Skill Type: Techniques
Cost: 40 Spirit
Cause an enemy to Bleed for 1200% weapon damage as Physical over 9 seconds. If the enemy dies while bleeding, it explodes and deals 2770% weapon damage as Physical damage to all nearby enemies.
Element: Physical
| Skill Runes | Level | Element |
|---|---|---|
| The Flesh is Weak Enemies hit take 20% additional damage for 9 seconds. | 18 | Physical |
| Strong Spirit If the enemy explodes after bleeding, gain 15 Spirit for each enemy caught in the blast. Exploding Palm's damage turns into Holy. | 25 | Holy |
| Impending Doom Exploding Palm no longer causes the enemy to bleed, but if the enemy dies while affected by Exploding Palm, they explode for 6305% weapon damage as Cold. | 36 | Cold |
| Shocking Grasp Exploding Palm arcs up to 15 yards to another target. Exploding Palm's damage turns into Lightning. | 44 | Lightning |
| Essence Burn Instead of bleeding, the enemy will burn for 1875% weapon damage as Fire over 9 seconds. If the enemy dies while burning, it explodes causing all nearby enemies to burn for 3260% weapon damage as Fire over 3 seconds. | 51 | Fire |
- This chart shows the popularity of the runes for the Exploding Palm Monk active skill. Select the blue bars for softcore data, the red bars for hardcore data, or view all the rune statistics in the table display.
- These are the Exploding Palm runes as chosen by level 70 Monks who are currently playing the Diablo III: Reaper of Souls on PC or Mac in patch 2.3. It can also guide Monks looking to pick the best Exploding Palm runes in Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition on consoles - the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
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| Rune | Softcore % | Hardcore % |
|---|---|---|
| Impending Doom | 83.2 | 79.1 |
| Shocking Grasp | 9.7 | 11.4 |
| The Flesh is Weak | 3.4 | 3.8 |
| Essence Burn | 2.5 | 3.5 |
| Strong Spirit | 1.2 | 2.1 |
| No Rune | 0 | 0 |
