Monk or Shaman epic?

[sajbert]

I have a 51 twinked monk with epic and I have a 55 sham with epic that I'm taking a hiatus from but previously had JBB and all the jazz too.

I could level a sham to 60 without Epic. Shaman is good, you can solo fine without it and especially with JBB. There's always grouping too. At 60 once you have Torpor to tank summoning mobs then Epic will help you kill and push the class into the godmode territory. Sort of useless in raids.

Leveling a monk solo to 60 without Epic, even with my heavy twinking (tstaff, fungi, beads, jbb, pegi cloak, cloak of flames, etc) I honestly wouldn't wanna do. If you group it sort of doesn't matter. At 60 it will useful both solo, grouping and in raids.

So I'd say monk epic is the better choice if you wanna solo level and/or raid. If your goal is a strong character at 60 that can solo cash camps then get the sham epic.