Soon the monks will be standing around LFG!! LFG!!!

ive been in pre searing with my new char (a monk, sue me)
and what i saw was this:


monks . monks. monks.

in other words , a lot of monks. Soon GW will be flushed with monks.

So i bet there will be no more hard times trying to find monks.

sure there will be a lot of morons, but there must be a few good between em too.


take that u spoiled brats

I thought that 3 months ago, saw the same than.
I was wrong. But short time after that at least the Tombs had no more ridiculous lack in monks.

NOW there is more a rush of new necromancers coming.

i guess the most just play monk for a few days, dont like at all and delete their character then.

i like it tho. they kick ass. i can solo better with my monk/mesmer (lvl9) now than with my warrior/monk when he was level 12

Most monks don't make it out of nappies because they suck at it and get lots of abuse.

you cant possibly suck at it before level 10. its so easy

the monk is the most fun build ever.

sure you can.
just use Rebirth midbattle, et voila: vous suckez de grande
:P

in that case, the monk in question is a bloody idiot and shouldnt have bought GW in the first place.

U see lots of Monks but prolly most of them stop playing a monk because of the bitching they get when someone dies.

On a side notes anet has to do something about the monk issue. Most of them are nice but you get the same number that are arrogant and rude.

Yesterday trying to get to fow, we finally get a monk and I ask him/her if they are healers so they answered and I quote: "if you ask me again then I will leave the group"

I told him f yourself and kicked him from the group.

Some people abuse the power that was given to them and I have no patience for that. I pay the 1k for fow without asking but as soon as some monk comes in and says I do not need to pay for fow, you know what will happen next. They will get the boot from me.

i chose monk to solo stuff and make money. i want to practise the group healing and protection too so i can assist when monks are needed. Ive created the monk coz i was so sick of always standing around waiting for monks, getting a bloody fool or arrogant little shit, and screwing up miserably.

most monks are spoiled so i want to make sure there are some that arent, including me. how nice and socially correct of me

you dont ask a monk if he heals. Such a question just shows the monk you dont know jack about GW.
its like asking a warrior if it does melee attacks or a Ranger if it uses a bow.

just ask about his attribute points, WAY better question.

My monk has 11+ smiting 10+ protection and 10+ divine , never more than 0 healing prayers, and it still heals more than 2 paladins together.

Most of the monks that I have seen that are rude and arrogant are the same ones that suck and aren't worth having in your pug anyway. Actually that goes for most all players regardless of their class.

no calss should think themselves superior over the others, especially monks, because at first you may think that you aabbbssooolluutteelllyyy need them, but they are other alternatives to using a monk

i was thinking about starting out again as a monk.

is it worth it in the long run ?

Well after a number of fow runs that ended up in failure because one monk was tanking and smiting and dieing every 2 seconds while the other one is not able to catch up on healing every one then I'm going to ask if he is a healer or not.

If u ask any other player if they are a battery necro/fire elm/axe warrior/interupt mesmer or whatever they asnwer like a normal person on what kind of player are they.

So I'm sorry if I find it rude that monks give people attitude, if the monk does not my question then they can go find another group which will lose since as said Blu Vein above, the rude monks are usually the bad players that think they know what they are doing meanwhile they no jack.

You see a small army of Mesmers in pre seared, too. Yet, most of these poor chars will never reach the desert since they will get deleted as soon as their players notice that they don't receive the slightest bit of appreciation. It hasn't been that different with monks, too. I guess that of every 10 monks in pre seared, only 1 or 2 actually ascend. And yes, it's mainly because of the "blame the monk for everything" attitude of some players. Some of my guildies deleted or are about to delete their monks because of that, too.

If new monks are sprouting up like dandelions in pre-sear it's probably because every one of them is expecting to come to post-sear and build a solo farmer. Most will discover it ain't easy if you don't know what you're doing.

I was doing the great northern wall mission a few weeks ago, we had our team set up, me (E/Mo), a W/x, R/x, and a Mo/W. The monk and says "I'm not a healer, im a tank". So i say okay, I'll heal, since orison of healing and healing breeze is really all you need at that point. Sure enough, the monk ran up to every enemy with just a sword. Not even a shield or offhand item. I didnt really have much trouble healing him, but i was pretty much only healing him the entire time.

So yeah, the increase in monks is noticable, but i doubt most of them will make it to high level areas.

I've found the following mostly true.

1) Monks aren't a vital part of a party, but healing is.
2) Monks are the best at spike healing and in the end are the most efficient at it.
3.a) Not all Monks heal.
3.b) In fact, few people focus on healing.

Likewise, not all players embrace the strength of their primary Profession. It's best to build your groups with builds, not professions.

When I build parties, I prioritize in the following order Healing, Damage, Support, and then Tanking.

Mostly because there isn't any agro management other than standing in the way of the monsters. In the end, I think mitigating damage with stances or heavy armor is less reliable than just killing the monsters quicker. Sure, Warrior/Monks are good for protracted fights, but in a way, they tend to cause protracted fights. But that's just personal preference and lamenting a Monk doing something like tanking when they can heal. At least smiting can dish out some punishment. :P

So, do I think Healers are entitled to be party Divas? No.

However, one of the major reason it happens is Healers catch so much "I need you, but I don't like you" attitude.

So much back and forth "Well, if you're going to be a jerk about it, I'm going to be a jerk about it" when it comes to Healers and the people who hate them that it's kind of hard to know where it started.

This is just a normal phenomenon, when people start a game they naturally go for the type of character that they feel comfortable the most with. Now that they finished the game with them, they start a new character and so on, that’s why we see more of them in lower levels at this point.

Will they make it to the end of the game, of course they will! At what speed, might be more the question to ask ourselves, but I seriously doubt everyone will now just be playing their new characters, yes they will play them more for a while, but will most likely switch back to the build they enjoy most once they’ve unlocked what they set out for or finished the game with the character in question.

Once everyone as gone trough this process, this should even out be itself and we should see a more even quantity of classes in the game, we just need to be patient.

Unik