Alternative backline - UA, SB, Resto

And in that case UA > HB > Healing Burst / WoH.

But once you actually start looking at the numbers, you usually find that the extra damage and utility is completely insignificant. The damage loss from loosing a N/Rt + RoJ on smiting monk in favor of healing monk and a non damage elite (UA / SB / ER) on smite only amounts to 3-7% (3-5 is more realistic) loss in the teams total damage depending on playstyle and skill choices. Which is made up for by increased efficiency in other fields (fast ress, increased hex / condition removal and so on).

And realistically, picking HB, WoH or Healing burst over UA does in most cases not add enough healing power to keep a target alive in the cases where it would die when you brought UA. In other words in the time it would take you to get 10 deaths with an UA monk in team, you would likely have 8 or 9 with a WoH / HB / HealBurst monk in team.

Often it is more benefitial to let a hero die then waste effort on healing him too. (big hex + condition stacks for instance) I don't think you fully grasped what Lanier was trying to say HB with healing seed will have a much better effect other wise what's the point of bringing it along...... other then to have a SoLs effect but a weaker 1 also the statement where a healing burst a WoH monk and HB monk would pretty much be flat out dead more or less more times the the UA is a false statement

All 4 monk elites are great for survivability you just need to make a bar that synergizes well with each elite on the other hand I do like the Idea of putting SB on the smite monk it reminds me of the old CoF hero way with a warrior and 2 bonders..

and as a sidenote, the bars are packed with flaws and questionable choices. (Spear of light, channeling, blood of the master on a minion bomber, entire para bar)
I did miss that the thread was primarily about incorporating spell breaker, but if thats really the most important thing you can simply put it in there isntead of RoJ. I dont think is too important as prot spirit or shelter will do enough in most cases to allow you to tank HM spell damage, plus the 45s recharge really kills SB for PVE use.

Every bar in the game is questionable in some ways, including the ones in your OP, e.g. Why spellbreaker? Why healing seed? You would be far better served as a front line melee with having prot spirit + spirit bond cast on you instead of those.

Spear of light isnt really important, but it does add extra damage to your primary called target and brings it down faster.

Channeling is very good for hero monks, it gives them loads of energy in PVE, particularly in areas with large numbers of mobs, which is just about everywhere in PVE. Dont forget that it has an area range, it has made my monks comparable to N/Rts or E/Mos for sustained healing in long battles.

I'll give you that blood of the master and death nova is questionable, but my reason for it is that I like minions staying alive as long as possible, and when they do die from taking too much, death nova is still very useful.

The para bar is very useful - Anthem of Envy buffs damage for sprits and every physical attack on high health enemies, that includes your melee attacks as well. The remaining spells help a lot for sustaining your party in any battle. The elite slot is open for any utility elite, defensive anthem is very nice, or expel hexes, empathic removal, or for a copy of UA for use with a mimicry Healing Burst monk. UA buffs the heal on healing bursts primary and AoE DF based heal, essentially around 240 points direct heal, and 70 points of area range heal every 4 seconds, and again with channelling, the healing burst monk is able to keep on spamming healing burst and the rest of its bar without a problem with UA.

If you have any problems with splinter weapon not being applied on you, then you could manually cast it on yourself, but I've found that hero AI wont struggle with maintaining splinter weapon on two physicals.

They are simply strong alternative suggestions that you could try out, the backline you posted isnt exactly the only single possibility, and questionably far from the most ideal choice for a melee player.

*snip* Not all builds can be tested vs Master of Damage. Healing monks, interrupt based mesmers or smiters centered around smite hex / condition or similar obviously won't.

Paragons on the other hand do test well in those circumstances. It's damage is primarily reliant on straight out attacks, adrenaline gain and the damage it adds to spirit attacks. And sometimes hitting a target above 50%, other times below 50% is also quite realistic.

So lets cut the silliness.