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Originally Posted by Nixtar
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Don't expect to tank well unless you're twinked as a monk. You will be struggling to hold aggro in groups. Warriors do at least have taunt. SK/PAL got that snap aggro which is why in almost every group on the road to 60 you will see a knight tanking.
In 90% of the cases you will be the puller as a monk, 10% you'll tank waiting for a knight/warrior. Which is fun. You get to learn how a zone works, how it looks, which will make most other characters you roll more fun.
You won't be this super-class some prop up monks to be. If I had a choice between an equally twinked monk or knight, I'd choose the knight every time. Monks are great DPS and Pullers and CAN tank if you can't find a proper tank. Be sure to ask for someone to root if you're going to tank as a monk because otherwise the mobs WILL ping-pong and the healer will have to keep 5 people alive rather than one(which drains mana fast).
Mini-rant here... I HATE HERO MONKS WHO THINK THEY'RE THE TANK. Seriously, stop it. You're wasting my mana, you have FD, you can manage your aggro. Stop waving your T-staff shaped E-peen in the face of everyone, just stop it.
If you duo with a shaman you can't go wrong with either warrior/sk/monk, where the monk edges out the other two due to the combination of DPS/Pulling(splitting mobs)/good-enough-tank.
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You'd be surprised just how well monks do tank if you bothered to parse it. It's actually pretty sad; but it's classic. Comparing equivalently geared characters, they take less damage than either knight class or even warriors outside of defensive discipline.
What they don't have is reliable aggro ... But warriors don't really have that either. Their hit point pools are somewhat low, but that's not really important unless you've got a cleric that is using complete heal.
Monks are just one of those overpowered classes in this era of EQ.
Knights are great and a blast to play.
Warriors do their job well.
But yeah monks really do take the lowest damage outside of discipline.