Your Monking Preference

Monks fill many different roles in the area of supporting a team. My question is what is everyones preference. Healing, Protection, Smiting, mixed.

In my case I like a mixed combination of protection prayers and ele wards. Its a fun combo to play. I like this sort mainly because I like area support. Focusing on one person who needs help has never appealed to me. So I chose the option of using spells that support the group. Spells common on my skill bar are aegis, heal party, ward against melee, etc.

Please share your preference of monking.

Note: I put smiting because it is a monk attribute. I won't accept any narrow minded bitching about other peoples play styles. By all means give opinions, but keep them constructive, polite and validated. Saying something doesn't work just because you say so won't cut it.

I like to play something that keeps myself and my team alive even under heavy pressure and energy denial.

WoH Healer, Boon Prot, Bonder, OoB Healer, MoR Healer, 55ing, Blessed Light Healer, Mo/R Runner, etc...

I'm testing a bunch of different builds now that nightfall came out, all healing ones.

Prot is just strange to me, along with divine favor healing..

I like glimmer.. WoH.. healer's boon.. and as of today a dual heal other scribe's insight healer...

I like protect as it is good to know you are negating damage instead of healing it and condition heavy.I hate hexes and heavy degen.I will heal when I have to and don't mind it and farming is after that as well as Mo/W Running.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lurid

However did you guess?

Spike Heal

Healing in general, with a few prot skills for good measue.

I prefer to smite when I get tired of healing pugs. Since then I've gotten back into healing and fiddled with those builds. I guess I'll move onto prot and see what that is like(I'm planning to do some warding too).
But smiting is still my preference, with healing coming a close second. Most of the areas I frequent of late seem to be degen heavy, so its almost required.

But that's just my two cents.

Usually WoH healing, with some prot (reversal, p.spirit, mend condition).

I like to run Blessed Light and hybrid builds.

I hate to run full healing prayers, but with Glimmer of Light and Revitalize (now Healer's Boon), that'll soon change, I guess.

I <3 RC Prot

Or any Prot build for that matter.

RC, Boon, Active Prot, Smite (not aoe, though - just general smite for fun [not in pvp because i dont wanna get flamed >.>]), running, farming, healing (altho i do enjoy healing the most when i create a new build and it works )....Blight, Bonding - all that popped in my mind
hum RC is nice, i should play RC again. >.> nono, its godly, RC ftw <3 :<

Mo/A with daggers like yo!

Blessed Moa

Melandru's Resilience/Draw Conditions healer.

No, seriously, OoB Boon Prots (how i miss you)

As far as monking is concerned, I like anything that makes red bars go up significantly. WoH, and more recently, ZB, are skills I like, as they have a large direct heal. As far as PvP defence is concerned, I prefer not to run /A... /W with riposte is much more fun (though my guild still won't let me run d-blow on my monk, sigh..)

I prefer Proto, I'm the kinda Monk that believes preventing damaging is better than healing damage. I like BL a lot, esp. the use of skills like Devo Sig and Gift of Health to go along with the Proto. For some reason I was never too crazy about Boon Prot. I don't like maintaining Ench, probably that's why.

Life Sheath and Shield of Regen have always been personal PvE fav. ZB is interesting, I'll have to give it a try. I kinda miss the Shield of Deflection days. And I'm very happy RC is more popular than ever.

I am considering giving some of the new Smite skills a shot, esp. Reversal of Damage.

I'm actually quite self centered as far as my monking gose, I won't put on major attribute runes I only ever put on minors, and my condition removal HAS to be usable on myself because I go in alot of PUGs I work on the assumption that there idiots until they proove me otherwise and I don't trust the other monk to remove conditions or heal me. Eliteist I might be but meh where are you gonna get another half decent healing monk who will monk for a PUG.

Even if this attitude hurts my potential maximum healing.

As for attributes it really depends what i'm playing and where. PvP It's usually a blessed light dealey, as for PvE I usually go mostly healing + DF with 4 or so ranks in prot just to get RoF and my condition removal to an ok working level.