Mending - Why the hate?

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Bleh, I take it you don't look into Live voraciously much do ya ensign? or even vigorous spirit, as they completely own mending especially w/ the fact that you're promoting tiger's fury, which in this case I would rather carry tiger stance which although has a cooling time, does a decent job w/o blacking out your other skills and invest in a warrior att which other skills can take advantage of. Flurry while it blows in pvp, is actually decent in pve, 25% blows, but it don't matter in pve, where your adren charges up so fast you can spam skills. W/ a zealous sword, it always pays for itself.

Lets see, mending is 3 pips max on a warrior who invested enough pts on HP, thats equivalent to hp per second. Live voraciously @ the same level does about 10-12 hp per hit; w/ the attack speed buff, that totals to double the amount of hp you get from mending. Granted LV/VS requires you to attack, in which a warrior is require to do anyway. Mending can't combat degen very well either, as 3 pips can only do so much, whereas 12 hp per second actually does.

Dolyak is a bad investment unless you are sure that everything is attacking you, I prefer to be a w/mes and use phy/ele resist depending on enemy types, to me anything that slows down movement is bad, cause if someone does need help, I don't wanna have to crawl towards them w/ dolyak. Watch yourself should be a staple tank skill, as it the most versatile and AOE.

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"why does everyone hate mending so much? healing breeze too? you know why everyone hates it? because you are all stupid. they weren't intended to be heals, but to be counters to degen."

Because a monk can let your health go down from degen, and then heal you, with a 5 energy skill...

We're all stupid? Oh right, well since you've already decided that you're correct... Why did you even post here? LoL.

I can't really think of a situation where I would want mending on my skillbar, PvE-wise nor PvP wise. As Da Cebuano said, I don't think 3 pips is really effective degen counter.

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i use mending alot myself, never as a primary heal, but say for doing ettin farming, or just use it to even me back out from victos blade. i only need 4 attacks, then 2 defence buffs then a heal, sig or brezze, then i may use mending or a rez, if its alliance battles no rez is needed why not? mending is healing me as i'm chasing a fleeing monk, if i stop to cast a heal then he gets away heals himself then we are back to square one. i once played a 11 hour RA match and mending kept me alive (dang monk was echoing mark of protection) stood in a group with mending on, came back to com next morning monk was hideing in corner afk, one guy without mending was dead, me and other mending useing tank were still alive, went over and killed him...lol

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the speed buff is for canceling frenzy.

heal sig is for out of battle heals or countering degen.

Mending has it's uses in PvE, don't know about PvP.
When fighting large mob's like in factions a W/M with mending don't have to stop and self heal and if the foe shatters it well thats one wasted spell that might have given the monk or bonder a few sec extra, and energy, I useally use all adrenaline skill's exept 100 blades(5 eng.)
Doing Visunha Squere (first time) Mhenlo and Togo where getting low on HP and Monks where not paying attention so I cast mending on both and let them heal a bit.

It's team work and sometimes mending is usefull (not an fix everything) in PvE.

Unfortunatly a lot of ppl think that since it's not used in PvP it has to be a bad skill. Well every skill has it's uses if used right.

Heal Sig to me is a bad skill, opens me up to a lot off damage during 2 sec cast time + plus I'm not doing any damage during the same time (+hp -40 armor -recived dmg/2sec -given dmg) seams the overall loss is to high with heal sig.
VS is a good alternative to mending unless you fight foe's that uses blind or dazzed etc. since you only get healing from hit's not swings.
We have to stop comparing skill's in PvP vs PvE since the group set up is very different. And calling another player N00b because he/she has found a built they are comfertble playing, that is a lot off BS and causes a lot off badblood.

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I'll just cut through the formalities here:

People hate mending because most W/Mo's who use it believe that they can do anything they want and end up being useless (or worse) to the team. Mending is a decent skill on its own.

The best post that I saw though was someone retaliating against someone bashing mending saying:
"Oh, so I guess all 55s are noobs then?" ...Funniest. Post. Ever.

I had a PvE mending WaMo in Nahpui ask me for blood rit and then tell me that he hated what mending did to his energy but it "keeps me alive so good". Mmmmhmmm. And just WTF do you think the monk is doing? Hmmm?

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Healing sig is the best selfheal for a PvE war generally.

Mending = +3 at 9 healing, waste of points that could have gone into defensive purposes, rather than shatterfodder.

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Heal sig.

For my warrior I started off using a W/E build with armor of earth but after noticing the tanking of henchies I swapped to an adrenaline based battle rage build for axe.
I swapped to W/Mo only for rebirth.

I didn't hench all of factions. For vizunah square, unwaking waters and the last part I used people. But for the rest, everything. I did it with hench.

Eh lets see..
Battle rage, a bunch of adrenaline attacks, watch yourself, heal sig, res sig/rebirth.
The fun thing about armor of earth is that it gives you a lot of extra armour but it doesn't slow you down that much. But on a W/Mo you can still use dolyak.

Heal sig lowers your armour by 40 for 2 seconds... That's what keeps most wammos from using it.

My warrior is set up quite defensively.
90 al base + shield + absorbs from everywhere + weapon + 20 al from WY + 40 from dolyak/AoE = 181 al. (I turned the absorb into al for convenience. I gave it 10 al but it's probably worth around 40 but still whatever)
So I have 181 al. All hench around me have an additional +20 al
If I use heal sig I'll have 141 al (or 131 if you don't take the absorbs I added as 10)

Now lets see what the crap wammo does...
80 al base (they'll use knights or glads but no dragons since dragons doesn't give many shiny bonuses), +16 from shield. They'll probably use a fortitude mod or some sundering crap.
They have basically 96 al.
If they use heal sig, they'll have 56 al.

141 vs 56.

Now if anyone wants to complain about the +al vs physical... It would only turn it into 151 vs 76 and I would still have more than double.

So a warrior without wasted slots on /Mo selfheals can maintain high defense.
A warrior with slots wasted on selfheals will either lack slots for defense or for offense.

Take your pick..

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Yeah well alot of people have there oppinion on Mending, But the point is its worthless in PVE Coop or PVP anyway.

I used to swear by mending but ONLY when Solo'ing or Farming. same with healing breeze and even Vicariously. But all are now dropped. personally i think more than the worry about altering your DPS i would worry about wasteing Attribute Points on Healing Prayers.

If i take monk skills i use Watchful spirit and Balthazar's Spirit as the rate of energy gained on Balthazar's Spirit doesnt make a diff with your Smiting its all good, that way your DPS isnt affected anyway,

you can still use your Vamp Weapons and keep your energy up, i mean if your that concerned take Bonetti's Aswel, thats what i would do.and i can farm most of factions no problem WITHOUT changing my setup.

I know this will recieve alot of flack perhaps aswel, but it works, SOD your energy Regen if your getting it per hit anyway and still NOT using a Zealous Weapon.

Its Allllllll Good!

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