Where is the hp?

[Tigercub]

A little more HP would go a long way on monk, I think. It's already a job that has inferior defense, I'm not sure why our HP has to be so low for a melee on top of that (and very low for monk, traditionally having the highest HP). A lot of people still usually consider monk a liability in endgame stuff, but then so are some other jobs. It seems like things change at very high levels of play, but for the average player this is still just WAR's, BLM's and WHM's show right now. The content tends to favor them being the staples of survivability from what I've seen, people often won't bother to leave the city without those jobs, often demanding two or three of each. Bards tend to fill the gaps more often than anything else.

So I'm left wondering if we really are just too squishy, or if there's simply a content bias against some jobs, or a mixture of both. All I know for certain is we're not alone in being underutilized.