Just gonna throw in my 2 cents. 

I like my monk alot, even though the last patch made me a little pissed, 22%+ avoidance gone.  As a drunken monk i feel my dps is pretty decent overall if you pay attention to what your doing, weaknesses ect.  I agree with not having enough endurance, once you really start to learn the monk and get in the flow of things, you run out alot.

I really hope for something for FD also.  It's saved my ass countless times already, but failed 4-5 times ina row on higher level things.  I can only keep my self alive for so long! lol 

I'm torn here.  EQ fd was pretty awesome for surviving ALOT of mayhem, i lived through some hairy stuff in my day in EQ.   Any real monk knows what im talking about.  Just you and the wind left in NTOV, your guildmates scatered around you, lol.   

On the other hand VG fd wipes aggro almost everytime, and is obviously gone or not.  Thats very very nice.  After years of having SNARF come back and chase you...lol      Thats almost worth the amount of fails, almost...   When they corpse camp you its easy to remedy, just wait for fd to refresh and tap it quick twice.  If you do it fast enough nothing re-aggros.

I guess theres really no point to this other than voicing my opinion.  Push on monk brothers( we need a raised fist emote..  )


Mac

Hey monks,

Just found this place and had a few questions for ya.  Loving my monk so far, was a monk in EQ aswell.

So, i just got 15 and am curious about a couple things.  I went drunken style because ive always been a defensive monk, even in EQ, i'm big on survability.  I fail to see a purpose with the "middle" stance, forgot the name.  It's 10% haste and 5% dodge iirc.  Why would you use this? If i want to dps i switch to the first, if i want to pull or solo i switch to the third.  If i want to be bad at both i switch to the second one? lol  Mabey i'm missing something?  What situation would you use it in?

My other question is about the secrets and ironhand.  These also seem like a waste of time.  Wouldnt it be better dps to just spam ashenhand when you have the jin?

Anyone have any info on how much dps you can output with jin surge?  Again seems more effecient to spam ashenhand.

Sorry for all the questions, but its stuff thats been bugging me.  Anyone Enlighten me?

Thanks,

Mac