Whats up all. Just wanted to share with you a anecdote involving my friend and his 17 Drunken monk. So I play a 17 disciple and we were grouping with a 17 sorc and 18 cleric at the time. We were grinding away in Ksavari Gulch in Qalia for a few hours and were in to a point none of us had been in. 18 3 and 4 dot mobs. Anyways the closest thing we had to a tank was our drunken monk friend and he was rockin hard, holding agro, pulling, dishing out the dps. We come to a point where we come across a level 20 4 dot Named mob. We had fought for many hours, and there was no way this roadblock of a monster was gonna send us packin. So my monk friend pulle dthe mob, me and the cleric threw down some initial heals till we could all hop on him and we urned him down without losing anyone. Very impressive to see a monk do that. Just thought you all would find this entertaining.
BTW. the loot was 122 AC greaves with 10 str, 10 dex, 22 physical absorbtion, and 82 hitpoints.

Dammit, hurry up and delete this thread before a developer reads it and assumes we're fine.   

In fact, in retrospect the cleric would have tanked it better.  Much better mitigation than the monks avoidance.

Hmm...I am duo equal level 4 DOT mobs with a disciple at lvl 39 and seem to be doing just fine, and that is in tiger stance without a windblade.  Of course that is using Reed in the Wind II.  Still not as good as mitigation as a tank for sure, and we shouldn't be able to either.  But we do just fine.  I would love our defensive stances to get a boost thought for harmonious and drunken to make them worth using.  But again, it is not all doom and gloom.

I duo with a disciple fairly often, and I can attest, the dps is rather subpar :p