Advice on building up a MNK?

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Don't even imagine yourself as a tank as a monk for group content - for real content it's going to be PLD or RUN only. As you noted you just don't have the defensive capabilities. Of course in lower tier/lowman content go for it, do what you want but I don't ever see folks looking for monk tanks anymore.

I can't help you much with the gear but I will say folks on here generally are interested in knowing what you're rocking before they offer advice.

Definitely you're going to need more accuracy though - and for the WS you'll probably want to make the Weaponskill gorget and the weaponskill belt if you don't have them... I mean I am no expert but they are definitely decent for a lot weaponskills: https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Fotia_Belt & https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Fotia_Gorget ... there are better specific things for specific weaponskills but those are pretty reasonable to make and are worth having regardless.

Wish I knew more about monk or even about current gear (I feel so out of the loop)... good luck, post your TP and WS sets and I imagine someone much more knowledgeable than me will help you out.