Monk mitigation too high?

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I really wish I had more actual valuable input to add, but since I play a low 30s nec on P99 I don't.

However, I will say that Kunark was truly where monks shined and many people who didn't play monk didn't recognize it even back then. I played a monk main through the years, and Monks could really tank like mofos, until the very high levels/raid mob types. I used to 'prefer' having a war in the group to tank, but decently geared we could tank our faces off and it wasn't a necessity, especially in single group EXP type stuff.

I don't know if monk AC is borked in p99. I can't comment on that.

But I do remember quite well how powerful monks were on live, and I will say their tanking abilities were quite underrated... remember, this was still a period where many people who rolled monks were trying as hard as they could to max AGI and DEX for some reason. With a bunch of solid AC/HP gear and good weapons, we fell behind in tanking in the high levels for two reasons:

A)Our HP was low, and our Mitigation was low enough that boss, raid level mobs would brutalize us and our tanking was so inconsistent that trying to run CHeal chains on us was hilariously futile. Tanking mobs significantly higher level than us = death trap, in just about every situation you can imagine.

B)We. Didn't. Have. Taunt. We had disarm though, and a lot of us used it really hard, pretending it was that useful for aggro.

Other than that, a well geared well played Monk could tank like an absolute mofo in an awful lot of situations. Don't worry, if the timeline follows right, near the end of Velious we'll take a huge Mitigation nerf, and we'll share our best weapons with wars, pals and all the others, and we'll all bitch about it more than you all can handle