Mending is the best PvE skill in the game!

Okay, most wammos are wammo noobs. But there are the select few builds that work great. Especially if you're tanking.

Like Jetdoc said, Mending is great for adrenaline tanks, which is also what a good actual tank is. Adrenaline is key for most defense skills that are used, like 'Watch yourself!'

In builds like these you could use watchful spirit, but mending is just one of those bleh skills. I hate them. Anyways, there's not much of a difference between +2 regen and +3 regen.

Lol, that article is utter garbage.

Honestly, I'm offended that the author got paid for writing up that pile of crap.

Is the OP trolling for bites with this thread topic?

As for Mending, it's not bad when you don't have anything better in the very early portions of the game. But, anyone that's progressed far enough will realize that enchants can be ticking time bombs and Mending just doesn't deliver the goods.

Ultimately, Mending is just a lower level skill that quickly becomes obsolete after a certain point in the game.

Instead of everyone always parroting how bad "mending" is and how noobtastic it is to use, explaining why Mending is considered sub par would be more practical.

I know everyone likes to be in the big private club and make fun of the great unwashed masses, but I think it's just a royally snobby thing to do. But, that's just me.


From GuildWiki:
And this:

I can't understand this fascination with Mending at all. If someone wants to use a particular skill then that's up to them, after all they did pay the money for the game the same as everyone else. It's got absolutely sweet FA to do with anyone else what skills someone runs. Just because some elitist morons think it's a crap skill doesn't mean the rest of the games population have to stop using it.

...and yes, I have used Mending in the past. It's quite handy for some solo builds.

OMG why has no one ever told me about this great skill.
*sarcasm*

What if you don't have Prophecies.

Sadly enough, I saw someone running Echo Mending in RA the other day. I don't even think was a joke because the guy got offended when someone noticed and called him a noob. :P

On-paper, life bond or succor are much better skills on a battle rage warrior bar. The only potential saving grace is that bit about mending changing target priorities. It is very old news, wonder how true (if at all) is still is since NF changes to aggro.

Something the article could have mentioned is the different mindset you have to take for PvP. PvEers need to be able to open their minds to new imformation, and try builds besides their uber stance tank wamo if they want to PvP. I find that the players that dismiss good advice straight away are usually the most terrible at PvP.

itt Haggard doesn't know the difference between "many" and "all"

Hey some of us have solo monks.... Amazingly, some people DON'T have warrior primaries

Also:

Mending is a passive heal..... that unless you put significant amounts of attribute points into is inferior to Watchful Spirit, so uh why ?

/me personally thinks that Warriors complaining about the -40 armor penalty of Healing Signet should switch to /W and use Troll Unguent...

I used mending when I was starting a warrior. Later in the game when things had "strip enchant" and "shatter enchant", it became useless. I'm not likely to change my builds that I find are working, just because some one says "NOOB!" for using it. If they don't give me a good reason, they don't HAVE a good reason, so why listen to some one that can't pass basic communication skills?

Jetdoc, your "pros" section seems a little stretched, the first two in particular. They should be consolidated into just 1 point.

But with mending I can outheal the 6 dps being done to me by monsters in presearing! [/sarcasm]

Only use ever is on the 55 monk.

Only time Mending sees use on my bar is whan my Ranger runs from places, and even then enchant strippers are so prominent in the game anymore that it's almost pointless to use Mending.

LMFAO! I was just about to make a thread just as I was reading the state of the article. This is hilarious. Anyways, back when I was in pre and started my first character, I thought mending was godly insane cuz I never had to bother healing.

I thought the point of Mending was because, in PVE, monsters' AI tend to quickly ignore attacking a player that is receiving constant healing, and that mending tricks the AI into thinking that person is being constantly healed.
In PVP it's probably a matter of preference. Like the build really has to rely on it.
I know of no builds that do, but that don't mean there aren't some. D/Mo? I have no idea.

LOL INTERNET.

This poor guy got flame-rolled just because he mentioned Mending in the article.... Come on now, who hasn't run Mending in their bar (either now or the good old noob days when you first started playing GW). This is the same as asking a person who start their pvp journey alone and the build that got their first 12 fame was iway. There is no need to give personal attacks (even on his picture? O.o) over such trivial thing.

IMO, it is not a bad article at all. It gives briefs explainations on the difference between PVE & PVP and why people shouldn't run Rebirth in RA....

What's "stretched" about them? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

How are pausing your action and not being interrupted not two separate points? :dunno:

1. I already addressed the attribute issue in the CONS section. I'm not sure what being a "passive" heal has to do with the number of attribute points you are spending... :dunno:

2. Replacing a skill that has a two second activation with a three second activation and, in many cases, requires MORE attribute points to make it truly effective isn't a good choice, IMO.