Monk help

[gprater]

Only fiddled with a monk some on live when there was an abundance of weaps cheap.

Im currently 13th. Currently been using fists with mesh gloves. Max hit 12

questions:

are fists limited by a damage cap like weaps are? and will this go away at level 20(or at least increase) I havent seen an increase in max hit for 2 levels now.

Seems like I always see people selling and WTB EBM....is this the best currently?

Will fists ever get equal to or better than the best weapon? if not how much of a difference will there be? Enough to worry about acquiring an EBM?

thanks