At 24 I have 15.6% chance to crit... stacked with fists thats 20.6%... with a cleric buffing i go into the 16% realm... maybe your gear just sucks?  You aren't a defensive fighter... you are an offensive fighter... play to your strengths... don't try and buff up your weakness just to do a job you were never intended to do.  Learn to balance your endurance and jin in a way that you are never out of both.  If you need burst DPS you spam your skills... but you can keep up a healthy amount of both if you just go at it from the sustained DPS standpoint.  Your negativity saddens me in general... you should try and focus on the positive points of playing a monk and not complaining all the time.  Oh and most of all you are a group class.  Get over not being able to solo... welcome to the monk class... we have never soloed for XP...

(forgot to mention the ranger 5% crit buff... so sexy)

I'm a level 22 Kojani Dragon Monk at this point.  Every time I level its 5str/5dex/4con.  I have exactly 255 Dex. It gives me the following bonuses:

15.2% Crit
183.9 Ranged Damage Bonus
8.80% Dodge/Parry
5.99% Chance to resist a spell

So the crit thing seems a bit low to me but whatever...  The ranged damage bonus doesn't seem to get added to my shuriken throwing... Here comes the odd thing though.  My friend has a level 22 Necro.  He has 45 Dex.  He has an 8% chance to dodge.  Does this mean that my 210 more points of dex = .8% more of a chance to dodge than a necro?  Does this 8.80% chance that i get for all my dex get added to some other dodge % chance as a bonus?  I haven't manged to break 300 dex buffed yet but i know I have got up to the 280s and the highest crit% I have seen is about 16.2% and I don't remember what my dodge bonus was but it wasn't 12%.  What inconceivable number do I have to hit to get my 12%?

On the other hand I'm pretty sure my DPS and tanking abilities aren't too bad.  I was grouped up with a cleric and after all his buffs I had like 23% Mitigation from my AC stat and around 17% from my Defense stat.  And as far as doing damage... well 15% crit chance gives me a pretty good chain of crits fairly regularly.

(edited for stupid typos)

Also... Shuriken in your ammo slot never go away... you can just put a stack there and throw it for the rest of your life at the moment.

Even if they did add a monk/dsc weapon quest it would be meaningless.  I hit level 17 tonight and got 2 brute claws (35-38dmg +16 dex).  I get a total gain of about 3dps and 32agi which is basically 2% crit chance.  They would have to make the weapon stats super crazy awesome for them to even be worthwhile.

Weaponless:    56.5dps 9.9% dex crit bonus
1 Brute Claw:   58.14dps 10.9% dex crit bonus
2 Brute Claws:  59.34dps 11.9 dex crit bonus