This Diablo 3 Monk guide focuses on tips and tricks for power leveling to level 60 as soon as possible. In order to achieve optimum leveling speed, it’s very important to get a perfect balance of skill build and equipment. The game play is also extremely important and so is your ability to spend gold.

Note that this guide focuses only on leveling techniques specific to Monk. I recommend that you check out my Diablo 3 leveling guide to get common or general leveling tips and tricks that are applicable to all five classes.

If you have had a chance to play the beta, you might rate Monk as one of the not-so-fun to play class. Some even consider Monk as weaker and slower compared to other four classes, especially Barbarian and Wizard. That’s not true, however. Monks are equally good and can be extremely fun to play and level up.

Challenges in leveling a Monk

You might notice that among all, Monk is the only class that is truly ‘support type’. You get four Mantras support skills such as heal, which other classes do not have. This makes solo leveling a bit difficult for Monks as your skills are limited compared to other classes. However, at higher levels the set of skills that Monks have become extremely important and that’s what is going to make them one of the most wanted characters for higher difficulty boss and rare farming.

As you Monk you will find yourself taking a lot of damage compared to other classes. One of the ways to avoid this is using area status skills or escape skills. They may have time out so make sure that you wait until the skills are ready before you engage into a battle.

Monk leveling tips and tricks

Monk leveling tip # 1 – The Combos

Combos are what make Monks really good at fighting mobs. If you pull out the right combination or sequence of skills then you can take out mobs very easily giving you a significant boost in leveling speed.

Monk leveling tip # 2 – Mantras

There are four Mantras – Evasion, Healing, Retribution and Conviction. Mantras work best when you are playing in coop mode. They give your allies some nice buffs that help to kill enemies more faster and efficiently as a team and thus giving you a significant boost in leveling speed. They work just perfect against bosses and rare monster packs that take forever to die.

Monk leveling tip # 3 – Mobility

Use the Mobility skills to your advantage to escape your way out of mobs by hopping to single enemies standing away from crowd. Timing is crucial when using these skills as some of them have timeout and they’re mainly for survival.

Monk leveling tip # 4 – Speed

Attack speed combined with Combos and Mobility makes Monks an all rounder. You can kill a whole bunch of monsters ridiculously fast without running out of Spirit.

Skill builds for power leveling Monk

Leveling 1-13

Pick Fists of Thunder as your primary skill and Dashing Strike as your secondary skill. As you level up to 3 and get Deadly Reach switch to that as your secondary skill.

At level 4 use Blinding Flash as you will unlock your skill slot number 1. At level 5 select Lashing Tail Kick as your primary skill. Your main strategy will be simple, keep spamming Lashing Tail Kick to generate Mantra. Engage mobs with Blinding Flash to avoid taking any damage. Time this properly and use it when they get close to you so that the enemies are still in your area of attack range.

Buy sufficient red pots to speed up leveling as you may find yourself taking a lot of damage until you get Blinding Flash.

At level 9 you will unlock skill slot number 2. Pick your first Mantra – The Mantra of Evasion as you will unlock that at the same level. Stick with this build until level 11.

Higher level builds and tactics are coming soon.

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