Revised E-denial (E-drain based)

Attributes:

Fast Casting 7 + 1
Domination 10 + 1 + 3
Illusion 7 + 1
Inspiration 11 + 1

Skills:

1- E-burn (-8nrg)
2- Spirit Shackles (-5nrg per attack)
3- Mind Wrack
4- E-drain (E) (-9 nrg)
5- Feedback (-9 nrg)
6- Ether Feast (-3 nrg)
7- Distortion
8- Res

Equipment:

+5nrg, 20 recharge Dom cane
+30 health, 20 recharge Insp off hand
Savant Armor recommended

Use:

Shut down Sins/Rangers with Shack/Wrack combo. You can use Shacks on Wars, too- it prevents them for using skills that bypass Distortion (they all cost nrg). Drain casters with Burn/Drain/Feedback/Feast. Keep yourself allive with Feast/Distortion.

Variations:

Insead of:
*Distortion
*Res Sig (in AB)
*Ether Feast (in TA, HA, GvG)

Use:
*Inspired Hex
*Drain Enchantment
*Blackout
*Diversion
*Sig of Weariness
*Power Leak

Cheers!

Not sure why you would leave power leak out

at 14 dom foe loses 24 energy

A better bar for denial/interupts and damage - (off the top of my head anyway)

power leak -interupts -24
power drain - interupts +24 (em)
energy drain - -9 +18(em)
shackles - -5 attack/melee only
mind wrack - dmg
ether feast- -3 +hp
distortion
rez

look at power leech, sig of weariness, echoing power leak is a nice option, guilt /shame, power spike adds more dmg

I'm not a big fan of Power skills. I find spell based interrupts limitting, esp. when you face a Boon Prot or a BL Monk- they use spells with casting time lower than 1s (excluding Guardian and MoRecall). I'd rather punish them for using enchantments with Feedback. Spell based inters are really only useful versus Eles, and to some extent Mesmers, Necros, and Ritualists.

Power Leak is really the only viable Power skill in an e-denial build and I'll put that in the alternatives list. Power Spike is only passively causing nrg loss due to need for a heal and even that is questionable (say "Hi" to Sig of Devotion). Power Drain/Return do nothing for e-denial purposes. Plus having P Drain and E-drain is overkill. I've always said that having too much nrg is just as bad as having no nrg at all- it means you're wasting your skills.

Guilt/Shame are limitting, I need more flexibility in the skills I'm using. I feel I'm not using my skill pool well if I choose Guilt/Shame over something universal and way more devastating like Diversion or Blackout.

Yeah I'm not much of a fan of shame or guilt either and like your suggestions as well. But they both represent denial and EM so I listed them for that reason.

I'm going to have respectfully disagree with you of your assesment of spell based interrupts. I'm guessing that you are not much into interrupting. The listed skills should go a long way towards shutting down or denying most any caster while adding a little punishment in as well. Listed skill bar should provide you timely interrupts while getting into anyones energy pool fairly significantly while maintaining a enough energy to effectively spam shackles and mind wrack as they are removed. Add wastrels for additional damage if needed. Are BL and BP monks a challenge ? Yeah, but timing and anticipation are everything. Feedback is nice, agreed, and would certainly be part of a bar intended for their demise. That said, you can "bye" to signet of devotion for a while through a few means.

I hardly see how interrupting a caster and denying them of 24 energy fails to work itself into a bar aimed at energy denial. As far as power drain goes, it's one of my favorite mesmer skills. Show me something that will give me that kind of energy for a cost of 5 and interrupt. The only condition is there be a spellcaster in range (and you can interrupt them). I'll take the extra energy, and use it to keep dumping shackles and mind wrack onto foes. (Power spike was listed as an alternative but works well with wastrels).

I have always said that there is no such thing as too much energy, just bad skill selections. I don't know of anyone who puts a bar together and says to themselves, "hmmm, this looks like I might have too much energy. I really can't justify that, I need to find another skill with a really long recharge time so I don't have to worry about it."

The thing is, Surge drains more over time as well as doing damage, which is it's own pressure. A slightly faster recharge also gives more force to Mind Wrack, the combined damage of surge/burn and wrack can force a monk to devote more of remaining energy to healing himself.

Power leak is functional, if you can use it effectively (on monk energy drains / mantra of recalls), or for shutting other casters down. As most edenial isn't meant to be monk specific (if you were, a better addition would be an inscripp'ed humility to stop the majority of management), Leak would be helpful to slow other casters. I'd probably drop feast for it (-3 isn't really much of denial, and is only needed in AB generally)

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