Curse

Summer · Feb 09, 2006, 10:07 PM // 22:07

I hear a lot of people going around saying that monk spells cause minions to degen faster than necro spells do, so I decided to test it myself.

This test was done with 1 level 18 bone fiend on the scorpion corpse just outside of Ascalon. My heal area was healing for 120 and Blood of the Master was healing for 122.

Here were my results of how long until the minion keeled over:

No healing - 79 Seconds

1 heal area - 75 seconds
1 BOM - 76 seconds

5 heal area - 57 seconds
5 BOM - 56 seconds

5 heal area & 5 BOM - 10 heals total - 41 seconds
5 BOM & 5 heal area - 10 heals total - 40 seconds

10 heal area - 39
10 blood of the master - 41 sec

In conclusion, the minions did die a fraction earlier with monk spells than the necro ones, but not enough for people to "bitch" at MM's for using monk spells to help with healing.

Summer

Jetdoc · Feb 10, 2006, 12:29 AM // 00:29

My tip - use both.

BotM then Heal Area.

BotM is cheaper, and Heal Area heals the caster for some of the health lost from the BotM sacrifice.

Summer · Feb 10, 2006, 01:39 AM // 01:39

I always bring all 3, heal area, BOM and vents sac, I use the heal area for after I cast the others two or three times because sometimes monks are slow to heal you back up. However, lately it just seems like there are a lot of people that have this mindset that monk spells cause super fast (most say double) degen, and if you are a monk that brings heal area to help out the MM, or if you are a N/mo and use heal area, these people feel the need to tell you how wrong you are and how you are destroying theirs or your own minions. So, I figured, since I never really saw any difference in minion deaths with or without Heal area, I would just do a test to see if HA was really that bad for necro minions or if it was just another rumor!!

I personally like when a monk brings Heal area because I don't need to keep such a close eye on the minions health.