Monkey King's Garb Wave of Light — Monk

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Monkey King's Garb Wave of Light for the Monk: tier B, Season 39, with gear, cube powers, gems and 2 variants.

At a glance

Class: Monk
Tier: B
Season: S39
Main skill: Way of the Hundred Fists
Items: 13
Cube powers: 4
Updated: 25.08.2026

Equipment

Helm Sunwuko's Crown
Shoulders Sunwuko's Balance
Amulet Sunwuko's Shines
Chest Sunwuko's Soul
Gloves Sunwuko's Paws
Bracers Pinto's Pride
Belt Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle
Pants Captain Crimson's Thrust
Boots The Crudest Boots
Ring 1 Unity
Ring 2 Convention of Elements
Main Hand Rabid Strike
Off Hand Vengeful Wind

Active Skills

Way of the Hundred Fists Assimilation

Wave of Light Empowered Wave

Cyclone Strike Implosion

Dashing Strike Quicksilver

Epiphany Desert Shroud

Sweeping Wind Inner Storm

Passive Skills

Harmony

The Guardian's Path

Beacon of Ytar

Seize the Initiative

Kanai's Cube

Weapon Incense Torch of the Grand Temple

Armor Bindings of the Lesser Gods

Jewelry Ring of Royal Grandeur

4th slot (Season 39) Kyoshiro's Blade

Stat Priority

Dexterity
Critical Hit Chance
Cooldown Reduction
Area Damage
Vitality
Critical Hit Damage

Legendary Gems

Bane of the Trapped Rank 150

Enforcer Rank 150

Bane of the Stricken Rank 150

Regular Gems

Helm Diamond

Armor Diamond

Weapon Emerald

Sunwuko's Crown

Helm

✦ Dexterity

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Wave of Light Damage

✦ Fire Resistance

✦ Socket

✦ Dexterity

✦ Area Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Physical Resistance

✦ Resource Cost Reduction

Sunwuko's Soul

Chest Armor

✦ Dexterity

✦ Vitality

✦ Damage Reduction from Elites

✦ Arcane Resistance

✦ Ranged Damage Reduction

✦ Socket

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Area Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Dexterity

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Poison Resistance

✦ Dexterity

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Life %

✦ Gold Find

Captain Crimson's Thrust

Pants

✦ Dexterity

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Socket

✦ Dexterity

✦ Vitality

✦ All Resistance

✦ Wave of Light Damage

Sunwuko's Shines

Amulet

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Cold Resistance

✦ Socket

Unity

Ring 1

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Damage against Elites

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Gold Find

✦ Socket

Convention of Elements

Ring 2

✦ Critical Hit Chance

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Fire Resistance

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Socket

Rabid Strike

Main Hand

✦ Critical Hit Damage

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Area Damage

✦ Maximum Spirit

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Socket

Vengeful Wind

Off Hand

✦ Physical Damage (Weapon)

✦ Area Damage

✦ Cooldown Reduction

✦ Maximum Spirit

✦ Socket

Gameplay

The configuration

This setup is stored as a complete build — gear, skills, runes and all four cube slots work together and are not assembled from individual statistics.

Set: Monkey King's Garb
Rating: tier B across all classes
Kanai's Cube: Incense Torch of the Grand Temple, Bindings of the Lesser Gods, Ring of Royal Grandeur, Kyoshiro's Blade
Skills: Way of the Hundred Fists (Assimilation), Wave of Light (Empowered Wave), Cyclone Strike (Implosion), Dashing Strike (Quicksilver), Epiphany (Desert Shroud), Sweeping Wind (Inner Storm)
Passives: Harmony, The Guardian's Path, Beacon of Ytar, Seize the Initiative
Variants available: GR push, Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts

Use the variant switcher above to move between the versions. What changes between them is spelled out below — read it before you rebuild.

What the set does

This build wears Monkey King's Garb. These bonuses apply once the matching number of set pieces is equipped — the damage multiplier hangs on them, not on the individual stats of the pieces:

2 pieces: Your damage taken is reduced by 50% while Sweeping Wind is active.
4 pieces: Every second Sweeping Wind spawns a decoy next to the last enemy you hit that taunts nearby enemies and then explodes for 1000% weapon damage for each stack of Sweeping Wind you have.
6 pieces: Lashing Tail Kick, Tempest Rush, and Wave of Light have their damage increased by 1500% for each stack of Sweeping Wind you have.

How the variants differ

Measured against the push version. Anything not listed here stays the same:

Torment 16 / Nephalem rifts: swaps in skills Wave of Light (Explosive Light), Epiphany (Soothing Mist), Mystic Ally (Enduring Ally), Dashing Strike (Radiance), Mantra of Healing (Heavenly Body); cube Goldwrap, Squirt's Necklace, Rabid Strike; gems Zei's Stone of Vengeance, Boon of the Hoarder.

Sockets and gems

The 3 legendary gems (Bane of the Trapped, Enforcer, Bane of the Stricken) belong in the jewellery slots — that is the only place their rank counts, and the only place they keep growing when you upgrade after a Greater Rift.

The remaining 8 sockets are filled with Diamond: the multiplier already comes from the set and the legendary powers, so one more base stat does more there than another effect would.

On the season theme

Shades of the Nephalem spawns a shadow clone of your class at every shrine and pylon that fights along for one minute. Activate shrines inside the pull, not on the way there. The fourth cube slot is already filled in every variant above.