Straight Healer, Untested, Critique

If you are having a problem with energy management, stick in a signet of devotion. What makes it good is the double heal if your target is doing anything except running. I do not carry around hex removals either, and I am always getting props for my monk skills. My technique is to set it up so I do as little as needed.

Healing Hands
Divine healing
Healing Seed
Healing Breeze (quick reflex skill to any condition or hex while prot monk works on removing)
Signet of Devotion
Orison of Healing
Heal Party
Mending - JUST KIDDING - Renew Life / Rebith / etc.

My main 4 skills are all enchantments, so this build doesn't work against lots of enchantment removers. But using enchantments means you can just use your signet when someone really starts taking damage and just keep mainttaining the enchantments. Orison and Heal party are emergency use only. This is really good for PvE, probably not so much for PvP if you get a team that is good at enchantment removal. Also, hct/hsr is nearly a must. That way Healing Hands never drops. Get the Green Wayward wand at Factions endgame and you are set. I am all for letting the prot monk do the condition / hex removal. I keep the HP up, they make it easy to keep the HP up.

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TGold,
You're right, I meant rejuvenation not devotion. With hsr, you get healing hands for 10/12 seconds. I usually use it only on myself when I get swarmed. If I do cast it on someone else, I only cast Healing Hands on someone being attacked by two or more enemies. If no one is being hit by two or more, Divine healing, healing seed, and Rejuv easily takes care of them. And I may use Orison maybe once a month, and only in absolute emergency for its fast cast and low energy. But I do like the Dwayna's Kiss. I may try that out. Even though I never actually need orison, DK may do a better job when I do need it. It's the 1/2 second cast that I find appealing. Goes to 1/4 if you get the hct. You don't have to listen to me, but I've never gone out with a group and not been complimented on how well I kept everyone up (except for a group where the ele thought she was a tank, but that wasn't my fault). I've heard over and over how no hex removal is so bad, but the only hex that has EVER given me problems was spirit shackles. If I know I'm going against that, I can swap out healing breeze or orison. This is a general use build. It can be specialized, but I can assure you that it is very good. I've had several people copy it and they love it as much as I do. I'm always up for improving it, though.

OP,
I also like the GoR idea. I am going to check that out in place of Orison of healing tonight. I also think that you might be right on switching to heal other. It looks like you won't be putting enchantments on your whole party (divine healing is an easy one to load up for me), so Dwayna's Kiss might not be as useful as it could be. I think an unconditional heal would serve this build well. With Selfless Spirit you shouldn't need to worry about a signet. It looks like a great heal spamming build.

I am still a bigger fan of the enchant heal vs spam heal because enchant heal means you can effectively be healing several of your party members at once. I am still constantly casting even if nothing more than divine healing or sig of rejuv simply for the div bonus. My build gets weak where yours gets strong: when people get near death. Mine is very good at keeping HP up, yours is very good at restoring a lot of HP quickly. Go with what you enjoy and find yourself more capable doing.

If you're only using Healing Hands for when you get swarmed, then it's a fairly moot skill eating up space on your bar. I still firmly believe Blessed Light would be a lot more useful for the rest of the party. (It's okay for the healing monk to get a little help from the prot monk every now and then ^_~)

And about you're awesome monking skills....you must be awfully lucky. I have monks do things like...cast an enchant on me when I'm getting pounded on thinking things like "all right, all set now, let's go somewhere else."

And then shatter enchant comes.

Sometimes it gets even better, when there's more than one mes and there's an enchant healer.

You like Healing Breeze? You like Healing Hands? Now watch that get double shattered, or removed in some other way by most enemies.

I hate to burst your bubble, but you must have been working with a great secondary support or prot monk, maybe even a shutdown unit, in most of your journeys.

while this is an interesting idea there just aren't as many really spammable healing skills as prot skills which is why this has had a prot version that has been around forever.

also, as a monk you WILL be targeted meaning as soon as you cast anything on yourself selfless spirit ends. use divine spirit instead (the one energy cap really shoudn't mean anything to a monk with any sense of e-management)

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have 2 more things to say
1. (the good news) i believe Anet buffed glyph of renewal to 10 sec recharge
2. ......why the hell do you have 3 target other spells? the only you have absoutly no reliable self heal, granted having seed of life on a tank and sufficient kiting will almost ensure survival.
and last but not least 3.(whats a reply without some humor ) Tgold is right about this needing secondary support behind it or a good prot.

that being said i think it really needs Chain Heal or whatever when GW:EN comes out. I would think about switching out dwyna's kiss.

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Heal Other is target other ally and won't work on yourself.



elk

TG
What I was saying was that I use Healing Hands when I (not allies) get swarmed. This way I don't have to kite as much and can spend more time casting; and with the hct, it only drops for 2 seconds. It is a very effective self heal and is the only one I have to use. Typically, when I party it is me and one prot monk or one hench monk. I am not lucky, I just know how to use this. And others that have used it also like it very much. Either everyone who has ever used this build is lucky, or it actually works. Try it before knocking it. Healing Breeze is only to help out with conditions and hexes so allies do not lose too much HP before they are removed. Yes, enchantment removers KILL my build, but I already said that. I don't run an enchantment build when going places full of enchanment removers, and I would never use it PvP. That is a weakness that the OP does not encounter with his. But Elf of Darkwood is right, might want to consider reliable self heal. Heal Other cannot target the caster.

I guess my biggest problem with this is that you have to spend probably 15% of your time recasting selfless spirit on yourself. Usually a monk tries to be ready for anything at anytime.

this is the same reason why i dont like most 2 second casting times.

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