0.5: Ice Martial Artist Monk

Glacial Cascade is an incredible ability for levelling, and makes for a very fast and smooth campaign. We can also combine this with Hollow Palm Technique, letting us have fists of ice that scale with our abilities, meaning we are not reliant on quarterstaves during the campaign. And giving us the following huge advances for leveling:

Super fast map clear.

Mostly ranged so much smoother than melee monk builds.

Freezing enemies and bosses makes the game very easy

Hollow Palm Technique requires no weapon, so very easy to set up.

Martial Artist Giga buffs our gloves for huge damage scaling.

This then scales incredibly well at endgame due its super high speed and AoE capabilities. Full endgame will be worked in once we have the new monk ascendancy in 0.5

This is an incredibly easy build to play in all campaign content. For the most part its just 2 buttons and keeping your distance.

Cast Frozen Locus to place a destroyable ice locus

Throw in Glacial Cascade to smash enemies and destroy your Frozen Locus

Pounce as needed in and out of combat

It sounds simple but it destroys everything. Bosses go down in second thanks for the Frozen Locus and Glacial Cascade combo. And Herald of Ice helps clear large packs of mobs.