Few Questions from an aspiring Monk

[Plasticleg]

Thanks for the advice. Good news to hear that Brawny Adargas can hold me over. Is Verethagna easy enough to get that i should pursue it before working on a Spharai? Spharai is my dream just because of wanting one ever since i started back in 2004, so even if it may be inferior to a Vere(im not sure if this is the case) i still want one heh.

Vere should be what you focus on as your DD weapon, and Spharai is more for the defensive aspect. Both are your best/only real choices. It's quicker and generally easier to farm up the 50 Chloris/50 Uldasti/75 Dragua items for Vere 90. Only thing is that you'll probably want to level/skill up WAR (AH weapons are ok for farming your H2H items) because you're going to want to hit a RED proc on the mobs.

Only way I'd reallly see Vere being the lesser to Spharai would be against mobs with a ridiculous critical damage/rate defense.

Oh, and it's over9000 times easier to 95 Spharai than it is to 95 a Vere; 1500 heavy metal plates.