Strategy
Spirit Walker characters live and die by the modifiers on the unique monkey they tame, and rerolling those modifiers is normally gated by how many unique-monster tablets you are willing to burn. This method flips the cost structure: instead of spending more tablets, it manufactures more attempts per tablet by stacking map revives, then deliberately dying to the monkey to force a modifier reroll.
The trick works because dying to the monkey resets its modifiers. Every revive is therefore a fresh roll. The guide presents two variants — a simple one most players already half-know, and a second, less obvious setup that quadruples the number of attempts per tablet by trading modifier count for revive count.
This is an early-game method, aimed at the point in a league where tablets are expensive relative to your wallet. Later on, once you can spend one to one and a half Divines per attempt, the older high-tablet approach that rolls three to six modifiers per monkey is stronger.
Atlas Tree & Setup
The required tablets are the ones granting unique monsters have one extra rare modifier. Because the Spirit Walker monkey build is popular, these are not cheap — roughly 1 Divine each, though careful filtering can find them around 60 Exalted or about 15 Chaos. Three of them run 2.5 to 3 Divines, but the whole point of this method is that you rarely consume them and can resell at a similar price.
You also need Doryani unlocked, whose first rank grants one additional revive. Unlocking him is straightforward: find the corrupted map section, look for the red dots, cleanse the first corrupted map and visit the corrupted site.
Target maps are Riverside and Rupture — the monkey maps. The minimum zone requirement is a Tier 6 map, though a Tier 1 is safer if the option exists.
Investment & Returns
- Investment: mid. Two to three unique-monster tablets at roughly 1 Divine each, largely recoverable by resale. A five-socket skill gem is recommended, and a failed-corruption gem with rank 20 and +20% quality plus five sockets can be bought for around 13 Chaos, roughly half the price of a clean one and far cheaper than buying a Perfect Jeweller’s Orb.
- Returns: mid. A good tame is a direct power spike — the creator measured roughly 40% more DPS from a single monkey swap. Method one yielded two three-modifier monkeys from one map; method two yielded five two-modifier monkeys, both on a single tablet use.
- Scaling: the value is front-loaded. One well-rolled early monkey can carry a character to Tier 15; the creator cites a friend who found extra crit on the second attempt and rode it through the entire early game.
Step-by-step
Method one — six modifier rolls, three tablets
- Take a Tier 1 map with six modifiers and zero revives.
- Slot three tablets for three guaranteed monkey modifiers.
- Enter with Doryani’s first rank allocated for one extra revive.
- Run to the monkey, pause and inspect its modifiers.
- If the roll is bad, let the monkey kill you. Death resets its modifiers, so the revive gives you a second roll.
Method two — ten modifier rolls, two tablets
- Regal a map to exactly three modifiers so it becomes rare with three revives. Do not add more mods.
- Slot only two tablets — three modifiers on the map is the minimum for two tablet slots, and two-modifier maps will not accept them.
- This gives four total revives with two guaranteed monkey modifiers.
- Suicide through all four revives, inspecting each reroll — five monkeys at two modifiers each, ten modifier rolls off a single tablet use.
Gearing the tame
- Prioritise extra critical strike and extra damage modifiers. Elemental resistance auras are acceptable; auras the monkey cannot inherit are not.
- Buy a failed-corruption five-socket skill gem rather than paying for a Perfect Jeweller’s Orb — but avoid any failed corruption with a -1 level modifier.
- Once you hold a solid two-modifier monkey, move up to Riverside and Rupture maps with three tablets.
Risks
- The method is literally built on repeated deaths. It is unusable in hardcore and costs experience in softcore.
- Tablet prices track build popularity. At around 1 Divine each, a run of bad luck ties up real currency even if you resell.
- Method two trades a guaranteed modifier for extra attempts — it is a variance play, not strictly more value, and the maths only roughly breaks even.
- The map must roll exactly three modifiers to accept two tablets. Over-regaling wastes the map.
- A failed-corruption gem with -1 level is the worst possible outcome and is easy to buy by accident.
- This ceases to be optimal once you can afford the higher-tablet approach for three-plus modifier monkeys.
Credits & Source
Method credited to Mattjestic Life. See the source video for full replays of both methods: NEW WAY TO FIND & Tame 4x MORE UNIQUE MONKEY With 2-3 Rare Mods! | POE 2 0.5.5.