The New 55 Monk Smiter

looking through guildwiki ive found a few good new smiting skills, one that certainly caught my eye was:

Signet Of Rage:
Target foe takes 10...34 holy damage and +5...10 holy damage for each adrenaline skill that foe has.

and an alternative to SB?

Spell Shield:
For 5...17 seconds, while you are casting spells, you cannot be the target of spells. When Spell Shield ends, all of your skills are disabled for 10...6 seconds.

just some things to chew on!

I just don't like the part of Spell Shield that says "your skills are disabled for x-seconds". Protective spirit and/or breeze might be needed and timing that would just be plain irritating.

SIgnet of Rage wouldnt really work because there are a lot of monsters that dont have adrenal skills. Unless you find an area that is COMPLETELY filled with adrenal monsters I would have to say that this wouldnt work.

im sure with 15 divine favour spell shield is probably 4-5 seconds long, and the only time i need to cast them for their df bonus is when i face about 15 smites when bonettis runs out

For 5...17 seconds, while you are casting spells, you cannot be the target of spells

Quote: Originally Posted by cerb

i see waht your saying, but surely just casting something like mending would stop this?

Quote: Originally Posted by kicks66

I have looked through the skills, There is nothing new that would help a invinca monk. The two new smiteing elites are specially designed not to be useful for 55hp farming. One even takes the liberty to deactivate all your skills. Also there wouls be no point in useing Spell Sheild over Sb as Tsunami Rain says. While sheild spell will not be good for 55hp monks I'm sure all you orison spammers wil east it up.

Although the new Earth Ele elite is going to help out 55hp E/Mos alot. Shockwave is amazing.

Basically, don't count on many of the new monk skills helping 55hp farming.

Although I'm think The new protection elite called life shealth is going to be very interesting. I bet if you could use it with a 55 monk buuild and not need any breeze or mending. Although you would still need mending and breeze to vounter health degen. So I net a 55 build with life shealth would be very interesting! It will at least help tanking 55hp monks(not nessasarly for UW)

Rage signet doesn't sound like it will help much because 1. signets take a while to be casted 2. Not asll creatures use adrenaline 3. Its not aoe, so it will only damage 1 creature(which will make farming slow.

All the monk smiteing skills have a large recast time to so its not really like you can squeeze a few smiteing skills into a monk build and use them all to kill a group on enemies(at least not very fast).

So I personally don't think much will come out of the new monks skills for 55hp farming. Maybe skills in other professions though.

Brother Gilburt

the only thing spell shield will be good for is messing up a mesmer in pvp

Quote: Originally Posted by phreakilla

I swear Spell Shield is another stolen skill from Mesmers...

Quote: Originally Posted by cerb

1 problem...Spell Shield is an elite (I think)... so is SoJ.

Also, why would you cast SoJ before your spell protection anyway?

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