Mo/Me -- Blessed Signet Build [Read or Die!]

Ok -- new build I thought of. Haven't seen it before. Just an idea.


Monk of the Blessed Signet (with a side of Mesmer)

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--Attrib--
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Inspiration Magic: 10
Healing Prayers: 12
Divine Favor: 9 (+1 from item)

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--Skills--
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1) Spirit of Failure, Hex Spell: For 30 seconds, target foe has a 25% chance to miss with attacks. You gain 1..4 Energy for each miss. Cost: 10; Cast: 3; Recharge: 10; Attribute: Inspiration Magic

2) Mending, Enchantment Spell: While you maintain this Enchantment, target ally gains 1..3 Health regeneration. Cost: 10, -1 Pip; Cast: 2; Recharge: 0; Attribute: Healing Prayers;

(Can be subbed for: Life Bond, Enchantment Spell: While you maintain this Enchantment, whenever target other ally takes physical damage, half the damage is redirected to you. The damage you receive this way is reduced by 3..25 points. Cost: 10, -1 Pip; Cast: 2; Recharge: 0; Attribute: Protection Prayers

3) Energy Drain{E}, Spell: Steal 8..18 Energy from target foe. Cost: 5; Cast: 1; Recharge: 20; Attribute: Inspiration Magic;

4) Mantra of Inscriptions, Stance: For 30..78 seconds, your Signet rings recharge 25..45% faster. Cost: 10; Cast: 0; Recharge: 20; Attribute: Inspiration Magic

5) Blessed Signet, Signet: For each Enchantment you are maintaining, you gain 3 Energy, maximum 3..20. Cost: 0; Cast: 2; Recharge: 10; Attribute: Divine Favor;

6) Healing Breeze, Enchantment Spell: For 10 seconds, target ally gains +2..8 Health regeneration. Cost: 10; Cast: 1; Recharge: 2; Attribute: Healing Prayers

7) Heal Other, Spell: Heal target other ally for 30..150 Health. Cost: 10; Cast: 1; Recharge: 4; Attribute: Healing Prayers;

8) Restore Life, Spell: Touch the body of a fallen party member. Target party member is returned to life with 26..45% Health and 42..80% Energy. Cost: 10; Cast: 8; Recharge: 0; Attribute: Healing Prayers;

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--The Rundown--
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The idea is to put Mending or Life Bond on two party members (assuming you have an item that gives an extra pip of energy recharge) bringing your Energy Regen to two pips. This means that you gain 6 mana every time you cast the Signet. The Mantra of Inscriptions brings this down to about a 7 second recharge on the signet. Use Energy Drain to snipe 16 energy from someone as needed. Spirit of Failure also is excellent for more energy. Then just heal stuff.

My questions on this build are as such:

--I acknowedge this build is prolly weak to a good mesmer. *Shrug*
--Life Bond or Mending? I like Mending over LB because when used with Healing Breeze, it's NINE pips of health regen. Makes stuff hard to kill.
--Is Spirit of Failure worth it? Should I swap it out with Healing Seed? I dunno!

Just proposing a new idea. Large Sigh.

just as a thought - if you are using mantra of inscriptions, its purely for the recharge of ONE other skill. this doesn't really strike me as a good skill economy, as it doesnt quite even let you use that one skill twice as often. If you are going to use that mantra, i would personally try more than one signet ring out - remember, they aren't spells and so a fair few interrupts don't affect them, e.g. power leak, power drain, power spike, to name but a few (oh, and it doesnt trigger backfire). Just something to think about (i don't use signet rings on principle - images of evil sorceress from couple of anime series just annoy me every time i look at a signet

This build is so powerful... I played with 4 Life Bonds last weekend...
With close to 4 arrows of mana regen..

The damage mitigation was HUGE, in heavy PvP combat I would mitigate from 0 to 5-6 hits per SECOND. Rarely did I take damage, with Prot skill 9. I dare say I prevented half of the damage on the team alone.

For fun I made the rest of the build Signet based, with SoJudgement, Devotion, Bane, and then Banish and Scourge to get rid of all that mana. Worked rather well, but it took some concentration to keep hitting that Blessed button on timer.

Okay, now the next trick will be to only keep up 3 Life Bonds...and throw Essence Bond on myself. Then my additional mana regen will be maybe an average 2 mana per second in combat? In bursts it will be 3-5. Just can't beat that.

So yes, after they changed Blessed Signet, you can now keep up as many Life Bonds for free as you feel like.

12 (+2) DF
8 (+2) Protection
10 Inspiration

Life Barrier (E)
Blessed Signet (9.9 seconds recharge time including aftercast)
Signet of Devotion (woohoo, 3.57 recharge time!) or perhaps some other mesmer signet
Mantra of Inscriptions (~40% faster signet recharge)
Energy Tap
Power Drain
Leech Signet
Some other protection enchantment (Vital Blessing? Watchful Spirit?)

Run 7 Life Barriers. (7 pips, takes you to -3 pips regen)
Run Mantra of Inscriptions. (10 energy every 80 seconds, or -.375 pips)
Use Blessed Signet every 10 seconds (6 times a minute) at 23 energy a pop to get the equivalent of 6.9 extra pips of regeneration, bringing you back in the black with a net regeneration of 3.525 pips.

With energy tap, power drain and leech signet (yay, also recharges fast) (and since you have nothing to do really except stay alive...) you could probably maintain a Watchful Spirit or Vital Blessing on everyone (or most) in the party as well as the Life Barriers.

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