Monk is a funny word

[carthage]

Still being rather new to Guild Wars hour-wise, my roleplay character (Carth Agean, R/Mo 18) isn't very advanced yet. I've started one other roleplay char, a Monk who is still pre-searing. I was wondering what sub you guys recommend for Monk (for future PVP), as I haven't gotten to try out all the classes yet.

[Sckoarn]

IMO,
It depends on the kind of Monk you are wanting to play.

As a healer Monk, I rarely use my second skill set. In fact never when I PvP.

For PvE, again I very rarely use my seconds.

Some that may be useful, war for the anti-knockdown, Ele for its Melee protection.

Im sure others have more ideas.

[McTucket]

i also have a lvl 15 monk... the secondary is a ranger... purely for the pet.

im fuckin around with it right now... but if my pet dies, i lose all ability to heal for 10 seconds....

so thats not looking so great for pvp, im prolly just gonna end up using strictly healer monk skills.

its fun though.

i would also go with an ele.... knockdown/interrupt skills are the tits.

i would also suggest a mesmer.....conjure phantasm does wonders.

[carthage]

Thanks,
I did some reading around the net, and sounds like War is apretty safe bet for the anti-knock.
I really just want to have a Monk for PVP because In other MMO's (Eq2, FFXI) I've played, no one really wants to be the healer. I figured it'd be nice if a guildie had one at the ready, allow people to switch it up a bit.
Can someone NOT choose a sub? I thought it was mandatory to advance the storyline past the searing.
Can I be stricly MONK?

[McTucket]

you have to pick a secondary, but you dont have to use any of the secondary skills..

thats pretty much what im going to be doing once i lvl 20 myself, and start pvping.

[Animal]

I really just want to have a Monk for PVP because In other MMO's (Eq2, FFXI) I've played, no one really wants to be the healer.
Thats usually because, no matter how good the person playing the healer actually is, everyone wants to bitch after the 1st wipe... some people bitch after 1 death.

[Sammie]

A pic of the Ritualist/Monk PVP player I created.
Definately like the Ritualist look but the PVP templetes were limiting.
I look forward to to creating a PVE Ritualist/Assasian

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/sammysmithazt/GNG/976b8893.jpg

Took a screenie of my other Characters as well since they are all sassy bitches! :p


My Necro/Monk

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/sammysmithazt/GNG/f7a27dbb.jpg


Warrior/Elementalist

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/sammysmithazt/GNG/91cd07b1.jpg


Necro/Elementalist

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/sammysmithazt/GNG/8b7835d3.jpg

[carthage]

Assasin has an Arcade flavor to it with those hit combos, but instead of S, S/E, E+Punch, it's more like 1,2,3,4,5 run away...
I had a a lot of fun playing around with sexy biatches in char creation, (Dual Weild Sai!) but sucked really hard in PvP.
Ten Minutes later, I had hopped on the band wagon, and had made a Carthage PVP (Still not 20 yet myself) so I could use my unlocked skills, and was pinning Ass.'ys and Ritualists in place and was destroying them with great fervor as a ranger (practically solo).
I managed to make 1000+ faction for my account in under half an hour In Random matches.
I plan on revisiting later tonight to destroy some of the new ready made builds and unlock at least a Sup Vigor for Carthage PvP.

Check out the comic I threw together (http://rofl.blogs.friendster.com).

[McTucket]

so what are the assasins and ritualists like?

[Sckoarn]

I played Ass/War template for couple hours. It is interresting. The shadow step, you get a burst of speed, so you can run in, and do your combos, and then teleport back to where you initiated the shadow step. Kind of an in, do damage and out.

The combo thing is like you have to use this skill only if you used another kind of skill before it. In the template there is a 4 key sequence. Seeing it go off, there is lots of damage, but it is in a spurt. Then damage is kind of ok, but not near the skills output. Each skill uses mana, which I had 25 of. Rarely did I run out of mana. The armor is that of a ranger at 80 points.

Depending on the class and the setup, many players droped to the onslaught of damage. It was really fun. Of course there were lots of players testing things out. The random areana was crazy.

[sylverarrow]

Nice Sammie. I should get a pic of my Ele/Nec... Started a Monk/Mes last night, made it over the wall as well, not sure if she is going to be a full healer or not. I kill like 5 players in the little intro PvP with one other guy. We had 2 henchmen and no healer... I ran through alot of Ascolon quests last night as well and this monk/mes is a good mix, I'm running through these quests like there is no tomorrow...

[Snk]

Nice Sammie. I should get a pic of my Ele/Nec... Started a Monk/Mes last night, made it over the wall as well, not sure if she is going to be a full healer or not. I kill like 5 players in the little intro PvP with one other guy. We had 2 henchmen and no healer... I ran through alot of Ascolon quests last night as well and this monk/mes is a good mix, I'm running through these quests like there is no tomorrow...

Wow Neb's Warrior/Monk looks just like Sammies Warrior :lol:

[Nebula]

yes it does...

twins..

same hair, color, ~size, and same armor... with no dye put on it...

oops...

I have a new Mo/Me that I am really enjoying. She is lvl 8 now, and already does an obscene amount of damage. (Yes, I know I am suppose to be healing, but conjure phantasm over and over is just too fun!!!)

Anyhow... soon you all will have another nice monk as part of the guild. I would like to get the GNG together for some PVP action, perhaps even Guild Battles... or whatever you want to call them.

Sammie - the ritualists seem bad ass. I was doing 'random arena' for a while, and I got hooked up with two Rit/Mo and a Ass/Wo. Along with my Wo/Mo.. we were unstoppable. We won about 13 consective wins... many of which were flawless victories. When we were done , our team was dumped in Team Arena... I guess we were doing too well for Random Arena. ...but to my point... the Rit/Mo (well, two of them) made our team almost invincible (thus all of the flawless victories)... I couldnt tell you what they were casting, but we were not getting hurt much at all.

[sylverarrow]

My Ele/Necro... she is a sexy bitch... :biggrin:

[MonkofDoom]

There is now..and only ever will be...one Monk!!

[Sckoarn]

We know it!!!

Where the Hell are you????