Noobish Healing the Kravan Way.

[kevx3]

I'm in the comp. room in uni and im bored and I'm surprised that smeg, moo or even edem have not placed their own hint's and tips yet. so ill start.

What I'll be covering is my own personal Tips to keeping you over zealous teammates alive and well. First I'll tell you were I got my flash of inspiration:

During my first days of PvPing in the arenas (ahh level 10 PvPing is so simple) after losing a few games with some guy (forgot his name) I get asked do you want so helpful healing monk tips. I say "sure im a bit new at this stuff" The next thing he said was

"HEALING SPELLS ARE CRAP" The colours not right but the caps were

Then he goes on to explain than although healing monks are great protective spells are so much better, and seeing the skills and whatnot I would have to agree... for pure HP to energy efficiency protection spells are just much better BUT like all things guildwars theres a time and place for different spells.

So here is the way I play as a pure healer with noobish skills (like me).

1. Reversal of Fortune

I have to say my most favourite healing spell ever. Cheap, efficent and can save someones life at the last minute to get another more powerful spell out. Combined with max divine favour and protection this can be a bane for any attacker.

Heres why: (max Divine, Protect)
Healing from divine = 38
Healing from attacker = 67 (i think)
Damge negated = 67

So technically your healing your ally for 172 points of damage for a measly 5 enegery, with a 2 sec recharge you can spam away . Add divine boon and you can make this 233 for 7 engery (although with -1 regen)

2. Sheilding Hands

Another great one reduce the damage of all incoming damage by 15 points of HP. If the enemy is power glopping one of your teammates slap this on them. Lets assume theres 4 enemies each attacking every 2 seconds (very slow i know). Thats equivalent to 300 HP with only 5 energy.

Nice I know but careful with it the recharge is huge. Pick your targets carefully.

3. Mend Ailment

Ahh this is so nice to use against a ranger who does love his condition affecting shots. How many conditions can a single ranger put on you? Poison, Cripple, Bleeding and some times blindness.

with each condition it just makes this more powerful. It might be slow to remove the conditions on the person but at least they can survive long enough for your other team mates to counter attack. again very cheap and recharge quick so spam away.

The elite restore condition (personally i have not gotten yet) but its quite a waste of an elite slot. it nearly has the same effect as mend ailment. Its better but theres other elites more useful out there .

4. Pacifism (only in a 4 on 4 PvP, anywhere else I found it useless)

ahh if your on the bad end of foreign cursing you know this skill is working . If there was a well balanced team of monk, ranger, warrior, mage. this spell can make that a nice 3 on 4 fight. slap this on their ranger (make sure its not a spellcaster secondary or else this might not be so effective) and then watch them run around aimlessly.

taking a ranger or warrior out of the battle for 14 seconds gives you a very nice window for your team to kill the monk or mage. Although be careful tell your teammates you are using this skill with the nice ctrl+click trick or else your nice 30 seconds recharge skill will be for nought.

5. Divine Boon

ahh for the cost of 2 energy and 1 regen you can heal for 61 more points of HP. you think not much but if your using reversal at the right times the regen is not that bad. and combined with...

6. Divine Spirit

makes an excellent emergency heal spam combo. slap on these two skills and many of your protection spells cost only 3 energy instead of 7.

7. Some type of ress

Currently I use ressurect because i have no others but put in one that you like.

8. Some other spell you like

because I've been mostly in Kryta (damn those mesmer gargolyes) i use this slot for Dwaynas Kiss.

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I have to say though this aint the most .... active builds you'll be staying in the back always pressing your reversal of fortune button or in emergencies active the heal spam combo and continue. You may keep your teammates alive (most of the time) but i got bored with this build, Hell its a brilliant healer though and in PvP I still use it. PvE I use something else now , thank god for Alesia.

I may make a full explaination of all the monk skills some time in the future when im not so much of a nubblet but for now heres my contribution to you wannabe monks.

[Sir Smeg]

That's a fairly similar skillset to Reg's 'I'm the only monk in the vill...party' set. Just a few minor alterations:

Protective spirit. I can't sing the praises of this one enough. It may cost ten energy and only target one ally, but it lasts so long! Any ally coated in this charm can never take more than 10% damage... worst case scenario (A tank with lotsa HP) the loss will be around the low 50s. For 19 seconds or more, this ain't too shabby, especially if you're fighting lots of elementalists with meteor storms and thunderbolts. As an added bonus, this skill is by far the best way to keep those with a high death penalty alive, since they can never lose their entire HP bar in one shot.

Restore condition IS a fine elite spell, based on it's amazingly quick recharge and complete removal of all negative conditions, healing as it goes. I'm not going to quote numbers here, but a typical heal with this skill supercedes that of the classic 'orizon of healing' for the same price and time. That and the ally becomes completely combat effective once more. Vital for frontliners.

Aegis: for when your entire party faces a tough situation and you need to buy yourself a little more time to heal/protect them. It may cost 15 energy and recharge slowly, but it's perfect for situations where your party is infiltrated by physical attackers such as warriors, assassins or rangers. These classes can only hit with half of their attacks, so you get a little bit of breathing room to attend to whichever of your allies is most in need of the personal touch.

Divine intervention. A new one I'm still playing with, this skill requires timing. For ten seconds, if your protectee recieves a blow which would kill them, they are healed for an insane amount of health. This is not a skill to spam -it recharges slowly - but if used correctly could be the final savior of an ally who has been jumped by monsters before you could cover them with your full thingytail of protections.

Resurrection: Rebirth. There can be no other. It may not return a lot of HP. It may disable your target for a few seconds after rising, but this skill allows you to literally snatch an ally's body from under the noses of their temporarily triumphant enemy. 'Nuff said.

NB: Coming soon! Reggie's guide to protecto-smiting!