Question to all healing monks:Divine Boon

Divine Boon is an amazing spell, but it requires a fairly specific build. This is what I have been running:

Class: Monk / Necromancer

Attributes: (cost) '+' indicates Rune attributes
Divine Favor: 12+4 (97)
Healing Prayers: 11+1 (77)
Blood Magic: 6 (21)

Total attribute points used: 195/200

Skills: [Attribute] (Energy, Cast Time, Recharge TIme)
1) Orison of Healing [Healing Prayers] (5,1,2) Spell: Heal target ally for 60 health.

2) Heal Other [Healing Prayers] (10,1,3) Spell: Heal target other ally for 151 health.

3) Dwayna's Kiss [Healing Prayers] (5,1,3) Spell: Heal target other ally for 51 health and an additional 17 health for each enchantment or hex on that ally.

4) Healing Touch [Healing Prayers] (5,1,5) Spell: Heal target touched ally for 51 health. Health gain from Divine Favor is doubled for this spell.

5) Mend Ailment [Protection Prayers] (5,1,2) Spell: Remove one condition from target ally. That ally is healed for 5 health for each remaining condition.

6) Offering of Blood [Blood Magic] (5,0,15) Spell: Sacrifice 10% maximum health. You gain 13 energy. This is an elite skill.

7) Divine Boon [Divine Favor] (5,0,0) Enchantment: While you maintain this enchantment, whenever you cast a Monk spell on an ally, that ally is healed for 73 health, and you lose 2 energy.

8) Heal Party [Healing Prayers] (15,2,0) Spell: Heal entire party for 67 health.


I had been running remove hex in place of Dwayna's Kiss, but other people in my party have taken over hex removal and allowed me to do this. Also, I run a res in place of heal party in some situations.

The key to running this build is to use Offering of Blood as soon as it refreshes. With lots of 5-cost spells, this will allow you to last for a long time without running out of mana.

As someone mentioned above, be careful of overhealing. Don't use your big spells unless you're sure you need them. And don't remove every condition anyone gets the instant it hits. Just cast when someone needs the full amount of the heal you give them.

Healing Touch is there to keep you alive. Being touch range, it's not a great spell to heal anyone else with.

I use divine boon on my protection Mo/N. Basically it is a trick build with huge energy income at times. I heal myself by recasting divine boon(5 en, 0.25 sec cast, 0 recharge). Just recasting it(or casting any spell) heals me for 116 or so. And I am not even healer. It makes me immune to arcane conundrum, because I heal myself by casting divine boon and others by casting rof.

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Divine Boon is always on for me. It affects which healing spells I bring.

I always have with me the healing signet. It's a pain to use (2 second use), but my offensive power is so weak, that those 2 seconds wouldn't be of use to me anyway. It's not a big heal, but it's energy free, so a few of them over time really stack up.

I also take "shielding hands" with me. It's best use is for the dumb caster who acts as if he is a tank (there's one in every group). But, the secondary use is healing. When used with Divine Boom, it's healing aspect is more efficient (energy-wise) then even "heal other", and the shield is just gravy. The downside is the long timer between uses.

So, I use hands and signet, to prevent myself from getting low on energy. If I ever elect to fight with without divine boon, I'd need to drop those spells, and get a few of the more powerful energy-hogging spells.

I also play a 'primary' healer with Divine Boon and Reversal of Fortune. RoF + Divine Boon = 100+ heal and a reversal on the next hit... which can turn out to be a lot of dmg mitigation if you reverse something like a Meteor, or an Eviscerate... all for 5 energy.

As for using Divine Boon to heal yourself... I suppose, if you need to heal yourself before the RoF recharge is up (or you think you'll need to heal someone else in <2s from when you heal yourself). Otherwise just use RoF on yourself.

You just need to be careful about overhealing, as others have said.

As for turning it off... I'm pretty sure 1 pip only equates to 1 energy every 3 seconds. So it takes 15s just to regain the energy to recast it. So unless you need to start throwing heals out to multiple targets consecutively, it doesn't make sense to turn it off.

With high Divine Favor and Divine Boon, do you even need to put any points into Healing Prayers? You might reduce overhealing by using Protection spells instead, plus you'd be able to put points into your secondary profession, rather than DF/Protection/Healing.

Healing or protection or whatever you can make work for you is great. I didn't mean to say that the requirement for using DF is to have healing prayers. You just need to build yourself around energy management, because you maintain an enchantment and anything you cast on an ally also costs an additional 2 energy.

We are running in a team of 2 monks - one healer, one protection monk.

I am the protection monk and doing extremely well with Divine Boon an low cost and fastcast protection spells. Combined with Peace and Harmony as Elite and Well of Power and Blood Ritual from another support Char it is very hard to silence us with lack of Energy.

@Spura - funny to find out once again, we have very similar char concepts ^^

I don't use boon at all. if u do the math you'll quickly figure out that it's just not manna efficient. Not only are u paying 7 for an orison that does less than a straight heal other, but you're lowering your eng regen rate by 25%. Add in the ussual mega +eng item like them +23eng, +30HP & -1 eng regen protective icons that most healers use, and any further reduction to your regen rate is folly.

In the higher level areas the dmg/sec rates are simply wicked. U can blow you entire manna bar trying to keep up. Sometimes you can't even get the heals out quick enough to keep someone alive, energy or not.

What seems to work for me is mitigating the damage the tanks are taking with protective spirit and Aegis. This slows down the beat-down considerably, so I can land the big heals: heal other & divine healing. It also has the bonus net effect of less overhealing by other monks, which invariably happens when a HP bar is plummeting. Thus keeping more energy in the party's enery pool for heals.

In fact, I've come to think that a mo/e is the best healing/protection build. Elementalists can cast further damage reduction spells like ward against meele, magnetic aura and blurred vision, which in conjunction with Protective spirit and Aegis, would severy reduce the amount of damage received by your party.

Why don't you use heal other with divine boon instead of orison?

U can, that was just an example.

I don't use DB because it's good while you're casting, but as soon as you pause, you're on the wrong side of the energy curve.

Ok then...allow us to do the maths.

We will use orison of healing as a benchmark...I decided not to bore you with the details, so I made a graph. Its fairly self explanatory. I cooked this up in about 5 mins so if theres any problems just give me a shout.

Assuming we are using Orison at 11 healing and 12 Divine Favor, and we are using divine boon at 12 Divine Favor.



It would appear that if you want to cast something like orison every 3.5 - 3.7 then you're in the money. This is why Fianna created their boon healer. If you look at their build, this is their only true healer. Thus, it will be healing this much.

Note: Every point of divine boon increases its healing capacity by 3. Every point of healing increases orison's healing by 4. If all you want to do is spam this, buff orison. As is the case with all of this, the more you raise their governing attribute, the more efficient it gets. So my advice? If you're going to use it, pump it to extreme lengths.