Dear Turbine, about monk splashes and armor class..

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.No, actually you don't make a significant sacrifice. Wisdom affects all of your attack DCs, so you are going to want it to be higher, not to mention the fact that you get an enhancement increase for it, allowing you to have a higher score, while spending less build points. Add in the fact that you get innate AC boosts while you level, and it's significantly easier for that monk to reach a higher AC without sacrificing anything.

By sacrifices, I meant things like:

1) Only weapons that crit 20 (x2) hampering the use of smiting, banishing, enfeebling, puncturing, burst.
2) Only getting greensteel/transmuting on weapons that you can't use with monk stunning fist/quivering palm.
3) Shield DR
4) Self cast bark skin (compared to ranger AC build)
5) Intimidate (compared to AC fighter build)

And, quite frankly; The monk class was never meant to be as offensive a melee class as a ranger. They were meant to win through defense and their special abilities.

That compared with the limited effectiveness of stunning fist/quivering palm due to lack of tactics lines/weighted, raid bosses that are immune to FoL and generally weak (couple of exceptions) finishing moves (that disable CE) is why I'm advocating not decreasing their defence abilities.