I was healing in karnors the other day.
One monk had geared with All/All low weight AC items (those mentioned above, azure sleeves, and so on).
The other had geared with ... I don't know, just a mix of random stuff; wu's, str gear. I'm not sure what the strategy was.
They were the same level but different weapon set ups.
The monks did within 10% of each others damage, but the monk that didn't gear for AC was taking about 33% more damage. This, coupled with his lower max hp meant he reached 'critical' hp much earlier, so required way more frequent cheals when he was tanking.
I think the morale is to get a decent set of weapons and the best tier haste you can, then focus on tankiness. Any +str you accumulate will be a small dps boost compared to the base your offense/weapon stats give you. As a monk you WILL be taking hits (pulling, soloing, filling in for tanks) and ac makes a big difference to that on classes with decent defence skill. Hp gives you more wiggleroom.
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