Sunwuko Wave of Light Monk Speed Farming Variation
Speed Farming
The Sunwuko Wave of Light Monk deals with regular Rift farming decently all the way through the highest Torments, making it a viable build for the task. We have solo speed GR rankings and solo speed T16 rankings if you want to know more about which builds are best for speed farming.
Within the limited scope of regular difficulties, 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.
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Adapting Rotation
When you are speed farming regular rifts, parts of your playstyle will adapt to the lowered challenge and focus more on speed and utility.
The WoL build in farming will play like a sped up version of its progression
counterpart; still using Wave of Light
Explosive Light to blow enemies up,
but using the much quicker elite fights in standard difficulties to his advantage
with the use of
In-geom. The cooldown resets coming from the sword will
allow you to reapply
Epiphany well before any downtime, as well as
carefree spam of the resource restoration of
Air Ally — which should
be more than enough to make up for the
Cindercoat loss in the Cube. To
further assist your resource management, you will have
Mantra of Healing
Circular Breathing passively restoring Spirit as well.
Sweeping Wind should always be up, naturally (note the
Sunwuko set bonuses), and
Dashing Strike will keep you sped up throughout the rift.
Adapting Skills
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.
Wave of Light is still your main damage dealer, and you should be using the speedfarm-appropriate
Explosive Light rune for T16s.
Sweeping Wind is a necessary part of Sunwuko builds, along with the resource utility of
Inner Storm. You will complement its passive resource gain with the instant restoration from
Air Ally.
Epiphany is an omnipresent self-buff in all versions of the build. You can consider
Insight over
Desert Shroud if you trust your upkeep of
Goldwrap mitigation.
- You can shift away from survivability into more utility on
Dashing Strike depending on your confidence in handling the build. This is usually done by replacing
Blinding Speed with either
Quicksilver for the additional charge during T16 rifts (where elites are more abundant for
In-geom procs), or
Way of the Falling Star (for the greater distance covered during bounties).
- Replace the survivability of
Mantra of Salvation
Agility for the passive Spirit regeneration from
Mantra of Healing
Circular Breathing.
- In your passive selection, keep
Beacon of Ytar for the Cooldown Reduction, and add some upfront damage with
Momentum and
Seize the Initiative. If you trust your survivability, you can consider dropping
Near Death Experience for some extra movespeed via
Fleet Footed.
Adapting Gear
You will still be taking advantage of the full 6-piece set bonuses of
Sunwuko set while wearing 5 of the available pieces, and using a
Ring of Royal Grandeur to complete the full bonus Since reliance on the
Rabid Strike clone and Cpt. Crimson damage scaling is absolute overkill
for T16 rift farming however, you will be shifting several pieces around:
- Get
Tzo Krin's Gaze for the head slot, which will allow you to cast
Wave of Light from a distance, and brings a massive skill damage bonus to boot;
- Wear
Goldwrap or
Kyoshiro's Soul as your belt, and cube your weaker roll between the two items.
Goldwrap brings near-invulnerability with its interaction with
Boon of the Hoarder and
Avarice Band.
Kyoshiro's Soul stacks up your
Sweeping Wind without the need to hit enemies, which is a great quality-of-life improvement to Sunwuko farming;
- Take
In-geom over
Rabid Strike for its unparalleled Cooldown Reduction utility.
Lastly, it is advisable to wear Ring of Royal Grandeur as an equipped
item, since this allows you to have the damage multiplier of
Squirt's Necklace in the Cube despite the neck slot occupation of
Sunwuko's Shines. Pair this ring either with
Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac to ensure your cooldown availability (in Rifts
or Bounties where
In-geom procs prove unreliable), or a Fire damage
Stone of Jordan for a constant Elemental and Elite damage boost.
Note that both Zodiac and SoJ are recommended for solo farming, since your
Follower can wear Avarice Band and "Emanate" its valuable pickup radius
effect to you as if you wore it yourself. When group farming, equip the Avarice
yourself in their place.
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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
Bane of the Trapped and
Zei's Stone of Vengeance bring excellent
damage multiplication value to the build in speed farming.
In normal rifts, the third gem slot should be taken by
Boon of the Hoarder. This high utility gem feeds you practically infinite
gold and gives you a massive short-term speed boost while picking it up,
automated by
Avarice Band. It will also render you practically
invulnerable through
Goldwrap.
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For more information about gems, please refer to our guide on gems.
Adapting Kanai's Cube
Incense Torch of the Grand Temple is still a necessary part of a WoL setup,
taking up the weapon slot in the Cube.
As previously mentioned, your armor Cube slot should be taken by your weaker
rolled item between Goldwrap and
Kyoshiro's Soul. The former brings
near-invulnerability to the build while picking up gold, while the latter is a
convenience item for farming which guarantees your
Sweeping Wind stacks
will not fall off.
Tucked away in the jewelry slot of the Cube, Squirt's Necklace will add
another huge damage multiplier to the build. You will counteract its "increased
damage taken" downside with the
Goldwrap toughness boost.
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 standard rift farming for keys
is the Enchantress due to her cooldown reduction buff from
Prophetic Harmony, as well as the
Focused Mind attack speed buff.
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
The preferred potions for this build are Bottomless Potion of Kulle-Aid
(allowing you to break down Waller affixes that impede your
Wave of Light
damage) and
Bottomless Potion of the Tower, whose Armor-increasing properties
complement the naturally high All Resistances stat of Monks (due to
Harmony) for optimal survivability.
Changelog
- 14 Apr. 2022: Guide reviewed for Season 26.
- 08 Dec. 2021: Guide revised and added Season 25 Soul Shard recommendations.
- 21 Jul. 2021: Added Ethereal weapon recommendation for Season 24.
- 01 Apr. 2021: 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: Significantly expanded the overall information in the guide, Sage setup changed to reflect new items. Updated for Season 19.
- 23 Aug. 2019: Reviewed for Season 18.
- 17 May 2019: Guide was revised with additional recommendations for Sage set inclusion and approved for Season 17.
- 28 Oct. 2017: Adapted the variation to the changes the build received in Patch 2.6.1.
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