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atreyu83 · Jan 24, 2006, 07:32 PM // 19:32

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Sry for doulbe post i cant figure out how to delete the other one!
I have not seen monk primary battery necro's discussed on the forums and the search feature of this forum was disabled
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I am aware many people dislike battery necro's which in there opinoins are pointless and a waste of a player slot. To some degree that could be true however i think it depends on how well that character playes the battery role. If i battery necro were to be entirely healing self sufficent and spammed BIP to the degree 7 party members had infinite energy then i belive that role is justified.

The only advantage i can see to necro primary battery is that they can attain +6 regen bip at 13 blood. wherase a monk primary is limited to +5 regen, this can be attained at ONLY 8 blood thus requireing minimal investment. The advantages of healing + divine favor greatly outwheigh this minor difference.

I will be making/testing a monk/n battery in the new HOH UW provided im able to find a group that understands what i am

. My primary role of course would be providing infite energy to the group. I could also act as an aditional healer should the need ever arise, albiet a non optimal one but a healer nontheless.

Preliminary build setup is as follows

Blood is Power(E) - well duh
Healing touch - primary self heal casted immediately after bip
Signet of devotion - 2ndary self heal casted after every other healing touch to mitigate energy consumption
orison - um well another self heal and mabey party heal i guess if i have to heal for some unfortunate reason
Infuse health - could be nice as an emergency paty member heal (would heal touch after using)
Life attunement - am thinking it would be nice to run this on myself making it easier to heal to full after bips with sig of devo or orison. However concearned it may be unnecessary or get shattered a shit load in HOH uw.
Rebirth - Res is good
Undecided slot - have Dwanyas atm but not sure what else might be better

As far as equipment im usin a yackslapper for its +energy and maininly the 20% enchant duration so i can spam 12 second bips. Also runnin 1 sup rune my hp is at 446 with major vig
So whacha think?

sartori · Jan 24, 2006, 08:20 PM // 20:20

throw blood ritual into the undecided slot.

atreyu83 · Jan 24, 2006, 08:27 PM // 20:27

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Originally Posted by sartori

throw blood ritual into the undecided slot.

In what situation would i use blood ritual instead of bip?

Siliconwafer · Jan 24, 2006, 11:02 PM // 23:02

He has a point. BiP recharges insanely fast, having both is a bit pointless. Of course, the other monks should know you're not carrying OoB and can't heal as well without the energy management. In PvE tombs, life attunment will be removed a lot. If you have energy problems, Divine Spirit + Heal Other/Orison spamming might work for you.

Roupe · Mar 27, 2006, 01:03 AM // 01:03

smite hex, (since its a good anti hex) perhaps

Tsunami Rain · Mar 27, 2006, 03:05 AM // 03:05

Sounds logical. Although, if i were some random party leader looking for a battery necro, I might be skeptical about this build.

Arkantos · Apr 06, 2006, 03:44 AM // 03:44

Its a good build overall, but energy managment is a problem. I find that even with my battery necro I sometimes have very low energy, even with soul reaping.

JiggyFly · Apr 06, 2006, 07:31 AM // 07:31

Actually never thought of using a Battery with a Monk primary. Might have to try this out since previously when I played as a battery I always had to sustain heavy amounts of healing.

I suppose this makes you more self sufficient, but at the cost of heavy energy usage by the looks of things. If you are indeed trying to heal up your own 33% sac after every usage of BiP.

ender6 · Apr 06, 2006, 05:16 PM // 17:16

I recently did the FoW with a primarily all guildee group (maybe 1 or 2 PUGS) and we had no tanks. So, using my Mo/N I became the battery. I was fueling 2 monks, a mesmer and 3 eles -- the last party member was a ranger. Now to be fair, one monk was a bonder for a good percentage of the time so needed minimal attention from me, but the other monk got non stop service as did the the 2 of the 3 eles while the mesmer and 1 other ele got minimal service.

Now, the 2 eles I was serving kept echoing Meteor Shower and were always getting refueled and always spamming their energy. They had no energy management skills.

Best comment I recieved was from our heal monk that said his energy never dipped below 30.

Lastly, I was also running a boon prot build, so I was helping heal as I batteried. I'll post the build if anyone wants it...nothing all that fantsy put it together on the fly.

**Just adding credt to the Monk primary battery build

fgarvin · Apr 06, 2006, 05:36 PM // 17:36

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but we usually use a low hp build for our battery Necro. Usually a monk will cast a 4bip mending which really eases the healing/regen issues following a BiP. Couldn't you just use an 80hp build, cast mending on yourself and then BiP your party members when needed?