Ele/Monk, Ele just for ES?

[Dolph]

Im getting the game in a few days and I have been thinking about different builds. And I have narrowed it down to Ele/Monk, mostly Ele because Energy Storage seems pretty nifty. So now I have a question about this.
Would a Ele/Monk with ES/Smite/Healing be effective? And if so which attribute point distribution would you suggest?(still dont get attributes at all...)

Or should I just go Fire instead of smiting?

Hmm, that was about it. I looked this forum for similiar questions but couldnt fin any, so now we have another thread in the ele forum, yay...

Take care

/Dolph

[ChemicalDeathDealer]

Im getting the game in a few days and I have been thinking about different builds. And I have narrowed it down to Ele/Monk, mostly Ele because Energy Storage seems pretty nifty. So now I have a question about this.
Would a Ele/Monk with ES/Smite/Healing be effective? And if so which attribute point distribution would you suggest?(still dont get attributes at all...)

Or should I just go Fire instead of smiting?

Hmm, that was about it. I looked this forum for similiar questions but couldnt fin any, so now we have another thread in the ele forum, yay...

Take care

/Dolph


I currently play with a E/Mo level 20 ascended character which is based around Maxed out Fire, energy storage close to maxed out and prayer at 7. This is the perfect "team oriented" elemtnist monk. 1 it does lots and lots of AoE and can also heal yourself and use rebirth for those harden times.. This is a good build if you dont plan on doing any PvP.. As for smiting Leave that to a Mesmer/Monk

[Dolph]

Thanks for the reply

But what if I plan on doing pvp? Wouldn't smiting/healing be good for that?
And whats the downside in pvp with the fire/healing?

Thanks

[Mortungo]

everyone useses fire and fire armor so you might be s.o.l. and be doing like 20dmg to your targets.