The Bone Cage is a highly effective skill for the Monk in Path of Exile 2. Based on our latest ladder analysis of 17 top players in the 90-plus bracket, this build frequently maximizes damage by utilizing support gems such as Efficiency II, Astral Projection, Spell Cascade. To optimize survivability and DPS, players commonly allocate key passives like Desensitisation, Critical Overload, Aspiring Genius on the skill tree.

Bone Cage
(Monk) Builds
Sample size: 17 characters analyzed.
Last updated: 2026-07-28 19:43:54 UTC
Below data represents gem links within this cohort. Selected main skills are strictly isolated.
★ Selected Main Skills
Other Active Skills & Auras
Flasks Distribution
Main Hand (Set I)
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased [Spell] Damage
52.9%
# to Level of all [Physical|Physical] [Spell|Spell] Skills
47.1%
# to maximum Mana
41.2%
#% increased [Critical|Critical Hit Chance] for [Spell|Spells]
35.3%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Lightning] Damage
35.3%
#% increased Cast Speed
29.4%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Cold] Damage
29.4%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Fire] Damage
29.4%
#% increased [Spell] [Physical] Damage
23.5%
#% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
11.8%
Offhand (Set I)
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
29.4%
# to maximum Mana
23.5%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
17.6%
# to Level of all [Spell|Spell] Skills
11.8%
# to all [Attributes|Attributes]
11.8%
#% increased [Spirit|Spirit]
11.8%
#% reduced [LightRadius|Light Radius]
11.8%
Grants effect of [UniqueShrineChaos|Dreaming Gloom Shrine]
11.8%
[Allies|Allies] in your [Presence|Presence] deal # to # added [Attack|Attack] [Chaos] Damage
11.8%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Chaos] Damage
11.8%
Helmet
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
52.9%
# to maximum Mana
41.2%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
29.4%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
29.4%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
23.5%
#% increased [ItemRarity|Rarity of Items] found
23.5%
# to [Intelligence|Intelligence]
17.6%
# to [Strength|Strength] and [Intelligence|Intelligence]
17.6%
#% increased [Armour|Armour] and [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
17.6%
#% increased [ESRechargeRate|Energy Shield Recharge Rate]
17.6%
Body Armour
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
58.8%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
41.2%
#% increased [ESRechargeRate|Energy Shield Recharge Rate]
41.2%
#% to [Resistances|Fire Resistance]
29.4%
# to [Intelligence|Intelligence]
23.5%
# to [Spirit|Spirit]
23.5%
# Life Regeneration per second
17.6%
# to maximum Life
17.6%
#% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
17.6%
#% to [Resistances|Chaos Resistance]
17.6%
Gloves
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased [Critical|Critical Hit] Chance
76.5%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
76.5%
# to [Intelligence|Intelligence]
70.6%
#% increased Mana Regeneration Rate if you've dealt a [Critical|Critical Hit] [Recently]
64.7%
#% increased [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
64.7%
Cannot Regenerate Mana if you haven't dealt a [Critical|Critical Hit] [Recently]
64.7%
# to maximum Life
17.6%
#% to [Resistances|Fire Resistance]
17.6%
# to [Dexterity|Dexterity]
11.8%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
11.8%
Boots
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased Movement Speed
88.2%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
47.1%
#% increased [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
41.2%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
35.3%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
29.4%
#% to [Resistances|Fire Resistance]
29.4%
#% increased [Armour|Armour]
23.5%
#% increased [Attributes|Attribute] Requirements
23.5%
Deal #% of [Overkill] damage to enemies within # metres of the enemy killed
23.5%
# to [StunThreshold|Stun Threshold]
11.8%
Amulet
Top Bases / Uniques
Top Explicit Mods
# to Level of all [Spell|Spell] Skills
58.8%
#% increased [ItemRarity|Rarity of Items] found
52.9%
# to [Spirit|Spirit]
47.1%
# to maximum Life
41.2%
#% increased Cast Speed
29.4%
#% increased [Spell] Damage
29.4%
#% increased maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
29.4%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
23.5%
#% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
23.5%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
23.5%
Ring 1
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased Cast Speed
70.6%
#% increased [ItemRarity|Rarity of Items] found
52.9%
# to maximum Mana
41.2%
#% to [Resistances|Fire Resistance]
41.2%
#% to all [ElementalDamage|Elemental] [Resistances]
41.2%
# to maximum Life
35.3%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
35.3%
#% increased [Spell] Damage
29.4%
Adds # to # [Physical|Physical] Damage to [Attack|Attacks]
29.4%
#% increased Mana Cost [Efficiency] of [Spell|Spells]
23.5%
Ring 2
Top Explicit Mods
#% increased Cast Speed
41.2%
#% increased [ItemRarity|Rarity of Items] found
35.3%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
35.3%
# to maximum Life
29.4%
Reflects opposite Ring
29.4%
# to [Intelligence|Intelligence]
23.5%
#% increased [Spell] Damage
23.5%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
23.5%
#% to all [ElementalDamage|Elemental] [Resistances]
23.5%
# to maximum Mana
17.6%
Belt
Top Explicit Mods
Has # [Charm] Slots
82.4%
#% of [Flask|Flask] Recovery applied Instantly
35.3%
#% to [Resistances|Cold Resistance]
35.3%
# to [Armour]
29.4%
# to maximum Life
29.4%
All [MagesLegacy|Mage's Legacies] have #% increased effect per duplicate [MagesLegacy|Mage's Legacy] you have
29.4%
Legacy of [LegacyOfDiamond|Diamond]
29.4%
# to [Dexterity|Dexterity]
23.5%
# to [Strength|Strength]
23.5%
#% to [Resistances|Lightning Resistance]
23.5%
Main Hand (Set II)
Top Explicit Mods
# to maximum Mana
52.9%
#% increased [Spell] Damage
41.2%
#% increased Cast Speed
29.4%
#% increased [Critical|Critical Hit Chance] for [Spell|Spells]
23.5%
# to Level of all [Lightning|Lightning] [Spell|Spell] Skills
17.6%
#% increased Mana Regeneration Rate
17.6%
#% increased [CriticalDamageBonus|Critical Spell Damage Bonus]
17.6%
Gain # Life per enemy killed
17.6%
[Gain] #% of Damage as Extra [Cold] Damage
17.6%
#% increased [Cold] Damage
11.8%
Offhand (Set II)
Top Explicit Mods
# to [Intelligence|Intelligence]
5.9%
# to maximum [EnergyShield|Energy Shield]
5.9%
#% increased [Spell] Damage
5.9%
#% to [Resistances|Chaos Resistance]
5.9%
[Critical|Critical Hits] with [Spell|Spells] apply # Stacks of [CriticalWeakness|Critical Weakness]
5.9%
Interactive Meta Heatmap
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Key Notables & Keystones
Desensitisation
(12)70.6%✕ Remove
Critical Overload
(11)64.7%✕ Remove
Aspiring Genius
(11)64.7%✕ Remove
Wildsurge Incantation
(11)64.7%✕ Remove
Controlling Magic
(10)58.8%✕ Remove
Pure Energy
(9)52.9%✕ Remove
Sudden Escalation
(9)52.9%✕ Remove
Efficient Casting
(9)52.9%✕ Remove
Practiced Signs
(9)52.9%✕ Remove
Mind Eraser
(9)52.9%✕ Remove
Raw Power
(9)52.9%✕ Remove
Insightfulness
(8)47.1%✕ Remove
Illuminated Crown
(8)47.1%✕ Remove
Melding
(8)47.1%✕ Remove
Dangerous Blossom
(8)47.1%✕ Remove
Tempered Mind
(8)47.1%✕ Remove
Dampening Shield
(8)47.1%✕ Remove
Heavy Buffer
(8)47.1%✕ Remove
Cut to the Bone
(8)47.1%✕ Remove
Relentless Vindicator
(7)41.2%✕ Remove
For the Jugular
(7)41.2%✕ Remove
Touch the Arcane
(7)41.2%✕ Remove
Enhanced Barrier
(7)41.2%✕ Remove
Constricting
(7)41.2%✕ Remove
True Strike
(7)41.2%✕ Remove
Patient Barrier
(7)41.2%✕ Remove
Shredding Force
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
The Unseen Path
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Boundless Growth
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Entwined Realities
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
The Lesser Harm
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Blackflame Covenant
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Barbaric Strength
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Affliction Enforcer
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Pain Attunement
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Forced Outcome
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Cooked
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Critical Exploit
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Blood Tearing
(6)35.3%✕ Remove
Turn the Clock Forward
(5)29.4%✕ Remove
Final Barrage
(5)29.4%✕ Remove
Abasement
(5)29.4%✕ Remove
Power of the Storm
(5)29.4%✕ Remove
Mental Alacrity
(5)29.4%✕ Remove
Arcane Nature
(5)29.4%✕ Remove
Stormbreaker
(5)29.4%✕ Remove
Careful Assassin
(5)29.4%✕ Remove
Comradery
(5)29.4%✕ Remove
Chakra of Elements
(5)29.4%✕ Remove
Shimmering Mirage
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Deadly Force
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Sacrificial Blood
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Calculated Hunter
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Vulgar Methods
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Conservative Casting
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Turn the Clock Back
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Mind Over Matter
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Elemental Equilibrium
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Chaos Inoculation
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Lasting Incantations
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Wasting Casts
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Battle Fever
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Bolstering Presence
(4)23.5%✕ Remove
Raw Mana
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Dependable Ward
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Breaking Point
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Reverberation
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Overzealous
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Cower Before the First Ones
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Power Conduction
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Ether Flow
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Crystalline Phylactery
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Arcane Intensity
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Potent Incantation
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Rupture the Soul
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Alternating Current
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Ice Storm
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Brain Freeze
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
General Electric
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Eternal Life
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Shocking Limit
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Soulless Form
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Ingenuity
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Harmonic Generator
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Brain Storm
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Invocated Efficiency
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Profane Commander
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Eldritch Battery
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Roil
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Infernal Limit
(3)17.6%✕ Remove
Remnant Attraction
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Sanguimancy
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Ruin
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Empowering Infusions
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Heartstopping Presence
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Dreamcatcher
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Radial Force
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Heartbreaking
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Altered Flesh
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Supportive Ancestors
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Instruments of Power
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Vitality Siphon
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Sunder the Flesh
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Bone Chains
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Barya of Navira
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Preservation
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Grinning Immolation
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Hallowed
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Essence of the Storm
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Vile Mending
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Chronomancy
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Efficient Inscriptions
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Ancestral Reach
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Navira's Well
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Ancestral Bond
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Proliferating Weeds
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
The Fourth Teaching
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Beidat's Will
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Zone of Control
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Ancestral Conduits
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Shimmering
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Pure Chaos
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Grasping Wounds
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Throatseeker
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Sacred Rituals
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
All Natural
(2)11.8%✕ Remove
Zealot's Oath
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Efficient Killing
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Ancestral Alacrity
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Elemental Force
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Left Ventricle
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Sanguine Tolerance
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Intricate Sigils
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Ancient Aegis
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Mystic Attunement
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Fast Metabolism
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Right Hand of Darkness
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Return to Nature
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Repulsion
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Now and Again
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Exhaust All Power
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Stormwalker
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Loose Flesh
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Pyromancer
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Arcane Blossom
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Consistent Intake
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Moment of Truth
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Breath of Ice
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Bringer of Flame
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Cruel Fate
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Ruinic Helm
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Erraticism
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Cremating Cries
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Explosive Impact
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Everlasting Infusions
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Breath of Fire
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Infusing Power
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Demonic Possession
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Grounded in the Earth
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Resonance
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Dominion
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Footprints in the Sand
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Rustle of the Leaves
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Phased Form
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Devoted Protector
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
As the Whispers Demand
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Controlled Chaos
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Crimson Power
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Iron Slippers
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Warding Fetish
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Haemorrhaging Cuts
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Flurry
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Conduit
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Crashing Wave
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Unfurled Finger
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Investing Energies
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Thickened Arteries
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Heart Tissue
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Explosive Empowerment
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Deadly Thorns
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Convalescence
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Thirst for Power
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Stormcharged
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Heartstopping
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Infused Limits
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Drenched
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Energise
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Sigil of Ice
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Invigorating Archon
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Inevitability
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Energising Archon
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
All For One
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Melting Flames
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Wither Away
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Overload
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Whispers of Doom
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Bringer of Order
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Blessing of the Moon
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Flow Like Water
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Scarred Faith
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Barrier of Venarius
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Frozen Limit
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Immortal Thirst
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Overexposure
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Gore Spike
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Hindered Capabilities
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Extinguishing Exhalation
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Sanguimantic Rituals
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Dispatch Foes
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Thirst for Endurance
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Open Mind
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Stylebender
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Breath of Lightning
(1)5.9%✕ Remove
Puppet Master chance
(1)5.9%✕ Remove