Radiant Monk

This build combines the offensive prowess of an open-hand monk and combines it with the amazing control of Radiating Orb. This will focus as both a striker and frontline tank as whenever we deal radiant damage (with our helmet or manifestation of soul), we inflict 3 stacks of radiating orb. Furthermore, whenever an enemy misses an attack against you, we deal a small amount of radiant damage. This means we have this never ending cycle where, enemies will be almost permanently locked at 10 radiating orb stacks, causing basically any attack other than a crit to miss since we essentially have an AC of 28 with max stacks of radiating orb. For this reason, I almost prefer this build in a solo playthrough since we benefit from enemies attacking and missing you specifically. Do note that I have constructed this build to be very reliant of Strength Elixirs, so if you don’t want to chug steroids after every long rest, you might need to respec your initial stats.