I say what others think,
is my monk a gimp?

Race is really important in vanguard, and Strength is the primary stat for us. If you choose goblin monk for example you are severely gimping yourself.
Monk always has been somewhat gimpish in the past (and still is for ranged damage) but now we kick ass.
In raids you'll beat sorc no problem for dps, and even the best rogue if you are concentrating although that is closer.
For a solid monk at lvl 50 go Orc/Harmonious Str>Int> con/dex

Im torn to be honest.

With Str>dex> vit gear i hit 660 str unbuffed str and 900 raid buffed. 
with Dex>Str>con gear i hit 580 str and 900 raid buffed

So while you do lose about 100 dmg a hit from the str gear, i personally prefer dex>str>con because then i can take all my points out of con and put them into into.  As an orc i have higher con and LOW int so it worked best for me. 

Im kinda iffy on dex, the only gain is 20% crit at 900 dex, but even with average dex and only using dex gear (no points into dex) i still have 350 dex unbuffed and 500-600 buffed.  Which nets me a cool 15-17% crit bonus, cant see the extra 300 dex being worth the small return.   

Id say focus str, and atleast put 2 points into dex/int each level ultimately in high end grounds ill sit at 300-400 int and my int adds just as much dmg to each hit as my str.   +1000 dmg a hit, and 1200 secret of fire dmg a hit and roughly 900 from secret of ice. 

I was refering to pariah yes,  I didnt mean the < to be greater then or less then symbols just indicating that those were the stats on the armor.

I sit at 300 int as an orc unbuffed.

900 dex = 20% crit, or i could just get an apw item with +3% crit and be just the same off.

It really wont matter once you start raiding your stats are determined for you and as such Its str > dex > con/int for our class set.  Weapons...expect to get some vitality and energy until i nail down avarem today and try to squeez him to make at least one of the 3 monk weapons decent for a monk.  Closest is the legions choking grasp and its by far one of the worst weapons in APW. 

Once you see the bows from apw and the rogue dagger from kotasoth youll see how shafted monks got. Ill post some pics tonight.

Gonna edit this later just gonna do what i can before i get off work.  Im not saying the monk weapons are horrible, but theres not a single one thats purely for monks, we lose "points" to healer stats we will never use.

Legions Choking Grasp
79.53 dps (163-180)
15str
11 vit
68 dmg
27 crit

Senate Enforcer
81.9 dps (164-181) ....(note the big dps gain and the low dmg gain....)
11 con
20 dex
91 crit
5% chance to life tap proc




so heres the rogue dagger.  Hows that compare to our FABLED crafted h2h weapon.  lets see its more dmg, better stats, and its PURELY for a dps class.   There is no weapon in apw that compares to this for monks.  Ours is close but its fabled and is worse, thus it needs to be uped imho

ROFL. If it weren't that sad it would be funny.