I've been a dragon monk until lvl 36... Then I decided I'd had enough of my group's constant bitching about me being useless, and since we didn't have a decent tank I decided to switch to drunken... Halfway into the Cragwind weapon quest.

I'm now lvl 37. On the one hand, my usefullness has gone up about 500%. My group suddenly absolutely adores the fact that I'm around, because we now have a stable tank. I can keep aggro by just cycling through mobs, spamming Jeering Kick, and throwing in the occasional Foolhardy Swagger. On the other hand, when doing shrine of the wind quest, at some point I had 5 lvl 35 4-dots bashing away at me, and our sorceror managed to draw aggro... Le't just say that at lvl 37, with people in the group who do a lot more damage than you, it CAN be hard to keep aggro ánd stay alive when faced with more than 3 mobs. You just can't attack them all fast enough, you can't do enough damage to keep aggro that way, nor get healed fast enough. It's not impossible though, if your group knows what it's doing and takes the limitations of a paper tank into account.
Please note that my Cragwind group does not do so, it's really just a disorganised bunch of people who are half the time NOT attacking the same mob, and  run away from me when they draw aggro instead of towards me. Which makes tanking a wee bit harder, and which makes me extra proud of managing to avoid groupwipes in Cragwind. Group consists of:
-Level 37 Ranger
-Level 38 Sorceror
-Level 36 Shaman
-Level 36 Dread Knight (Who SHOULD have been the tank, IMO, but he sucked. Honestly, WTF is the point of being a DK if you couldn't even tank to save your life?)
-Level 32 Cleric (I owe him my life. More than once he just ignored the sorceror when he drew aggro again, realising a dead me would result in a group wipe, whereas a dead sorceror just means a little delay in killing the mobs )
-Level 37 Monk (Me. Who did feign death once, during tanking... I mean, what's the point of dying if you can feign? Either way, the aggro WILL go to the rest of the group, and feigning means you can be useful later on in combat, or by pulling all corpses to a safe spot and reviving the cleric... For some reason, my group thought I should've just let myself die...  Your opinions on FD during tanking, please? Is it cowardice, or a sound tactical decision?)

Anyway, I do not regret the switch and will happily stay intoxicated until level 50, I think, when I will reevaluate my skills and position in groups.

Finished the Cragwind Weapon quests now, nice bladed staff for the next few levels... Any thoughts on where to get a decent martial sword?