So, I play Sathuil on the Seradon server, I am a 50 monk.  I have played a monk for 9 years in EQ1, as well as a monk in Vanguard created shortly after release.  I am here due to monk changes that (I hope) are still being tuned. 

The APW armor, 5 set bonus, is being changed from a 5% chance to proc Fists of Celerity on self for 10 seconds, into a 5% chance to proc gain 2 jin.  This really did it in for the monk class on Vanguard for me.  Of course I will wait until I see changes on the live server, but right now (and yes, it is only on test server) monks are getting nerf bats right and left.  Harmonious suffers the most in DPS, and I really don't know if "any" of our debuffs are not being overwritten by other classes on raids.  Other styles suffer greatly as well.

If the 5 piece set is turned into gain 2 jin as a 5% proc, I will quit playing Vanguard.  And it's sad, because I like Vanguard.

From what I have seen the proc does stack with all other double damage abilities and ya it was a wee bit to much. But two jin proc is kinda pathetic. Would like to see somthing more along the lines of say 10% melee damage for so many seconds or something. Almost anything is better then what they gave us in return.

Atleast it is still only on test so hopefully it will be changed.

Good thing its just test.
we will hash it out im sure. we just havent had time to test the new DPS for monks with this change yet.
nothing to get concerned about at this time tho.

happy gaming

If they are chainging the monk apw armor proc (and they should its a bit too much, and 5% to jin is kinda lame) I would like to suggest changing it to a 5% chance to proc Jin Surge, its in the same vein of the original Fist of Celerity proc (short Burst dps increase) and its not as over powered, and it comes from our skill sets. If they are worried about it effecting other members make the proc self only vs the Regular group Jin Surge.

It would make the set effect useful vs the questionable Jin gain, and benefit all styles of monk.

Raid buffed, sure monks are decent, especialy dragon, i have taken a few parses myself. Its unbuffed where drunken monk just got detroyed.  Doing similar damage to tank classes is just unacceptible. I think the devs have really missed the boat on most of the problems.  I wonder if they have even parsed extreme dps builds for tank and healer classes, as disc and warrior could likely hang dps wise to the raid monk on test.

Warhammer might be fun =)

All I can say is try and be patient. If things are horribly out of whack I am positive they will be addressed.

As far as soloing, Monks are not supposed to be god at it. Soloing you got rogues who suck at it and then ya got us, in that order. We are a mostly Pure DPS class with little survivability if we choose to not FD. I know this changed from GU6 and how players were accustomed to playing but it does not mean that it should stay that way just because people got used to it. When the game launched we sucked at soloing (as it should have been), that changed when we got our revamp and people got used to it however IMO it never should have gotten that easy.

The change to 5 piece proc was supposed to give you more diversity and more ability to switch in Secret of Tanscendance 5% damage for 1(?) Minute, Jin Surge incase your in a stacked DPS group and this will beinfit DPS as a raid, More ashen hand attacks and or whatever else ya wanted to do with Jin. Jin is our backbone so any additional source of Jin is a nice bonus for all forms of monks.

As far as secret damage is concerned it was terribly overpowered. What other class gets an additional up to 2k+ added damage on every single attack they do, even auto-attack? If secrets had not taken a hit then other skills would have been slaughtered to accomodate this extra DPS. Maybe the secrets will get bumped back up to a higher proc rate, 50% maybe but if that happens I would suspect the damge will be cut in half to accomadate for DPS increase.

Overall raid DPS for a monk is still very nice, fully geared including dragon mace I can get 5400-5800ish on avg. I am usually top 3 on the parses.

Solo monks may indeed need some more fine tuning but I think alot of the players saying that they are broken and not worth playing think that Solo DPS should not have been affected at all and monks were not overpowered as soloers before, and to that end I don't agree personally.

Rogues are desinged to be top melee DPS and worst soloers. Monks are designed to be second highest melee DPS, why should they not be second worst soloing?

Ashen hand is still burst DPS, it was lowered in damage some but really not that much to be honest (not as much as you would think with a 200% damage reduction).

Anyways it does more damage than most finishers we have, and sorry drax fists of transcendence is useless.

5% damage over 60 seconds does not make up for the lost jin you could be spending elsewhere.