Last night I aquired the 'best' monk weapon currently in the game....only to see it is 1.85 delay. Why are monks so geared towards auto attack dps when we are the class who resorts to it less then any other?

-Maces and Swords available to other DPS classes are 20-30dps less, but their special abilities are using the same or greater damage in the equation for abilities....keeping in mind ability damage is about 95% of overall DPS.
-45dps one handed mace dmg is literally double that of our 45dps knuckle (both from necropolis).
-The 69+ dps claw i just got has max damage of around 130, yet 45 dps maces have upward damage of 200.

Perhaps the dev's need to look into the monk delay to figure out why our DPS is so far behind what it should be. We shouldnt need to find weapons with 3times the calculated DPS to keep up with the ability damage from the other light fighters. If we had our weapon damage from items doubled...i think that would be a big step towards equalizing DPS amongst the classes.

I honestly feel itemization is the main force holding back monk DPS. By going 2h we gain a bit more damage (martial weapons are still a lot faster then great axes / polearms etc.), but lost 7.5% crit, which is a major focus of monk dps...crit chains. By going dual weild, we are sacrificing almost all of our calculated ability damage.

The monk weapons were put in before the huge melee revamp where all our abilities were based off of set damage. Now that all of our abilities are percentage based, I feel monk weapons need a serious glance.

Even with Zank at 30 and max dex, I do abysmal damage. I barely crit and that hampers my DPS output right there. I'm very tempted to try and find 35+DPS handwraps and go Harmonious so I can actually crit a few times a fight instead of praying to high heaven that one of my attacks at least will crit.

But then again, it's almost been two weeks since I've spent any amount of time on my Monk. If we're not significantly boosted, he's getting retired in favor of my DK.

As it stands now, I have almost no desire to play my Monk.

Couldn't have said it better myself man.

Monks have no purpose whatsoever outside of FD CRing, but if I primarily wanted to be concerned with the safety of others and whatnot I'd have rolled a Cleric; so pardon me if I'm not whimsically amused over the thought of that being our niche.

It's a problem compounded by our complete lack of itemzation and expanded tenfold by the fact that seemingly every class is getting buffed each patch but us.

Where we were a leg behind at launch we're now a good 40km behind second to last.

Well here's the thing leadfoot, (i also am an orc harmy monk with lots of str) i too thought my DPS was fine and thought i was doing a lot of damage until i started parsing and looking at the cold hard numbers.  For all the sacrifices we make as a class, and im talking no utility, no group buffs, no healing powers, little tanking ability (no better than other light fighters really) we should easily have the highest light fighter DPS.  Currently we have the lowest of ALL DPS classes.  So while our DPS is a little better than a good heavy fighter, picking a monk over any other light fighter sacrifices DPS and all the other utility buffs and minor healing and regen abilities ETC that other light fighters bring to the table(even rogues can evac, lull, and mez now).  Since Necros get FD, do a lot more DPS than us and their pet can offtank better, they basically make the monk completely obsolete.  Think of the big picture mate.  It all relates and we are literally the weakest class in the game.  I don't think anyone is arguing that we are unplayable, and its not an issue of not having fun because weaklings can have fun too  its just the game is SOOOO out of balance and im one of those people on the verge of OCD (at least when it involves balancing classes) that it drives me completely bonkers sometimes.  Thats why some days i seem civil and can post good ideas and be helpful and some days i just rant and rave because i'm fed up with it, lol.

Which is why, Chunli, call me ungrateful but I'm not filled with glee that Dragon Monk health regeneration is going live on Test as one of our only changes >_>

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ROFL QTM!  Start pushing for that!

I vote no changes on FD, fix monk dps and a few of our abilities / durations and we're gtg.