Oh. I also want to write sth to ask for some 40+ monk's experience in LS.
My Monk:
- When I started to play FFXI and selected a job for my character, just wanted a job which is simple, direct, melee and easy to control. ;D
- After 10 levels solo in west ronf, I felt tired of only "Boost" > "Ctrl+A".
- During my 1st time in Dune, I enjoyed fighting with pt and the fancy visual effect when using "Dodge".
(However at that time, I wondered why I can't evade the attacks from gobs while they can evade most of my attack. 
)
- When I needed a skull for sub job quest, I was helped with a monk and ranger. I saw the crazy damage from the ranger which is 1k+
. I had a thought to be a RNG.
- Started my life in Qufim, I can hardly be invited and felt frustrated why I kept seeing a word "miss" in my screen very often.
- I finally got "Focus" but my hard time in Qufim was also over.
- With an aid from Rictor, Rockra, Sicarius, Timm ...etc, I finally got the Kazham keys. At that time, I was impressed by a dragoon. I had a thought to be a DRG.
- Finally when I reached lvl32, I stopped and tried WAR, WHM, BLM...etc. Surely, I also opened RNG and DRG.
- At that time, I found that:
* WHM is the most easy to get invited, but I'd only watch the right bottom corner of my monitor.
* BLM is also easy to get invited, but I can only stand far away from the mob.
* WAR is relatively harder to get invited, and life of tanking is hard if the WHM use their mp to cast DIA/Banish instead of CURE.
Turning point:
- I never had any thought to resume until I met a "subligar man".
(He passed me the new linkpearl to replace PiF.) I asked him for some pieces of advice on mnk. I knew that I have rooms to improve my job.
(I remembered the embarrased moment was that I was laughed by a German BLM that "Hundred Fists = Hundred Misses"!) I did more research and started to select equipments carefully. I keep reminding myself to make Accuracy and DEX becoming my friend.
Reaching lvl 40+, I become more comfortable to my accuracy.
(But I know that I cannot solely concentrate on Acc & Dex. I need to keep balancing on Accuracy, Dex, Attack & Str.) I love its all-rounded job abilities - Attack, Evasion, Accuracy, Healing, Range Attack ...etc. Among Tank, DD & Healer, I love to be a DD, especially monk. I like its melee. I like its "direct"!
)
. I had a thought to be a RNG. 
