Sun Wukong Monkey King Monk Build Guide: Early to End Game – Prominence II

This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to play Sun Wukong, the Monkey King Monk, in Prominence II from start to finish. Whether you’re just beginning your adventure or preparing for end-game content, this guide walks you through gear progression, enchantments, talent builds, and the optimal DPS rotation to maximize your effectiveness in combat.

Early Game Gear Setup

When starting your Sun Wukong journey, begin with Warrior gear, which provides armor and physical damage bonuses. Pair this with any jaw-wielding, fast weapons such as a rapier, then progress through Iron and Diamond variants as you advance. If needed, Netherite is also an option.

You’ll acquire three main weapons during early game:

Fist of Fury – relatively easy to craft

Fury of a Thousand Fists – your artifact weapon

Pillar of the Monkey King – has its own dedicated spells

Your early game playstyle involves dual-wielding Fist of Fury and Fury of a Thousand Fists, then swapping to Pillar of the Monkey King as needed. You’ll also equip Rogue Hand as your only other necessary item.

Late Game Armor Progression

The end-game armor set is Titan’s Shroud, which provides armor, armor toughness, and physical damage. To obtain it, you’ll need to upgrade through the following armor tiers in this exact order:

Warrior Gear

Berserker Armor

Netherite Berserker Armor (upgrade of Berserker)

Dark Armor (upgrade of Netherite Berserker)

Titan’s Shroud (final upgrade)

Each upgrade can be performed at the Smithing station. Dark Armor is created by upgrading Netherite Berserker Armor, which itself is an upgrade of the base Berserker Armor.

Enchantments and Gear Modifications

Armor Enchantments

Apply the following enchantments to your end-game armor:

Swift Sneak 4 – enhances movement speed while sneaking

Multi-roll – grants extra rolls for mobility

Acrobat – reduces cooldown on rolls

Cowardice – grants strength buff when at full health

Frenzied – grants haste when health drops below 50%

Protection, Blast Protection, Magic Protection – standard defensive enchantments

These enchantments create a dual-buff system: you gain Cowardice at full health and Frenzied below 50% health. This means you only lack a buff between 50-99% health, providing excellent sustained bonuses during combat.

Weapon Enchantments

For your weapons, apply these enchantments:

Ambush – deal extra damage while sneaking or invisible (use invisibility potions if needed)

Sneak Echo – perform area-of-effect (AOE) damage in a 3-block radius around yourself when attacking

Sharpness – standard damage increase

Smite – additional damage scaling

Always attempt to sneak when attacking to maximize the benefits of Ambush and related abilities.

Gear Trim and Resistance

For your gear trim, choose between:

Silver Trim or Diamond Trim – Diamond provides damage reduction, while Silver provides more damage at night

Apply Eta Ingot to your helmet and body armor. This ingot helps with corruption resistance, preventing you from taking excessive corruption damage during intense fights.

Accessories and Items

Artifact Accessories

Equip the following accessories for optimal performance:

Drinking Hat – makes drinking and eating items much quicker

Running Shoes – provides extra step height and movement speed

Charm for Generation – easy regeneration that’s simple to craft

Amulet Breaks – reduces damage from spells (or Turtle Breaks for normal damage reduction)

Damage and Survival Gear

To maximize damage output and survival, use:

Power Glove – increases damage

Ring of Fury – damage amplification ring

Amulet of Torture – additional damage boost

Food and Healing

For sustenance during combat:

Health Flasks – standard healing item

End Congee – provides regeneration, resistance, health restoration, and temporary max health boost for superior survivability

While mending works in early game, switch to Hardening Catalysts applied to all gear pieces in late game to ensure your equipment never breaks.

Talent Build Path

Your talent tree progression focuses on balanced stat growth with emphasis on physical damage and haste:

Left Path (Primary Focus)

Start with the Rose Path, which grants increased haste and physical damage. Continue down the left side accumulating:

Physical damage boosts

Additional haste

Skill Cars Cool – melee hits have a chance to call down a molten hammer from the sky, dealing fire damage to your target and nearby enemies

Warrior’s Devotion – grants +10 physical damage and increases damage while wielding 2 weapons at the cost of elemental magic damage (which this build ignores)

Staff of X – doubles damage when wielding this 2-handed weapon, though it reduces haste significantly

Skywood Sunda – gain a stack of barrier per stack of might on you. Charge forward knocking back enemies, perform an upward strike, then launch back down for a three-hit combo that scales with your highest attack stat

Right Path (Secondary)

Branch right for:

Range damage

Maximum health

Movement speed

Health regeneration

Armor efficiency

Jump height

Fury of a Thousand Fists Path

For your artifact weapon talent tree, follow this progression:

Start with the first node

Branch right toward attack speed

Fist of the Void – every time you hit a soul-empowered target, deal increased damage scaling to your corruption stat

Soul Power – increases damage dealt by soul-related abilities

Continue through remaining nodes to maximize efficiency

Combat Rotation and DPS Strategy

Phase 1: Setup

Begin combat by equipping Pillar of the Monkey King and casting:

Slice and Dice – enter battle trance to gain increasing attack power with each hit (stacks up to 10). The faster you attack, the more attack power you accumulate

Rending Winds – primary damage ability from Pillar of the Monkey King

Slice and Dice originates from the Rogue Handbook and is crucial for your damage scaling.

Phase 2: Burst Damage

Once you’ve built Slice and Dice stacks, swap to dual-wielding Fist of Fury and Fury of a Thousand Fists, then immediately cast:

Enrage – boost your attack speed to 500% and dramatically increase your attack frequency while maintaining all Slice and Dice stacks

During this phase, your combination of Slice and Dice buffs plus Enrage creates exponential damage scaling as each rapid hit further increases your attack power.

Phase 3: Heavy Damage

Swap back to Pillar of the Monkey King and cast:

Monkey King’s Reckoning – use until the third activation

Rending Winds – cast again once off cooldown

Rotation Summary

Your complete DPS rotation cycles through these steps:

Cast Slice and Dice and Rending Winds with Pillar of the Monkey King

Swap to dual fists (Fist of Fury + Fury of a Thousand Fists)

Cast Enrage to activate massive attack speed boost

Swap back to Pillar of the Monkey King

Cast Monkey King’s Reckoning (up to third activation) and Rending Winds

Repeat as abilities come off cooldown

This rotation maximizes your Slice and Dice stacks before unleashing the Enrage burst, then allows those stacks to amplify your heavy-hitting finisher abilities.

Summary

Sun Wukong in Prominence II is a dynamic monk build that emphasizes rapid strikes, strategic weapon swapping, and stack management. Progress through the armor tiers methodically, carefully choose your enchantments to balance offense and defense, and master the three-phase combat rotation for optimal damage output. Whether you’re tackling dungeons or challenging bosses, this comprehensive build provides the tools and knowledge to excel from early game through end-game content.

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