I remember seeing a list of equivalently geared classes somewhere with defensive parses or something. I wish I could remember where. (warrior forums maybe?) It listed the class, then dps taken over time. Monks were right up there with knights as I recall. Just going off the top of my head, it was something like:
warrior: 110
monk: 125
pal/sk: 130
ranger: 155
shaman was at 185 or so i think.
I want to say it was done a couple years ago, with toons in anguish gear tanking HoH mobs or something. I'm sure the monk damage would be much spikier though, since they rely mostly on avoidance, dodge, block, and such.
(edit-AHA! found it.)
CLS AC SHLD AVD DB DI AVG MIT% ATKS HIT% MISS% BLK% DDG% PRY% RIP% | DMG
WAR 2271 15% 0 87 21 223.3 71.1 2573 48.9 42.2 NA 4.2 5.9 5.3 | 109.2
SK 1861 0% 10 102 22.1 268.4 65.6 2951 48.9 44.2 NA 3.5 5.3 3.8 | 131.2
PAL 2066 0% 0 102 22.1 255.1 68.8 3153 51.1 40.4 NA 4.1 5.5 4.7 | 130.4
CLR 1958 2% 0 100 22.1 270.5 64.6 2775 65.7 33.1 NA 1.8 NA NA | 177.7
RNG 1728 2% 10 100 22.1 292.1 59.5 2359 48.5 43.5 NA 4.2 6.0 4.0 | 141.7
ROG 1952 2% 20 100 22.1 302.9 56.9 3121 47.8 43.6 NA 5.4 5.4 4.4 | 144.8
SHM 1859 0% 10 102 22.1 287.2 61.1 2932 63.9 35.0 NA 1.8 NA NA | 183.5
DRU 1565 0% 40 102 22.1 306.1 56.6 2619 61.1 37.7 NA 1.9 NA NA | 187.0
BST 1432 0% 25 102 22.1 320.0 53.3 2119 47.8 41.9 10.2 3.7 NA 4.0 | 153.0
MNK 1854 2% 60 100 22.1 311.0 55.0 3476 41.1 47.2 12.0 5.4 NA 4.7 | 127.8
from here>
http://www.thesteelwarrior.org/forum/sh ... php?t=5868
Granted, it's about 3 years old and doesn't include the recent mitigation improvements for monks, bards, and clerics, so take it as you will, but it's interesting that monks actually mitigate worse than almost any other class, yet their avoidance is enough to bring them back up to #2 on average dps taken.