Yesterday my ls was doing a couple Kirins up at lolsky. A ls member decided to fuck around and came as MNK/WAR, his equipment setup was:
Destroyers, Faith Torque, Foragers Mantle, Black Belt, Shura Togi, Shura Haidate+1, Paluhwan Boots(too lazy to look up correct name), Walahra Turban, 2x Sniper's Ring+1, Bandomusha Kote, Brutal Earring/Merman's Earring and a Tiphia Sting with a full merited H2H.
Personally I've never touched my MNK other than a few exp parties, but his damage was absolutely insane on Kirin. He was hitting for 30-50s on normal hits without Berserk with some rarely 10-20s. With Berserk he was hitting Kirin for a constant 50-60 with criticals up in the 90s, he had Haste almost 100% of the fight and was hitting like a train, Dragon Kick was scoring in 200-500. At the end, my parser results showed that he came out as the second highest DD just a bit under a Ridill/decked out WAR. (we didn't have any RNGs last night).
So what I'm asking is, how good are monks against some of the HNMs out there? (Cerberuslol, Fafhogg etc). It kinda makes me want to take my MNK out of storage.