Furok

Ok, i think alot of people dont realise that Monk's are late bloomer's, unlike Rogue's and FIghter's that has a fast power curve, monk's need alot of gear and talents to get them going. However if you look at mid game and onwards there's not alot that can compare to a Monk for single target damage. Allow me to embellish abit, Monk need a decent amount of health to get going but you dont really want to dump alot of points into con because constitution scales horrible, so you want to build a 18+ 10 15+ 10 10 10 -ish build, around level 7-8 your hp/level as well as talents means you are around 150 hp's and you got supporting talents like the lesser wounds talent as well as an assortment of other dps abilities, now if you take 25-30 damage hits its not the end of the world and for each one of these hits you get 3-4 wounds. This is where the monk starts to outpace the competition, and one big reason for that is that you can fire of 3-4 torments reach / hit you take, and each torments reach will hit 2x for 25-30++ (+50% crush damage on each hit aswell) and turning wheel adds fire damage on top of this as does your additional 20% haste + 25% lightning damage selfbuff (Swift strikes, always lead with this when you decide to start spamming torments!). And its a aoe to boot, and you fire off torments reach faster then any other class can use their abilities. This is just the dps basics, you can focus alot more on cc but the more cc you take the harder it gets to build wounds, the monk is alot like the vanilla fury warrior in another game i wont mention (Slam spam ftw!) aka the more damage you take the more damage you do, its easy to get carried away and overextending but that's why you have a priest with withdraw in the group Monk is by far my personal favorite class when it comes to melee dps. Now the monk struggles for the first 4-5 levels but mid/late game its a monster and even though it requires abit of babysitting even on higher levels i think people base alot of their opinions on the monks first 2-3 levels which is abit of a struggle compared to other melee dps classes.