(Rant warning) F the bandwagon monks.

F every last bandwagon 105 monk. (oh, excuse me I didnt mean to slight those who think they are special by switching off hand items, sorry 55'ers that goes for you too.)

Its WAY past time for anet to unfark that class. There is no call for monks to be able to solo where no other class even has a prayer of doing so. Prot bond is broken as all hell. I'm sick of all the monks running around pleased with themselves because they too jumped on the bandwagon. I simply cannot wait untill Anet fixes it and those bandwagon monks go back to doing whatever they did before.

Now, before anyone jumps to the assumption that I'm some other class and just jealous, i've been a monk forever, and I was soloing before the 105 went public and EVERYONE and thier F'ing brother made monks. So its not envy. The class is unbalanced and Anet needs to get off thier asses and fix it.

/rant off

No, wait, not quite done.

/rant on

Can someone please explain to me who started this thought that its cool to bring elite skills to the ascalon and shiverpeak arenas? or Droks armor? Am I the only person in this playerbase who thinks thats just plain weak???? Usually the argument is "well you're just mad cause you cant". Wrong, I can, I've got plenty of money with which to do so, I just think its lame as all hell to bring that stuff which does not belong into those arenas, yet another thing for anet to fix..

/rant off

Sorry I lied.

/rant back on

F the TGH forums! Right in thier stupid ears! Banned from that forum because the moderators are all for UAS implementation RIGHT NOW. I even agree, Please anet, pretty please, give the PVP only players who want the game to be like counterstrike or any other FPS (except in 3rd person) thier skills and let them have thier little fights all damn day and get them out of my roleplaying game. Thats right, seperate them, Let PVE characters face ONLY PVE characters in the contest for favor. If the PVP only players dispise the RP game so much that they cant do anything in it more than once without crying about grind, get them the hell out. Grind, ROFL, as if they have the slightest idea about what grind is if they think its so awful in GW...Must have come straight from quake. Yep, banned from a forum because I suggested we talk about something else besides UAS just once....F TGH.

/rant off for real this time.

My monk was created as healer monk, beat the game as a healer monk, and will continue to remain a healer monk.

more power to ya brother.

I'm going to play both, get two sets of armor one for healing, the other for 105/55 build so I can peacefully go play in UW/FOW without having to play and group with idiots.

Ya know, You could do what I did. Find a group of good people to go with, and make them your group. Untill some people stopped playing and some people left to do other things in the game I hung with a ROCKIN UW/FoW Crew... Yea the drops werent as good as I get soloing, but I had alot more fun.

Complete and utter agreement.

(Although, Elistan, as much as I share your views and as much as I personally appreciate your writing, you'll find that the language you used in the above post will get you no love from the GW mods either. Been there, done that.)

It is not Elistan's fault if the mods have a bias

I agree with him too, heck, bring on the faction exchangeable fellblades and stormbows.. PVP only though!

Likewise make all PVE weapons PVE *ONLY*

Just because a stupid arena in some tiny parts of the world has some rules, I fail to see how it should dick-tate the weapon crafting policies for the rest of the world. Likewise I fail to see why PVE weapons should be so bland for the sake of these PVP players and "balance" that I care nothing about.

Yeah I have had a monk forever, but i went into team arenas today and found out you need to always be a necro secondary with lingering curse our use the broken natures renewal. theres so many of the monks it comes down to a game of who has more patients. I even went into the arena with the build, and 4 groups were stuck beating on me while i told that the build i was using and to complaun to anet then i removed my enchantments to die. I find it nice as a grinding build since it takes forever and a day to unlock anything, but in pvp its forcing builds to comprimise stratedgy for cut and dry builds.

Funny, I just made a PvE monk and i'm building a 105er.

It's not bias. It's in the forum rules. I don't think there's a single poster here who can't express themselves without the use of profanity. It actually shows a bit more mettle to do so rather than become just another foul mouthed lemming.

It's time to get PvP squared away so that new builds and excitement can ensue. There are terrific problems with PvP and, hopefully, they will be addressed soon to everyone's mutual satisfaction.

Are you nuts? I have played a monk since that early bird day, and let's be honest ...

... it's always the monk's fault when things go wrong ...

... and it's always the achievement of everyone else when things go right.

I can sing the songs "Call a Target, Soldier", "The Agro Circle is your Friend", and "Let's Recharge for Good Times" all day, but looking at the rate of successfully completing missions, my experience has been PUG 2%, henchies 93% (including the fire island chain).

(*chuckles at Thunderhead Keep*)

So guess what, the henchies are my friends, and I rather get banged by a bunch of bladed ataxes than joining another PUG of L20s that is unable to survive outside Ascalon.

Now you can continue bitching and complaining, but keep in mind that most monks play the game to have fun - just like everybody else. And now they found another way to have fun without having to listening to bozo-talk. Gee ... gotta be nerfed. Oh, and look, the warriors can run to Droknar's Forge ... unpack the nerf bat. I have a better idea ... here, take this shadow staff and stick it up yours where the sun doesn't shine.

Now go back to typing your posts into public chat ... I can see it now ... "LF MONKS TO JOIN MY L33T GROUP, F***ING JOIN, A**HATS"

I think that statement just about discredits the rest of what you said.

Wow someone that has the same views as me. I agree 200%.


Good. Someone that agrees with me.

I fail to see how having other people farming solo affects you in a way so important that you are this emotional about it. Yes, the arena thing is annoying, but no more so than warrior monks who dont bring res signets.

You say they are "imbalanced"? How's that? Do you see parties of 8 of them doing missions? Do you see them soloing Thunderhead Keep? Do you see people trying to get groups saying "GROUP LOOKING FOR ONE MORE 105 MONK FOR MISSION"? Has your Ranger character asked to be in a group only to be told they needed another 105 Monk? The answer to those questions is "no." So where is the imbalance? They are imbalanced because you can make money with them? That hardly constitutes the word.

As I said, I see their solo farming as a good thing for you, not a bad one. I'd say that the 105 monks are responsible for the existence of a majority of the ectoplasm on the market, maybe even an overwhelming majority. If we get rid of the 105 monks and assuming no other solo farm build comes out get ready to pay 50 plat each for ectoplasm. Same goes for all the people who are happy to pay bottom-dollar prices for nice Stormbows and runes.

So... you solod, then other people started soloing, and now it's awful and needs to die?

Sounds a lot like those kids who whine and moan whenever their hobby (like skateboarding) or crappy band (Good Charlotte, etc etc) gets popular and then they don't feel special anymore for being unique or whatever.

after playing a monk from the official launch of GW and being blamed for just everything that goes bad, I find it's just a little compensation that I can farm as efficiently now

People who don't know how to make a winning build for team arena are obviously the ones resorting to ganking. There's no other explanation because if you know what you are doing you can win arena at level 20 anyway.

They used to be alright but personal bias and friendships with Anet personal are starting to cloud their objectivity. They also let fights go on for days then suddenly decide to ban 10 people... so much for consistancy.

Summary of OP: Play the way I want you to play, because it's the way I play.

Same here, and my monk will remain that way.

Pretty sure he's talking about the mods at TGH having a bias.

QFT

Is it really that big of a kink in your gaming time that uw solo'ers exist?