Question on certain monk skills

First, in many builds, why is [skill]Dismiss Condition[/skill] usually used over [skill]Mend Condition[/skill]? Is it because the monk cannot use Mend Condition on himself? If that is the case, if you have a secondary healer that can also remove conditions, would the clear choice be Mend Condition?

Second, I am not quite too sure on how heroes use [skill]Holy Veil[/skill]. With the -1 energy regen, this skill looks a bit unappealing. Why not use [skill]Remove Hex[/skill] instead?

~thanks

I tend to use dismiss because it a) self targets, and b) has an easily fulfilled healing conditional.

In pve I tend to use remove hex more, while in pvp I prefer to use holy veil... preveil then remove the undesirable hex before it gets covered.

Heroes do not preveil but when they cast it it is instantly removed. In PvE there is very few advantages to bringing it over, say, smite hex, except if you manually disable/preveil/re-enable it on your heroe bar

Agree to both above. See the "Looking for a healer hero build" for a rather overblown arguement on the merits of [[Dismiss Condition] over [[Mend Condition] and visa versa.

I do not advise giving a monk hero a quick recharge condition removal (Only thing I'd advise is spotless soul). In almost any area you're going to be fighting mobs that spam conditions. While things like a blind/daze are worth removing others are more than likely easily spammed by mobs depending on the skill. Your monk is just going to run out of energy spending 5e to remove a bleed, cripple, poison that is just going to be reapplied in a few seconds. On my heroes I leave the condition removal to a necro who can removal all conditions from a target while healing himself and getting energy. As I said if you want condition removal on a monk take spotless soul unless you are up against mobs that don't spam conditions in which case the short recharge removals are fine.

I'll throw [[Foul Feast](again), [[extinguish], and [[cure hex] into the mix for you if you have EotN or Factions. Necros do well with FF and the other two have done well for some areas that warrant their use.