You are not ready for this rant

Hollow Palm is dogshit and Monk defensives got nerfed every single patch since 0.1.
Fighting juiced Maps with hollow palm which basically is a 270physical damage weapon with zero stats except crit chance and attack speed.

Your threats in the map:

Number 1 is slow by far it completly makes you vulnerable and let your dps sink by half.

Stun:you have to invest points or gear into stunthreshhold the charm can help you abit but this is not a solution.

Ailments and Dots: does'nt allow your energyshield to recharge energy shield leech doesnt really exist especially if you play hollow palm.

Energyshield recharge got nerfed and anti regen mods on the map make you attack and then go afk for 5 secs till you are full again

Chaos damage: you have to invest into CI or get alot of Chaos res on gear aswell, if you go CI you need even more nodes for ailment and stun threshhold

Ground effects and melee punisher overall: Melee punishers are everywhere slow field chaos, chaos damage fields, evasive mobs, slow bubbles, mana stealer and of course melee hits from mobs.

i can go on but you get the point, you only have a couple of skill points for def and damage if you wanna counter these mobs you have to check for stats on gear, but this is not enough since you are playing with 1 less slot and your weapon damage is like a solid campaigne quarter staff.

The solution: You have to find a way to oneshot this mobs instantly or play a range build with huge aoe like whirling assault.

If you wanna counter all these threats you endup dealing no damage because you have not enough points or affix slots left for it since you need res (as always) and high ES/Evasion to scale your damage.

Gloves like thunderfist have a special abillity which even doesnt use your hollow palm technique to scale it, even if it did so it would'nt be enough aswell.
Couple of days ago i just played arc mage and oneshottet everything 2 screens far away in solo selffound without any good investments. Melee defensive layers got butfcked to much now so even worse builds like hollow palm are not able to do jackshit.

And why the f is icestrike not even having freeze build up? ah because i have to use a support gem for it to deal even less damage i got it.

There are obviously many good thinks in this league but hollow palm is way to balanced if you see other easy no brainer builds who can clear screen wide with out big investments. Melees have to be stronger in dmg to keep up with range damage. If you don't want us to play it just say it. Fist of stone facebreaker btw have INT scalings and you can use mace skills with it but you can't satisfy these skills with your INT which make them dogshit aswell. Rare gaunts and some other uniques are giga broken but why using hollow palm? You can use them with a 700dps-1000dps quarter staff and be absolutly overpowered which make hollow palm even more dogshit

Still love you GGG but yea just had to say it