84% melee avoidance with locked aggro from jeering kick / aoe taunt
-tanking 53 6 dots and avoiding 16 attacks in a row
-soloing 6dot lvl 48's to 60% (before they hit me twice and i get pwnt)

Highest crit 92,000, lowest possible non-crit 16k on a less then 30 sec cooldown (buffed)
-as far as i know 92k is highest non-finisher crit (nerf dk omgz)
-the cooldown reductions all stack you can get it down by 70something percent (20%bard, 25%psi, 25% aum)
-can solo a mob to 30% in the time a fairly high dps group of 5 can get a mob dead

Kiting ability with 5 required melee attacks

Pulling named through 20 trash mobs to a group single (or double), splitting named out of their sets

-with a bloodmage healing, we are the best tanks in game
-we are hands down the highest dps class in game
-pulling single mobs in a zone immune to crowd control is more utility then pretty much everything aside from healing

I'm all for dev's evaluating the monk class as we have many bugs, but i don't want to see us become severely overpowered. As honestly, I think a monk is one of the most overpowered classes in this game right now. It's a hell of a lot of button smashing and timing, but atm we can fufill any role for a group aside from healing. I kind of chuckle when I read these posts about how bad monks are, I don't know if people honestly think that, or just trying to milk the image that has been portrayed of the monk class.

I want fixes, not god-mode.

Hell....maybe I am playing a different game, what did you guys buy? >< I just don't understand, honestly. I still find it humorous heh.

Monks do not tank better than defensive fighters.  We don't have the hitpoints.  We don't have the mitigation.  Avoidance is inefficient and unpredictable in tanking situations, and every tank and healer worth a damn knows this and agrees.  Most tanks I know actually have fairly similar evasion with a shield equipped, and far superior mitigation to boot.  I don't know how any defensive fighter could ligitimately argue that monks tank better.

Did anyone actually read my post?  Our entire style of monk is currently defined by spamming our two taunts.  If that is how we are to "sacrifice" dps, then I take serious issue with that for good reason, as I explained very well in my post.

The only new suggestion I made was moving the damage shield to our nuetral stance of drunken mastery, and the hate generation to the defensive stance.  Adding hate generation does not equal adding dps.  Without the damage shield, the defensive stance would actually produce lower dps.

Almost right - swap these two components and it should read:

Drunken Fist = More damage, More Squishy (that even possible? - no bonus evasion I suppose)
Drunken Mastery = Damage Shield (Drunken Slap Shield, heh), Quick Refresh, Some Dodge
Drunken Sway = Dodge and Parry, Adding Hate

If these are our choices, then swapping those two components is what really needs to happen.  If it is decided we are still doing too much damage from our defensive stance (unlikely), then a flat percentage reduction to damage output could be added.

I was having a couple of issues with the drunk changes last night on test... I didnt think the drunk changes were readyfor live but got pushed out....

I am trying to track down Talisker 

~QTM

I'll hold him, you can punch 

Just to add to that, with our 80% evasion and hitting for 92k how is it that I can barely tank a green 3 dot mob while my DK friend can easily tank a white 3 dot and be full health at the end?

Aye sorry, meant the thousand fist chain, highest crit was 38k legendary from 1 of the parts of the chain. chain total = roughly 92k as of last night, before that was 84k, see 60-70k chains fairly often. Also the VG players says my highest melee swing is 0...so its not to reliable. I mentioned the cooldown timer on the thousand fist, but left out the part of it being chain dmg added, not single swing. sorry that does seem a bit ridiculous for a single attack to hit for 92k

Clearly I am not allowed to make jokes, it makes me arrogant =P lighten up a bit <3

I'm also not seeing this great disparity between us and Rogues and Rangers.  Granted I'm only level 34 currently.  But I've had a high crit of 10k and regulary do 6-12k chains with the thousand fist chain.

I was listed on VGplayer rankings for class until I ran into the bug that wipes your high hit.  That bug being the one that displays some ungodly damage number when fighting.  If you get that, chances are it's completely wiped your melee high hit.

Also, people that continue to quote that internal testing that Sigil did has to remember this was before a single change to DPS went in for monks.  Our DPS has increased by a rather HUGE amount since then.

Also, recently playing around with Reed in the Wind and the new Storm Dragon Stance, I don't lose THAT much DPS while continually refreshing RITW.  Considering that counters are popping up faster than I can use them, and that they hit on average for 500-700 non-cirit and 700-1100 on a crit.  Autoattacks were hitting for 350-600 a pop with a 34ish DPS Windblade which is the worst weapon for DPS but rocks my socks for tanking and soloing.  Storm Dragon procs for between 600-800 non-crit on both autoattacks and counters.  Only played with it a little so not sure what a crit on Storm Dragon would be.  Proc rate would appear to be around 25% or so for the proc.

And all that while maintaining a constant 79.XX, basically 80% avoidance.  This was solo, with no buffs.  Usually I'm grouped with a Bear Shammy so DPS would be higher and Endurance costs would be lower.

Throw a bloodmage into the group for an additional 30% mitigation and I can see why Heavy Tanks would complain.

Granted with no taunts, I doubt I could hold aggro in a high dps group doing this.  But it should do wonders for soloing and duoing with my bear shammy friend.  I prefer DPSing to tanking anyways, ergo the Dragon Monk choice although I'm still waiting to see if something is done to make Dragons do more DPS than Harm monks.  Storm Dragon stance looks like a good start, but not sure if it's enough.  An additonal 4% crit chance is nice and all, but nothing like the 25% that Harm gets.  And not sure the big proc damage can make up the difference.

Drunken monks might still need some work, not sure.  They should make the defensive stance similar to other tanks defensive stances.  A boost to defense, a boost to hate generation, and something to reduce DPS.

The class still needs some tweaks, but it's nowhere near the trainwreck that it was just a month ago.  And the class is still nowhere near as pathetic as the monk in EQ2.  You want to see a pathetic monk go play that.  Where they are classified as a tank class and are tied for worst DPS among tanks and dead last for tanking among tanks.

Regards,
Croaker