Ether Renewal healers - the death of true monking

Monks would still be better as you would need this WoH or ZB it heal yourself up with those being elites.Monks also have thier divine favour bonus and they don't need the energy of an Ele. This post is a powerful example of why people don't run ER healers more often ... they've never played it and yet think they know enough about Guild Wars to come to a conclusion. But don't complain. You and your ex-guildmates did the same thing in the first topic.

PS: In case you still don't see the obvious answer, I'll give it to you. Ether Renewal restores health every cast. With Aura of Restoration as well, you can easily heal over 100+ health with every spell. All it takes is 2-3 spells and you'll be at max HP after an Infuse, free to Infuse again. The self-restorative properties of ER, coupled with Spirit Bond + Protective Spirit, is so strong that as long as the enchantments don't get removed an ER Elementalist can tank almost anything in the game (eg. 5 HM Burning Spirits) without having a build that is specialized to tanking.

@traversc - I think I can conclude that the bar you gave is just another version of ER abuse. You gain strong party heals and 1/8 cast time for all your other skills at the expense of losing Spirit Bond and Life Attunement. You also have less room to fit in hex and condition removal. And in the end it's up to the area, team composition and personal preference to decide what you run. After all, if you have a HB Monk ally with Heal Party, why supplement his already strong party-heals when you can shore up his weakness in powerful prots?

This post is a powerful example of why people don't run ER healers more often ... they've never played it and yet think they know enough about Guild Wars to come to a conclusion. But don't complain. You and your ex-guildmates did the same thing in the first topic.

PS: In case you still don't see the obvious answer, I'll give it to you. Ether Renewal restores health every cast. With Aura of Restoration as well, you can easily heal over 100+ health with every spell. All it takes is 2-3 spells and you'll be at max HP after an Infuse, free to Infuse again. The self-restorative properties of ER, coupled with Spirit Bond + Protective Spirit, is so strong that as long as the enchantments don't get removed an ER Elementalist can tank almost anything in the game (eg. 5 HM Burning Spirits) without having a build that is specialized to tanking.
Why use infuse in pve in first place as there is no need to?You are speading your points to thin if you have them in healing and protection.Who make better hybrids Monks not Eles.

Thought I'll give you the benefit of doubt and explain this a bit more.

Of course you need Infuse. You don't need Infuse the skill, but you need something to push red bars up. Reversal of Fortune may be godly, but you try Monking with only that as your 'heal' and you will die. The other thing about Infuse is that you're not spreading your points. Infuse is one of those skills which is effective at 0 Healing (although when I've played ER, it's typically at 5 Healing Prayers). The only serious thing that having higher Healing Prayers will do is when you're Infusing immediately after another Infuse when you've not had the time to put your health back up. Not very major, anyone who has played the build before will agree. High spec in Healing only matters if you're going to spam Heal Party, when you can still have 11 points Healing 8 points Protection and carry Prot Spirit, which is another of those skills you can use without heavy point investment.

Call the bar what you want, but see it in action before you critique it, OK?



... You only use 5 in heal that's not good enough to use infuse.You put higher points in healing to get the most out of it not to spam heal party.I am takling about this from monks perspective not an Els.It is still better for Monk to do the infusing as they can heal up faster and I do have Ele as well.I wouldn't even think of using just one skill for 5 at healing prayers.Why would I use RoF and I won't die if I only use it as it will be negating the damage recieved.Then you have Shield of Absorption as well.Those in pve want Eles do help in damaging or using wards but mostly damaging.

^Monks can do it with 0 in healing as well and can heal themselves back with 0.I would like to see Eles do the same with 0 in energy storage.When Eles use infuse health in pve? Elem's use infuse in pve now because they auto heal the health sac after casting it and its basically free cast...

Face the fact, ER elems can pump MASSIVE heal numbers quickly and repeatedly with tiny recharge, flood the party with HP and SPAM heavy prots with no energy worries.

Been a monk primary. at times i feel a little jealous but cant deny ER elem "monks" got some serious balls!

The last word on this I hope is that Monks can do this with infuse then heal up with WoH although they don't need infuse as WoH is far better in PvE than any other heal along with DKiss and Patient Spirit.It is always best to prevent spikes using PS. With Ether Renewal, elementalists can heal up automatically every time they use Infuse, and can use Infuse as much as they want.

In other words, it's better.