One last time - Solo Mo's have not been nerfed.

Agreed... still works as a monk protector placed by a W/Mo on a teams Mo.

So, its fine for a w/mo to not be good and your combination to be better than any others?

Wow, class act there my friend.

allowing your monk to take 6 hits(MAX) before it completely drains you of all your energy and drops....ya, that's super useful. let me waste a slot on my skillbar for that phenomenal skill. For that matter why don't I just leave my other 7 slots empty.

Phades: Salja doesn't play a 105 build monk...what he was saying is that Sonya was griefing because she was pissed off that her WaMo wasn't the most effective farmer anymore.

Everyone was making such a big deal over nerfing the monks... it's funny... it's only because it was the "well known" class that could, and still can solo underworld...

Just a clue for all you brain dead people out there. You can solo underworld without even having "Mo" with in your character. Grow some balls and test some things out... there are better builds that take alot less effort...

I've solo'd with my earth elementalist(although i dont do the "mesmer" spawning quest) *shux what a loss... lol*, and have a build being made to solo it with a ranger... no reason to state anything further then that... use your imagination.

After the ranger, comes my solo necro character (Could get tricky, might need the "mo" secondary for that one)

E/mo = compensated by energy storage and ether renewal.
N/mo = compensated by Offering of Blood/soul reaping
W/mo = compensated by stances which evade attacks.
Me/mo = compensated by inspiration line energy management skills.
R/mo = compensated by evasion stances, expertise, or marks' wager.

Any questions?

I still don't think WaMos could effectively hold up a prot bond...and I never said anything about other classes...I still think there are better skills to put in your skill bar that would benefit yourself and your monk far better than carrying around protective bond as a monk secondary....The monk has PLENTY of other skills they can use that do far more than protective bond does now.

W/Mo's can easily maintain a prot bond with evasion stances or energy management stances like bonetti's. If you're playing a character strong in stamina and energy renewal, then prot bond outshines all the other self-preservation skills. Can you tailor a build around prot bond? No. Can you tailor prot bond so it complements your build? Most definitely.

Well you could have a second player named "Bladed Aatax" who dropped a glob of...


No? Haha, guess not

This will only really affect those who can't design a build, my first new re-design worked just fine. Just need to be a little more careful and the bars move around a bit more, but it still works. With some more tweaking it will be no different than before, plus my stock of ectos will probably double or triple in value. Already went to 11K ea. in half an hour. Plus, all the gold storm bows and eternal shields, etc. will be instantly worth double.

From what I hear, all you have to do is use a 55 and replace Protective Bond with Protective Spirit, and make sure to use Bonettis. Now why doesn't everyone just swap out that one skill, or use that one extra item, and continute on thier merry way soloing the hardest area in the game (meant to be a challenge for teams of 8) by using a cute trick they found on the internet. Then after it gets nerfed for real, maybe people that don't feel like using their PVP character slot, grinding a primary monk character to 20, buying a ton of expensive runes, then repetitivly abusing a combination of skills will be on equal footing with the rest.

Personally I´m not pissed about the fact the normal 55/105 build is nerfed (coz I use a different build). The thing that bothers me is the fact that this nerf WAS a direct strike against the farmers. PB is totally useless now. Imagine you put PB on a mate in PVP, that will give you -3 nrg each time he gets hit (unless you fire up Balthasar Spirit or the other one). That means you will have a VERY hard time to do something else than trying to hold PB active. Lets say your monk has 50 nrg. That means your mate can get hit 17 times, then you are out of energy. With a smiting opponent no problem to make these hits in a few seconds. Now what ? Spend one protector just for ONE other player ? No, you just drop PB from your skill bar. The the only reason for nerfing that skill can be the 55/105 build. But if Anet says something different....well....it sounds not very serious....

And what makes you think that, I already know about Protective Spirt and have already started the move to change it also, cast time cost more energy, stuff like that. Removing the -50hp quest icon. Heh, another nerf is coming, this one did, what makes you think it will stop there? hahahaha muahahahahah.

Prot bond IS NOT useless. THERE IS a certain thing called energy management. Prot bond will NOT work vs. sustained dps. Prot bond WILL work against adren/light/SoJ spikes.

Prot spirit does not last long enough as it is to need a nerf. Now the -50hp quest item? Fine, take that. I got 2 -70hp icons in FoW in one night. (Too bad I didn't think about marketing them to folks making Invincimonks. I'd have made a fortune, lol!)

well pretective spirit work same with only 10 energy ...

pics or its a lie

if you are to replace PB with PS.. the only bad thing i could think off is that once PS ends and you try to recast it and gets interrupt.. you're screwed..
of course, there is a way to prevent the interruption...

you wont have massive nrg problems, so can even "spam" PS (fire up zealots be4). Since you get the +2 nrg each hit + the +5 from bonetti´s, you basicly have full nrg all the time.

Mo/W with 55 build is still very viable for solo'ing UW. I already made mine to be able to. Pretty easily...just find out how yourself.

To save everyone from guessing (and to protect my rune investment)

Swap Essence Bond with Watchful Spirit
Swap Prot Bond with Prot Spirit.

For the win.