Secondary professions for a Monk

Monks are almost exclusively party support characters, and do not benefit from most of the hostile skills from other professions. Healing and protection Monks often use their secondary profession to benefit from energy management or self-defense skills.

Always remember, when choosing secondary skills, that native skills often have better synergy with the profession's purpose, interact better with the profession's other skills, and benefit from runes.

Monk/Warrior

 * During PvP many monks will often use a shield for defensive bonuses from mods. Consider the skill Shield Bash when using this tactic.
 * In PvP, several Warrior stances can be useful for blocking

Monk/Ranger

 * Natural Stride can be very useful for blocking in PvP

Monk/Necromancer

 * Primary monks gain very little benefit from this combination.

Monk/Mesmer

 * The Inspiration Magic line provides a variety of energy management skills.
 * Channeling is often used in Heroes' Ascent for energy management.
 * Hex Breaker is useful to preemptively protect against hexes in PvP.

Monk/Elementalist

 * Glyph of Lesser Energy offers energy management for the monk.

Monk/Ritualist

 * This profession combination provides little benefit for a Monk primary. Ritualist skills do not benefit from Divine Favor, and most protective or healing effects provided by Ritualist skills are easily outpaced by native Monk skills.

Monk/Assassin

 * Shadow Arts skills such as Dark Escape for protection from melee damage dealers. Especially useful is Return, which cripples enemies while teleporting you towards an ally.

Monk/Paragon

 * This profession combination provides little benefit for a Monk primary.

Monk/Dervish

 * This profession combination provides little benefit for a Monk primary.