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bigbadchad666

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Need a monk?

Look, I know from experience how f-ing hard it is to find a monk past THK. So, my healing monk is going to be in the RoF shortly, and I just wanted to say that when I get there, anyone here from this great community can feel free to pm me in game if they need a healer. I see all these lame, "Monk for hire, 2k per person," deals going on, and frankly, these people are making all us other kind monks look bad. Healing is something that shouldn't be sold. It's a gift, and needs to be shared lol.

Well, as I said... I am a healing monk with 16 healing, 15 divine favor, with the usual healing spells and word of healing.

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02/13/06 04:25

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RE: Need a monk?

... and again... IGN's in sig...

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02/13/06 04:25

Julia Heartilly

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RE: Need a monk?

Edit: Oops, nvm.

Nice offer man. :)

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02/13/06 04:31

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RE: Need a monk?

... thunderpoop... wonder what inspired you to come up with that name ;-P

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02/13/06 04:33

Lavin Astald

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RE: Need a monk?

I have to disagree that the people offering monking for money giving all monks a bad name. While I dont do the missions for money, I see paying for monks is much like paying for a run. You can find free runs, but you see people paying for them becuase they want it bad enough.

Supply and demand. Supply of monks is low, demand is high, so price goes up.

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02/13/06 05:53

Monks_Rule

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RE: Need a monk?

Perhaps Monks charging for their services is due to the regular abuse they get from PUGs. Plus, in places like Thunderhead Keep, if there aren't enough Monks that need the mission what's wrong with a Monk making a little coin since they're not going to get much through drops.

I agree that it's a supply and demand thing. Players pay to get runs to open the map and for missions all the time. IMO, more full time Monks should be charging PUGs. It might just help get more Monks in the game, and if not, us existing Monks can get some coin for our efforts.

02/13/06 06:22

machina garanik

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RE: Need a monk?

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im afraid i would have to disagree with you.

oh chad im up for helping people too ^^ im at first mission town with my monk...got to it like a month ago then didnt go any further, but ill have those done in no time... im at work at the moment but ill be home in a few hours and ill be strait to work on my monk. hope to see you guys in the minssion.

pm me ingame, monk ign is. alieana garanik

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02/13/06 06:50

Lavin Astald

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RE: Need a monk?

Yes, by no means do I think more should be paid, but I dont think paying them is bad.

02/13/06 06:57

shoofar

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RE: Need a monk?

Cred+ for u :D

But i still wanna inform all intrested ppl, that THK can be done with hench healers :D
I did it yesterday with almost random group. - 6 ppl + 2 hench healers.
Group contained:
3 warriors at start, 2 later (one dropped out before siege started) - damge dealers and take some distrupting blows
2 rangers - interrupts no trappers just throw dirt, and dust trap for jade armors.
2 healers (hench)
1 mesmer (me - not really doing much there - i was trying to fit some skills and discovered that i dont know how to combine them :P- that was my succer hours. I couldnt sleep for 2 hours i sucked so much HAHAHa) but we made it.

Two things in strategy:
- U have to keep close to ironhammer, WARRIORS also !! :D - otherwise hench healers will go nuts and start running between players without healing.
- ALWAYS kill boss last cuz bosses there are for distration mostly and they take lots of damage before they die and this makes more than half of team dead cuz of other foes running around and killing mostly hench healers.

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02/13/06 07:03

bigbadchad666

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RE: Need a monk?

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Perhaps Monks charging for their services is due to the regular abuse they get from PUGs.

I agree that monks are a frequent target of a stubborn warrior, tanking elementalist, etc. I just don't agree with charging for services. I will say that it's tempting... It's a lot of money...

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I see paying for monks is much like paying for a run.

I'm sorry, but I can't compare running to charging for a monk. People get ran to advance themselves dishonestly through the game to gain an edge (better armor, skills, etc). People doing missions are trying to advance through the game like it was meant to (for the most part :P). These people shouldn't have to pay for a monk in order to progress through the game. It's almost like paying someone to let you play the game in general. People take advantage of the fact that the henchies aren't infused when you first start missions, making healing henchmen easy targets, and almost useless.

Please don't think I am flaming you, just merely commenting on your opinion, and I'm glad you took the time to post it :)

02/13/06 11:36

Red-Tide

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RE: Need a monk?

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I'm sorry, but I can't compare running to charging for a monk. People get ran to advance themselves dishonestly through the game to gain an edge (better armor, skills, etc).

I will have to completely disagree with you here. I paid to have 2 chars run to Droks for armor purposes. Not because I was cheating but because I had already played through the whole game twice, and I just wanted the chars to be high level or have an easier time of advancing through to 20th. PLaying through the same missions over and over again sucks, its boring and very unappealing when you have done it twice (or more). I dont think it is dishonest, I think your comment stems from you having to do it the hard way and go through everything repeatedly. I had a lvl 20 monk farmer and I amassed a massive amount of gold so that I could run my characters through to ascension. I wanted a warrior for the new tombs and I didnt want to take the month of playing to get him there. Instead it cost me about 80 plat to get him to 20th in under a week. In-game money well spent IMO.

As for paying monks to run missions, thats just ghey. I hate that crap as well.

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02/14/06 13:46

Me Norel

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RE: Need a monk?

I am neutral on this subject, the whole point of a free market economy is, if demand is high enough and money can be made for services, (any service) then why not charge. The whole reason I made my second character a monk was because of Monks charging for services in the RoF missions, I didn't charge just wanted to help people out with the game but I didn't begrudge the ones that were charging for it. I always got a kick out of going into the missions and seeing a message from a monk charging anywhere from 2-7K to monk on the final mission, then sending up my message helping out with mission for FREE!!. Got a lot of nasty grams when I was doing it, but they all made me laugh.

Just my $0.02.

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