Thank you all for the replies and, perhaps I should edit my first post and specify the following:
I have been playing as pure wizard and noticed the crazy among of DPS I was able to do while being almost untouchable with some protections.
I would like and wanted to change my play style to a melee DPS that could do more (or equal) to a wizard and wanted to challenge the community with that.
@mocker22, this seems very tempting, the fighter/monk and curious to know more about this build - have you wrote something about that build or where can I read more about this ? Survivability should be good if its build with Dex ?
@mant2si, this is a nice video for ranger melee but can you handle the last bosses properly ? how much DPS are you able to do ?
@Boeroer good comments and nice page where you summarize builds.
thanks