Can a monk hold his own later on in the game in combat. I don't want to play for a while onto to find he's useless and have to start again. I know you can get him the gauntlets of crushing and so forth but will be be a front man in fights?.

Warby

My solo monk had no trouble till it came to beating the third major ToB boss, and even then it was a simple matter of choosing when to attack and when to retreat and regenerate.

(Thats not to say that its not easy to get a monk killed, get them in over their heads and theyll die real quick, but thats true of any character)

They are very powerful in the mid game, but in the endgame will be outmatched by well-equipped fighters.

I find that their lack of HP doesn't make them good front-liners. I find that if you send in someone to distract enemies and then send your monk in, that your monk will pulverize the enemieswithout suffering a lot of damage.

My solo Monk never had a problem with enemies, I always use him as a front man, also if u get swarmed by lots of well-equipped fighter, try and lure them in one by one... u can also try this tactic - hide in shadows, go up to enemy, hit it, run away and repeat.(only use it against non-hasted enemies)

Whats so good about Monks, any way? i find them weak but thats just me (Merlin awps out)

Weak? U call Monks weak? Man, wait until u fight one, I promise u that u'll get ass kicked... Also if u r a RETARDED fighter, u can barely move after getting stunned... also Monks can go stealth and attack u when u least expect it.

I'm not a retarded fighter, thank u very much. and its just my opinion not the whole bloody states. And they can;t wear armour so beat that,

So? My monk have a base armour of 4 on level 7 and now on level 11, his base armour is 0... Also monks get high MR after level 14... And fighter don't~~~~
ha ha ha ha ha ha~~~~~~~~ Nah just joking, but seriously Monks aren't as weak as u think they r...

well maybe, but i don't know any monk PCs and i don;t want to be a monk.

Monks' AC improve as they level up.