Curse

jimmyboveto · Oct 06, 2007, 04:01 AM // 04:01

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Originally Posted by Bleed Me An Ocean

What I hate is it when you miss a spike and everyone on vent is like 'OMG!! DUDE!! WTF??? INFUSE MAN!!!'

as if were the easiest thing to do.

That's why you always play with friends

I don't usually play monk in HA, but when i do, i often have troubles with the spikes. It seems like that the hardest spikes to catch arent' that deadly in the long run, however. Most have longer recharges and such, and give your team more time to recover.

ksalanpang · Oct 17, 2007, 06:49 PM // 18:49

I haven't seen a clean spike that goes "boom" like rit spike for a while. Closest clean spike would be rainbow or ranger spike. Mostly of the time is foreseeable. Like the regular melee without shadow step. Those can be preprotted or even postprotted if spike power isn't that high.

Infuse is really for bspike and well-timed rit spikes in terms of saving ppl from spikes. I see people push infuse whenever he/she see red bar goes down suddenly (not even below 40%). I personally don't it's a good way to use infuse and also a bad way to spend energy on your party members. I tend to infuse when ally's red bar is 10%, exceptional would be well-timed rit spike. It's basically a must cast if the spike is clean. Coordination between the heal and prot monk has to be good too. If prot monk is low on energy, heal monk has to take an active roll when energy is allowed. Usually what I see heal monk is, they're just doing most of the touch ups; more of a passive role compare to prot monk.

You can't really rely on someone yelling on vent to prevent a spike. Some of you have already pointed out. Watch what the enemies are doing/going. React to their every movement accordingly based on your experience. Vent lag can kill your entire team if you just listen to people say things and watch hp bars. But things like incoming diversion/shame..etc would be helpful if vent lag isn't that huge. Imagine your partner monk say diversion on 6, and you have to get it removed. Vent lag makes the entire process much longer. Your partner monk goes NVM it's fading!!. LOL.

Like Baba Ging said, always keep tabbing/clicking ppl to see what enemies doing. That makes my monking so much easier. Have that being said, what i do as a monk facing rainbow spike teams (ranger, some eles, some casters); all i do is to tab, tab, tab. I remember one guy that pug with our guild not long ago said watch their caller, that's when you should pre/post prot the spike. I go LOL. NO, Never watch the ranger when there's eles running around with 2 sec cast spike spells. You watch the eles, k. Well I assume that some of you guys know that, but that's something that's from my experience. Not because someone told me to do this and that.

Good way to improve is to play more in high quality pvp. I'm still at the low/medi-core lvl. Still much to learn if I'm still playing competitively.

All of the above are based on my experience. No one have ever hooked me up with any high quality pvp. That's the only sad part in my entire gw career ..

auch · Oct 17, 2007, 07:20 PM // 19:20

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Originally Posted by Bleed Me An Ocean

Whats your strategy? Of course 90% of us here use infuse, but how the hell do you catch a spike? It takes half a second to react plus the 1/4 from the infuse. And thse spikes are sometimes so fast you can blink and miss it. What the hell.

first of all if u got a good prot he'd see whos getting spiked at most cases so and also u should have something pressuring the spikers vs for example ranger spike

Tab · Oct 17, 2007, 07:24 PM // 19:24

The best way to catch a spike is to preprot it, normally with SoD or SB. The only cases where you will definately need an Infuse are bspikes really.
As for catching a spike with Infuse, it relies on the spike being badly times as much as it relies on the Infuse monk themselves.

XiaoTheBlade · Oct 20, 2007, 01:02 AM // 01:02

Paraspike hurts.