There are several things I'd like to see monks get.

I'd like to see monks get AE melee

If it works well and is popular, SOE could transition monk primary weaponry to the same ratio as warrior weaponry over time, and add a large selection of +flying kick (also affecting the AE kick) gear, so that monk damage stays constant, but has more of a kick to it (haha!).  Kicking for 1k is more fun and impressive than having a slightly higher base weapon ratio.  A pleasant side effect of this is greater weapon selection, since monk weapons wouldn't have to be monk/bst only.

On raids we often have several mobs in camp, and we're killing one while offtanking the others.  Monks won't be able to do more damage to the one we're fighting than a rogue...but they can do as much, or more, damage overall, through AE.  But only situationally.  And only if the monk is aware of what's going on: zombie monks need not apply ("mooonnnnkkkkk").

A smart monk could sometimes use this ability to instantly taunt new mobs in camp onto him.  Monk tanking isn't spectacular, but it isn't bad, and with stonestance, it's flat out excellent.  Add in mend, followed by FD, and it's a fantastic way to suck up a ton of potential damage with essentially no risk, saving countless casters and healers, who will swoon in your presence for years to come.  <fine print: swooning not guaranteed>

A single boss mob is best killed by rogues, but if there are mobs spawned that need to be killed, that can't be mez'd...monks will shine.  Bald heads will do that.

I'd like to see monks restored as frontal damage dealer

I advocate immunity to riposte damage and high strikethrough, and maybe even a return riposte type ability that not only blocks a mob's riposte, but generates an extra attack for the monk.  Thus monks would actually do slightly more damage from the front than from the rear.  It's kind of odd that right now one guy is in front of the mob while everyone else is behind it. 

Monks in front could even keep the mob stable, with not only melee push but also dragon punch.  Like AE melee making stonestance/mend/FD useful in more situations, frontal melee helps activate otherwise wasted utility.

Why a return attack? Well most martial artist disciplines favor the concept of using the power of the attacker against itself.  This fits that view perfectly.  This is significantly different from abilities that fire off when the monk ripostes, because this doesn't require the monk to tank.

I'd like to see monks get improved xp group pulling capabilities

A monk using this could grab a room full of mobs, run around a corner, wait until just one comes around, and FD.  If it's truly alone, he hops up, grabs the solo one, and runs to group.  Elapsed time: about 5 seconds.  Sometimes more than one might come around the corner, or the monk could fail and have to run around some...but the end result is pulling that's just as fast as lulling.  And safer.

[Problem: unless lull resistance/immunity is factored in to this auto blur, this idea will make previously hard areas trivial, e.g. hard LDoN adventures.]

Summary

The problem of course is that these changes should have happened months ago.  It's very unlikely, however, that any significant changes will happen until the next expansion, and honestly, nothing monks can do will change this, and I'm sorry.  It's just how SOE operates.  LoY and LDoN weren't real advancement expansions, and thus nothing could be fixed.

But the next expansion will be a big advancement expansion, just like PoP.  More levels, more AA's, more raiding zones.  This is the kind of expansion where major changes happen, and things like the above are not only possible, they're likely.

No small furry classes (bards, rangers, beastlords, etc.) were harmed in the making of this document