The "CoP" Monk.

The "Cop" Monk build was designed solely for the purpose of TA and CA. This build focuses on using prot to prevent dmg, using hex and condition removers while keep allies healed.
CoP, which stands for Contemplation of Purity, is a skill not used by many monks. But if used right, can be very useful.


Attributes
Protection Prayers: 12+3(sup rune)
Divine Favor: 9+1(minor rune)+1(headgear)
Blood Magic: 9

Skills:
Reversal of Fortune
Guardian
Signet of Devotion
Divine Boon
Contemplation of Purity
Mend Condition
Offering of Blood
Res Sig

The Strategy:
Basicly, the strategy here is to know when, and when not to use divin favor. When a round starts, I do not have divine. I stick with using reversal, guardian, condition and smite hex. If I become the target, I will put on divine favor, or if I can't handle the dmg output. With divine favor+divine boon+reversal or such, you will get healed for 100+. If low on energy, you can always use signet of devotion and offering of blood. Also, because of the popularity of the "Palidan" build, it is great to have mend condition. This will heal target for 150 or 200+.
NOW COMES the MAIN secret to this build. Yup, you guessed it, Cop! Say if you are getting hexed, say 5 hexes on you and 3 conditions. First put on divine boon, then stack on reversal and guardian. Afterwards, as fast as possible, use CoP. This will get rid of all three conditions and 3 hexes. And in return heal you for 300+. Since all four skills are fast recharge, feel free to do it again!

Energy Management, and lack of.

CoP is actually really nice in a setting where you have less than 4 monks (depending on the build, could be gvg. more often its 4-4)

i usually use it with a boon prot and offering of blood as the elite, 16 DF, 10 prot and like 9 blood.

CoP is actually a skill, not a spell, so it saves you from the migraine/arcane conundrum lockdown thingy. its also affected by expertise. now believe me, ive tried to make a decent r/mo build but.. no dice

I remeber I forgot something! I include Offering of Blood to keep my energy high. I knew there was some skill I was forgetting. ~_~ There, the build is edited. ^^

in that case my advice is screw protection and get 16 DF

but that way I can't prot efficiently. Anyways, this build is to keep others healed better. Also, if I do go tombing with this build, I ussually add Aegis instead of res sig.

you only have 3 prot skills: guardian, rof, and mend condition. the only one that really suffers from having like 10 protection is guardian, but the rest of your skill bar does alot better

I will try that tonight. But like i said, for tombing, it is better to have 16 prot.
anyways, thnx for the input. ^^

Actually if you're running boon, you want to go with 16 Divine Favor, not 16 Protection. :|

Whenever I've played alongside Monks that use this, it's been solid -- it just falls down when it comes to removing hexes from teammates rather than from themselves...

That's why I prefer the alternate version with Holy Veil in place of CoP.

Actually with this build don't use offering Mantra of recall works much better as its an enchant as well and is able to be comboed with CoP. Take inspired and switch it out for signet of devotion. Also take out mend condition for mend ailment for yourself. After all mots warriors will go after you no matter if they miss the entire round. And you don't really need a rez sig. Switch it out for something that might help such as shielding hands. and 16 DF works much better than 16 prot.

mantra of recall gives less energy than oob. just because you can CoP-it doesnt justify its use for me.

Cop takes care of conditions on me. therefore, i don't need mend ailment. plus, mend condition does a lot of healing. also, for ta and ca, monks do need res sig

Tried it with 16 favor. Works well. ^^

I prefer Mantra of Recall over Offering of Blood because it forces you to really learn to use the monk's primary energy management mechanism: conservation.

Watch your rate of energy usage. You should be using enough that everyone is staying alive, but not so much that you burn out before Mantra of Recall ends.

I rather like Divine Spirit on this guy as well. It's great in conjunction with Divine Boon, or pretty much any time you think you're going to have to do a lot of spamming. (you can get a good 16 seconds out of it if you have high Divine Favour)

Also, bear in mind that 16 Divine Favour gets you a 51 health bonus on every spell you cast. It's not huge, but it adds up pretty quick, especially since you're negating a lot of damage with those prot spells.

with favor and divine, each spell can heal for 120+.

Recall is also better since there are other inspiration skills that give energy, since generally one skill isnt enough, unless on fast recharge etc.

Quote: Originally Posted by Actuvious Devanger

I have a build that uses boon. I run 8 to 10 enchantments at the same time and get paid for it in energy. It's the most effective 4 man monk I have seen to date. Mostly cuz there is no ench removal in 4 mans it seems.

Any guesses. I use reversal of fortune and protective spirit to trigger boon "heals" but any gueses on what enchantments and what elite I use for energy management and over all party protection and healing?

I use Divine favor at 16 and protection at 15.

I'll confess if guessed.

10 enchants? 8 skill slots...