I unfortunately havent played the beta so the only information that I have is solely based on info from various friends and websites. It would seem however though that from the 3 styles, Harmonious, Dragon, and Drunken, I'd like to go dragon for the dps as thats what I loved about my monk in EQ, however, I also am a hardcore group/raider.

Because of this, it would seem that 75% or so of the skills I would get are AoE, which means that most of them especially in raid settings are somewhat useless (not completely, depends on the situation) but more so then anything I usually refrain from using AoE stuff when you have a pure crowd control class. Does the AoE effects only activate on already agro mobs or will it hit other mobs that the group hasnt engaged yet too?

Because of that drunken seems decent however, I dont plan on tanking ever, if I solo then I do what I can but I wouldnt call that tanking none the less. This leads me with harmonious. It would seem like this class brings more to a group or even a raid and doesnt really come with any real drawbacks. Perhaps its not as high dps as other monk styles but thats not too much of a drawback when even in dragon at least from what I have heard, other offensive fighters have higher dps. I dont know for sure though and I havent seen any info of people trying to parse anything so who knows.

What if any are possible drawbacks or negatives to harmonious? Dps wise, without executing skills do common swings hit for less too than the rest of the styles? Do they get hit any harder by mobs or do they just get hit the same more frequently? If thats the case, is that by nature or is it only when the other classes execute a skill, for example a dragon/harmonious monk has the same dps, except when the dragon monk executes fiery doom to all on map level 1, in the same respect does a harmonious/drunken monk get hit for the same dmg, the same amount of times, except when the drunken monk executes, sway like a lush so nothing can hit you lvl 4?

Very interesting, thanks for the information, with this bit of information in mind it reinforces my thoughts of becoming a dragon monk