User:Rising Dusk/MonkSuggestionBox

 = Skill Suggestions = The following suggestions are skills for a Monk as I think they should be. I've carefully thought about the interactive elements of each edit I'm proposing, though I by no means claim to have them perfectly balanced, especially for the PvP environment. If anything, the balance is loose and you should look more at 'how' the skills function as opposed to their exact numbers.

Protection Prayers

 * Amity:
 * - - Elite Enchantment Spell. For  seconds, party members have a % chance to block. Block effect: You lose  energy or this enchantment ends on all party members.
 * So you're probably thinking "This is Aegis on crack!" and I won't lie, it is. I added the energy loss block effect because this can give party members a >50% chance to block and it helps a lot with keeping this fair for PvP. I am actually surprised ANet didn't do this for Aegis instead of just giving up on it.
 * Massively useful for PvE where Protection monks really want to protect their allies. Can be stacked back-to-back with Aegis for serious blocking potential, at the cost of pretty much the Monk's entire energy pool.
 * The energy loss hits 2 cost per block at 12 Protection Prayers, which makes this very unfavorable to use by non-Monk primaries.


 * Mark of Protection:
 * - - Elite Enchantment Spell. For ...  ... You ...

Smiting Prayers

 * Balthazar's Pendulum:
 * - - Elite Enchantment Spell. For  seconds, the next time target ally would be knocked down by a foe, that foe is knocked down instead and takes  holy damage.
 * This has the same functionality as the original, but with added holy damage to really punish the source of the knockdown.
 * The damage is really important to make this skill worth the elite and worth using over "Brace Yourself!" or Aura of Stability.
 * The damage is the same as Smite Condition's, which makes sense given the cooldown, conditional requirement, and elite status of the spell.


 * Banish:
 * - - Elite Enchantment Spell. For ...  ... You ...


 * Defender's Zeal:
 * - - Elite Spell. You gain % of target ally's current health as energy.
 * Complete functionality change, while keeping with the theme of preserving energy by some means.
 * The previous incantation of this spell is terrible because ultimately you don't want to be recasting hexes and you don't want the enemy to constantly be hitting you (unless farming). This inhibited its general value, especially considering that its use when farming is limited anyway because there are other preferred elite skills.
 * This version allows you to use allies as a continual source of energy so long as they're healthy. A 500HP ally will provide a return of 20 energy, which is amazing on a 15 second reload, though not totally reliable.


 * Signet of Mystic Wrath:
 * - - Elite Enchantment Spell. For ...  ... You ...


 * Word of Censure:
 * - - Elite Spell. Deals  holy damage. If your target was below 33% Health, this spell takes an additional 10 seconds to recharge.
 * (PvP) - - Elite Spell. Deals  holy damage. If your target was below 33% Health, this spell takes an additional 15 seconds to recharge.
 * This skill is terrible in its current form. It's too energy inefficient, doesn't deal enough holy damage, and can't finish off a weakened foe.
 * This version of the skill has a 5 energy cost with reduced damage and no base recharge. In this light, you truly can spam this to your heart's content until the target hits 33% health.
 * The additional recharge time was reduced to 10 in this version so that it's actually usable and not totally removed from play if you do cast it on a foe under 33% health.
 * PvP form has an increased cast time to facilitate its interruption and an increased conditional recharge to further punish the caster if they use it on an enemy under 33% health.

Divine Favor

 * Blessed Light:
 * - - Elite Spell. Heal target ally for  Health and remove one hex and one condition. You gain 5 energy if both a hex and a condition are removed.


 * Healer's Covenant:
 * - - Elite Enchantment Spell. For  seconds, Healing Prayers spells cost  less Energy, but heal for 25% less health.
 * Moved from Healing Prayers to only allow primary Monks to use it, even though secondary Monks can use it if they can keep recasting it.
 * Gave it the Healer's Boon treatment, which makes it not stressing to a Monk's energy when used. That it's maintained right now is one of the biggest contributing factors to it not being a useful skill.


 * Scribe's Insight:
 * - - Elite Skill. For 12 seconds, signets you use that target a foe deal  holy damage to that target.
 * This skill in its current form is pretty useless since if you're using signets, you really don't have energy issues in the first place.
 * Adds holy damage to signets, which makes it very favorable to use with Smiting Prayers signets such as Bane Signet, Signet of Mystic Wrath, and Castigation Signet.
 * Has a short reload time and relatively short duration so that you constantly have to reuse it, which costs more net energy over the course of a battle and makes it more vulnerable to skills like Diversion.
 * Costs 10 energy over 5 energy because its effect is so powerful. It


 * Withdraw Hexes:
 * - - Elite Spell. Remove all hexes from target ally. All party members have those same hexes removed as well. Removal cost: + seconds recharge for each hex removed.
 * This is extraordinarily useful against pressure hexes that are applied to many members of your team, as it removes them all in one skill.
 * It really needs 10 energy instead of 15 to be worth using, even with this powerful effect.
 * Requires massive Divine Favor investment in order to cut the recharge substantially, and even at 12 Divine Favor can be disabled for a good half minute if it removes several hexes.
 * Because of the party-wide effect of the skill as I've suggested it, this may actually see use over something like Divert Hexes.