Hex Reliever?

I've already said about a million times in my posts I don't have GW at home and I can't truly test builds out. But here's my idea of a build people can try and let me know...

It's meant for 4v4, the team should have 1 prot/boon monk, and this...

Monk/Mesmer

Attributes:

Divine Favor: 16
Inspiration: 12

Skills:
1.) Holy Veil
2.) Remove Hex
3.) Blessed Signet
4.) Energy Drain {E}
5.) Energy Tap
6.) Drain Enchantment
7.) Hex Breaker
8.) Rez Sig

A basic build for a monk combo. One monk focuses on general healing/conditions, this one puts Holy Veil on all party members, and uses Blessed Sig and all the Inspiration spells to get energy income. Plus it's like an energy drain build at the same time in a way. And the Divine Favor is there for when you Remove Hex on someone, at least it'll heal them something.

You do realize that there are lots of highly effective teams you might face that don't use a single hex, right?

Well, no, you probably don't, or you wouldn't have come up with a build that can't do anything but piss-weak energy denial and an occasional enchantment removal when it comes up against such a team.

Well easy there tiger, don't go getting upset now. It's a game. And it was just an idea. I said I would test it to see if it's worth but but w/e. IMO one hex can screw anyone over badly. SS, Migraine, just to name a few...

I'm not upset. I enjoy saying mean things!

And yeah, hexes can certainly be a problem. I would never go into the arena without some kind of hex removal on the team. But devoting an entire character to it? That takes the concept of overkill to a whole new level.

No Hex Breaker?

Now there is. I was thinking of putting it in before but I thought Channeling would be better but not really...

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putting 2 monks in a TA group (both defensive, not smiting) is seriously crippling your damage. At most you'll have one of the opposing team members using all hexes (and likely not even that.) If you spend all your time shutting him down (which you still won't, if he knows how to cover his hexes) they still have 2 more viable sources of damage, as well as a monk capable of healing his entire team. Any decent team will roll over one with 2 monks, unless one of them is offensive.

What IS a good idea is carrying a hex removal on one of the 3 offensive players. Having a mesmer or necro carry inspired hex is invaluable against heavy hex builds, even with a good boon prot (carrying 2-3 forms of hex removal, which a TA boon prot should... even though most don't.)

Energy Tap is an awful skill for use in pvp, the casting time is far too long for it to be effective, its too easily interrupted. I use Inspired Hex, its an extra 6-7 energy every 20 secounds and also its kind of fun to play around with the hexes you remove

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Why don't you just do a simple boon prot build? It has ample self removal for hexes and conditions.

1. Rof
2. Mend Ailment/Condition
3. Guardian
4. Sig of Devotion/Prot Spirit
5. Mantra of Recall/E-drain
6. Inspired Hex
7. Contemplation of Purity
8. Divine Boon

It sometimes depends on your team and preference for what you bring in the 2nd, 4th and 5th slot but that's the general idea of boon prot build. It's sufficient in self hex removal - especially vs. migraine mesmers. You can CoP off Migraine as it first hits. Even if your boon gets removed, you can throw it up again in a jiffy and CoP again because boon recharges in 1s. If you go the route with Mantra of Recall, you get another enchantment that you can CoP off if need be, which means another hex and condition removed when you need it. Any hexes that need to be removed on your team mates can be handled by inspired hex - or god forbid one of your teammates can bring a hex removal, too!

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