Curse

Sagius Truthbarron · Aug 27, 2005, 12:23 AM // 00:23

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Originally Posted by Mithie

Well you could have a second player named "Bladed Aatax" who dropped a glob of...

No? Haha, guess not

His name is Bladed Aaxte, I added Bladed Aaxte to my friend's list.. I'm sure that's him

SOT · Aug 27, 2005, 12:24 AM // 00:24

No, sadly, this will NOT be the last time

zehly · Aug 27, 2005, 12:46 AM // 00:46

The more time you spend complaining of a nerf, the less time you spend actually finding a different build

With all due respect, you're not really contributing to anything but a bunch of pseudo-flames directed toward eachother and A.Net. If you love to farm so much, then you are sure to have the ability to find a new build for yourself. And if you farm so much, don't cry about "wasting" 1k each time you go into the UW.

But, to end on a positive note, I'd like to say that you can find a use for every skill, even the ones that you think have been nerfed. A.Net does spend a great deal of time analyzing statistics on skill builds and uses. Most of the time--according to what I've been told--they are busy testing it on internal servers.

And alas, nothing was meant to last forever. Enjoy yourselves!

what · Aug 27, 2005, 01:16 AM // 01:16

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Originally Posted by Anton H

To save everyone from guessing (and to protect my rune investment)

Swap Essence Bond with Watchful Spirit
Swap Prot Bond with Prot Spirit.

For the win.

bingo!
and make sure you are high on divine favor to heal yourself when you spam PS.. takin 5 dmg for a 55 build in a big mob will surely kill you quickly..

twicky_kid · Aug 27, 2005, 01:59 AM // 01:59

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Originally Posted by nailz

allowing your monk to take 6 hits(MAX) before it completely drains you of all your energy and drops....ya, that's super useful. let me waste a slot on my skillbar for that phenomenal skill. For that matter why don't I just leave my other 7 slots empty.

Phades: Salja doesn't play a 105 build monk...what he was saying is that Sonya was griefing because she was pissed off that her WaMo wasn't the most effective farmer anymore.

as stated many many times before your post there are ways of doing it. just because you can't figure it out that's your own damn fault. btw war/mo are the 2nd best farmers on the game next to monk so stop your whinning.

if you really want to protect the economy don't post how to solo and let the idiots figure it out on their own.

for me i just went back to my set up before i used pro bond and you know what i can still kill the exact same amount of large groups as bond and faster. about 5-7 seconds faster to be exact.

SOT · Aug 27, 2005, 02:07 AM // 02:07

Prophecy annoys the fanatical.

Blkout · Aug 27, 2005, 02:13 AM // 02:13

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Originally Posted by LathalDraugr

For those who don't get it yet:

Protective bond has been nerfed.

It is still possible to solo UW.

See it's not difficult to understand now is it? Please before you go off on a rant about how A.net nerfed your build or start crowing about how whining won over reasoned debate try experimenting and doing more than copying a build off a website. Clearly since they didn't nerf UW itself by adding necros or mesmers A.net feel that soloing UW is fine. They must have thought Prot. Bond was overpowered or broken so they fixed it, it's not a real problem for people with half a brain so please don't get worked up about it.

I'm not the greatest GW player ever but even I managed to come up with a build that can handle 4 Aatxes without any problems. Even got an ecto and sold it for 9k to a 105 who was selling off all his runes.

Well, I'm all for Anet fixing the solo monks but I have to ask since you seem to not have a problem with Anet's latest update, why did you try so hard to hide your skill set in that picture? Are you afraid that Anet will prevent you from solo'ing by fixing a few other skills that you use?

Pot, kettle, black........

twicky_kid · Aug 27, 2005, 02:21 AM // 02:21

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Originally Posted by Blkout

Well, I'm all for Anet fixing the solo monks but I have to ask since you seem to not have a problem with Anet's latest update, why did you try so hard to hide your skill set in that picture? Are you afraid that Anet will prevent you from solo'ing by fixing a few other skills that you use?

Pot, kettle, black........

if it is publicly known and everyone uses it then yes it would be nerfed. problem with nerfing the skills used now would dramticly affect pvp where as pro bond isn't worth squat in pvp. since they don't like to penalize pvp for changing something for pve they usually will not nerf it.

they will satisfy their customer's though. so if enough people complain about they will eventually change it. if you really want anet to not nerf a skill just send constant msg saying not to nerf it and you like it the way it is. the game is for us not them so if we want something changed bad enough they will do it.

spiritofcat · Aug 27, 2005, 02:24 AM // 02:24

MY E/Mo will just have to change back to using breeze instead of boon, no big deal.

Digital Delinquence · Aug 27, 2005, 04:21 AM // 04:21

OK UW is totally not dead, and i am not going to be a clown and go concealing from everyone how to do it. Here is a couple of screenshots:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93...ting/gw184.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93...ting/gw183.jpg

Cobalt · Aug 27, 2005, 04:28 AM // 04:28

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Originally Posted by twicky_kid

if it is publicly known and everyone uses it then yes it would be nerfed. problem with nerfing the skills used now would dramticly affect pvp where as pro bond isn't worth squat in pvp. since they don't like to penalize pvp for changing something for pve they usually will not nerf it.

LOL pro bond isn't worth squat to anyone at all for any reason, period!

I even tried it alone with 53 eng it could not last long enough with a single monster to even fire off bens defense. I also tried it with essence and balth sprit even worse.

Spamming pro sprit works but is so damn annoying to constantly have to do that and make sure you have enough eng to spare to cast aura or SOJ with out compromising what you need to be able to spam it and if it lapses for even one second you are dead.

Girin Shadowarrow · Aug 27, 2005, 04:52 AM // 04:52

Killing bladed axees, darknesses and smites are still as easy as before nerf. Can still take groups of 3-4 axees, atleast 4 darknesess or 8 smites at the same time. Coldfires on the other hand went up a level. But just need to tune the build up and maybe even they go down.
And it really wasnt hard to come up with replacing build.

Two globs and ruby in the short time Europe had favour.

Anton H · Aug 27, 2005, 07:24 AM // 07:24

If youre lazy (like me) you can switch your 8th to ... I think Blessed Signet or whatever the monk skill is that extends the life of enchantments.

It is a pain in the ass to keep hitting prot spirit, so I think I'll be making an earth ele soloer pretty soon.

Just think: Ward against Harm, Earthquake + Aftershock, Crystal Wave, Armor of Earth, Eruption, etc. Probably more to it but I'm sure you can get an Earth ele to solo status in no-time.

If anyone is already running one I'd love to hear their input on the build.

Weezer_Blue · Aug 27, 2005, 07:38 AM // 07:38

OH MY GOD! You killed like 3 Aatxes in the very beginning of the underworld. You must be teh 1337sauce! And look! It dropped a single piece of ectoplasm. A 1 in 1,000 chance!

So now monks aren't allowed to farm... at all? Ok. Lets delete all the farming spots for warriors too. Actually, nerf sprint, endure pain, and all the other runner skills to dust too, because I think they're getting too much running-money.

And thank "god" this is the last one. I was kind of getting tired of people complaining about this.

Girin Shadowarrow · Aug 27, 2005, 09:49 AM // 09:49

Just saying its still easy to do but cant take as big groups as b4. And seems like coldfires wont be problem either.

Digital Delinquence · Aug 27, 2005, 10:53 AM // 10:53

uummm coldfires? The smite run is done fastest without having to kill a single coldfire

Starsky-sama · Aug 27, 2005, 12:23 PM // 12:23

just my opinion here, but the new build is actually better.

since (prot bond is out) you get so much more energy to spam and + no energy loss per hit. so you just have to watch your hp and timing.

/so no, the solo monk has not been nerfed.
/Anet just altered an existing monk skill.

-cheers.
/meh.

Cobalt · Aug 27, 2005, 12:47 PM // 12:47

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Originally Posted by Anton H

It is a pain in the ass to keep hitting prot spirit, so I think I'll be making an earth ele soloer pretty soon.

Just think: Ward against Harm, Earthquake + Aftershock, Crystal Wave, Armor of Earth, Eruption, etc. Probably more to it but I'm sure you can get an Earth ele to solo status in no-time.

If anyone is already running one I'd love to hear their input on the build.

Not a bad idea, even with ER nerfed as it is and with eng storage at max you might even be able to sustain Prot bond and earth magic is for sure the way to go if you are planning UW runs as the monster there have a good deal of fire immunity.

You have inspired me I think I am going to retire my Monk try an ele build!

LathalDraugr · Aug 27, 2005, 03:50 PM // 15:50

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Originally Posted by Weezer_Blue

OH MY GOD! You killed like 3 Aatxes in the very beginning of the underworld. You must be teh 1337sauce! And look! It dropped a single piece of ectoplasm. A 1 in 1,000 chance!

So now monks aren't allowed to farm... at all? Ok. Lets delete all the farming spots for warriors too. Actually, nerf sprint, endure pain, and all the other runner skills to dust too, because I think they're getting too much running-money.

And thank "god" this is the last one. I was kind of getting tired of people complaining about this.

Do you read or just flame?

I don't want monk farmers nerfed, I didn't want Prot. Bond nerfed. I just wanted the people proclaiming the end of monk solo farmers to know that it hasn't happened. As much as it pains me to say it I agree with you, nerfing a monk build simply because it's good for farming and some people feel jealous because their W/Mo isn't the best farmer anymore isn't a good reason.

Sagius Truthbarron · Aug 27, 2005, 04:04 PM // 16:04

I kind of feel bad for deleting my solo monk, but, then again, trying to rack up all of that faction in the last few days with just a KD/AS warrior... Yeah, I think it was worth it

(I needed one free space for PvP characters)