Boon Prot?
Evasion Twenty
What is it? I have no idea really >.>
zelgadissan
Boonprot is essentially what it sounds like - using a build revolving around Protection Prayers while keeping bars topped off at the same time using Divine Boon. It can be hard on energy, so most boonprot bars have an elite that revolves around energy management. I'm assuming you are just now hearing about it for two reasons - 1) you're new and 2) it got buffed up in this update.
I usually run boonprot in PvE when I play my monk, here's what I usually use:
Reversal of Fortune
Guardian
Shield of Absorption
Protective Spirit
Draw Conditions
Inspired Hex (mesmer skill)
Energy Drain (mesmer skill)
Divine Boon
If you're really old school, use Offering of Blood as your elite.
I usually run boonprot in PvE when I play my monk, here's what I usually use:
Reversal of Fortune
Guardian
Shield of Absorption
Protective Spirit
Draw Conditions
Inspired Hex (mesmer skill)
Energy Drain (mesmer skill)
Divine Boon
If you're really old school, use Offering of Blood as your elite.
MrGuildBoi
Simath
Reversal of Fortune
Guardian
Mend Condition/Holy Viel/Other
Shielding Hands/SoA
Prot Spirit
Offering of Blood
Seed of Life/Aegis
Divine Boon
The key is Divine Boon. E-management is OoB.
Guardian
Mend Condition/Holy Viel/Other
Shielding Hands/SoA
Prot Spirit
Offering of Blood
Seed of Life/Aegis
Divine Boon
The key is Divine Boon. E-management is OoB.
BLOODGOAT
Here's what I use when I boonprot:
Dismiss Condition
Assassin's Promise {E}
Shield of Absorption
Reversal of Fortune
Protective Spirit
Aegis
Divine Spirit
Divine Boon
Basic usage, if you can't tell already, is to maintain Boon (duh), and Divine Spirit while you spam your prots to reduce energy cost largely. Assassin's Promise will recharge Divine Spirit for effectively maintaining it indefinitely (assuming you can kill fast enough), and it's especially nice for very melee-oriented areas, as you can keep Aegis up indefinitely typically.
Of course, this works much more effectively with heroes usually because they will follow your Assassin's Promise pings, whereas a bad PUG, for example, just likes to rambo whatever moves without any sense of coordination.
That said, replacing Shield of Absorption with Seed of Life, I had to solo-monk 3/4 of a Norn point farm last weekend (double EotN rep point weekend). Sure, we had to go a bit slower than expected with double monks, but the run was still a success, and in decent time.
It's a build that requires some getting used to, though.
Dismiss Condition
Assassin's Promise {E}
Shield of Absorption
Reversal of Fortune
Protective Spirit
Aegis
Divine Spirit
Divine Boon
Basic usage, if you can't tell already, is to maintain Boon (duh), and Divine Spirit while you spam your prots to reduce energy cost largely. Assassin's Promise will recharge Divine Spirit for effectively maintaining it indefinitely (assuming you can kill fast enough), and it's especially nice for very melee-oriented areas, as you can keep Aegis up indefinitely typically.
Of course, this works much more effectively with heroes usually because they will follow your Assassin's Promise pings, whereas a bad PUG, for example, just likes to rambo whatever moves without any sense of coordination.
That said, replacing Shield of Absorption with Seed of Life, I had to solo-monk 3/4 of a Norn point farm last weekend (double EotN rep point weekend). Sure, we had to go a bit slower than expected with double monks, but the run was still a success, and in decent time.
It's a build that requires some getting used to, though.
Evasion Twenty
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Originally Posted by zelgadissan
I'm assuming you are just now hearing about it for two reasons - 1) you're new and 2) it got buffed up in this update.
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And yes, it was buffed, thats why I'm just hearing about it.
HawkofStorms
Well "new" in a relative sense. Boon prot used to be the most popular monk build in existence like 2 years ago, but was since nerfed. Thus, all the people who have been around for a long while know about it.
Fate Crusher
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Originally Posted by HawkofStorms
Well "new" in a relative sense. Boon prot used to be the most popular monk build in existence like 2 years ago, but was since nerfed. Thus, all the people who have been around for a long while know about it.
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Every monk ran the same build of boon prot except for a variant on the e-management. It started off with Offering Of Blood (the build was also given as a template option on the old pvp character set up) them E-Drain and then Mantra of Recall. It was rediculously effective because heavy e-denial and stripping wasn't brought in until factions. And guardian back then lasted a looooong time.
Plus it was great fun
