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acountlost · Jul 26, 2005, 07:10 AM // 07:10

I want to start a protection monk character and i want to know what are the important skills needed for pvp for a prot monk.

Mister Glue · Jul 26, 2005, 07:53 AM // 07:53

It depends what type of Prot monk you're going to be running. There are two types of "specific" Protection builds that come to mind when trying to find a nice template:

Life bonder: One who protects by using available bonds such as Life Bond, Protective Bond, etc. Usually it's best to combine these with Balthazar's Spirit and Blessed Signet so you can maintain your energy. It's generally wise to use other low-cost skills when doing this because it can be hard to keep your energy up at times, depending on how many enchants you're going to maintain. Also a good thing to use with this is a few energy stealers from the mesmer line. This will not only help you keep your energy up but take energy from the opposing team.

Martyr: Martyr itself isn't actually in the Protection line of skills, but I find it useful to use Martyr on a protection monk. If you're going to be using this, it's good to have at least Mend Ailment to cure all the conditions you'll have on you, and possibly having Purge Conditions to use for when you have 5 or 6 conditions on you. Any skills go well with this build really; things such as Reversal of Fortune, Protective Spirit and shielding hands work together to make a very good prot monk imo.

Aside from those two, a good "generic" Protection monk would have skills such as Aegis, Reversal of Fortune, Mark of Protection {E}, Mend Ailment, Protective Spirit, Shielding Hands and a ressurect. Used at the right time, these skills can help out a healing monk a lot.

acountlost · Jul 26, 2005, 10:06 AM // 10:06

Thanks alot, but I dont know where to get martyr, life bond, protective bond.

Tom und Metti · Jul 26, 2005, 12:28 PM // 12:28

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Originally Posted by acountlost

Thanks alot, but I dont know where to get martyr, life bond, protective bond.

Just use the informations at this side.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/skill/185-life-bond

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/skill/186-protective-bond

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/skill/157-martyr

I dont know if its nessasary to bing life bond and protective bond. Because if u use protectiv bond u will be out of mana really fast. If u use Martyr as elite (only if u play tombs, otherwise its nearly sensless) u also should bring purge conditions to remove the taken conditions.

Well and to keep up ur mana u should choose Mesmer as sub class and use channeling (if u play tombs). Energy tap need 3 secs to cast and u need to spend points in Insperation magic to make it a bit sensfull so its quit useless.

Well Mark of Protection is a nice skill, but not for a primary Protection monk because it disable all other protection skills for 10 seconds if u got a strong emeny he will remove that Enchantment Spell pretty fast (shatter enchantment, rend etc.)

Other nice protection spells/skills:
Protective Spirit (10 Mana is not cheep but its worth it and low delay and vs spike group very effektiv),
Convert Hexes (vs nec spirt spamm, backfire, etc.),
Reversal of Fortune (spamm able, just 5 mana if u use it in combi with channeling u will not lose any mana)