I use two of those weapons, and I do MASSIVE amounts of damage, mainly because I crit so much.  The actual hits are insane also.  Very good weapon!

They won't add soulbind out equip.  I really don't know anybody who soulbinds their items anyways.  Its best to not soulbind them and sell them back until much higher level.  The new death penalty should cater to both the people that hate the current system, and to the people that thought the old system was fine, due to a hefty exp penalty still in place.  I like games that piss you off when you die.  Makes living that much better. 

That is a horrible observation.. There were no monk patch notes here either: http://www.vanguardspheres.com/forums/announcements/8957-vanguard-build-1779-patch-notes-3-a.html

But the next two following patches both had monk updates.  They do plenty of internal testing before they go to the test server. Your statement was about the most emo thing I have heard in awhile...   Impatient people...

I just got safefall to 200.  You can fall extreme heights and not take damage.  Over by upside defense garrison (east of it near the coven) there is a huge hill that overlooks the coven on the right side.  Climb all the way to the top and run down it and jump.  You can get back up in about 3 seconds since you are working it on a hill.  Very easy way to increase it.

After our recent little upgrades, I feel like we are doing pretty decent damage.  Especially in groups, I tend to pound on things pretty hard and even take agro from tanks.  The only problem I tend to have is with evade.  I think we get hit way way too much.  I am a 25 dragon monk, and 5 minutes ago fought a level 17 3dot.  Now of course he didn't kill me, but I had about 60% life left.  I was using a martial sword also for the parry.  When I think of monks I think of dodge and counter attacks.  I am confident that the devs realize there are multiple problems with our class, which is the only reason I havn't rerolled/quit.  I love being a monk and am very excited to see if we get some additional loving soon.