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Originally Posted by Zuranthium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Enjoyed your post a lot (yes Enchanters are definitely unclassic here) but I can't fully agree with this part if we're talking Velious era. From what I remember, Monks really did become great tanks at that point, and a lot of Monks were mad about how gear-dependent the class became, because before the expansions the whole mantra of the class was you forgo possessions, just needing your fists and simple clothing. My friend had a 60 Monk and Warrior during Velious and found the Monk to be completely better for grouping; no noticeable lack of tanking ability, while doing more DPS and Feign Death pulling.

I'm mostly basing this off of pre-kunark experiences with monks [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] my friend played a monk and I played a cleric when P99 green first launched. They tanked for like 95% of my groups all the way until level 50, and they weren't a twink. They were legit wearing cloth armor and had no HP rings or anything. I remember being baffled since my monk had way better gear but there's no way I would have been main tanking in Lower Guk or Sol B the way they were despite the fact that their gear was virtually non-existant.

There's other things that I know are inaccurate too. I lived on monky-business and thesafehouse (monk and rogue forums). There's no instance of Rogues ever being able to solo backstab from the front the way they can on P99.

https://thesafehouse.org/forums/foru...ide-to-soloing

This is something I tried to do repeatedly as a kid. I discovered frontal backstabbing in PVP from jousting warriors and monks that I couldn't go toe to toe with. But I never once got it to work on mobs and don't know anyone who did.

Weird thing to complain about though since rogues suck at solo'ing and its almost impossible to find groups. But like... whenever I hear people talk about it like it's classic I'm just like.. aint no way, fam. aint no damn way.

I dont even think anyone would have ever put AA points in chaotic stab if this were the case, lol.