Firstly, I'm sorry I haven't been playing the character I applied for, but it got a little too heavy and demanding to play during my occasional freetime away from classes. However, I have winter break coming up, so I either want to go back to him or play an entirely new character, but I have a question about that.
What is the opinion on playing unarmed non-monk classes? Would it be a waste of time trying to participate in the "upper" content or can it be done? Everyone says on the forums if you really impress DMs, you might get rewarded with items to help the character out (and that happened to me on my application character, thank you DM Howland), but in case that doesn't happen, could an unarmed fighter make his way on his own?