My Boon Prot Keeps all the noobs alive, and their like, i own yous.

knives

knives

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Grenths Rejects [GR]

Me/

So many questions about boon prots. This is the build I run in Random Arenas when boon protting, and usually no one dies.

Armor
A good monk can wear any armor and still monk just as well as wearing full ascetics. But if your new to monking for pvp, I would suggest takingAll ascetics, and wanderers/judges pants.

Equipment
Insightful Holy Staff of Enchanting (20/20 Prot)
Truncheon w/ 20% faster recharge + Idol w/ 20% longer recharge for blood skills.

Attributes
10 Blood
11 + 3 + Mask Divine
10 + 1 Protection

Skills
Divine Boon
Contemplation of Purity
Reversal of Fortune
Guardian
Mend Ailment
Offering of Blood {E}
Protective Spirit
Signet of Devotion

Protective spirit stops annoying fire/air eles that seem to come in abundance in RA. Signet of Devotion can be used to heal someone if OoB is recharging and you have no energy. Also knowing how to kite warriors and mesmers is something you have to learn even in RA. Contemplation helps heal you and removes hexes that are dangerous to you and annoying ones such as life transfer (that so many necros like to use) and backfire. Also switch to your blood set whenever you use OoB for that faster recharge.

Corinthian

Corinthian

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

So you only remove hexes that are on you?

knives

knives

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Grenths Rejects [GR]

Me/

Yes. I only remove hexes on me. Holy veil is a waste in random arenas b/c the hexes there get reapplied so fast it doesn't even matter. And I only need to remove dangerous hexes such as migriane etc on me. Warriors can attack with empathy on, as well as spiteful. If they know they are going into random arenas, then they have to bring forms of self-survival b/c you can't depend on a monk always being there. Same thing goes for hex removal as healing.

Corinthian

Corinthian

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2005

Aren't you worried about eles casting Stone Daggers / Flare through Backfire? :P

knives

knives

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Grenths Rejects [GR]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Corinthian
Aren't you worried about eles casting Stone Daggers / Flare through Backfire? :P Prot spirit on that person makes backfire do like 40-50 damage at most. And a quick rof will heal them AND prevent the next damage from backfire, which only lasts 10 seconds. So instead of just healing htem with veil and removing hte hex, I heal them with rof and prevent any other damage that might come along such as a final thrust or a lightnign orb.

Ashleigh McMahon

Ashleigh McMahon

Site Contributor

Join Date: Apr 2005

North East England

WoTU[Warlords of the Underworld]

Mo/Me

Good build, I find that peace and harmony works great... just watch you don't attack!

Ash.

Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Gaelic Storm

Except PaH is removed by Contemplation. ;P

OOB is a nice touch. Anything non-enchantment would be nice too.

Siliconwafer

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

Australia

Shameful Spirits

Quote:
Originally Posted by knives
Insightful Holy Staff of Enchanting (20/20 Prot) Insightful? If it's your primary weapon, and you have +15/-1 foci, wouldn't you be better off with a different staff head?

knives

knives

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Grenths Rejects [GR]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Siliconwafer
Insightful? If it's your primary weapon, and you have +15/-1 foci, wouldn't you be better off with a different staff head? I don't have a switch set. The other set is to help OoB recharge faster. And I always use insightful heads so meh. And besides, if I have no energy, I just use sig of devotion which lets me recooperate 2-4 points of energy and I just wait another second or so and can OoB while healing at the same time.

JR

JR

Re:tired

Join Date: Nov 2005

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashleigh McMahon
I find that peace and harmony works great... Tell me that was a joke

IIRC Boon, CoP and Oob will all remove P&H if you cast, as they are not targetted,

Dodo The Extinct

Dodo The Extinct

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Me/Rt

I think you should go Mo/Me for Comp Arenas.

1. You get physical resistance. Nothing beats Whammos like that.

2. You get mantra of recall. That is exellent energy management in my opinon. (yes, many people will disagree about that)

NatalieD

NatalieD

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodo The Extinct
1. You get physical resistance. Nothing beats Whammos like that.
Except the whammos with fiery dragon swords. Random arena, remember?

Quote:
2. You get mantra of recall. That is exellent energy management in my opinon. (yes, many people will disagree about that) Mantra of Recall is excellent energy management. It's just that Offering of Blood is... excellenter. More excellent. Whatever.

DieInBasra

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Does this reall have to turn into a oob vs mor thread?

JR

JR

Re:tired

Join Date: Nov 2005

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by DieInBasra
Does this reall have to turn into a oob vs mor thread? No, it doesn't.

And Distortion > Physical Resistance.