Curse

ayame ftw · Dec 19, 2006, 10:43 AM // 10:43

Words of Comfort
Dwayna's Kiss
Ethereal Light
Word of healing
Healing seed
Heal party
insp hex

Rebirth

when we have a bonder:
Words of Comfort
Dwayna's Kiss
Healing Light
Heal other
insp hex
Healing seed
Heal party

olly123 · Dec 19, 2006, 05:07 PM // 17:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by ayame ftw

Words of Comfort
Dwayna's Kiss
Ethereal Light
Word of healing
Healing seed
Heal party
insp hex

Rebirth

when we have a bonder:
Words of Comfort
Dwayna's Kiss
Healing Light
Heal other
insp hex
Healing seed
Heal party

u say heal party and healing seed, but i prefer for one monk to take one , and i take the other, as having 2 15e spells on one bar can be a bigger bummer with energy, and ur only e management is inspire hex, so id remove one of them and add in healing whisper, i know it brings u close to the mob, but with the new AI update, the mob normally goes after the casters any way.

to effigy, im use to pve, more than PVP, tho i have started in PVP, and in pug teams, its hard as nails to find 2 good monks, who don’t steep on each others toes, so unless ur in a guild team/ got 2 superb monks, i find 2 protects not as good as 1 of each ( unless u get monk 1 to protect 4 and monk 2 to protect the other 4)

tweedledumb · Dec 20, 2006, 12:40 AM // 00:40

Thanks for the input everyone... Geekling made some rather astute observations in particular. I think half of my problem is itchy fingers on the heal button. I am going to work on my build a little bit, but also keep my poor little monk away from pugs.

Thanks again.

Ensign · Dec 20, 2006, 10:08 AM // 10:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by gobla

What's so bad about orison?

Answered in the post above yours:

Quote:

Originally Posted by geekling

To me, that reads as a clear indication that you are suffering from what I like to call itchy fingers as a monk. What this means is that you want to keep everyone at 100% health 100% of the time. This tends to lead to overhealing - basically wasting your energy and thus probably having problems of running out of energy if a fight drags out. Add that to the PUG situation where there is usually no time to rest and recoup that energy between fights - with some PUGs more or less the whole thing is one long dragged out fight.

I will admit at this point that I am a recovering itchy fingers monk myself. Not healing unless really needed can be one of the hardest lessons to learn when it comes to monking.

Orison is a weak skill that almost always reinforces the bad behavior described above.

Peace,
-CxE

geekling · Dec 20, 2006, 12:18 PM // 12:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by tweedledumb

but also keep my poor little monk away from pugs.

Please don't!

Monking for PUGs are great fun, once you get into the groove of it.

Nothing is quite like the feeling of having kept a group of Leroy Jenkins clones alive through a mission inspite of all their tries to commit sucide. It's the second best thing in the game in regards to PUGs.

And of course there are a lot of good PUGs out there, ones that don't turn it into a player vs. player thing (Player of Leroy Jenkins clones trying very hard to die vs. player of monks trying to beat them at their game by keeping them alive. :P ) When you find them, and you will... Well, I mentioned the second best thing, this is what beats it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ensign

Orison is a weak skill that almost always reinforces the bad behavior described above.

Light of Deliverance on the other hand is great in helping that recovery from having itchy fingers.
Waiting for a few players to go below 80% is doable, it's not so hard. Eventually you get used to seeing red bars in the party window that are not full without getting the urge to do something about it, NOW! - Well then, you're half way there on the path of recovery.