Are monks really that bad? Monk/Pal pvp duo

[Hailin]

I just rolled a monk with my brother (Playing a pally) on the FFA Server.

I am a tad freaked out by all the bad stuff I have read on here and vanguardmonks.com.

I am just afraid that we are going to get rolled by every imaginable single, duo and trio out there.

I am lvl 5 now. Is this going to be an extremely frustrating experience for me?

I don't mind dying it is pvp after all. But am I going to get rolled by person after person?

I was just trying to do some strategy and learning for my class and every single post I see they are complaining about something to do with monks.

At this point I am under the impression that monks do 1 damage per sec all the way to 50 but damn they look good doing it. I played a monk to 50 in eq2 and had the best time I have ever had on a class. Played one in FF11 and with war sub they made great tanks and damage dealers up to lvl 30. (DPS after that)

Am I making a huge mistake. Is there anything else you could all suggest for me to play if monk is this gimped? I guess I am basically admitting I am not the best pvper in the world. Just picked the class from past MMO experiences but now I am starting to worry. lol. Paranoid??? Just slightly.

[Vanboi123]

Pvp server is very unbalanced, its not just monks, pvp damage was nerfed but HEALING was not so therfore you have these healer gods walking around that wont die unless they got 5 people on them attacking at once

None of the melee classes are really any good in pvp, not when healers can do good melee and heal and nuke all at once and still do 80% of the dps of a offensive fighter


If you want a god mode duo make two rakurr shaman duo and just go around stealthing/killing/tanking/healing everyone whill the corpses pile around you

Making any class other than a healer is useless on the pvp server

But I suppose one day........8 months down the line......itll get fixed

[Hailin]

Pvp server is very unbalanced, its not just monks, pvp damage was nerfed but HEALING was not so therfore you have these healer gods walking around that wont die unless they got 5 people on them attacking at once

None of the melee classes are really any good in pvp, not when healers can do good melee and heal and nuke all at once and still do 80% of the dps of a offensive fighter


If you want a god mode duo make two rakurr shaman duo and just go around stealthing/killing/tanking/healing everyone whill the corpses pile around you

Making any class other than a healer is useless on the pvp server

But I suppose one day........8 months down the line......itll get fixed


Cool ty for the post :)
I have already rolled a disciple and he is still a pally but we will definately look into the shaman. :)
Again though i don't really want god mode. Even though I have sorta stepped in that direction with my disc. heh. Though Discs are suppose to be the lowest healers in the healing department. I am really enjoying it even though I am not even 7 yet. heh. Soon though. :)

My bro is 7 now if I am grouped with him am I automatically flagged for pvp if someone attacks?