One of the worst things about being a monk healer/protter/hybrid is e-management. IMO, monks have the worst e-management in Guild Wars. When playing a Ritualist or (lol) Necromancer/Ritualist healer/protter, I never feel as if I'm constantly starving, or about to starve for energy. Even when I'm not starving for energy, there's still this energy-paranoia that I don't feel when playing non-monk healers.
Of course I have a Zealous Benediction and Word of Healing bar (or two, or three), but then, every monk does. ;) However, Zealous Benediction encourages you to wait until your target's almost dead for optimal use, and for reasons of latency, poor reaction time, bad luck, or a combination of all three, this often results in either a target that's too dead for optimal use, or not dead enough.
Word of Healing bars, which tend to be hybrid bars, lack a certain synergy within the bars themselves. They try to cover all bases, which they do to some extent, but at the same time end up covering none of them particularly well.
All that, and I just like tinkering. So - enter the Air of Enchantment Prot-Infuser.
An almost pure Protection build based around Air of Enchantment, it lets you spam Reversal of Fortune as often as you like on a single target, for only 1e per cast. Use Infuse Health to catch spikes / when your target is below 25% hp, then Watchful Healing on yourself to regain the hp lost. The +3 regen from Watchful Healing lets you continue to spam-prot your target, and if it gets stripped early by a siege turtle, no worries - you get healed for +90hp - win/win situation. Mighty Was Vorizun in tandem with correctly used Air of Enchantment and Reversal of Fortune means you should always have the energy to Infuse Health, all while giving you a passive +15 armor. What's more, the recharge for Air of Enchantment is shorter than the duration - meaning you can renew Air of Enchantment on a target for only 1e. Plus, if you have any other healers with you at all who use enchants, they'll love you. Even if they don't realise why. ;)
And to top it all off, this build, used wisely, can hold a gate against a siege turtle by itself.
Fort Aspenwood (Kurzick) Air of Enchantment Prot-Infuser
Skills
Air of Enchantment {Elite}
Reversal of Fortune
Guardian
Infuse Health
Mighty Was Vorizun
Deny Hexes
Dismiss Condition
Watchful Healing
Stats
Protection Prayers [11] + [4]
Divine Favour [10] + [1]
Communing [10]
Gear
- Superior Protection Prayers Rune
- Minor Divine Favour Rune
- Survivor Insignia
- Superior vigor rune
- Vitae runes to finish off
- Any sword/spear/axe + shield with hp or energy mods
Campaigns Needed
Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall
How to Use
- Cast Mighty Was Vorizun, renew it before it runs out. This build should not have energy problems - what Mighty Was Vorizun does is give you just that little extra energy pool to use infuse as and when you need it. If facing e-denial, switch to low-e set, and do NOT use Mighty Was Vorizun. You can also cast Mighty Was Vorizun when you need an extra hit of energy.
- Reversal of Fortune as mini-prot for minor damage
- Guardian on targets taking consistent physical damage
- Infuse Health to catch spikes, then Watchful Healing on yourself to recover hp. Watchful Healing has the additional benefit of healing you for +90hp if a siege turtle strips it from you before it's done.
- Deny Hexes to remove hexes from yourself, or target. Deny hexes is great against hex stacks - it counts *itself* as a recharging Divine Favour spell, which means it removes at least 2 hexes, 3 if you have Watchful Healing on cooldown
- Dismiss Condition to dismiss pesky conditions - also packs a decent heal, because it's a prot build
- Air of Enchantment on any target you'll be protting consistently. Air of Enchantment allows you to spam Reversal of Fortune for just 1e. Additionally, Air of Enchantment recharges faster than its duration - meaning that if you overwrite an old Air of Enchantment with a new one, it costs only 1e. Stack Guardian on top (i.e. Air of Enchantment > Reversal of Fortune > Guardian) if a turtle is around - this should allow you to continue spamming Reversal of Fortune to your heart's content, while being able to renew Air of Enchantment as and when you need to renew it
Variants
- None There's nothing on this bar I would drop or change. I've tried this with Patient Spirit instead of Infuse Health, but that requires too much investment in Healing Prayers, which the stat point spread doesn't allow for. Mighty was Vorizun is there so that when the time comes to use Infuse Health, you have the energy to do so. One of the original versions of this build had 10 Healing Prayers, no Communing, and Patient Spirit in place of Infuse Health, and Healing Breeze in place of Watchful Healing. The result was much more inefficient.. Healing Breeze is ONLY efficient if Air of Enchantment goes on first - and very often, I'd find myself using it even alone out of desperation, and then having low energy. Patient Spirit heals for a good bit, but it isn't fast enough to reverse a spike, and shouldn't *be* used to reverse a spike, anyway.
Counters
- General Caster Hate
- Not stacking enchants on top of Air of Enchantment
- Party-wide damage - this build is strictly single-target protting. If for some bizarre reason you have huge party-wide damage in FA, this build will not be able to handle it
- Heavy pressure on you - Air of Enchantment cannot target self - this means that you are more defenceless than those you are protting, because it costs you more to defend yourself. You'll need to be able to kite smart and try to stay out of trouble - not always possible
Additional notes
Where have you tested this?
Fort Aspenwood, Kurzick side. That's what I wrote it for. I might test it in other places, but this is essentially a Fort Aspenwood, Kurzick build.
