Team build (dual bonders) (for difficult areas)

Life Bond only triggers on attack damage, any damage from a spell will heal for nothing. That will be the biggest problem of this build. If you face areas with strong casters (like many in EotN), you'll notice that your team gets 2-shotted to death and your monks have no ability to prot against it or heal it back up effectively. Dual bonders can seem to work alright for areas where there are a lot of soft-hitting physicals though.

IMO, a better idea would be something like this:

[skill]Life Bond[/skill][skill]Balthazar's Spirit[/skill][skill]Blessed Aura[/skill][skill]Blessed Signet[/skill][skill]Mantra of Inscriptions[/skill][skill]Glyph of Renewal[/skill][skill]Seed of Life[/skill][skill]Extinguish[/skill]

[skill]Blessed Aura[/skill][skill]Glyph of Renewal[/skill][skill]Seed of Life[/skill][skill]Reversal of Fortune[/skill][skill]Shield of Absorption[/skill][skill]Spirit Bond[/skill][skill]Cure Hex[/skill][skill]Glyph of Lesser Energy[/skill]

The bonder should be able to manage its energy and still cast GoR+SoL so long as people take about 1-2 hits per second. With this, you can keep SoL up near-constantly, which means something very close to godmode (imagine this with an imbagon...). Your only threat is high-damage spells, which Spirit Bond is able to handle fairly effectively, especially considering it'll get healed back up by SoL in a few seconds. What do you guys think? Whom exactly is the bonder supposed to seed?

[skill]Life Bond[/skill][skill]Balthazar's Spirit[/skill][skill]Blessed Aura[/skill][skill]Blessed Signet[/skill][skill]Mantra of Inscriptions[/skill][skill]Glyph of Renewal[/skill][skill]Seed of Life[/skill][skill]Extinguish[/skill] Able to give me this template, so i can use this Mo/Me/E ingame. but with some other skills around what are a bit more usefull for active play.

decent idea. im suprized i havent seen it before. Am I missing something? People have been running the SoL + Life Bond thing for months and months.

Bonder teams are fine and everything, but what are you using as cover enchantments for those bonds? Last time I checked, strips in PvE are not uncommon. You've also devoted two party slots to characters who are only really effective against physicals - any kind of massed caster presence is going to destroy you.

Overall, I'd say midline defense (e.g., wards, enfeebling blood, disruption, etc.) combined with standard monks is both more versatile and more resilient.

Stripping is huge in PvE especially GWEN and later parts of NF. Also all elite missions I believe have some sort of enchant stripping along with FoW and UW. A good 85-90% of the mobs in FoW have enchantment removal or Nature's Renewal will reach to you. UW isn't a problem really as you can run right past all of the Nature's Renewal there; Shatters present on the Chaos Plains and Rend from in the Bone Pits.

any kind of massed caster presence is going to destroy you. It might be amusing to go up to 3 monks and pack protective bond on all 3 so that the energy loss was reduced to 1 each. That should slow spell damage down enough that seed triggering off wand shots should overtake it.

As for getting stripped, IDK. Perhaps monks could cover adequately to keep the bonds safe, especially with 3 of them. Maybe run a team of all dervs who are self-covering?

Speaking of dervs... how about VoS? Gee... this is sounding like a team build now. 5 VoS dervs covered with life bond, protective bond, and getting healed through SoL. Toss in a non-spell condition removal (I'm thinking remedy sig, purifying finale + GftE, or plague touch) and it could border on unstoppable. Just steer clear of nature's renewal (anyone know if it activates when the enchanter or the enchantee enters its range?) and the small handful of non-spell enchant strips and you're golden. Lol call it "Chthon-way."

It might be amusing to go up to 3 monks and pack protective bond on all 3 so that the energy loss was reduced to 1 each. That should slow spell damage down enough that seed triggering off wand shots should overtake it. Where do you need to run 3 monks?

Where do you need to run 3 monks? The third monk would be there for splitting the energy loss on prot bond 1:1:1 instead of 2:1, thus making it infinitely maintainable. The point behind the prot bond is to shore up the "you'll get owned by big damage spells" shortcoming in Dr Dimento's original concept. (Of course, VoS should keep you from getting owned by big damage spells anyway, so prot bond would really only be saving you from big damage melee.) As an alternative to standard backlines, silly stuff like SoL bonders are ever going to be really competitive unless you go all the way for a silly invinci team build. The thing that surprises me is how robust you could push it to be if you really tried.

The third monk would be there for splitting the energy loss on prot bond 1:1:1 instead of 2:1, thus making it infinitely maintainable. The point behind the prot bond is to shore up the "you'll get owned by big damage spells" shortcoming in Dr Dimento's original concept. (Of course, VoS should keep you from getting owned by big damage spells anyway, so prot bond would really only be saving you from big damage melee.) As an alternative to standard backlines, silly stuff like SoL bonders are ever going to be really competitive unless you go all the way for a silly invinci team build. The thing that surprises me is how robust you could push it to be if you really tried. wouldn't prot bond on a nec be better (or at least some other off-monk)

The third monk would be there for splitting the energy loss on prot bond 1:1:1 instead of 2:1, thus making it infinitely maintainable. The point behind the prot bond is to shore up the "you'll get owned by big damage spells" shortcoming in Dr Dimento's original concept. (Of course, VoS should keep you from getting owned by big damage spells anyway, so prot bond would really only be saving you from big damage melee.) As an alternative to standard backlines, silly stuff like SoL bonders are ever going to be really competitive unless you go all the way for a silly invinci team build. The thing that surprises me is how robust you could push it to be if you really tried. I don't question how well it might survive, what I question is wasting three party slots on monks just to make it work.