Quote Originally Posted by ZeZipster
I'm a Elvaan Monk, I'm going to do Monk/Samurai, which is all about the TP. You could also do Monk/Warrior, which would have 2 ways to stop attacks and 2 ways to add on attacks when you think about it... I personally don't like warriors, they're all about Gil to update armor and weapons. I don't have much Gil, it almost broke me trying to get Tropical Punches...
You'd be a fool to actually buy Tropical Punches unless you have the gil to throw away (say around 70,000 gil). You get a chance to make more gil at higher levels of around and near level 30, so don't worry.

Everything is about gil - melees, mages and tanks. There's no question about it.