My first and main character on this server is a monk, I didn't start an alt until my monk was in the late 40's. I had a wonderful time. Although it is a tad bit tougher to accumulate money in the early levels, it's really not too awful bad. I used my bare fists and the occasional cracked staff/worn great staffs to keep my weapon skills up each level until around 24ish until I was finally able to get myself a cane of the tranquil, and then another, while slowly replacing all my cloth/few pieces of raw hide with wu's fighting gear. The cool thing is wu's isn't too expensive and will keep you set for a while until you can get some crescent stuff from dalnir. If you are a human monk starting in Freeport, you'll want to get yourself some mesh gloves and mesh sandals from frogloks in innothule, mesh is basically identical in ac, and weight to cloth, but each piece is a magic item, so obtaining the gloves and sandals will enable you to early on do damage to magical enemies like willowisps, ghouls and the like. I had a great experience as a monk for my first character here, you won't regret it just stick with it.
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