Monks on Strike

[KingOfPain]

Massive Monks on Strike in THK!!




Expect the strike to spill into ToA where it counts...

I have to go to work, expect a full report from Drasca or Foxbat...


KoP

[Havral]

Heh, kinda reminds me of a (much) smaller incident that happened in Thirsty River. Monks were laying down tools and crowding into one small area to dance in.

[Lurker Wyrm]

Monk strikes of various kinds have been happening for as long as the game has been around. And they'll continue to happen as long as the game persists. People expect us to make them immortal and when that doesn't happen they give us grief about it. And it's usually their fault, either by overaggroing, running well out of heal range, using terrible/ineffective positioning, etc.. Unfortunately, there are some people who just can't heal who do so anyway, and that's not good for monks in general.

[WarBlade]

Unfortunately, there are some people who just can't heal who do so anyway, and that's not good for monks in general.

The clear cut case example of which would have to be the "healing monk" who joined a PuG I hooked up with when trying to get Ragnar through Thirsty.

Monk: "Wars don't run ahead!!!" (Priest was getting ignored at 1:30 by then)

Ele: "We're getting shot to pieces out here!"

etc.

I copped a LOT of abuse after the failed run, mostly from an Elementalist I think. I ignored it and pressed on with my curiousity question of what heals the monk was using...

Healing Touch, Orison of Healing, Dwayna's Kiss and Heal Area.

The other Warrior promptly ducked out of the group and I bailed a couple of seconds later.

[Green_Gloom]

I ignored it and pressed on with my curiousity question of what heals the monk was using...

Healing Touch, Orison of Healing, Dwayna's Kiss and Heal Area.

Orison & Dwayna should be more than enough if the Monk has a few Protection enchantments and possibly Breeze. I got through the Desert missions using only Orison, Dwayna & Breeze as heals on Cheddar. Of course, if the Monk didn't carry any enchants himself...

On the other hand, Healing Touch is mostly a self heal and Heal Area can cause more trouble than it fixes.

[Lurker Wyrm]

I really get annoyed with myself if I hit Healing Touch while targeted on someone other than myself.

Heal Area can be useful in situations where you'll be facing a lot of ranged attackers that are going after your backliners. Although I still remember stories of wammos using it to self-heal while they melee enemies.

[Cyrene]

Kiss is nice if you have enough invested in Prayers or are running Boon. It spams well with orision.


I'm guilty of running with Heal Area on my bar, but I'm carrying it primarily for the obscene range. Tis also good for my laziness.

I have run 8 zillion runs on Thirsty River. I like to monk for PuG's when I'm bored, and I always go to either Thirsty River ot FoW to do it. My Thirsty runs got a lot better after I learned to give "the speach". "OK everyone, there is only one hero here, and it is (tank). I WILL keep (tank) alive. I'll help the rest of you out as I can, but anytime you are getting hurt, it is your job to stop it. Run away, or self-heal." That works about 60% of the time

80% of the time, the jerk is an El. I can hold them early, because I don't need the mana for anyone else. But do my warnings do any good? (Dude, you need to stay away form aggro, I can't hold you like that). No. Heh.

It is a lot easier in FoW, where more idiots have been filtered out, and where we have a couple of monks, so the other one can do the "twitch heals" and I can keep the main tank up and do the major heals.

But man, I feel the striking Monk's pain

Hey, the only reason I made T is because my main got to Thirsty River and the Monks were mostly non-existent and the rest were mostly useless

--Cy

[Havral]

"OK everyone, there is only one hero here, and it is (tank). I WILL keep (tank) alive. I'll help the rest of you out as I can, but anytime you are getting hurt, it is your job to stop it. Run away, or self-heal." That works about 60% of the time
--Cy

Me tank. Me soak up damage and smash uglies good.

Grah.