Protective BOND for UW

Does anyone have the Protective BOND build for soloing or doing 2 man in the UW???

~ I know they nerfed it so i thought it was impossible to use, but recently i went into the UW(doing a 2 man run) and the monk used protective bond. We had an incrediblely Fast and quick run.

~I think the way he kept up his energy was by...
1. Getting a lot of monsters on him at once.(He got all the aatxes on him at the same time in the begining)
2.By contstanly using bonetties.(I think he had constant bonneties.)

~~~~So please if anyone hase the build for monk with protective BOND can u plz post it.

-(I think I know some of it, but i dont know about 8th skill)

Breeze Bonettis Spellbreaker Blessed Signet P.Bond Essence Bond Balts Spirit Mending

While it seems to work good on smite runs, it isn't as good as a normal P. Spirit build for quests (Better forget doing Ice King with this build, or even Mindblades)


Advantages:
Can tank much more (however, if you are a good Protective Spirit user, you could tank as much. Of course, you cant take 21 smites, but you can still take up to 15-16.) You do not need to recast Protective Bond. You cast it once, then can forget about it.
Disadvantages:
Cannot tank ranged opponents (Bonettis doesnt give energy, and Blessed Signet isn't enough to keep up) Very vulnerable to health degeneration (Burning, Bleeding, Hexes) Short Spellbreaker and no Blessed Aura, makes it really hard to get a good aggro in the first room, unless you are very lucky (1-2 nightmares at most). Completely relies on Bonetti's Defense. You can't handle the energy loss if Bonetti's isn't ready.

P.bond is great but destroys energy I've tried it very hard to manage energy.

and like cerb said ^

Nice cerbs.

~so u have 4 enchants?(mending for +4 regen, bath for adren and nrgy, essence fir nrgy, and blessed for longer enchantments?)

I mean not essenc protective bond sry lol

At 13 prot (which you need to run), it drains 3 energy per hit. With Balts and Essence, you lose 1 energy every time you are hit. While it might sound good on paper, you have consider many factors:

-Breeze (10 energy)
-Interrupts
-"Fear Me!"
-Rust & Ignorance (from Coldfires and Mindblades, respectively)

With this build, you *NEED* 13 protection prayers. However, 13 protection prayers restrains you a lot on your other attributes. If you run 13 healing for +4 mending and +8 breeze, you won't be able to spend more than 14 in Divine Favor, which is barely ~16s spellbreaker, about 18-19s with a 20% enchant weapon. Sounds good? Now consider the seconds you waste killing a nightmare, dodging body blocks, etc. Against Mindblades you shouldn't even think about it. You run into energy problems very fast with a normal build, imagine with this build where you even lose energy whenever you take hits. And I'm not talking about interrupts yet. You totally have to forget about Ice King too, since Bonetti's doesn't give energy against dryders, and Blessed Signet is far from being enough to keep up, since you need to keep breeze up otherwise you'll die from degen.

While PBond looks good on a smite run, the Protective Spirit build is much more versatile, and can be just as fast, with a good monk. PBond restricts you to smite runs only, while you can go questing and such with PS.

Ya i guess it would be better to just to use protective bond way.

~But the guy i went with must have been really good. He cleared all aaxtes in about 3 min(without ever pausing for nm's or blessed sig, or br,etc.). Then we cleared all smites in about 10min. But after that he got angry at me because i wasnt fast enough for him..lol

~You say u can have 13-15 smites on you, but he had like 20-25.~

All aatxes at once = luck with spawns
20-25 smites takes a while to pull, it can take like a minute just to pull 3-4 groups of smites into a nice aggro, now you're talking about 5-6 groups

Bonnettis Defence blocks the effectivness of SV.

Quote: Originally Posted by ]SK[

when i try P.bond i have protection prayers on 11 with a different scalp pattern and a protection item +1 protection 20%chance

I might just try p. bond for fun sometime.

You could always add a 3rd person with Greater Conflagration and have the monk bring Mantra of Flame. Then you could maintain P Bond.

Or Greater Conflagration + Winter and Mantra of Frost.

But then you would have a 3rd person in your group.

Ya 2 person with protective spirit is best.

~I find that soloing with my monk or necro is too long and hard(speccially with nm's) and that 2 man is the quickest, most effective way to own UW.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rhuobhe

Quote: Originally Posted by cerb

Quote: Originally Posted by Rhuobhe

Quote: Originally Posted by Wyrmslayer You realize that Mantra of Flame is a mesmer skills right?
How would the monk GAIN energy?
No bonnetis, no energy gain, no healing breeze... No one uses blessed signet anymore?

Quote: Originally Posted by cerb or not, lol I proposed a way to use protective bond, I did not say this is the most uber way to farm UW or something like that. Realize the difference

FWIW You could also use storm chaser with PBond vs elemental damage to make it work. DISCLAIMER: I am NOT saying this is a good alternative for UW farming

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Originally Posted by novawhiz Ya or not. either solo, 2 man, or 8 group- rest sux How about 3 man in UW clearing the whole thing?

Or set your secondary as ranger, take GC and StormChaser

Quote: Originally Posted by Rhuobhe