My Healing Monk (please fix

I think rez signet is probably better since it's fast. For a monk, other forms of rez are bad because they take too long to cast. Warriors should carry restore life or resurrect because they have good armor and health.

One thing I don't quite understand is bonneti's defense. You are a monk so you shouldn't fight, but how would you get adrenaline for the bonneti defense?

Perhaps you should replace it with hex breaker and change your secondary to mesmer. That way, you can cast it on yourself to prevent backfire, but you will also be able to cast spell breaker on another ally. So you should just dump all the skill points in tactics to inspiration.

Niahmas: Heh, you posted right before me so what I said about rez signet is unnecessary :P I beg of you, don't try to generalize all monks into mesmer second profs... you can still be an absurdly good monk without going mesmer. instead of bonettis, since yes, you would have to attack to get the adrenaline, therefore not really healing, i would advise you take balanced stance. it's MUCh more better. you will be more annoyed by knockdowns than by alittle swordy on your ass. And it's always advisable to switch your elites around to coincide with the other monks in the group. so dont ALWAYS run spelbreaker, sometimes you would need to run word of healing, or even martyr. also, a good skill to take sometimes as a warrior secondary is shields up. good for protecting youself, and your allies against pesky damage spamming ranger teams. you could switch the bonettis defense for another stance of defense, like defensive stance ;p, it all works. because even though hex breaker is good, i dont see it good on a monk. because if a mesmer is on you, it will be laying down WAY more than one little backfire on you. and he will obviously notice if his backfire didnt get to you. so he will concentrate on you, and you will have to spend alot of energy, (5 energy every5 seconds i think) just to keep SOME of his hexes off you. better to just call in an air strike with your party members on the mesmer. since they are high priority anyway.

I beg of you, don't try to generalize all monks into mesmer second profs... I did not generalize all monks into mesmer secondary profession. I said it was a good idea, but it does not mean that it is the only way. Balanced stance is good, but hex breaker IMO is better. Why? Yes knockdown is annoying, but not being able to cast any spell for 10 seconds is worse. Balanced stance can only help you against Knockdown based builds, but Hex breaker can neutralize many necro and mesmer builds.

Also one thing I do not understand is why are people always trying to do something different. Mo/Me is good and that is why I use them. So what if a lot of people are using it? I like it and I use it not because it is popular, but because it is effective.

because even though hex breaker is good, i dont see it good on a monk. because if a mesmer is on you, it will be laying down WAY more than one little backfire on you. and he will obviously notice if his backfire didnt get to you. so he will concentrate on you, and you will have to spend alot of energy, (5 energy every5 seconds i think) just to keep SOME of his hexes off you. better to just call in an air strike with your party members on the mesmer. since they are high priority anyway. maybe your should listen to yourself for a sec and ask yourself a few questions. what's the first spell a mes is going to cast on you? black out or backfire will be the first volley almost every single time. they need to negate your healing. black out reduces you to dead weight and they can recast it before the duration wears off. unless you have some one else in your party with hex removal your screwed. backfire negates your healing yourself making you easier to kill and negates your healing at the same time.

hex breaker will keep these off of you because the first hex cast on you will be the most important one.

other thing is to compare the recharge rate of hex removal and the (main weakness of mesmers) recharge rates of their hexes. they are almost the same. so after you break the first one then remove the other ones you can have breaker back on you to counter the rest that will come.

i think hex breaker is THE most important spell for healer monks and is a must. i haven't seen any other hex prevention other than natures renewal that compares to breaker.

maybe your should listen to yourself for a sec and ask yourself a few questions. what's the first spell a mes is going to cast on you? black out or backfire will be the first volley almost every single time. they need to negate your healing. black out reduces you to dead weight and they can recast it before the duration wears off. unless you have some one else in your party with hex removal your screwed. backfire negates your healing yourself making you easier to kill and negates your healing at the same time. That is totally crap. My monk can easily overcome backfires damage with just orison. I cast protective spirit on myself and take only 42 dmg / cast whatever level mesmers domination is. Orison heals about 100. So it really doesnt affect much of my healing capabilities unless i'm attacked by lots of enemies. I could say backfire acts like defile flesh or similiar spells by reducing selfhealing.

And about bonettis defence. I always use monk/warrior in arenas and always have bonetti's with me. You can easily gain enough adrenaline by shooting whatever is near you. Although you gain it slowly, but eventually bonetti's is ready for use. I usually use it when warrior comes to hit me and i am low on energy. It's always nice to have quickly 15-30 energy back for free