The entire Idea behind monk makes no sense

[Shurrikhan]

Which brings up another interesting question. Why should healers be damage dealers? (o^.^)o

Edit: THIS IS SARCASM

(Noting the obvious and then outright explicit sarcasm, but)

It honestly makes a lot more sense to kill an enemy with a giant rock hurled at massive speeds than to punch it. How an Aero III somehow bleeds enemies evenly for an exact duration, however, I will never quite understand. >.>

Real life parallels will never, ever work out.

They can, to a fair extent, as long as there are explanatory undermechanics. But explanation is scarce here, and undermechanics (purposely) barebone.

Finally, the reason for the comparative lack of front-facing actions among DPS jobs is explained by game mechanics: unless you are the tank, facing mobs in party situations is intended to be dangerous and mostly undesirable.

Which just goes to show how much Monk has changed; its blinding face-punch move (since removed) used to require that we be in front of the target. The current Provoke design, too, was originally a Pugilist skill.