The solo monk?

[Tinker]

<DIV>I have been thinking about the choices of race and specials for a monk. A lot of time my monk will be soloing, and when grouped, he will be grouped with a guardian. So, I'm thinking I should choose a monk with balanced STR, AGI and STA for those times I solo and choose traits that assist in doing damage to individual mobs rather than group taunts.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Do the experienced monks here see flaws in my plan? Will I regreat it later? If I choose more group friendly skills like area taunts will is noticably decrease my solo skills? Is STR going to be important so I can deal more damage when solo?</DIV>

[Khuds]

Just my opinion, and in no way is it absolute.I still go primarily agility with my monk. I'm lvl 35 now and I primarily solo. A good estimate would suggest I've likely solo'ed throughout 80+ percent of my monks advancement.

[Bur]

It has been proven (atleast in my eyes) that wich stat you choose to focus on isn't terribly important. Perosnally i've taken the balanced approach (IE: trying to keep all my stats as close to eachother as possible.. well STR/STA/AGI atleast) and I solo fairly well.

[elitewizurd]

<DIV>If you got good gear, you should be able to solo well with any race. I am a lvl34 ogre monk with high STR (~100) and low AGI (~80) and I am happy with my soloing. Recently soloed those lvl38-39 nymphs for A Lonely Tree quest for one of a choice of 4 Adorberg weapons (the duel wield fist one was worse than my oakwood weapon). </DIV>