Lets see bare hand you get a bit faster attack and you get to use yer thundering strike skill *randomly stuns opponent for you non monks out there*
OR
Dual weild/2-handed weapon
Do more damage possibly and lets face it the monk fist weapons are crapy as hell to look at i.e. cetsus should be a big blade coming from your hand but in game it looks like half a sphere is crapy spikes on it obviously EQ did nothing to make it remotly look the right way
so is a little less damage and crapy modeling worth keeping to randomly stun your opponent?