This is something I want to post about constantly, but as I do not have access to data from back in the day, I don't have backup for my complaints.
First, it's only worth rolling a monk if you understand that you will be forced to group for every single level you get from here to eternity on this server. You can not solo. Period.
Mobs lower level than you are just do much more damage than you can possibly dish out on average. A monk is weaker than a lower level mage pet. Whether its that the mobs hit too hard, or the damage interval calculation is done incorrectly, or our hit chances are done incorrectly, the fact of the matter is that melee are vastly weaker than casters and I may be wrong but I do not believe any melee can solo worth discussing. And bards are not melee for the purposes of this duscussion.
This may be how it was during classic. I did not play during the first expansion. But, by velious, it had changed somewhat as every monk on earth soloed to 60 if they wanted to.
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