Monk Barrier Invocation... has anyone used successfully?

It says to socket Skill/spell gems into it, and that it passively will trigger / you can manually cast invocation with enough energy, to cast "socketed spells" up to multiple times if enough energy is stored..

I can not socket ANY skills or Spells...

The only things i can socket are buff/persistent skill gems and increased energy support/persistent gems..

Yet i can stack invocation barrier energy to max, can't use the skill - its greyed out even at max energy...

And none of the passives buffs are proccing either?

Is this skill not finished? its missing half of its compatible skills (coming soon)

HOW does this ability work? or doesnt it?

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can't find anything to socket either
just 1 worthless gem

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I think they broke something during the last patch specifically for monk meta gems, elemental invocation behave the same (can't socket any spell, only support gems)

Bump. I have the same issue unfortunately. sucks that it has been happening for over a week and its still not fixed

It was working for me
1. HOW TO USE: Socket a SPELL, not ATTACK in it: Whetever skill is attack or spell is listed below name of the skill. All monk abilities are attacks except charged staff. You will have to slot a spell, which typically require lot of INT to use.

2. HOW BAD IS THIS SKILL: This skill is terrible for generic monk. Monks take attack nodes, and QStaffs don't have spell damage or cast speed. What Barrier Invocation, and other spell reservation skills, need is cast speed and spell damage to be useful. So its not useful for monk unless you go some kind of spell build without Qstaff or somehow swap to spelljuiced 2nd weaponset for casting barrier invocation.

3. TIPS: As monk run both "Wind Dancer" and "Ghost Dance" (slot in reduced duration to Ghost Dance). In lategame once you stack around 20k Evasion, you will start fight with 4000 extra energy shield and gain 1000 more every 2.4 seconds.