Will my monk stop being fun?

[moarwade]

I've been leveling my first real melee character on P99, a human monk who is now level 23 and very mildly twinked (hp rings, cured silk, wu's staff). It's been awesome. Between bind wound and mend, the combat is basically nonstop, just slaughtering low blues/high greens and having the time of my life compared to my caster toons and their mana dependencies.

I always see people on the forums talking about how weak melee gets, especially for soloing, and I'm dreading getting to that point... but so far it feels like I'm staying pretty consistently effective.

Just wondering what kind of realistic expectations I should have for this character's power progression through the rest of the leveling process? At what point, if any, will this phase of relatively consistent combat end? Any anecdotal experiences (especially non-iksar non-fungi) would be great to hear!