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Originally Posted by jolanar
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Y'all crazy. It's like 75% the borderline free haste clicky. Most of the other advantages are moot by 60 in current year P99. If you need mend to solo you are doing something wrong.
Also, calling monks the most broken/op class is silly when charm classes exist.
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Monks are the most capable all-around melee class though. And IMO they get the best return on their gear investments, once that gear improves in Kunark/Velious.
A skill like block isn't moot when every tank class would give up a BiS or two in order to have it, even if their version of block had a lower cap and required equipping a shield. Compared to mend, lay on hands feels pretty moot except for the fact that it can be applied to other players but, even then, on raids it only amounts to a fraction of a warrior's health bar. And it has such a long cooldown that you have to save it for emergencies. Whereas, with mend, the monk can use it consistently to reduce the time between kills, and top off their HP after bandaging 50-70%. Mend also affords extra leeway if you are doing something wrong while soloing, as you put it, which is a testament to how strong the class is aside from that self-heal. The class can test out harder and harder targets and if/when the fight goes south, reset with feign death. Even though feign death has a chance to fail, that's powerful, if not OP.
Referencing the wiki, monks get dual wield the earliest and end up with the highest cap. They also get the highest double attack, dodge, and safe fall. Plus, triple attack eventually, not to mention the ability to juggle their 2HB for extra offhand attacks. Tack on several reliably good discs, even better weapons, and suddenly the class has more going for it than one can shake a stick at.
Now talk about
sneak pulls,
push interrupt, and combat bind wound which monks benefitted from, especially when soloing. Most evidence suggests these were classic features, but they remain nerfed here all the same. And yet, in spite of this, the class still handles just fine.