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Quarterstaff Strike Rend Freeze Martial Artist (138% Elemental Damage)

Martial Artist·MonkPatch 0.5.2·byPublic Ladder
Version 1·Updated Jun 13, 2026
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Overview

Offense

Main skill: Quarterstaff Strike

1. Quarterstaff Strike
130,941
2. Hollow Form
38,874
Hit DPS
124,285
Attack rate
3.69/s
Average hit
33,659

Utility

Resources, movement, and recovery

Mana
821
Character spirit
149
Gear spirit
98
Move speed
x2.04

Defense

Life pool, mitigation, avoidance, and resistance coverage

Life
1
Character ES
7,934
Gear ES
1,532
Character evasion
3,438
Gear evasion
486
Fire res
60%
Cold res
75%
Lightning res
62%
Chaos res
5%

Passive Tree

154
Nodes
39
Notables
1
Keystones

Key Passives

Chaos InoculationKey
Chaos Inoculation
Chaos
Frantic ReachNotable
-20% reduced Accuracy Rating
18% increased Area of Effect for Attacks
AccuracyArea
Tenfold AttacksNotable
4% increased Attack Speed
6% increased Attack Speed if you've been Hit Recently
+10 to Strength
SpeedAttribute
True StrikeNotable
+10 to Dexterity
20% increased Critical Hit Chance
AttributeCritical
For the JugularNotable
25% increased Critical Damage Bonus
+10 to Intelligence
CriticalAttribute
Mindful AwarenessNotable
24% increased Evasion Rating
24% increased maximum Energy Shield
EvasionEnergy Shield
Killer InstinctNotable
40% increased Attack Damage while on Full Life
60% increased Attack Damage while on Low Life
Life
Crashing WaveNotable
25% increased Damage if you've dealt a Critical Hit in the past 8 seconds
Critical

Effect Profile

EffectStats
Attribute
PassiveCountTotal
  • to any Attribute32+160
  • to Dexterity8+76
  • to Intelligence4+30
  • to Strength2+20
Critical
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Critical Damage Bonus11230%
  • increased Critical Hit Chance10165%
  • increased Critical Damage Bonus if you've consumed a Power Charge Recently360%
  • increased Damage if you've dealt a Critical Hit in the past # seconds240%
Energy Shield
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased maximum Energy Shield17227%
  • faster start of Energy Shield Recharge428%
  • to Maximum Energy Shield per # Item Evasion on Equipped Body Armour1+1
Evasion
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Evasion Rating17227%
  • gain Deflection Rating equal to # % of Evasion Rating318%
  • increased Evasion Rating if you haven't been Hit Recently120%
Area
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Area of Effect for Attacks13102%
  • increased Area of Effect18%
Speed
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Skill Speed524%
  • increased Attack Speed27%
  • increased Cast Speed with Cold Skills211%
  • increased Attack Speed with Quarterstaves26%
Gem
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Skill Effect Duration9101%
  • skills have # % chance to not remove Charges but still count as consuming them110%
  • skills lose Combo -#% slower1-20%
Attack Damage
PassiveCountTotal
  • increased Attack Damage438%
  • increased Attack Area Damage221%

Gear

Weapon 1

Oblivion Gnarl

Sinister Quarterstaff

Item Level 81
Rare
Properties
Range14
Physical Damage66-109
Quality20
SocketsS S S
Lightning Damage19-422
Cold Damage121-179
Attacks per Second1.75
Critical Hit Chance12%
Total DPS801.5
Physical DPS153.1
Elemental DPS648.4
Requirements
Level67
Rune
  • Adds 2 to 80 Lightning Damage
  • Leeches 5% of Physical Damage as Mana
Bonded
  • Bonded: 5% increased maximum Mana
  • Bonded: 60% increased Magnitude of Shock you inflict
Desecrated
  • Adds 121 to 179 Cold Damage
Explicit
  • Adds 17 to 342 Lightning Damage
  • 138% increased Elemental Damage with Attacks
  • +4.98% to Critical Hit Chance
Crafted
  • 25% increased Attack Speed
  • +3 to Level of all Attack Skills
Helmet

Kraken Veil

Ancestral Tiara

Item Level 80
Rare
Properties
Energy Shield377
Quality22
SocketsS
Requirements
Level80
Enchant
  • Allocates Patient Barrier
Rune
  • Raven-Touched
Desecrated
  • +36% to Lightning Resistance
Explicit
  • +52 to maximum Energy Shield
  • 92% increased Energy Shield
  • 18% increased Rarity of Items found
  • 34% increased Critical Hit Chance
Crafted
  • 17% increased Rarity of Items found
Body Armour

Miracle Salvation

Vile Robe

Item Level 79
Rare
Properties
Energy Shield1008
Movement Speed-3%
Quality25
SocketsS S
Requirements
Level65
Rune
  • 40% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
Bonded
  • Bonded: +40 to maximum Life
  • Bonded: +40 to maximum Mana
Desecrated
  • +40% to Cold Resistance
Explicit
  • +112 to maximum Energy Shield
  • 145% increased Energy Shield
  • +31 to Intelligence
  • Corrupted
Crafted
  • +32% to Fire Resistance
Gloves

Lochtonial Caress

Fists of Stone

Item Level 56
Unique
Properties
Quality20
SocketsS S
Requirements
Level0
Rune
  • Destroys all Augment Sockets on the item to create a Jewel Socket
Implicit
  • Has +3 to Evasion Rating per player level
  • Has +1 to maximum Energy Shield per player level
  • Has +1 to maximum Energy Shield per player level
Explicit
  • Has +1 to Evasion Rating per player level
  • 9% less damage taken while on Low Life
  • 20% increased Attack Speed
  • Cannot Leech Mana
  • 5% chance to grant a Endurance Charge to Allies in your Presence on Hit
  • 6% chance to grant a Frenzy Charge to Allies in your Presence on Hit
  • 10% chance to grant a Power Charge to Allies in your Presence on Hit
Boots

Brimstone Slippers

Quickslip Shoes

Item Level 82
Rare
Properties
Energy Shield147
Evasion486
Quality20
SocketsS S
Requirements
Level75
Rune
  • 5% increased Movement Speed
  • 15% increased Mana Cost Efficiency if you haven't Dodge Rolled Recently
Bonded
  • Bonded: 10% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate
Desecrated
  • 35% increased Movement Speed
Explicit
  • +78 to Evasion Rating
  • +23 to maximum Energy Shield
  • 91% increased Evasion and Energy Shield
  • +34% to Fire Resistance
  • Gain Deflection Rating equal to 22% of Evasion Rating
  • Corrupted
Crafted
  • 60% increased effect of Socketed Augment Items
Belt

Mageblood

Utility Belt

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Charm Slots2
Requirements
Level55
Implicit
  • Has 2 Charm Slots
  • 20% of Flask Recovery applied Instantly
Explicit
  • Legacy of Silver
  • Legacy of Diamond
  • Legacy of Quicksilver
  • Legacy of Quicksilver
  • All Mage's Legacies have 36% increased effect per duplicate Mage's Legacy you have
Amulet

Tempest Rosary

Gold Amulet

Item Level 79
Rare
Requirements
Level35
Enchant
  • Allocates Well of Power
Desecrated
  • 36% increased Critical Damage Bonus
Implicit
  • 14% increased Rarity of Items found
Explicit
  • +4 to Level of all Melee Skills
  • 42% increased maximum Energy Shield
  • +49 to Spirit
  • +34% to Fire Resistance
Crafted
  • 30% increased Global Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
Ring 1

Woe Turn

Gold Ring

Item Level 80
Rare
Requirements
Level40
Desecrated
  • 17% increased Rarity of Items found
Implicit
  • 14% increased Rarity of Items found
Explicit
  • Adds 19 to 43 Physical Damage to Attacks
  • Adds 40 to 60 Fire damage to Attacks
  • 18% increased Rarity of Items found
  • +40% to Cold Resistance
  • +33% to Lightning Resistance
Ring 2

Kalandra's Touch

Ring

Item Level 80
Unique
Requirements
Level0
Implicit
  • Reflects opposite Ring
Charm 1

Beira's Anguish

Dousing Charm

Item Level 80
Unique
Properties
Charges Max40
Charges Per Use30
Duration30
Quality0
Requirements
Level32
Implicit
  • Used when you become Ignited
Explicit
  • 25% Chance to gain a Charge when you kill an enemy
  • Creates Ignited Ground for 4 seconds when used, Igniting enemies as though dealing Fire damage equal to 500% of your maximum Life
Charm 2

Rite of Passage

Golden Charm

Item Level 81
Unique
Properties
Charges Max80
Charges Per Use80
Duration10
Quality0
Requirements
Level50
Implicit
  • Used when you kill a Rare or Unique enemy
Explicit
  • Possessed by Spirit Of The Cat for 20 seconds on use
Charm 3

Nascent Hope

Thawing Charm

Item Level 81
Unique
Properties
Charges Max40
Charges Per Use40
Duration30
Quality0
Requirements
Level12
Implicit
  • Used when you become Frozen
Explicit
  • 25% Chance to gain a Charge when you kill an enemy
  • Energy Shield Recharge starts on use
Mana Flask

Concentrated Ultimate Mana Flask of the Perpetual

Item Level 66
Magic
Properties
Quality20
Requirements
Level60
Implicit
  • 70% increased Amount Recovered
  • 55% increased Charges gained

Skills & Gems

Quarterstaff Strike(Lv20)5 gems

Strike with your Quarterstaff.

Deep FreezeSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing Freeze it inflicts to last longer.Lv1
Cold InfusionSupports any skill that deals damage, causing them to Gain Cold Damage but deal less Fire and Lightning Damage.Lv1
Ice BiteSupports damaging skills and Warcries you use yourself. Freezing an enemy with supported skills infuses your damage with Cold damage for a short time.Lv1
Culling StrikeSupports Attack Skills, causing them to Cull Rare and Unique Enemies on Hit.Lv1
BountySupports any Skill that Hits Enemies, causing Enemies it kills to grant more Flask and Charm charges.Lv1
Rend(Lv20)5 gems

Shapeshift into a Wyvern and perform a wide slash with your wingtip claws. Consumes a Power Charge if possible to grant you a Buff that gives you extra Lightning damage. While you have the Buff, Rend covers a much larger area but is slower.

PersistenceSupports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.Lv1
RageSupports Melee Attacks, causing them to grant Rage on Hit.Lv1
Martial TempoSupports Attacks, causing them to Attack faster.Lv1
Hit And RunSupports Attack Skills you use yourself which do not already have some Condition for use. Supported Skills can only be used after you have moved a certain distance, but have massively increased Skill Speed. Cannot support Skills which have a cooldown.Lv1
Perpetual ChargeSupports 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.Lv1
Hollow Form(Lv20)4 gems

Channel to create fleeting images of your astral self near the target location. The images perform a Socketed Melee Attack once then vanish, targeting the closest enemy if possible. The images cannot perform Channelled Skills or Conditional Skills. Consuming a Power Charge creates additional images.

Voranas SiegeLv1
Rakiatas FlowSupports Skills that can cause Damaging Hits, causing those Hits to treat Enemy Elemental Resistances as inverted.Lv1
TwofoldSupports any Skill that Consumes Charges, granting a chance for benefits of that Consumption to be doubled.Lv1
MobilitySupports skills that can be used while moving, allowing you to move faster while using them.Lv1
Hollow Focus(Lv20)5 gems

While active, ethereal bells periodically appear near you. Your Hits immediately destroy the bells, creating a shockwave that damages nearby enemies and causes a Heavy Stun on enemies that are Primed for Stun. The bells are themselves always Primed for Stun, they can be Culled, and Hits against them are always Critical Hits.

A bell appears every 3 seconds
Magnified EffectSupports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.Lv1
IngenuitySupports skills with Cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those Cooldowns Recover. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Lv1
Culling StrikeSupports Attack Skills, causing them to Cull Rare and Unique Enemies on Hit.Lv1
BlindSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on Hit.Lv1
Living LightningSupports Skills which cause Damaging Hits. Living Lightning Minions are created when dealing Lightning damage with Supported Skills - bundles of living electricity that target nearby enemies with Chaining Attacks. Enemies will not directly engage these Minions, and can pass through them. Does not modify skills used by Minions.Lv1
Devour(Lv6)4 gems

Shapeshift into a Wyvern and devour a Corpse or Cullable enemy, and additional nearby Corpses. For each enemy or corpse devoured, you regenerate life and gain a Power Charge. If the target is far enough away, you will leap to them and damage nearby enemies where you land. Targeting nearby enemies or corpses will not perform a leap or a Slam.

Regenerates 10 life per enemy or Corpse consumed over 1 second
Thrill Of The KillSupports Skills you use yourself which Hit enemies. Culling a Shocked enemy with Supported Skills infuses all of your Attacks with Lightning damage for a short time.Lv1
ProfusionSupports skills that can generate Charges, giving them a chance to generate an additional Charge when they do so.Lv1
Blazing CriticalSupports Skills you use yourself which Hit enemies. Critical Hits with Supported Skills imbue all of your Attacks with Fire damage for a duration.Lv1
PersistenceSupports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.Lv1
Refutation(Lv20)4 gems

Spends all your Ward to gain a short-duration Buff that causes you to Block all Blockable Hits and apply Parried to enemies from which you've Blocked a Hit. This Buff is removed if you are Heavy Stunned. While this Buff is active, you cannot be Light Stunned, but Blocking too much damage may Heavy Stun you.

Parried Debuff duration is 2 seconds
Arcane TempoSupports Spells, causing them to cast faster.Lv1
PersistenceSupports any skill that has a duration, making that duration longer.Lv1
MobilitySupports skills that can be used while moving, allowing you to move faster while using them.Lv1
IngenuitySupports skills with Cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those Cooldowns Recover. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Lv1
Mana Remnants(Lv18)3 gems

Conjure surging arcane energy to restore your Mana. While active, enemies you kill affected by Elemental Ailments have a chance to spawn a Mana Remnant, and Critically Hitting a target with Elemental Ailments spawns a Mana Remnant every few seconds. Picking up a Mana Remnant grants you Mana which can Overflow maximum Mana.

Each Remnant grants 28 Mana
InterludeSupports Skills which create Remnants, making those Remnants more powerful.Lv1
DissipateSupports Skills which create Remnants, allowing those Remnants to be collected from further away.Lv1
Khatals RejuvenationSupports Skills that generate Remnants. Picking up Remnants from Supported Skills grants Khatal's Rejuvenation.Lv1
Blasphemy(Lv18)2 gems

Turn socketed Curse skills into vile Auras, applying their effects to all nearby enemies.

Supported Curses have 50% less Magnitudes
Magnified EffectSupports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.Lv1
Ritualistic CurseSupports Curse skills, causing them to cover a larger area but take longer to Curse enemies.Lv1
Wind Dancer(Lv18)2 gems

While active, periodically grants stages of a buff that gives you more Evasion per stage. Being Hit by an Enemy while you have this buff consumes all stages to damage and Knock Back enemies around you.

Gain a stage every 1.5 seconds
BlindSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to Blind on Hit.Lv1
MaimSupports Attacks, causing them to Maim enemies.Lv1
Ghost Dance(Lv19)1 gem

While active, causes you to 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.

Gain a Ghost Shroud every 12 seconds
IngenuitySupports skills with Cooldowns, increasing the rate at which those Cooldowns Recover. Cannot modify the skills of minions.Lv1
Charge Regulation(Lv19)No supports

While active, you gain powerful Buffs based on your active Charges. However, maintaining the Buff Consumes Charges every few seconds.

15% more Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield while you have an Endurance Charge
20% more Critical Hit Chance while you have a Power Charge
20% increased Skill Speed while you have a Frenzy Charge

No support gems detected for this skill.

Hollow Focus(Lv1)No supports

While active, ethereal bells periodically appear near you. Your Hits immediately destroy the bells, creating a shockwave that damages nearby enemies and causes a Heavy Stun on enemies that are Primed for Stun. The bells are themselves always Primed for Stun, they can be Culled, and Hits against them are always Critical Hits.

A bell appears every 3 seconds

No support gems detected for this skill.

Hollow Form(Lv1)No supports

Channel to create fleeting images of your astral self near the target location. The images perform a Socketed Melee Attack once then vanish, targeting the closest enemy if possible. The images cannot perform Channelled Skills or Conditional Skills. Consuming a Power Charge creates additional images.

No support gems detected for this skill.

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