From what I understood, the monks weren't exceptional tanks until Velious, where the generic gear for monks had amazing AC combined with their AC gained from low weight.
After that mistake Verant/SOE decided to closely watch what gear (leather) monks were given from then on to prevent monks from being a replacement tank.
And this...
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Originally Posted by Patch Notes
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October 16, 2002 4:30 am
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- Decreased Monks' ability to mitigate damage (please see the
Developer's Update on www.everquestlive.com for more details) |
Which was a couple days before PoP went live.