DIVINE BOON......wtf?

The absolutely critical skills for a boon prot monk are:
Most boon prot monks prefer 16 divine favor for PvP. That's a tough statement to address. I would imagine one would prefer a higher divine because that translates into a higher heal, but when it comes to RA/TA I don't find the amount healed is really a problem. Acutally I find keeping yourself alive to be the biggest problem. For that reason (and i can't speak for the most prefered) I don't carry any super runes besides Vigor.

I've heard that in GvG and HoH it is similar that the good players don't find having a super rune to be advantageous--but i can't say personally at that level.

How i break it down, if you have good e-management you can heal at a steady pace, so that if your divine is say 14 instead of 16 there really shouldn't be a big difference. Steady heals, with good emangement translates into success for any monk out there. Now accomplishing those two things can be tricky at times. E-magement can become exasperated against a good e-denial mesemer-but here you learn how to switch back and forth between your positive and negative energy set. As for healing, it usually boils down to heal when your ally has hit a health level that is low enough that your heal will bare full benefit. In other words, don't heal someone that has a "flesh wound", but at that same moment don't wait till your ally is one hit away from death. All of this is tricky to juggle and really comes down to personal experiencel. And I would be bold enough as to say that setting your skill attributes comes with experience--since there truly is such a fine line between 14 and 16.

hope this helps a little

What I use in GvG:

Divine Favor: 15
Prot: 11
Inspiration: 10

Reversal
Guardian
Mend Ailment
Prot Spirit
Inspired Hex (helps with energy)
Energy Drain (MoR is good too, but I prefer Drain on a boon)
Contimplation of Purity
Divine Boon Replace Mend Ailment with Mend Condition... that's the build (CoP handles conditions on yourself). In PvE you can swap Prot Spirit for Shielding Hands since you rarely come across spike damage in PvE, and swap CoP for Rebirth.

If your in a tight situation take divine boon off and resort to prot only until threat subsides.

the very fact that your best example comes from observer mode and not actual experience is your downfall.
bring a sup and a minor rune on your headpiece. vs spike teams or if you see a warrior running towards you like a rhino on steriods switch out to the minor, same if you have dp. otherwise though, an extra 2 levels in your most critical skill really helps. i do not reccommend running a minor rune unconditionally even on a monk, let alone on any other caster It is personal experience backed up with observations of top 10 guilds.

Besides when last we got rolled by esoteric warriors in 10 minutes they told us not to wear sup runes on casters or monks. ( we got beat twice first time we held them for longer tho)

Capita Cerberi have also given us(my guild) that advice.

As for personal experience it has saved myself and my fellow monk in the guild as well as our castes maybe 100 times in 20 battles from spikes because that extra 75 health bought that split second to live.

Those that worry about healing efficiency when not running sups throw in a healing monk alongside the booner and efficiency will be helped there ( look after him tho).

That should be enoegh for you to know that I am passing on the opinions of some very very good players.

Sam