Not to mention now you won't be able to kill the Coldfires together with the smites: you'll have to study how the patrol moves and aggro the right group, with little if no room for mistake.
The necro item is now a must, since at 55 life you get the same dmg you suffered when you were a 105 monk wih prot bond un-nerfed.
UW is still a very good place to farm, but the whole work now takes some serious effort. Everything will go ok 90% of the times, but now farming won't be as relaxing as it was before. For example, I can't listen to Winamp while doing the UW cause I need to hear the "clickety sound" when prot spirit gets interrupted, and now aggroing more mobs than strictly necessary can lead to interesting results - like you wasting 1k and starting over.
Now, probably some of you will answer something like "maybe your build sucks and you find UW difficult", so I'll prevent all the smartasses: playing carefully will allow you to clean the uw (ataxes, grasping darknesses and smites) as before, let's say, 99% of the times, but it'll take you A LOT more in terms of time and effort. You recast Prot Spirit a bit too late, it gets interrupted, you recast it again, gets interruped once more, and then you'll barely have the time to say ktnxbye before grasping darknesses/ataxes smack the painful hell out of you.
In conclusion, maybe this nerf did re-balance things without depriving farmers of their fun, since it made farming more difficult, but still possible.
What do you guys think?
