best race for monk(stat wise)

[Jedi_Knight_Jr]

<p>What is the best race for a monk (stat wise)?</p><p>So far i have gathered that Ogre is the best race for monk. But need to learn about some other races.</p>

[Jedi_Knight_Jr]

anybody?

[Nerill]

Your starting stats are so tiny compared to your stats later in the game. So an extra 10 or 15 points of Strength in your first few levels means next to nothing when you are high level and have around 475 - 500 Strength. Basically, your main stats will be Strength and Stamina. Agility is a distant 3rd. Play a race that you think would make a cool Monk. Thats really all it comes down to. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[GymRat]

Uhm agi is a distant 3rd? You must not do any tanking then. Agi increases your avoidance which is a leather tanks main stat for tanking since our mit is far outclassed by plate tanks.

[Kainsei]

Agility = contested avoidance, basically it won't do much in front of a white/yellow heroic mob (don't even get me started on epics mobs to-hit bonuses that are supposed to be gone). An effective way to raise your avoidance without gimping your char is using + defense/deflection/parry items. For tanking : hp and stamina > agility.

[vyxar]

I am sick of these posts about races becuase it doesn't matter at all after level 10 at the latest Play what looks best to you and what Racial traits appeal to you I love Iksar and Trolls becuase they are pure evil and have underwater breathing.

[Nerill]

<cite>GymRat wrote:</cite><blockquote>Uhm agi is a distant 3rd? You must not do any tanking then. Agi increases your avoidance which is a leather tanks main stat for tanking since our mit is far outclassed by plate tanks. </blockquote>Yes, Agi is a <u><b>distant</b></u> 3rd ! Read what Lanari said or flip through a few pages of the Monk forums and read one of the countless threads if you need some education on how little agility means to our tanking ability. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Couching]

<cite>GymRat wrote:</cite><blockquote>Uhm agi is a distant 3rd? You must not do any tanking then. Agi increases your avoidance which is a leather tanks main stat for tanking since our mit is far outclassed by plate tanks. </blockquote>It's really sad that there are still monks who thought agi is important. I would even count wis as 3rd important if you are raiding. To be a good tank, your job it to get mobs on you and don't get one shotted so that your healer(s) can keep you up. No body care how often you get hit by mobs as long as group healer(s) can keep you up. The worst scenario is the group tank getting one shotted. To avoid one shot by mobs, hp and mitigation are the key rather than avoidance.

[ojiji]

Ogre monk here. Our heal skill is percent heal, so I think important HP/STA than AGI. STR>STA>AGI IMO But not so important these status at high level. We have cool combat <b>arts</b> motion. If you want to show your martial <b>arts</b> (for other player), you must be choice large race. If you want to play bullet monk, you must choice fae or dwarf etc. We are artist.<img src="/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Steamburn]

The heal is irrelevent due to the recast time.  It's only good for saving your (or someone else's) asss when something goes amiss with your healer.