Turns 1, 2, and 4 (3 doesn't count) are very monk friendly, not sure about 5 haven't done it yet.
Potential: MNK = DRG >BLM=SMN>BRD
Reality, due to game current behavior of most content: BRD=SMN>BLM>DRG>MNK
DRG and MNK doing more DPS than BRD and BLM, sure mate.
MNK does more damage than BRD if boss mechanics wouldn't be so fucked up and if they can keep up their GL stacks.
People should stop trusting the parser so much. And also stop trusting other people who trust the parser. SMN is by no means the best DD in this game and on top of that with such a huge advantage compared to the other classes. Why can't you realize that it's utter shit if you say that SMN does 30-50% more damage than all the other classes.
Monks do yes, never met a good monk? Monks dps insane, just 99 % of monks cant play. I've not met yet any class/player who did more dps than me on my server and tanks are crying rivers cuz they have to work for keepin aggro. Ppl sayin that Bards are doing more dmg than Monk, even with all that movement stuff have absolutly NO clue abt the monk and/or maybe just met bad/standart monks.
Edit: I should probably stream Titan HM farm, Coil 1-5 to show ppl what a monk is capable of. Sadly my upload speed sucks so bad :-/