Are those parcel NPCs actually available from day 1 on progression servers? I don't think they were there on Fippy but that was the last server I played on.
Interesting.
I played a rogue to 50 on Fippy when it launched but I know that was quite a bit different than the more recent progressive servers. I'll have to spend some time messing around on them to get a feel for things again.
Does this mean monks under their soft cap that try to wear some good AC gear will be pretty decent tanks for farming/boxing/etc or is it really just the plate classes that benefit a lot?
There are permanent race changes that you can purchase ingame if that's what you mean. So I'll probably change my monk to Iksar once Kunark unlocks for example.