A lot of people are delaying Monks until Kunark/Iksar, but I really think that's a mistake. Monks are quite good DPS in Classic with 14/30 fists at level 50. Compare with the best Rogue piercer in Classic at 13/31 (and that's a Vox drop, most everything else caps at 10 damage). Also remember that Kunark will be open for 5-6 months until Epics come out. So Rogues will not be getting their Ragebringers anytime soon. But T-staffs will be dropping from day 1 of Kunark. Human Monks will be out DPSing all but the best geared Rogues for the entire first year and a half of Green. If you want to play a Monk all the way through Velious it definitely behooves you to start one in classic. Unless you have a lot of guild help with powerleveling, twinking and MQing Sky drops it will be tough for an Iksar Monk to catch up with a day 1 Human Monk who's had a year headstart on gear (41% haste from Sky and Wu's Fist being the big prizes). And Rogues will just be crying in their soup the first few months of Kunark when they're watching T-staff Monks rip through mobs while they're still mostly using classic piercers.
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