Some tweaks have been in the right direction, undeniably. Not really enough though.
While I'm sure Dragon Breath could be quite devastating with 900 int and 500 spell damage focus, you really will not see a monk with that; thus putting it around 1000 damage each 10 minutes for a pinnacle power just proves how detatched monk developer(s) is from the workings of the class.
We have Wave Hand in Cloud, which deals less damage now at level 50 than it did when it was only one rank at level 26... It's still unspeakably useless as I've presented in another thread or two despite the impossible increase in power by reducing reuse timer slightly. Perhaps not as clear good on paper, useless in reality as Dragon Breath, but followup.
Not only this; our skills were not even in the live damage system until they got broken where they were returned to approximitly old damage values (granted, some abilities like thousand fists gained on this, but others lost some). From what I understood, this change was intended to be a placeholder until new and better values (to scale our damage) could be figured out. It remains largely untouched and while monk damage with higher gear and weaponry at 50 is decent; it dosen't scale well on the way up there and other classes still boost off. Where is the three-four days of work that could retune our skills from the OOOPS state to at least a proper live state?
You could argue the lethality of melee AoE's for the ability to chain 2 dots for nice experience; but after introducing the rangers arrow AoE (even though it got capped) that bears no real relevance for melee classes... Yet, all the feedback concerning just those abilities have fallen on deaf ears or possibly gotten so small upgrades it's not making a diffrence.
After several months of complaining, it appears finally though that Jin based buffs could actually have a decent duration - perhaps the realisation that other classes buffs cost quite close to zero mana; and that our self-buffs in general are worse than those we could get from other classes.
Perhaps we should feedback to have large portions of int and spell damage on our class specific abilities so we could work in accordance to the beta-3 document we still appear to be ruled by.

Right now we are labled as the highest base DPS offensive fighter. This should mean we shouldnt have to work to get DPS. This is not going to change. (Read this as meaning we dont have any progressive forms or the need to stealth to put up big numbers DPS wise) In my personal expierience I am fidning this to be accurate. Although I do readily admit that there are cases where Rangers / Rogues close the gap real quick and in some cases just fly by me from the offset. Ranger's out of combat abilties immediately come to mind. (I am not a proponent of crit shot.)

I also don't think our damage is not scaling properly as we level up. Sure, at the end I think we ultimately get where we were meant to but the journey needs a tweak  or two.

On a final note it's good to have a thread that makes people register and participate.

~QTM

Xeno's post had me wondering. I thought about it long and hard, but couldn't find an answer to the following question: what the hell does "melee damage + X" mean anyway? What is "melee damage" based on? What does it take into account, what doesn't it? Does raising STR help for this specific number? Does changing weapons? Does it just scaled with level, based on our unarmed damage (which I'm guessing is happening)?

Nice idea on the H2H weapons improving upon unarmed damage btw, Xeno ! Perhaps just a colouring of the DPS numbers comparing to unarmed damage could be a nice start - I'm thinking red for below unarmed damage, white for about equal and green for higher than unarmed damage. At least we'd be able to compare weapons to our level-based damage on the fly.

I think part of the reason you do not see your DPS going up significantly is that our kicks are not affected by weapon damage.  Other than getting gear with %dmg modifier, there is no way to improve that damage.  I would love to see something added to game, maybe a shoe of some sort that would allow us to increase that damage. 

As for our dps, I think we are still behind where we need to be.  I was waiting for this huge boost at lvl50, but have not seen it.  Aum Kor definitely helps.  I am duel wielding Torch Bearers, and it still does not seem like I keep up with a ranger less equipped even in the beginning of fights.  I also find it disturbing that I can get owned by the named mobs in Thelassen.  By lvl50, you would think I should be able to solo those without burning all of my specials.

QTM - have you heard anything about this age old problem possibly getting fixed?

the Pauldrons I believe from celestine ward add to kick..I can't remember exactly but if I recall it was the pauldrons, I had the full set so I know it was the t3, just can't put my finger on which

It's the legs if I'm not mistaken. Just as rare, though