Monks are awesome! My now level 19 monk kicks the living shit out of anything. Not being able to wear armor is a minor set back in the begining because although you can't wear armor you can still wear rings, belts, necklaces, cloaks etc. He has a -9 AC, 100 hp(91 but with an a had slot item i becomes 100), can attack 4 times and has THAC0 of -6! I must admit tho before his fists become +2 weapons sometimes his effectiveness decreases a lot against vampires, liches, golems etc. But after that and after level14, where you get 3 pts of magic resistance per level he resists many spells. For example last night I was in the mind flayer dungeon in Underdark. I had cast chaotic commands on 3 of my men but it ran out while I was half way the dungeon. So I changed strategy and made them all use bows and slings except my monk who had 72 MR with items at the time. With 5 mindflayers and 2 umberhulks beating on him, may be only once they were able to drain his int, their other attacks didn't do anything! OK one time they mazed him but the battle was close to the very end anyway I can safely say that high level monks are overpowered. It's logical tho cause they are a pain to play in lower levels so you reap the benefits of sticking to him.
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