Deskrawl Monk Build: Sacred Judgment and Mana Sustain

The Sacred Judgment approach is straightforward: use the attack as the centre of a Lightning setup, keep it casting, and add enough defence to survive when control fails. In an October 3 post, dsds0821 described this route around Sacred Judgment, Lightning critical bonuses, health, Dodge and Mana sustain. That is a concrete player loadout to adapt, not a confirmed best Monk build for every boss.

If Sacred Judgment is not yet available, do not strip your current gear to prepare for it. Keep improving the attack you can use. A Monk in the level-30 progression thread reported repeated walls when their weapon fell behind and recommended comparing new weapons, including well-rolled Rare items. The useful lesson is to check the weapon before blaming the entire class.

The build’s author used Manaflow Greaves and a Mana-regeneration minion during progression, then later changed to damage-focused leg armour. The author warned that the remaining Mana regeneration still needed to support the skill after that swap. If the change repeatedly empties your Mana, the larger damage bonus is competing with time spent unable to cast.

The retained Manaflow Greaves tooltip is explicit: a kill grants 15 Mana Regeneration for four seconds. It does not promise that effect without a kill. The listed Black Mist item requires level 70; it illustrates the effect, not a piece a new Monk can immediately equip. Compare the requirements and wording of the actual version in your inventory.

For the Sacred Judgment route, the community post focuses on Lightning damage, Lightning critical chance, Strong Attack critical damage and defensive choices. The same post supplies exact talent ranks and a Formless conversion example, but those details are not established for the current client. Use the route to identify relevant nodes; do not assume its old point allocation fits your available tree.

Sacred Judgment Rune (Grand) is a separate skill rune. Its retained tooltip lists +4 ability levels and a Bonus Armor attribute. It is not evidence that you have completed a multi-piece set. Add it to the decision only when it improves the skill you are actually building around.

Do not build on the promise of permanent stun. Hotfix 1.0.2a says diminishing returns shorten stun or root duration while preserving the status. That can preserve a status interaction without preserving the full period in which an enemy cannot act. The older Sacred Judgment post’s control-heavy approach still needs health, recovery and protection against the damage that gets through.

Iron Constitution is another named option to examine when it is available: patch 1.0.2 improved its protection after preventing a lethal hit and made the trigger reset equipped ability cooldowns. It is a conditional recovery effect, not immunity to every dangerous hit. Keep that trigger condition in mind when comparing it with an offensive choice.

If your drops are steering you toward Furious Fist instead, treat Hundred Hands as a different build decision. The six-piece effect can trigger a free Golden Palms without knockback, applying Dazed and gaining damage from current Mana. Patch 1.0.2 also made the triggered cast participate in applicable talent and equipment cast effects.

Hundred Hands makes current Mana at the trigger part of the damage calculation. That is a different resource question from sustaining repeated Sacred Judgment casts; compare the two loadouts separately rather than assuming one shared set of priorities. Keep a reliable farm while collecting the required pieces, and switch only when the interaction you are aiming for is active.