Hi there Waarrah and welcome to active posting!!!!

Ignore Pain is indeed tied to Wis / Vitality stats, but you shouldn't notice a decrease in effectiveness unless you were doing your original checking when you were buffed. All of my testing has pretty much put ignore pain at roughly 20% give or take a couple of percentage points in total health

There are a couple of different threads going on this actually. I have made it known to the Dev team that portions of the monk community would rather Secrets / Ignore Pain have a flat number rather than be modifed by charector stats.

I do have it on good authority that there will be AA ability to modify Ignore Pain (Higher Base Heal / Critical Heals) however we wont see that for a while I imagine.

~QTM

Actuallly that makes a fair amount of sense. I didn't think of the level playing a factor into it.  As you level up you need more charector attribute points devoted to a stat to reach that "sweet" spot. TBH I am not sure 6 or 8  pts either way will bring the variations you have described though.

Wisdom I thought was tied to base healing. I could be mistaken as my poor shammy alt has been sitting on the shelf for a while so it is not out of the questions I could be mistaken about that. I'll double check that bit when I get home.

~QTM

Nope, not really. The only stat directly tied to healing is Vitality.

5 min cool down the healing should be substanal....For example a dread knight can tap roughly 20% health with one hit.....on a 20 second cooldown... and every five mins can deal out a massive nuke with an insanely high chance to crit.

Point i'm trying to make 20 % on 5 min cool down is really very trivial compared to other classes...Our heal should probally be bumped up a bit...to roughly equal 25 or 30 %, its cooldown reduced to 3 mins...and have a high chance to "crit" heal. That should roughly put it in line with a 5 min cooldown.

You really gotta realize our heal is roughly = one more hit from a 3 + dot mob..

Yup, I agree with this. My monk gets destroyed pretty bad by rangers on the parsar's, and there isn't much more I can do other then wait for my Hand of God King's next level to catch up, but I know that isn't going to do it.

Monks are average, but if you're going to put together a group you'll likely pass one up for a bard or ranger if you can because they just bring more to the group.  Rangers, well, it's just plain not fair. They have us beat in groups and out of groups. They are an all around better choice in every possible way.

The contrast I was trying to draw here was that Dread knights among other "non healing classes" can do the same heal as ours with only one use of an ability that does not have a cooldown. And I was trying to draw some comparassion for other similar abilities on a 5 min cool down and thier realitive power.  IE my lvl 30 dread knight has pulled 3k crits on his Word of Doom. at roughly a 50-60% crit ratio. And i have also seen that same ablity crit upwards to 6.5k. The point here is everytime i use it i decide. Use it now? or save it for later?  I have to stop and pause and make a choice about using this ablity. This is an example of a balanced 5 min coold down ability...Can we same the same about the very unimpressive ignore pain? To me the healing gained from ignore pain is so trivial it rarely is going to matter anyways.

Did they say why a % based heal got shot down? Let's assume the % would be 25% of your health. Wouldn't this just be fair to players who have higher HP? Why should you be punished in terms of ability effectiveness just for having a larger pool of hit points?

I'll repeat my personal opinion yet again, I don't want to see Vit in the equation. We're not a hybrid of any kind, unlike bards, rangers, dread knights, paladins and druids. If they get a heal, it SHOULD be based on Vit, because they're a mix of (the D&D classes) rogue/sorcerer(bard), fighter/druid (ranger), fighter/warlock (DK) ,fighter/cleric (pally) and, in this game druid/elementalist (druid). We're pure melee, so we shouldn't need spell damage focus, spell crit focus, healing focus and healing crit focus, damnit.
I would agree with one of two solutions: fixed number without VIT in the calculation,  or a %-based heal.