Where to find early game Monk gear.

[Squish]

I'm running around with a cracked staff currently, which areas/dungeons would have gear for a noob?

[Wickedbane]

What race are you?

[ScaringChildren]

You can level Tailoring up a little bit and make a full set of Cured Silk armor...or Wu's

[Jimjam]

Upper guk.

Netted, woven, mesh armor is a nice progression as you level up.

Weapon-wise... save up bone chips and HQ animal pelts (especially bear which are worth more) to sell to players. Turn spiderling silks and low / medium quality pelts into leather padding (is that still worth anything?!).

Once you have a few dozen pp buy some knuckle dusters or a wu's quivering staff. People will ask for 200, but they'll accept like a quarter of that or less. More of these items drop in a day than there are monks rolled.

Spider silks can be used to make raw silk/cured silk/wu's if you want to level up tailoring. It's good to get tailoring to 26 by turning ruined hides into armor before you attempt to make raw silk.

[Crede]

Or if you're open to having an alt just make a druid > join Dial a Port > Gear Monk. Monk is just a garbage first class to have to make PP. Not saying it can't be done, but for a true noob you're fighting an uphill battle.

[Raev]

I'm with Jimjam on this one. The server is so mature that medium tier gear goes for peanuts. Start with some bone chips so you can buy a reasonable weapon. Then get a mage to summon you some weightless bags to loot up weapons and duel corpse them before you log. A few k of gear will easily get you to 46, and at that point you can join a guild and mooch some Coldain armor, 21% haste from sky, IFS, etc.

[Wallicker]

Iksar beserker club 7/18 and campable in teens

[Bardp1999]

Wu quivering staff and some master wu trance sticks will last you to 50 easily

[Dillusional]

Well, at level 10 your fists become better than that cracked staff at least. Save 100pp buy cane of the tranquil.