Building the Monk

[LtKillroy]

I haven't seen any straight this is the monk and this is what all the skills of monk do, in depth yet. Therefore I am asking it here. So the question I have is, how do you build the monk for various formations. For the record, I run a mostly melee formation currently.

[Kaiten]

Keep your main alive skill: Protect 60 or Shield of prot 60 (i like protect)

I'd keep holy guard and awakening at 1 and level those after protect maxes. awakening can be used more often as a soft heal and holy guard is used to dispel spells more than heal so you can usually just stick with 1 there. Therefore I'd prolly do something like
P:60<- refuse to interchange.
A:39<-
H:1 <-Can interchange
That's without secret vials.
The following was all imo. And I've already messed up my own monk before i got into pvp.

[methane]

High level protect drains imba amount of mana every turn. Also to note how often do you expose your main to attacks? Even for tanker main i also find it dangerous to put them on a front row. Well you can always move your main but if the fights turns out too long and enemy witch and exo playing mana burn and drain build. Its surely gonna land you into big trouble.

[Kaiten]

I have yet to see a match where the monk's mana is completely drained. Placing a melee main in front late game isn't as dangerous due to the 4x heal, 2x from protect and 2x from concentrate and higher armor. As for mana burn/drain, if you see that, you'd best holy guard the back line and disable the freezing axes.

[jesada89237]

With a cannon main, I have my monk on 40 SoP, 11 awakening and 49 holy guard. Since a merc can't be healed while holy guard is on them, I like the auto-heal through it.

[Samwise93]

I use holy guard as a status remover so i just keep it lvl 1-5 :p

[AtsushiHayami]

Monk you say well i'd stick witch Shield Of Protect,at max and holy guard awakening 20,protect isn't bad but it only heals one of my merc(the main) and most of the time its not very useful

[Vrael]

when im finished with my monk i'll probably end up maxing shield of protect and going 20/20 on awakening and holy guard