The Monk is really awesome early game...
Since PotD didn't challenge me enough with a full custom party anymore I started two solo attempts. First one with a cipher didn't go so well, due to lack of accuracy (got to level 4 and sadly didn't go for the figurine by not selling the preorder item.).
Yesterday I did a monk and absolutely teared through the beginning of the game. I got Level 5 before I went to Caed Nua, by doing ALL quests. (Only killed Raedrics Cousin though, but I didn't even try Radric himself.) I had 4k gold on me, when I went to Caed, had 4 scrolls of fan, only burned 3 of them on the second attempt, drinking Eldritch aim and having maxed out might helps...
Maerwald was easy I didn't even pull any enemies to him, just summoned my summon at start of combat, let him attack the summons of Maerwald and went right outside of the room. Summon killed one blight, the other two were at 2 stars endurance, when my monk came into the room. Maerwald spent most of his strong attacks on my summon, so I killed his two remaining blights while only drinking one health potion (I'm Moon godlike...).
Gonna go to Defiance today and try to get the retribution shield, I think the Sanguine armor will not be possible right away.
That means no more wielding of Gauns in offhand though, bye bye high accuracy.