Curse

Silent Kitty · Aug 01, 2006, 07:43 AM // 07:43

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Originally Posted by Anakin The Paladin

I agree.Just because there is limited monks in the game when a monk join your party they think they are leaders and whatever they say goes.So I think the title of this thread should be "Monks Abusing Monk-Shortage".

As monk I only shout one commando: "Stay together!" That is something people still have to learn. Sometimes I give hints like: "Elementalists are bad tanks.", but nobody cares. I am no leader, and I don't care if people die. I lost "survivor" title for bad lag during the event.

Dr Strangelove · Aug 01, 2006, 09:33 AM // 09:33

I've been on both sides of this.

A lot of people think that when they monk they are entitled to rule the party with an iron fist and accept no criticisms. If people are allowed to criticize a warrior for rushing in. or an ele for scattering aggro, then by gum, that monk who does nothing but cast divine boon then spam heal party and breeze is going to hear about it.

On the other end of things, 95% of people in the game don't understand overextending. Getting out of range of your monk is the absolute fastest way to die yourself, and possibly force a party wipe when the monks rushes off to try and save you. These are commonly seen ingame as Sir Wammo the Magnificent who can't die and runs off to solo a mob.

Many people think they are suddenly immortal when they get a monk behind them, and forget all about kiting, self heals, moving out of AoE and not attacking through SS/empathy. Ingame, these are the eles spamming flame burst with no defensive skills, or the PvE frenzy warrior.

A good general guide to dealing with this from either end is "Don't be a moron". I have NEVER met a literate person ingame who was abusive or incompetent.

Stupid Shizno · Aug 01, 2006, 09:52 AM // 09:52

My monk came from GvG then i decided to pve with a monk and found out how easy it is to solo monk every mission. my monk never brings any healing spell over 5e, brings 1 hex removal 1 condition removal and 2 energy management skills. ive never had any problems keeping a party alive.

Evilsod · Aug 01, 2006, 09:58 AM // 09:58

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Originally Posted by Silent Kitty

As monk I only shout one commando: "Stay together!" That is something people still have to learn. Sometimes I give hints like: "Elementalists are bad tanks.", but nobody cares. I am no leader, and I don't care if people die. I lost "survivor" title for bad lag during the event.

Sure they are

If properly set up they can be the best damage absoprtion device in the world. Obsidian Flesh + Kinetic Armour + Armour of Earth + Silver Armour.... thats gotta dish out alot of damage while taking none.

It seems i've been free from monks been randomly abused recently. I'm not entirely sure... but the FoW pugs seem to have been improving in consistancy. Even the people who haven't been before are improving. My last trip had 3 warriors and 2 monks, we cleared the forest before our mesmer had to go. A bit later on after clearing the beach/spider cave in the Forge a warrior crashed. The monks did a great job. By the end of the trip 1 monk had to go as his guild was forming a Deep team (this trip was advertised as a forgemaster anyway and we were clearing half of FoW). We still carried on. Even with 4 people we managed to clear half the Burning Forest, never diss an ele with Expel Hexes.

The funny part is we had a wammo with Healing Hands on our team

The good part was he used Healing Hands on people who needed it, not just himself.

I think it just depends on your luck... that or i'm getting better at choosing pugs on my ranger that aren't full of leeroys.