I'm not sure I answered the poll correctly. I picked "Monk" because of all the listed classes, I like (Mobile, Shadow) Monk the best... but not necessarily for hitting stuff. More for sneaking, and occasionally for sucker-punching enemies and then running away along the wall over their heads. If I'm in the kind of mood you described in your OP, where I literally just want to hit stuff in melee until it stops moving, that would be Barbarian, almost by definition.