Monk soloing is tough, and it is very frustrating until you get to around level 20 where you have increased damage cap and most importantly, a well-working Feign Death. You also get more sitting regen at level 20, Eagle Strike, and Bind Wound starts being decently useful.
You need to constantly be focusing on killing mobs that are baaarely blue, or "high green". Pull a mob one or two levels too high and you have to start over. To be honest, this continues for the rest of your soloing career, but you learn to deal with it.
Stick to it! When you get Feign Death the game changes totally, and I would recommend you max it out in a safe area as soon as you get it, just because it's so nice to be able to bail out on overpulls. It saves you so much time from running to the guards/zone or doing corpse recovery (CR). I was so close to giving up on my Monk in the early levels, but at level 17 with FD I knew I was in for some fun.
Also, I wouldn't recommend doing big groups at low levels, but instead look for a duo partner. Being 5-6 people in a group slowly pulling newbie mobs and having to deal with AFKs, overpulls, different mindsets, etc. is simply not worth it, and by that I mean the XP will be crap and it's more annoying than good. If you can find a priest or caster to duo with, that will rock.
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