Divine Favor is the primary attribute for Monks, meaning that only characters who have Monk as their primary class can place points into the attribute. Along with having many skills tied to this attribute, Divine Favor adds a passive healing bonus when you cast a Monk spell on an ally. Currently, each point in Divine Favor will heal your allies for 3.2 life. This amount is rounded to the nearest whole number, so with 1 point in the attribute, your spells will gain 3 healing from divine favor. With 12 points in Divine Favor, each Monk spell that you cast on an ally will heal them for 38 health. This can be greatly beneficial for any monk using spells to heal or buff an ally. The skills that are linked to the Divine Favor attribute are generally passive skills that provide a bonus to your healing capabilities. They have myriad benefits, such as increasing your energy regeneration, increasing the amount that your healing spells do, and make your enchantments last longer. Other Divine Favor skills can be used to heal yourself or your teammates, or even bring someone back from the brink of death. Overall, Divine Favor provides a great bonus for any healing or protection monk, and is always worth investing points in if you want to use skills from either of those attributes.

A large number of Monk players focus on the Healing Prayers attribute, as healing can be one of the most important thing for keeping your party alive. While every class has a way of healing themselves, Monks can heal both themselves and their party members much more efficiently than any other class. The Healing Prayers attribute offers a large number of skills based around keeping your allies alive, both in just direct health gained, as well as some very useful enchantments to regenerate health over time or heal whenever that ally gets hit. If you want to make a character to be the savior of your team, keeping them all alive during a particularly tough mission, Healing Prayers is the attribute to focus on. When somebody is near death, a large heal can be the best bet of saving them, and can be the only way to counter life degeneration from poison and disease, as well as many Mesmer and Necromancer hexes that will drain life.

Protection Prayers complements the Healing Prayers attribute quite nicely. Whereas Healing Prayers focuses on restoring health to you and your allies, skills in the Protection Prayers line focus on preventing the damage from being dealt in the first place. When your party is taking less damage, there is less that needs to be healed. In addition to preventing attacks from hitting your allies, Protection Prayers can help your allies recover from conditions and hexes, which can be very destructive to your team. Protection Prayers has more skills in it than the other Monk attributes, as well as many elite skills. These skills help in different ways: increasing health, reducing the damage taken from attacks and spells, restoring conditions, preventing attacks from hitting, and preventing the enemy from even attacking. One of the best ways to keep your party alive is to prevent anybody from damaging them, and that is exactly what the Protection Prayers line of skills allows you to do.