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Originally Posted by Nixtar
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Exactly why they're not tanks and should absolutely not be seen as the automatic choice for tanking. I'll take a knight any day since they will keep the spice flowing.
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Well, they have defence skill on par with a warrior, which means per ac they mitigate the same, and that is before considering the low weight bonus. They also avoid better (and block is considerably better than parry).
You do have a point though; as this avoidance/mitigation is of course offset by monks gaining less hp per stamina and classically itemised to be less tanky (which becomes less relevant as expansions get released up to Loy/PoP as ac becomes possible to hard cap and even easier to reach the point of diminishing returns against real content).
I'm frequently in groups where the only melees are a pair of monks, and the only one I am eye rolling at is the one didn't go for the chunky mitigation boost focusing on AC achieves.