — the trash enemy counterpart to
In-geom's elite kill CDR bonuses.
In speed Greater Rifts, you will be using Bindings of the Lesser Gods in
this slot for the valuable damage bonuses these bracers provide to your Mystic
Allies. In T16, this damage will be overkill, so you could solidify your
Squirt's Necklace uptime with a
Goldwrap in this slot instead. Its
powers will be skyrocketed via the gemmed
Boon of the Hoarder in one of
your rings, and this combo will render you practically invulnerable during
regular Rift farming.
In order to maintain the 6-piece bonus of the Inna set and the 3-piece
Aughild's Authority set bonuses, you will need to slot a
Ring of Royal Grandeur in the jewelry Cube slot.
The Kanai's Cube can be used for much more than simply extracting Legendary powers from items. Please refer to our Kanai's Cube guide for more information.
Follower
The recommended follower for this build during T16 and speed Greater Rift farming is the Enchantress due to her utility-laden arsenal of skills, and especially her cooldown reduction bonus, which assists your significant CDR needs during farming. Her balance of increasing survivability while also improving damage makes her an excellent choice during speed farming of any kind.
For more information regarding followers, we advise you to read our Follower Guide, which contains detailed advice for choosing the skills and the gear of your follower.
Legendary Potion
Your recommended potion during speed farming is
Bottomless Potion of the Leech, which complements the high attack speed
focus of the build.
Changelog
- 14 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 08 Dec. 2021: Guide revised and added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 21 Jul. 2021: Guide thoroughly reworked for the Inna set revamp; added S24 Ethereal weapon recommendation.
- 01 Apr. 2021: Minor gear revision and added follower recommendation.
- 16 Nov. 2020: Added S22 Cube recommendation.
- 01 Jul. 2020: No changes required for Season 21.
- 12 Mar. 2020: No changes necessary for Season 20.
- 21 Nov. 2019: Reviewed for Season 19.
- 23 Aug. 2019: Flavor of Time is now the recommended amulet.
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