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Originally Posted by inyane
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I don't remember monks tanking this well until AA's came out
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The monk nerf didn't happen till end of velious because that's when all the 50ac all/all items appeared and really made monks overpowered. Kunark doesn't really have stuff like that.
I don't remember the exact numbers but this is basically how it works:
Monks in leather gives you a low softcap, something like 100-200ac then everything above that you only get 33% of or so.
Plate classes get like 300-400 ac before softcap affects them.
So the plate classes will have higher real AC (mitigation), but monks have higher avoidance which raises their tank ability back closer to real tanks.
If the monk can tank as good as a knight, it's not really strange. The knights have heals and other things to make up for it while also having higher mitigation and HP which makes them easier to heal while fighting a dragon than a monk which relies more on avoidance.
I've tanked Trakanon on EQ live playing an SK at 60 during Kunark but it would probably be much harder or maybe not doable playing a monk.
Monks should probably tank similar, slightly better, or slightly worse than knights in this era. If you parse it out and they tank better than warriors, then something is probably broken.
It's important to parse it on even cons and borderline blue cons because they could have made an error that causes monk avoidance benefits to scale too high when fighting mobs that are a good bit lower level than you but still con blue and end up having monks tank too good in comparison to warriors in that situation.
I'm not really positive that warriors are guaranteed to tank better than monks on low level blue cons though. The game was pretty much designed around warriors tanking by having lots of HP and receiving Cheals. For sake of balance, I would make it so warriors still did tank better than monks on low blues though.
When I was a 60 monk on Sullon Zek during Velious, pre-monk nerf, I'd attack level 57-58 paladins and warriors (Ramza and Toodles) and I'd block a shitload against them. Then I'd duel a warrior in my guild like Oogly or Tenaj and they would have a much easier time hitting me. So I think it might just be monk avoidance scaling really high against low level blues that you are seeing. The question is, for sake of balance, should it scale to be better than warrior tanking or not.