Help for PVP Monks

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As elite energy management skills from secondaries go, Mantra of Recall probably beats out Offering of Blood.

It gives you nearly as much juice, doesn't cost life, and is an enchantment that you don't mind getting removed. Plus, putting points into Blood gives you nothing else besides Offering; Inspiration gives you Inspired Hex and Channeling, both of which are amazing skills.

You can also use Contemplation of Purity along with Mantra of Recall to pull some neat tricks.

You guys should really decide if you want to heal primary yourself or others.

As many (maybe just too much) of your skills are just for healing others, it won't serve much - cause in pvp, monk will be attacked first.

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yey, I neva said that you should bring them. Personally I think that healother and dwaynas are not really worth it. healing seed only against Rangers or Warriors, but not really good too.

Now Yes I heard of prot monk, because I play one 80% of my time. And since when does a protector have to manage spikes?
Yes he will block the ennemies from killing the target, but there is someone who has to heal them?

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Diversify a little and save yourself alot is the best advice I can give for a monk, there are 100s of ways to make a monk "work," maybe a dozen ways that are really efficient all around, but the best monk? A monk that works as with his/her team and uses their strengths to fill his gaps.

Pure Prot/DF/xx and you'll get hit with something you can't counter and/or will take you out of the fight. Same for Pure Heal/DF/xx. Diversify just a little and you may surprise yourself how helpful some skills are with only a couple points into thier attributes.

The basics for a monk?

Hex removal/Condition removal
Healing
Smiting
Damage Mitigation

How do you achieve all those goals? You can't effectively. But you can do 3 of the 4 well enough and 2 very efficiently.

Specialize by all means, but don't over specialize, for an example don't load up on JUST healing or JUST damage mitigation (the bread and butter two goals for generalized monks)

Specialize in one take a little bit of another and pick a secondary that enhances either your survival(preferably) and/or the survival of your team.

Experiment and take bits and pieces of other peoples builds till you find one that works well for you to become a monk that HELPS his/her team win, not just survive and prolong survival, but WIN.

I can't give an exact build because I don't play a monk, But I can tell you what stops me from killing one, and that is what I'm constantly looking for a better way to do as the FoTM monk builds change while still being able to hurt generalized monks.

These skills are used to great effect:
Mend Ailment
Healing Breeze
Smite Hex
Shielding Hands/Healing Hands/Mark of Protection
Reversal of Fortune
Divine Boon
Signet of Devotion
Pacifism
Healing Touch

High primary attribute, low non specialized/support monk attribute, moderate to low secondary profession attribute and moderate divine favor will net you a stable platform to operate with but it won't be as effective as a pure monk but will be able to face different situations more easily.

Seriously, I think pure monk is best choice.
And pure healing or protection with divine favor is what makes ultimate monk.

If you put points into something else to gain energy - you loose healing/prot power.
My trick is to take W/Mo in a group for energy management and this warrior is still doing great damage (pure adrenaline). Or other way is blood necro with blood is power...
THIS IS CALLED TEAM STRATEGY.

Better to do one task at the time, but do it at the best! If you want to do all in the same time, most of these builds don't work.
Well, seriously, who would take monk protection/healing/divine in HoH? It will be 4x more effective if it was one monk protection/divine and other monk healing/divine.

/the only skills from other proffesions I'm not agains't - are the ones that don't need attributes

Dimitri, you got some good points about pure monk, but you're contradictory. First you say a monk should have more heal only spells, then you switch over to prot monk which was never in the discussion and then you go back and say that heal monks are just there to heal the targetted allies in the team that got protected?

make your mind up abit.

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You never want to carry heal other and word of healing. It's over kill for healing. This is my heal build usually
1. Word of Healing {e}
2. Dwayna's Kiss
3. Orison of Healing
4. Healing Touch
5. Healing Seed
6. Drain Enchantment
7. Inspired Hex
8. Smite Hex/Aegis.

16 Heal
10 inspiration
9 Divine

W/ Aegis
15 Heal
10 inspiration
7 Divine
Rest into prot (Should be 8/9)

Either of these builds never have energy problems. I never use channeling-Just doesn't really work for me :/

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Guys, dont take so much healing spells as:
Dwayna's, orison, word of healing, healother.
Word of healing and healother would be enough.

Try to get more energy management skills into your build, and more selfprotection against hexes!!!!

as ANet nerfed the leeching mesmer skills, hexes are your worst ennemies, SO DO SOMETHING AGAINST IT, its so easy. Holy Veil, Hexbreaker. Thats the best actual combo I can think off. If you have the space you can take inspire hex for the worst case, when they spamm hexes on you.

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The CoR+Recall build's pretty solid for random arenas, since you're constantly denying hex's and conditions on yourself, being able to save that inspired hex or mend ailment for someone else, and running some nice energy management at the same time. I like to combine it with a prot booner for a fun and pretty solid build.

Mend Ailment
Contemplation of Purity
Mantra of Recall
Reversal of Fortune
Guardian/Shielding Hands
Divine Boon
Inspired Hex
Drain Enchantment/Power Drain

16 Divine
9 Protecton
10 Inspiration

Don't have to worry about condition/hex stacking. Don't have to worry much about energy denial either, since you're basically storing it somewhere else for a higher profit later on, which you have complete control of unless there's mass enchantment removal. In the case of enchantment removal, good. He gave you the energy when you were going to need it (enchantment removal is usually followed by spikes). If you were full, well, the situations not critical, so either way it's pretty neutral, and when you get better, run power drain over drain enchantment. This is pretty much the basic build I give most people who want to run a solid monk.

Ofcourse, for higher competion, I prefer Offering of Blood as energy management, and essentially, an entirely different build.

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If you are wanting to know the general power and efficiencies of Healing skills, check out my Healing Efficiencies and Divine Favor Bonus thread

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