Thinking about starting a monk..

[shams]

Hmm so basically twice the regen rate of a human.. This is tough. I see that a human monk will gain exp faster than an iksar, but could anyone enlighten me about this part from the link above? (referring to the slightly less damage part)

"Iksars get an in-built AC boost which stacks with the natural Monk AC boost. They also get faster health regeneration, infravision and the ability to forage (although this ability is capped). They also start with 100 skill in swimming. Because of all these bonus abilities they do slightly less damage than Humans at their full power."