Is it possible that Ninja will do more dps than Monk?

[The_Last_Dragoon]

I personally think that the Ninja will be the first melee class to have amazing aoe capability due to it's Ninjutsu abilities. While I highly doubt that Ninjas will out-dps Monks in perfect conditions, I do believe that they will probably have extremely high burst damage that either rivals or bests that of the Dragoon with the downfall that they probably won't have great sustained damage.

[Decrith]

I personally think that the Ninja will be the first melee class to have amazing aoe capability due to it's Ninjutsu abilities.

Eh what? MNK and DRG have great AoE Capabilities, sure it isn't as good as BLM or BRD but a MNK/DRG won't be far behind if they know how to use their skills properly.

[Gralna]

Eh what? MNK and DRG have great AoE Capabilities, sure it isn't as good as BLM or BRD but a MNK/DRG won't be far behind if they know how to use their skills properly.

While I agree that DRG has decent aoe capabilities, MNK has by far the worst of all the dps, sure they can pop PB and have 10 seconds of rockbreaker spam with howling fist thrown in, but after that they can only use rockbreaker at end of every combo. On speedruns, I'm lucky if I can pop PB every 3rd-4th pull.

Arm the the destroyer does laughable dmg, you'd need 10+ mobs you're hitting with it to excuse the dps lost from just using single target skills for first two skills of combo. Not to mention you again only get to use it every 3rd move in combo chain if you dont want to lose your stacks, which would lower your dps even more.