55 Monks!!!

umm...i think that they should change the monk skill Protective Bond back to the way it was...i just spent 100k on my monk... the that skill gets changed and now he is useless...and extreemly boring to play as... anyone else feel the same way? well, i think they shou;d change back protective bond to its origional effects...i meen, i can still do stuff with him, it just takes alot more time, and it is much more difficult...

The 55 monk build isnt ruined. My friend has one, and he can still solo most of UW as before. They made it useless in PvP, not PvE.

ya, i guess...but it would still be alot better if they changed it back to the way it was be4...but o well, i guess i can live with the changes.

NO. If you can't figuire out how to make it work without protective bond then you deserve to not be able to solo UW smites and aataxes. Comeone people stop copying other peoples builds. Use some imagination it isn't THAT hard to comeup with a build that can do a solo smite tun. *Hint* You have to be part monk and not a W/MO or a ranger with some secondary (a lot ahrder with a ranger though)

actually...u cant solo UW unless ur first profession is monk... its not possibal... and i didnt say that i couldnt solo UW anymore...i said its more dificult to do stuff...not UW... sure, UW is a bit harder, and ALL the 55 monks used prot bond to solo it... but i meen, its still possibal tosolo, just takes more time...lol..

I am almost 950% positive you can do it with an E/Mo.

really, an E/Mo? ive never seen one do that.. cool, i didnt know that, im gonna go try it out... but the only problem it might have, is not being able to have all the monk Sup runes... wich might make it EXTREEMLY difficult for an ele to actually do it, but im still gonna look into it...

I call this the NAPAANPB: Not another post about anet nerfing protective bond. Get over it dude. Protective bond was nerfed to keep YOU and only YOU out of UW, and so far, it's working.

*hint* Protective Spirit, Mending....

TRUTH!!!! I knew there was some sense in people!

edit: well actually a W/Mo can do UW, be creative

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Well I havent been able to overcome the energy problems with a W/Mo but it may be possible and I just havent found it.

I can do a smite run solo with an E/Mo, a Me/Mo (Is pretty hard to do this for me but still possible), a Ne/Mo, a Ne/R, and a R/N (It can also be done with a R/El and maybe some others but I haven't really tried with anything else so.)

My advice: Be creative

Zehli please edit the end of your post, your giving them the whole solution and I don't want to see "55hp monks strike back"...

Note: I can still solo a smite run with every single character that I could pre nerf.

no, 55 monks were lame, much like d2 runewords they made people invincable and totaly ruined the game.. personaly i was getting sick of seeing Mo/W everywhere i go

rethink your skill bar........might find something that allows you to do much the same thing.

I'm glad i got a short fraps of myself soloing the griffons in glorious fashion while we could.
[Saved to disk for a trip down memory lane in the future ]

No more skill points every half hour *sigh*.

Hey Jelly can do it anyone can.

I really don't care since your a solo monk. Some people like to make other builds, but not you, Oh no that would be to hard. This is where the "skill" part of the game comes in.

People are being stupid about why the skill was nerfed. It was not nerfed due to PvE or the monk build, if it was they would have also nerfed spirit or just some odd combination of the skills to make the build inifective. Prot Bond was nerfed because it was a remove or lose enchantment, which had no real counter except being removed, it never wore out, the energy loss of 2 could be managed by monks and even eles (hint eles can also recast until they get 13 prot at which point it would have cost only 2 energy). The only way to counter it was a removal, at which point it could be thrown back on, so it was infact the "You are invicible now" skill. The skill needed to be nerfed, along with it smite needs to be nerfed or the ele lines need to be buffed... alot.

Also the skill is completly usable in PvP, it is just no longer with only one counter but with two, either remove or beat until it falls off.

im looking for a good farmer/uw runner...can someone pm with a build?