Originally Posted by twicky_kid

When i got Blessed Sig i was pondering ways to use it. Many things had to be considered:
1. How many enchantments would i maintain at one time? Would i gain more from the sig while i maintain enchantments or having the energy regen.

2. Blessed Sig isn't enough to keep my energy up so what else is there?

3. What kind of healing spells would i use and what attributes lvls would i need?

After much testing i have created the Ultimate Monk. Here is my skills bar and attribute lvls http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8...atemonk5im.png

Here's how it works. Cast essence bond on each warrior in your party. Some may say why not use balthazar's spirit. Reason i don't is because balthazar gives the energy and adrinaline to the person that it was cast on not you. Where as essence bond givs the energy to you. You want to maintain up to 3-4 essence bonds at once. Personally always maintain 4. I maxed my divine favor out so i can gain up to 23 energy from Blessed Sig. If you don't max divine favor out make sure you have it up high enough to gain 12 energy. Here is why this is the Ultamate Monk. Get your smiting up to lvl 6 at least and use zealot's fire. Zealot's will do dmg to foes surrounding allies you cast any spell on so while you are healing your allies you are doing dmg to enemies to and nice amount at that. My biggest problem was finding the right healing spell and res. With my divine favor so high up i chose dwanya's kiss and orison. Both are only 5 energy, fast casting speed, and fast recharge. Since you are maintaining enchantments on allies kiss will heal for quite a bit. As for the res spell i didn't like any choice i saw. Then i used a cap sig on the hero monk outside TOA for the false gods quest and found an interesting skill called divine intervention (For 10 sec if ally is delt lethal dmg the dmg is negated and they gain x amount of life, mine is healing for 233). The main thing that swayed me to use it is its casting time 1/4. Probly the fastest skill on the game and you don't accually die. If i see someone getting really low i cast it on them then forgot about healing them and work on someone else.

Just having Blessed sig and Essence bond is enough to give you almost infinite energy. Since i have so much energy i just alternate between casting kiss and orison after activating zealot's fire to do dmg in an area while keeping my party well healed.

Originally Posted by twicky_kid

the only reason i don't use divine boon is because you need so spam healing spells while you have zealot's fire on. you have enough to energy to last you forever so that's not a problem.

there is always going to be something to break enchantments just like there is stuff to break hexes its all balanced. they have to be prepared against it. that's what makes any enchantment and hex work is that you bank on them not being able to break it and if they do ways to prevent it.

soon as i can i'll be changing to 2nd class mes

Originally Posted by silvertemplar

I'd think this should be pretty useful in PvE , although that other farming monk guys build [check the farming video thread, amazing stuff] with Protective Bond + Lowering your max Hp to hell in gone with runes [resulting in only taking a max of 5- damage per hit] + a simple spell like Mending [which is now useful because of the low damage you take] .....then smack on some energy recovery spell somewhere and uh...happy farming and tanking? (obviously only useful in PvE and assuming no enchantment strippinp, otherwise you are dead in seconds)..

Originally Posted by twicky_kid

yes well i expect that nature's renewal will be changed if it dominates everything so balance will be restored. that one skill shuts down 3 classes out of 6 while making a decoy to tank the hits. that is completely overpowered. i love this game because of its balance. hopefully they will keep it balanced and get that spell changed. if they change it to preventing new hexes and enchantments that would be balanced.