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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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A monk does have much less worry for carry capacity though - doesn't have to worry about carrying around 50+ weight just in armour. I note your monk is using fast primary, which means a higher portion of dps comes from static damage bonus (making str less relevant) furthermore monks have amazing attack levels to punch through mob AC.
My monk wore like cloth tier armour, schw and a wu’s staff til like 40 with no probs. Monks are just op and designed to need minimal gear (in vanilla .. they kinda retained that aspect and then got amazing gear thrown on top anyway in velious and especially kunark)
Did you trial +20 str at any point and switch it out for something else?
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While Monk armor is lighter, Tank gear tends to have more STR on it, which offsets the higher weight. Monks also have less gear to choose from.
https://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Blue:TestIksarSK - If you look at the gear here, you will see that the pieces with +STR on them all have a much higher STR value than weight value. The only exception to this is
https://wiki.project1999.com/Cloak_of_the_Maelstrom . The test Magelo has 60 stone of gear on, but 20 stone of that is the cloak lol. You can swap that cloak for a number of other ones if you are worried about the weight.
I was using my two handed Imbued Fighters Staff until 50, I didn't get Baton/Addy club until 51, and I couldn't use Epic until 46. Over the leveling process I was improving/changing my gear, so my STR did fluctuate to be lower sometimes, but I was never over 140ish. I never noticed a difference when my STR was lower.
I also didn't bother with keeping my weight under the monk weight limits. I just picked up everything and was often at 50+ stone. I had the usual WR bags: EE Bag, Large Burlap Sack, and Shralok Packs. I bought a single Tink Bag when I was in my 40s just so I could test the mitigation differences between being under the monk weight limit vs. not being under the monk weight limit. It wasn't because I was running into issues where I was unable to sell all my loot.