This kind of posts have been quite popular and usefull in a lot of games :
So here it is, the "monk community" list of issues and suggestions, since we these forums are the only monk specific forums, i guess we could have some kind of legitimity.
I propose to list the top 10 consensual issues on monks and possible fixes.
Go on, shoot your proposal, i'll update the post (or mods feel free to take the lead on this post) to keep it up to date.

Issues :
1) Feign Death :
The ability seems definately broken. Fix the mobs camping the monk's corpse. Resist rates are also way too high versus higher level mobs. It should be skill based, or have a modifier to resists.

2) Itemisation :
Monk weapons are useless at the moment. Ulaks/knuckles/claws lower the fist dps, witch make no sense. Make theses weapon give +dps to the unarmed damage ratings, or at least, since only monks and disciples can use them, make them on par with the unarmed damage of the equivalent level.

3) Stances :
Monk stances are either bugged or if designed as such are clearly an obstacle. It seems that at the moment they are more of a hindrance than anything, actualy lowering dps. Some dont work at all (like the hp regen stance) other remove more than they give. The stances need a complete revamp.

4) Energy :
As All classes have energy and thus can add dps/utility through endurance AND energy, monks will necessarely lagg behind those classes. We dont get anything from +energy items, and really little from int/wis compared to other classes. Give us an energy bar and abilities according, or make that +energy items add to endurance in some way or another, but just for non energy classes.

5) Avoidance :
The avoidance nerf has hit us hard. It was our only way of lowering incoming damage. As it is now, our avoidance is really marginal, we cannot rely on it. We need a large raise in avoidance, or in reduction to damage in some way.

6) Counters :
We get a lot of counters, but are really not worth it. The activation time is too low, the endurance cost is to high, and the damage is even lower than our normal special attacks. Since the avoidance nerf, our counters are even less usefull as we cant trigger them, nor can we decently put ourselves in a position of tanking. This also needs a full revamp.

7) Overall DPS :
Most classes have their damage scale with their weapon damage, sometimes inflicting X% of the normal damage + modifier (X being > 100). Our attacks are either based on 100% of our damage, or dont depend on it at all. If we are supposed to be a dps class, we need our special attacks (and/or our normal ones) to have much higher dps in order to stay on par with other offensive fighters.

I'll add more issues as we get more feedback from the community.

well for me the first thing i would like to see fixed is the FD bugs.  if you have 3 or more mobs and you succeed in the FD you will still be locked in combat and the mobs will perma camp you... basically leading to your death.

secondly we sacrifice utlity for dps... yet we are the lowest dps class out there usually
we now lost alot of avoidance which means we cannot tank effectively over any other fighter class
harmonious monk stances are pratically useless after last patch
druken stances now suck after the last patch
cant speak for dragon as i have not tried that out yet

to sum up... our specialty is suppose to be feign death pulling and dps... this is what we offer groups.  our dps is the suck so we dont offer that.  bards can out pull us with sleep and slow so fd is useless with a bard in group.  fd is severly bugged on top of that making it unreliable anyhow.

and i also want to add that using a weapon over fist sucks.. meaning if we want to maintain the pathetic dps we already have we have to sacrifice stats for it.  handwraps and knuckles should add to our damage not change it to the listed stats of the item.

1. First and foremost provide us with a balance of dps and utility.  There are hundreds of ways to do it, but overall we need either more dps or utlity, although I would prefer dps.  If I wanted a lot of utility I'd be a bard.

2.   Revamp FD, fix the bugs that cause the corpse camping, make FD pass or fail based on skill or some other check other than level of mob, then we might be more viable at pulling in groups and raids.

3.  Crits - improve our crit chance back to a reasonable level. With the finishers we get, it's crazy to go 5 or 6 fights without even 1 crit.  Once or twice a fight on average would be fine.  If somehow this causes too much damage, adjust the endurance to damage ratio or overall damage of our finishers.  Even if our damage is lower, it would still be nice to be able use these abilities. Right now with such a low amount of crits, its almost not even worth the space on our toolbar.

4.  Damage to endurance ratio - this really needs to be looked at on a gamewide level and balanced between all classes.   I don't know the full intricacies of other classes, but it does appear it monks eat too much endurance.

5.  Jin - this goes hand in hand with how they deal with endurance.  Right now we loose Jin very fast.  If we had more Jin going into fights we could deal more damage overall.   I think looking at the rate of speed which we loose Jin would be wise. 

6.  I'm a dragon monk.. but I have major issues with evasion. It basically is forcing monks to all go dragon as you leave the drunken and harmonious monks with little benefit if they don't have a good enough bonus to defense. 

7,  As a dragon monk, especially if you can fix the drunken and harm defensive skills, it would be nice to do a little more damage because as of now, the dragon monk's abilities only provide a very slight edge on dps over harm's and drunkens.  The proc from storm is buggy but weak when it does land.  The heavenly stance is 100% broke and the stone stance appears bugged.. even though i see the 300 AC gain, there is no noticeable difference in defensive skills. 

As a dragon monk, I don't want the defensive skills or debuffs that harms and drunks get.  I want to be the high dps monk as the style implies and that should mean that I take a beating if I get hit, much the same way as a high dps caster like a sorceror.

The great concept of styles is that you allow us to choose whether we want to be evasive tank with decent damage or nice combo of defense, damage and utility or a high damage, low defensive class.  It gives the class versatility and gives each player a unique role so to speak.

I've updated the original post.
I'll try to update it more as we get consistent issues.

I may just be repeating what others have said, but the biggest issues I have with monks are:

1.)DPS above all. I think the basic agreement on these boards is that we lack the DPS to mean a thing. This is of course contradict to the logic that Utility is balanced with DPS, because we lack any sort of decent utility outside of FD.

The way I see it, which is just a pipe dream at this point, is:

Sorcercer = Dragon > All for AE(2+ mobs DPS);
Ranger > Monk > All for Single Target Mobs;

This is all contingent, of course, on the execution of Utility balanced with DPS, as in the more DPS you have, the less utility you should be granted, and vice versa.

Evac, Snare, Pets, Root, Heal, Charm, Mez, buffs, songs, debuffs are all vasty superior to the utility we get. Also, everything I have just mentioned in way of utility will keep a group alive - Not rez them after they have died.

We are a DPS class first and foremost. People won't pick us for pulling, anymore. Not for heals. Not for Mezzes. Not to tank. Not to debuff.

To DPS.

Just DPS - and the sky is the limit. Dragon monks should be able to annihilate groups of mobs, along with sorcerers. However, because of the large amount of AE power, they should lack some in the single target DPS area. Enter the ranger, various casters, etc. Monks, however, should still be near the top of the parse in most circumstances, simply because, we offer NOTHING ELSE. Jin surge? One attack. Teleport? Bugged so it only works if you are in  the range of the combat art. Ghetto mez? Only when out of combat.(Which, to be fair, can be attained by a simple FD, but still pales in the face of other mezzes.) FD? That leads me to my next point:

2.) Feign Death is bugged.

I don't mind mobs casting on me when it works and they are midcast. That's cool.
I don't mind when mobs sit on top of me for a couple of minutes. I have time.
I don't mind when I lag hard and run after I FD, getting back up again. That's another issue.
What I do mind, however, is when they don't break aggro, and I have to flop it 5 more times. 2  times because it failed repeatedly and 3 times to get it to reset properly.

It's a bug. It's obvious. It needs to be fixed.

3.) Jin pool:

I really like the Jin pool idea, myself. The problem is, it doesn't equate to an energy pool. There is just something about it, I can't put my finger on to add constructivly. Maybe if it didn't decay during combat, or the cap was higher. It just seems like at times I have a full pool which rarely gets used and other times I need some and have nothing. Then I have to sit and meditate, wait a year for a full pool, and continue on. Don't get me wrong, I love meditate, and I like the idea that we can Meditate to get jin up outside of combat.. but 5 combat arts later and it's depeted, along with our endurance pool?

Hey, how about this one - reduce the cost of endurance abilities, so we can spam those more and in turn get more jin...

4.) Stances:

Deplorable. I'm a dragon, and am always in storm stance. Dragon stance is broken, and stone dragon is worthless, even for what it's intended to be used for. If I could redo the stances.. I would do it like this(Note: I don't know the other two stance styles):

Storm Dragon: Same as it is now, up it's damage maybe. Make sure it procs on every hit, and remove the Jin cost, even though it doesn't work right now.

Dragon Stance: AE damage on every hit. When I look at the monks I see Dragons as the AE gods, Harmonious as the single target debuff/self sustaining single targeters, and drunken as the minor combination + minor tanking. A little bit of all three. This damage should be low, but only because it will amount to high AE damage when they're are a lot of targets. If you really wanted to go over the top, you can add a minor life tap to stick with it's health regen factor now..

Stone Dragon: This stance really interested me, because it sounded like a good idea if the target was nuking you with a ton of fire/cold.. but by doing no extra damage and hindering your attack speed  it simply wasn't worth it. Personally I would just remove the -20% haste, and leave the 30% reduction to heat/cold and a little dodge bonus.

Sure, I'm sure someone will drop by and say our ideas are overpowering the class.. but if the class is meant to be the top of the DPS - The sky is the limit. Within acceptable terms, of course.

I won't go into avoidance and offtanking, since that's both not what I want the monk class to end with, and I am not a drunken monk.

I agree with all of the above.

But isnt FD a drunken monk ability that goes up to FD III as you go up in levels? So maybe harm and dragon monks are having trouble with FD because its not really a skill for their style?
Could be wrong but i never had problems going FD on higher lvl mobs as a drunken monk.

Nah, FD is under the school of Drunken, but, its not a drunken mastery and also is not better in any sorts if you are of the Drunken Style.

I did a similar list back in beta 3 if for ease of management you may want to break it down into subcategories like this. Also you may want a representitive from each style to confirm any bugs. Now you don't have to do it this way. I am just offering what little wisdom I have on this.

As I am probably one of the few remaining Harmi monks I'll add Harmi stuff to the list later after I get home.


General Monk Bugs/Issues and Concerns

Bugs
1) Feign Death :
The ability seems definately broken. Fix the mobs camping the monk's corpse. Resist rates are also way too high versus higher level mobs. It should be skill based, or have a modifier to resists.

2) Our weapon skills are messed up. Sometimes i keep hitting my ennemy with the sword i sold 2 hours aggo.
Fix this as this is a bug, when hitting with my fists i shouldnt get martial staff upgrades or two handed slashing.

3) Broken procs. Secret of fire, secret of ice, or one of the dragon stance are supposed to proc, but they seem to be really buggy or proc once every 100 hits or so ...
Possible fixes :


Issues / Concerns / Suggestions

1) By far the greatest issue with monks: CLEARLY DEFINED CLASS ROLE


2) Itemisation :
Monk weapons are useless at the moment. Ulaks/knuckles/claws lower the fist dps, witch make no sense. Make theses weapon give +dps to the unarmed damage ratings, or at least, since only monks and disciples can use them, make them on par with the unarmed damage of the equivalent level.

3) Stances :
Monk stances are either bugged or if designed as such are clearly an obstacle. It seems that at the moment they are more of a hindrance than anything, actualy lowering dps. Some dont work at all (like the hp regen stance) other remove more than they give. The stances need a complete revamp.

4) Energy :
As All classes have energy and thus can add dps/utility through endurance AND energy, monks will necessarely lagg behind those classes. We dont get anything from +energy items, and really little from int/wis compared to other classes. Give us an energy bar and abilities according, or make that +energy items add to endurance in some way or another, but just for non energy classes.

5) Avoidance :
The avoidance nerf has hit us hard. It was our only way of lowering incoming damage. As it is now, our avoidance is really marginal, we cannot rely on it. We need a large raise in avoidance, or in reduction to damage in some way.

6) Counters :
We get a lot of counters, but are really not worth it. The activation time is too low, the endurance cost is to high, and the damage is even lower than our normal special attacks. Since the avoidance nerf, our counters are even less usefull as we cant trigger them, nor can we decently put ourselves in a position of tanking. This also needs a full revamp.

7) Overall DPS :

The monk is suppoesed to have the highest baseline DPS of all of the offesnive fighters. This is not the case.
Most classes have their damage scale with their weapon damage, sometimes inflicting X% of the normal damage + modifier (X being > 100). Our attacks are either based on 100% of our damage, or dont depend on it at all. If we are supposed to be a dps class, we need our special attacks (and/or our normal ones) to have much higher dps in order to stay on par with other offensive fighters.

Jin uses. Jin has really little uses, and could live with some new abilities based on it.
Possible fixes (mutually non exclusives) :
- New abilities more usefull than a basic attack or a mediocre buff.
- Jin dump skill : like execute for wariors in wow : spend all your current Jin to do X damage/jin point spent.
- Jin stance scaling with number of jin points stored. (like 1% dodge or 1% damage or 1% haste per current jin, like bards and their stances.)

9) Crits - improve our crit chance back to a reasonable level. With the finishers we get, it's crazy to go 5 or 6 fights without even 1 crit.  Once or twice a fight on average would be fine.  If somehow this causes too much damage, adjust the endurance to damage ratio or overall damage of our finishers.  Even if our damage is lower, it would still be nice to be able use these abilities. Right now with such a low amount of crits, its almost not even worth the space on our toolbar.


Dragon Monk Bugs:

Dragon Monk Issues / Concerns / Suggestions
1) Storm Stance: I don't have much to say about Storm outside of the fact that when a Dragon monk is in Storm Stance there should be no one outside of maybe Sorcerers who can match our DPS. The dmg it should offer needs to be raised or perhaps leave the proc dmg where it is and provide a 10-20% melee haste. For that I don't mind the stance costing Jin but it needs to be reduced to 1 Jin every 6-8 secs not 4. We just don't maintain enough Jin to support that. Plus when wasting the Jin on the Storm Stance we're hindering our ability to use our other Jin required abilities...which in the long run lowers our DPS. Not what should be expected from the stance that should be considered easily the highest DPS monk stance.

2) Dragon Stance: Currently broken. Doesn't work at all. I think the idea of HP regen is great if it's in the range of 20% or so and applies to in combat also. What I think should be added to this stance is a 20% endurance regen. Would make a Dragon monk have to make a decision as to what stance to be in and not always choose Storm. I don't think the endurance regen is out of line as it would allow a Dragon monk to fire more attacks and hence increase our DPS which once again that is what we do and only what we do....particulary a Dragon monk.

3) Stone Stance: I think it's a good idea and is setup properly if it actually helped going into that stance in the event we would need to be a fake tank for a bit, but I agree with the above posts that it doesn't appear to be working. When I turn on my Stone stance I see my AC increase almost 40-50% yet that only translates to maybe a 100-200 point increase in my Defense which doesn't seem to add up to me and doesn't appear to add up when a mob starts beating on me. If my defense is at 2000 with AC of 400 and my AC goes up to 750 then my defense should go up higher than 2200 (these are all hypothetical numbers), just trying to make my point. Anyways if the stance worked as advertised it would be fine.


Drunken Monk Bugs

Drunken Monk Issues / Concerns / Suggestions

Harmonious Monk Bugs

1) Harmonious stance can be abused


Harmonious Monk Issues / concerns / Suggestions