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Also both [Glimmer of Light] and [Healer's Covenant] see PvP today.
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I have yet to see those elites in GvG, HA...
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And if your letting your party members get below 50% health, you are a good monk, who knows how to optimize his skills and to not overheal.
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Actually the NF healing skills are pretty good. Healers boon: NF skill that sees the light in almost ANY build, oh it's not unique? Well that could be because that skill is so good that most people use it.
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Hmmmm... no.
Too much monks think that Push Bars Up is FTW, and overheal is even better. Take a look http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10326980 |
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Actually the NF healing skills are pretty good. Healers boon: NF skill that sees the light in almost ANY build, oh it's not unique? Well that could be because that skill is so good that most people use it.
Light of Deliverance: Pretty good skill to make sure that the party doesn't die. It's heal party without the catchbreath ^^ Glimmer of light: Fast casting skill that is useful even when dazed and hard to interrupt + heals for decent amount and low recharge time for only 5 e.... what's wrong with that? Healers covenant: Ummmmm meh :P I would update that as well.... not the way you suggest though. |
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Overheal? Just because you heal more than you useually do does that make it overheal? Yes if you use just as many healing skills after you used healers boon as you did before then you are bound to get that. But of course if you do that: You are an idiot. With Healers Boon you don't have to use as many healing skills as befor and you can rest your energy a lot more since you will heal 50% more with a simple orison of healing. instead of throwing having your teammate go from 50% hp to 60% hp you have him go from 50% hp to 65% hp. How can that be overhealing?
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Every HB Monk that I played with spammed his healing skills over and over... It's fun to see, after 3 seconds of battle, a "My energy is 3 of 60" ping.
Of course, Overhealing is bad. But 6 Healing Skills + HB + Healing Party it's too common. |
I have to share this story because it was so sad.So was there a lesson to be learned from that?, I dono but I bet it sure was fun to see those red bars go up really fast.
I decide to pug a somewhat difficult HM mission. It is a full party of humans with two monks, and a bunch of warriors and eles, I'm not the party leader. I'm playing as a IMBAgon. The two monks ping their bars; one is a HB bar with all heals, and the other was all heals + WoH and get this, Arcane Mimicry. I bring up the fact that, "wouldn't it be nice to have some prot in there?" and get told the monks could handle it (none of the other players had any defense, heals or condition removal that I could remember.)
We get in the mish, the WoH monk mimics HB and casts it on himself. So we proceed a ways to the first decent sized mob of monsters. I get hit with blind, call it, no one removes it so my damage reduction abilities are no longer up to par. The pressure goes up and I think an ele gets spiked to death faster than the healers could push his redbars up.
The monks run out of energy people start dropping and it's game over. We go back to town. I say that some prot would be nice again and the leader says sorry we have to kick you because they need to take another monk (I question whether they knew what SY! does). I lol and wish them good luck, then do the mission with heroes that have heard of protective spirit, spirit bond and aegis.

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Every HB Monk that I played with spammed his healing skills over and over... It's fun to see, after 3 seconds of battle, a "My energy is 3 of 60" ping.
Of course, Overhealing is bad. But 6 Healing Skills + HB + Healing Party it's too common. |

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Listen to him he's right, btw monking by spamming BIG heals will only lead to trouble.
I have to share this story because it was so sad.So was there a lesson to be learned from that?, I dono but I bet it sure was fun to see those red bars go up really fast. ![]() |
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So many bad players in GW these days. Healers Boon is over rated. WoH was just over buffed and became the best single target heal in the game, but it is boring.
That still doesnt make the other elites bad, just because you dont know how to play Healers Covenant monk, doesnt make it a bad skill or underpowered, in the hands of players who know how to use it, it becomes the best monk elite in the game (It is epic good in arenas and PVE). People dont use it in GVG or HA because 8v8 PVP is just cookie cutter town and no one can be bothered to play different builds other then whatever all the top guilds use, I.E. They are more like copy cat arenas. Less QQ, look up the healers Covenant build and try it for a change, moar pew pew. |
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If you are one out of the thousands of monks who KNOWS how to use it to the max then it is a good skill. Just because a lot of players can't use it doesn't make it bad
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I assume that everyone knows that HB is a very powerful tool if used correctly... The problem is that "good" monks became very bad monks with Ursan Era :S
Yes, it's sad to see a old very good monk spam skills with HB, only because "it worked". I will stick to my wonderful WoH... ![]() |