Basic Math - The Failure of Diablo Melee

[BellaStrega]

Try a Demon Hunter before you talk to me about "the short end of the stick." Invulnerability? On-Demand heals? Armor buff? Resistance buff? The Monk is the closest thing to God mode you're going to find in D3.

While I heal ~60ish life per spirit spent, and I can recover spirit quickly, those heals are not very large when compared to both my health pool and the hits I take. My actual heal skill is on a cooldown, and my invulnerability is a 4-second window during which I can use my life on hit to recover health and hopefully get back to full.

The monk is not god mode at all. You should give it a go in inferno before saying something like this. I won't deny that in the first act I tend to survive better than other players I group with (including monks), but my gear and build is tuned for that survival. And all of that survival buys me seconds at most when I'm in melee range with bosses and champions.