Heroes for a Monk

Infuse is a stapple skill I'll never drop. since I don't like prot spirit, it's only option. If you want to improve, like you say in the OP, PS>Infuse. PS is basically the better skill, and forces you to watch the field and understand whos about to take a massive hit, whereas with Infuse you just reactively cast it as you watch red bars drop.

Morgahn
1)signet of return
2)leader's comfort
3)barbed spear
4)spear of redemption
5)cruel spear
6)never surrender
7)stand your ground
8)they're on fire

Vekk
1)aura of restoration
2)fire attunement
3)searing flames
4)glyph of lesser energy
5)glowing gaze
6)fireball
7)meteor
8)smoldering embers
I'm sure that this combination will work fine in NM, but in HM vekk's damage will get cut from ~100 damage each SF to about 60-70 which isn't that good in my opinion.

@ Marty:
How exactly do you watch the field against non-projectile damage spells? from eles for exemple?(not sarcasm - being serious)

Thanks for all the advice everyone

I'm sure that this combination will work fine in NM, but in HM vekk's damage will get cut from ~100 damage each SF to about 60-70 which isn't that good in my opinion.

@ Marty:
How exactly do you watch the field against non-projectile damage spells? from eles for exemple?(not sarcasm - being serious)

Thanks for all the advice everyone Well I almost always take a necro into hard mode and give it weaken armor but even without it there's still the degen from burning so it wouldn't be so bad. And the ele isn't really there for damage it's to activate they're on fire. Plus most damage and defense becomes less effective in hard mode anyway so that argument can apply to pretty much anything. But yeah I wouldn't and have never used that specific combo in hard mode.

And you can watch who an enemy caster is looking at to catch spells before they fire off. The problem of course is heroes like to bunch up. But most non projectile ele spells deal aoe damage which as a monk you can't do much about besides heal it unless you dip into your secondary or bond. Ideally a mesmer or ranger would interrupt the really deadly spells eles use.

Also I just thought about your build and you might want to consider enfeebling blood as opposed to aegis. Enfeebling only costs one energy, reduces more physical damage than aegis, can be maintained with a low attribute investment and monsters are far more likely to remove enchantments than conditions. The only disadvantage is enfeebling is susceptible to enemy positioning and you have to switch from targeting allies to foes which can just be a hassle.

Also I just thought about your build and you might want to consider enfeebling blood as opposed to aegis. Enfeebling only costs one energy, reduces more physical damage than aegis, can be maintained with a low attribute investment and monsters are far more likely to remove enchantments than conditions. The only disadvantage is enfeebling is susceptible to enemy positioning and you have to switch from targeting allies to foes which can just be a hassle. I don't think that sacrificing allmost 20% of my health as a monk for some weakness is such a good idea .

On topic:
What is a good build to run on a physical other then WS dervish?(coupled with MM Nec / SoS+splinter wep Mes )? or should I run casters with a monk? never did much pve with them so I have no clue :P

Let this thread revive!

I don't think that sacrificing allmost 20% of my health as a monk for some weakness is such a good idea . Your first post has a build with infuse health in it but you don't want to sacrifice 10% of your hp? Literally 1/5 of infuses' health lose and 1/10 of its cost. I'm just saying mathematically weakness beats aegis. 66% constant damage reduction > 50% reduction that's up maybe half the time. In fact weakness is a little more than 66% because it also lowers attributes so less base damage with attacks and lower critical hit chance all for just 1 energy.

Your first post has a build with infuse health in it but you don't want to sacrifice 10% of your hp? Literally 1/5 of infuses' health lose and 1/10 of its cost. I'm just saying mathematically weakness beats aegis. 66% constant damage reduction > 50% reduction that's up maybe half the time. In fact weakness is a little more than 66% because it also lowers attributes so less base damage with attacks and lower critical hit chance all for just 1 energy. Except that's not how math works (poorly).

Your first post has a build with infuse health in it but you don't want to sacrifice 10% of your hp? Literally 1/5 of infuses' health lose and 1/10 of its cost. I'm just saying mathematically weakness beats aegis. 66% constant damage reduction > 50% reduction that's up maybe half the time. In fact weakness is a little more than 66% because it also lowers attributes so less base damage with attacks and lower critical hit chance all for just 1 energy. Thing about Infuse is, that I don't use it that often, I'll have to use Enfeebling Blood few times a battle in order for it to be effective, and Infuse isn't used that much, in fact, it's used much less then I will have to use enfeebling,And Infuse's 10 energy cost isn't a problem since I'm not spamming it.
PS: I forgot about enfeebling blood's update from 20% to 10%, mmy bad about it.

Your first post has a build with infuse health in it but you don't want to sacrifice 10% of your hp? Literally 1/5 of infuses' health lose and 1/10 of its cost. I'm just saying mathematically weakness beats aegis. 66% constant damage reduction > 50% reduction that's up maybe half the time. In fact weakness is a little more than 66% because it also lowers attributes so less base damage with attacks and lower critical hit chance all for just 1 energy. The weakness only weakens base attack damage by 66%
Bonus damage from attack skills is only weakened by the attribute reduction (which is trivial).

The flat 50% reduction from Aegis chains beats Weakness when facing physicals.
Mass weakness is still good though.