Quote Originally Posted by ProxyTooMuch View Post
These are not correct. Monks effectively start with a -40% damage debuff (dragon kick, twin snakes, greased lightning x 3), they will be the worst ST dps on fights less than 30 seconds long unless they use PB. Bards have really high single target burst (if they burn barrage, they are undoubtedly the highest single target burst) due to multiple off-global attacks and a lot of cooldowns.
Mnks are by far the lowest dps job in the under 30 seconds range... that includes anything that resets GL and even PB won't do much to fix it. It takes 5 attacks with PB just to get up to full dps power for mnks... even if each attack only took 2 seconds that is 10 seconds of being low dps. Long term 10 sec is nothing... short term 10 secs is life or death.

My monk has more i90 than my drg and I have +1 for mnk. I farm on drg because the burst is so much higher.