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The WoH Arena Monk is designed to cope with the current meta in arenas packing defense through /A skills, /W skills or /D skills while having prot abilities and big heals.
Attributes and Skills
<pvxbig> [build prof=Monk/x HealingPrayers=12+1+1 ProtectionPrayers=8+1 DivineFavor=10+1][Word of Healing][Patient Spirit][Guardian][Dismiss Condition][Spotless Mind][Holy Veil][Optional][optional][/build] </pvxbig>
- Shield Bash: Better against Sins and an easy defense option, but isn't that great against constant amounts of physical pressure.
- Shield Stance: A good, well rounded defense skill for long amounts of blocking. However, the movement reduction can hurt.
- Balanced Stance: Very useful anti knockdown and anti critical.
- Disciplined Stance: Provides armor as well as blocking, which also helps against unblockable attacks and spells.
- Bonetti's Defense: Energy management as well as 5 seconds of blocking that doesn't require extra attrbute spread.
- Dolyak Signet: For Ta consider using for a great anti-kd without any cost and +10 armor, but the movement reduction can hurt.
- Return: to shadowstep to allies and avoid melee.
- Dark Escape: for a great anti-spike as well as IMS.
- Armor of Sanctity: For quick panic button that prots and provides AoE weakness.
- Conviction: For use with Armor of Sanctity for a substantial armor boost.
Equipment
- Survivor's Insignias, with Runes of Vitae/Vigor
- A high set (a wand and focus with two 15/-1 mods).
- A 40/20% Protection staff.
- A 40/40 Heal Set.
- A spear with +5 energy, +30 hp and a +10 vs x shields.
Usage
- Preveil necessary targets (yourself, frontliners, etc)
- Heal with Word of Healing and Patient Spirit
- Use Guardian, Dismiss Condition, and Spotless Mind as necessary
- When under pressure, use your secondary skills to protect yourself eg:
- Shield Bash vs assassin chains.
- Shield Stance or Disciplined Stance vs melee to get Guardian up easily.
- Balanced Stance vs attackers with KD (Assassins and Hammer Warriors mostly).
- Dark Escape vs anything to reduce damage.
- Return vs any melee to snare them and get away.
Counters
- Standard anti-caster counters
- Anti-block skills, like Wild Blow and Rigor Mortis
Variants
- Replace Dismiss Condition with Vigorous Spirit if running with a Draw Conditions Smiter/Foul Feast Necromancer (very good in TA).
- Shield of Absorption for a small prot.
- Protective Spirit or Spirit Bond for a hard prot.
- Signet of Rejuvenation provides a nice free heal that works well against pressure.
- Vigorous Spirit for excellent anti-pressure and a cover enchantment for Holy Veil and Spotless Mind.
- Sprint in AB
- Feigned Neutrality: powerful spike repellant and minor self-heal.
- Augury of Death: Can assist hugely to a teams damage output especially if you have no physicals.
- Kinetic Armor: huge armor boost that can be easily maintained, but which is weak to enchantment removal.
- Glyph of Lesser Energy: if often paired with Kinetic Armor for energy management.
- Armor of Sanctity: Spammable weakness and damage negation; pairs well with Conviction.
- Conviction: dual-purpose mending/disciplined stance which can be maintained.
- Shield of Force: powerful anti-spike pre-prot - not as useful as Shield Bash, but recharges faster.
- Pious Concentration: great for dealing with pesky rangers.
- Signet of Pious Light: useful for getting the most out of an enchantment which is about to end.
- Vow of Piety: a useful stance that can be easily maintained.