Monk's are by far the best DPS to work with once they have the class down. My favourite DPS class. Anyone who is dismissing them are missing the point. The entire job system is balance. You shouldn't be comparing melee to ranged, because they both serve a different group purpose. The best teams have both. All ranged just never works well, and all melee can work, but not well either. (Actually given the choice I would choose all melee, but it still dicey). Now I will say Archer is easy mode. I mean, super super easy mode. Whereas PGL has proved to be one of the hardest classes I have tried.