First i'll assume since you are drunken you want to tank some.


True Tanks tend to favor armor class and high hps, this gives them a nice consistant, steady form of damage mitigation....Great for healers.

Monks on the other hand assumeing we are even trying to tank, But if not the same holds true if you are soloing, are advoidance tanks.  While this does tend to make us better tanks in some instances...the problem lies in the random number generator and you tend to get "streaks"  an example of this is you may dodge 5 attacks in a row...and then get nailed 3 times. This kind of streaky mitigation is not good for squishy players or over stressed healers.

So to answer your question.  Dodge/block is what monks do. Its thier claim to fame so to speak.  But at the same time you must conserve enough hps to be able to withstand the "steaks"

hope that helped.

Hehe Block/ parry same thing I always confuse which one we get and which one we dont.

Id have to strongly disagree.

I can tank in storm dragon stance sure, infact its how i solo.  However to say mitigation is only important for the first few seconds is rediculous.  My warrior friend is full t5 ultra rare armor and has about 60% mitigation in his defensive stance, and let me tell you, mitigating 60% of ever incoming hit is amazing.  taking a 2600 dmg hit down to less then 1200 before its debuffed helps way to much to consider it useful only in the first few seconds.

I meant when tanking as a monk. Of course mitigation is important for real tanks, but it's of no consequence for us Dragons, since Storm Dragon resets it to 0% anyway. that's why I said it's important in the first few seconds, because that's when healers will get their heals over time on you. If you can tank in defensive stance all the time, however, I'd like to know how you do it without asking everyone to tone down on their DPS.