The ability to drop off an agro list completely is the single most broken skill in this game. Full stop. PERIOD. Combine this with tools like puppet strings, bladestopper and beads and you have an unfathomable amount of plays you can make. UNFATHOMABLE - You will still be learning secrets to the trade years after you started your monk, there simply is that many.
Other than that you have a class that tanks as well as a warrior when the warrior has plate amor and the monk has leather. In relation to that statement, how well do you think monks are doing in late game Velious when they start getting 40ac on every armor slot?
Lastly but not least if you compare the only 3 classes on a good damage table, warrior monks and rogues. Monks just get NUTS weapons, where rogues get utterly shafted, have sub par ratio weapons in late game and being forced to use Epic for the longest time to maintain the ATK bonus, monks on the other hand can keep the ATK bonus and swap in two 15/18 fists. This closes the DPS gap between monks and rogues ALOT (I often outdps rogues) - And mind you the monk does not need anyone to tank for him or to be hitting from behind.
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