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Sep 26, 2006, 11:15 PM // 23:15
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Combating Misinformation and Bad PvE Monkery
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conclusively destroy bad arguments and misinformation about particular skills, but we have to start somewhere. The 3 keys to successful monkery
General advice
Here are two builds which will not fail you in PvE, and justifications for each skill used. A balanced team of 8 with one of each of these monks is well-prepared for nearly all of PvE in Prophecies and Factions. Both builds degenerate easily into a pre-elite, pre-lvl20, pre-200attribute versions. Healing Mo/Me
This is a reasonable healing backbone for any team. Word Of Healing is one of the most efficient healing spells available. Use it whenever you can, it's only 5 energy so you don't have to wait until they're below 50%. Healing Light essentially costs 2 energy for a decent heal when combined with Vigorous Spirit or any other enchantment they may have put on themselves. Dwayna's Kiss can really shine while under lots of hexes or enchantments, sometimes even out-healing Word of Healing. Orison of Healing is reliable heal which you can use on yourself if needed. Healing Touch is just for yourself if you're worried about taking damage. If you took Healing Light as your elite, take Vigorous Spirit instead in order to take full advantage of it. Vigorous Spirit offers only a small amount of healing power by itself, but coupled with Dwayna's Kiss and Healing Light, it triggers beneficial conditions for your healing power and energy management. Heal Party is nice in condition-laden areas and Healing Seed is especially useful for protecting the front-line. Do not over-use either of these because they're costly and when misused provide little or no benefit. Mend Condition is usually more useful than Mend Ailment in that Mend Condition heals when it pulls off a condition and has only a 2-second recharge, but you can't use it on yourself. Inspired Hex is just as much for some free energy as it is to remove a hex. It's not intended that you actually use the hex you pull off. Rebirth is the resurrect of choice for PvE. But don't use it in battle--you're more valuable if you are healing the party. As a monk you should only res when battles are over, or when you've all run to safety and can Rebirth into a safe position. Revealed Hex is a copy of Inspired Hex. Drain Enchantment nice energy management and can disable or weaken a target. Channeling is another excellent energy management skill, but be careful not to put yourself too deeply into harm's way. Utility Mo/Me
This provides hex and condition removal, healing support and protective damage prevention. Blessed Light should only be used when someone is suffering from both a hex and a condition, or are suffering from a hex or a condition and need some healing. It's expensive, but you can get a lot of mileage out of it by only using it when needed. You have skills for pulling off 1 hex or 1 condition that are cheaper. Gift of Health is an amazing cheap heal. Feel free to use it whenever you need to since there are no other healing skills in this build to disrupt. Signet of Devotion is another amazing heal, for free. It takes 2 seconds to cast so be mindful not to use it while under heavy fire. Reversal of Fortune is very efficient when facing medium to high damage enemies. Not very useful when taking lots of hits from small damage. Guardian is excellent defense against melee or ranged physical attacks. In the above case when taking lots of hits from small damage, this will likely cut that damage in half. Protective Spirit is a lifesaver against the massive damage casters of levels greater than 20 can cause. Or if your melee attackers have a habit of using Frenzy while surrounded. See above for comments on the rest of the skills. Never under any conditions take these skills
Healing Breeze is entirely useless for day-to-day monkery. It costs 10 energy, and potentially heals for 180 over 10 seconds. It's an enchantment which can be stripped or shattered. It is often said that Healing Breeze should be used to combat health degeneration. But it's far more efficient to remove the health degeneration due to conditions with Mend Condition, Mend Ailment or even Restore Condition{E} than to simply slow it down. If the degeneration is coming from hexes, then Inspired Hex and Blessed Light{E} again provide far more utility. Vigorous Spirit is cheaper, lasts longer, and provides a similar utility of healing over time. Mending is worse because it provides an illusion of utility when in fact it develops negative utility. +3 or +4 health regeneration isn't much at all, 6 or 8 health per second at the cost of 1 energy degeneration. Again, useless for day-to-day monkery. |
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Sep 27, 2006, 03:15 AM // 03:15
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Nov 2005
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ty for the info... it's gonna help lots of monk recruits (no sacasm intended)
agrees on the HB comment... though i have to say in some circumstances, terran offered degen is combated by HB very well (though heal party seems to do the trick too) and HB is a popular skill picked up by /mo |
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