Talk:Smiting Prayers

I place my vote that this is THE MOST underused attribute in all of guild wars, behind earth, water, and even deadly arts. Why can't anyone get past the image of the monk as a healer or protector and realize that this is an AWESOME damaging attribute line? --Gimmethegepgun 19:20, 14 December 2006 (CST)

What do you mean Water?!?!?!?!?!


 * How much do you honestly see water in use? For the most part the only place it shines is AB, and it's still not used much there either


 * I second the notion! Smiting Prayers are underused! Build:Mo/Me Inspired Smiter FTW!...and yes, water is also underused! Maelstrom is the only truly popular Water magic spell...you rarely see Water-oriented Elementalists! But they pwn in Hell's Precipice! IF they got more damaging spells, like Shatterstone and Vapor Blade, then they'd be popular! ...and better AoE damage! Entropy 01:32, 4 January 2007 (CST)
 * What about the thousands of Mo/Me and E/Mo smiters out there? &mdash; Rapta  [[image:Rapta_Icon1.gif|19px]] (talk|contribs) 01:33, 4 January 2007 (CST)
 * Water's still somewhat useful... like those Rt/E Flaggers or those Eles running snare... yeah, I'm out of ideas. &mdash; Rapta  [[image:Rapta_Icon1.gif|19px]] (talk|contribs) 01:34, 4 January 2007 (CST)
 * Hmm, thousands? I still haven't seen even one yet...every Mo/Me uses Power Drain, and E/Mo uses Heal Party. I don't think they are Smiters. Entropy 01:40, 4 January 2007 (CST)


 * Especially hero monks using power drain, they shoot it out their asses! --Gimmethegepgun 16:42, 4 January 2007 (CST)
 * sigh* The reason water and smites are so unused is the choice of skills, water is designed to be used with another element or proffesion, which is unpopular when u can get an extreemly powerful air spiker at or now searing flamer spiker both at 16 in their attributes. As for smiting, it is also designed to be used with something else. another proffesion, attribute line ect. The problem then occurs that you cannot get 16 in smites which is what one particularly aims for in a smiter. It has a few clever spells but the monk energy pool is far to low to use them, it is more advised to go primary elementalist....but guess what....NO RUNES. I think Anet has just given up mostly on smiting, tried to make monks have four attributes that sound appropiate, but it has ended disterously. The spells are too limited, monks do not have enough energy and there are so many ways in which monks can be used more efficiently. This is why I think smites are underplayed ~Quaz

Water is not the useless, check this water spike ele build out it works and kill imo, anyways i love trying to make use out of the "useless" skills ^_^ -User:EnterNameHere:EnterNameHere |RIPRIP|

This isn't the water magic discussion page...

I see Water Magic in HA ... Eles that run WT-snare build (WT=Water Trident) ... Anyway, Smiting Prayers really need to be heavily buffed ... armor ignoring holy damage is only good versus heavily armored targets, which are fairly rare in pvp (and pve ?). Smiting Prayers also has many skills that are, well, useless junk or otherwise really underpowered ... to save my fingers i won't list them all here. I really look forward to buff on whole Smiting Prayers line, as i really think it is the coolest "damage spell attribute" there is. Thank you. --Aozora 14:52, 7 June 2007 (CDT)


 * I heard somewhere that ANet's gonna finally give Smiting a big buff in GW:EN, might've been here --Gimmethegepgun 14:59, 7 June 2007 (CDT)
 * Apparently you heard wrong :) Twinkie Doomcaster 02:39, 31 August 2007 (CDT)

The article is kinda deceptive. "Smiting Prayers are useful for monks who want to deal damage. This is a very powerful attribute for many reasons." "Not entirely surprisingly, Smiting Prayers skills work quite well in combination with Healing Prayers and Protection Prayers skills." I'd rather have my monk not suck, tbh. 220.101.180.170 14:32, 4 October 2007 (UTC)