Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

Monk

• Momentum : Moving 25 yards (down from 30) increases your damage by 20% (up from 15%) for 6 seconds (up from 4)
  

Powers.txt

• ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_724_x1_name : Sunwuko's Clone
  
• ItemPassive_Unique_Ring_725_x1_name : Lightning Storm
  

HeroDetails.txt

• DamageTypeBonusPhysical: Physical Damage Increase
  
• DamageTypeBonusFire: Fire Damage Increase
  
• DamageTypeBonusLightning: Lightning Damage Increase
  
• DamageTypeBonusCold: Cold Damage Increase
  
• DamageTypeBonusPoison: Poison Damage Increase
  
• DamageTypeBonusArcane: Arcane Damage Increase
  
• DamageTypeBonusHoly: Holy Damage Increase
  
• TipDamageTypeBonus:
  • {s1} Damage Increase: {s2}
    
  • *Increases Damage dealt by skills using this element.
    
  • *{s3} Damage: {s4}.
    
• SkillBonus: {s1} Damage Increase
  
• TipSkillBonus:
  • {s1} Damage Increase: {s2}
    
  • *Increases Damage dealt by this skill.
    

http://www.diablofans.com/news/48099-dat...rings-josh

Some quality of life changes. A minor buff to Momentum for Monks, and possibly a live buff or preliminary effect to Monkey King's Garb and Raiment of a Thousand Storms?

[COLOR="#0000FF"]We've seen a ton of feedback lately about the relative power levels between classes, and it seems a good time to explain a bit behind our philosophy of where we'd like to see each class go from here.

The Witch Doctor is currently very strong. That is awesome, and we're happy to hear Witch Doctor players are having a blast with their characters and that players who have never considered playing the Witch Doctor before are giving it a whirl.

The Witch Doctor's current level of power comes largely from the powerful items they have available. Ideally, we'd like all classes to have fun and powerful item builds and that means taking a look at what equipment is available. This is something we’re actively pursuing, and while some of the other classes are almost there, others have some additional room for growth. We've already mentioned some of the upcoming Monk set changes we have on the way, but they aren't the only class we’re keeping a watchful eye on. Ultimately, we'd like to strive for a place where each class has an equal crack at end game success, especially with Seasons and Tiered Rifts on the near horizon. It’s likely each class will accomplish that in different ways, because they are inherently so different from one another, and that’s okay!

Allow me to caveat the above with the fact we won't get there overnight. This is an overarching development goal, and a continuing journey rather than a destination. Our work is never truly done, especially because we have every intention of continuing to make awesome items. On our way through this ongoing process, we appreciate your feedback.[/COLOR]

We can only hope there will be more viable item-based builds.
Nothing comes close to Pets and Jade Harvesters specs for Witch Doctors.
I think Crusaders really have three efficient end-game builds on top of Akkhan's, with Darklight, Gyrfalcon's Foot + Jekangbord, and Fate of the Fell, with every other build performing at a significantly lower level, though not necessarily unviable. Shield Bash is fixed attack speed, never scaling up. Sweep Attack is too weak, and unsustainable on single target with Golden Flense unless you're based Cindercoat. Really mitigates the usefulness of the effect since you still need a generator on single target. The two Blessed Hammers legendaries are pretty pomegranatety to be honest. Dominion is only useful for speed clearing. I've never really seen the need for hammer size increase with Blazing Wrath, but maybe with Limitless or Thunderstruck? Phalanx seems really gimmicky, especially if you build it around Tasker and Theo.
Demon Hunters seem to be Loaded for Bear or Marauders + Tasker and Theo.
Geared up my Barbarian after reaching 70, and came out with Cold since my Reaper's Wraps rolled that way. There's one generator, Frenzy - Sidearm. I like Frenzy, but boy, that variety. Hammer of the Ancients - Devil's Anvil seems to be the best choice, but [MENTION=1087]Shidoshi[/MENTION] pointed out Fury of the Vanished Peak for Seismic Slam. And then if I switched to a Cindercoat too and ran Shattered Ground instead of Permafrost... Put a 36% chance Frostburn on him, and with my ~2.00 APS with full Frenzy, the freeze can be noticeable, interrupting Ghom sometimes? But I'm not sure if it actually interrupts well enough to provide actual survivability. I'll have to try it on a Rift Guardian perhaps, and maybe time the occurrence rate.

The fact that Cindercoat and Magefist are so strong makes Fire objectively the best element though. There's absolutely no way any of the other elements even come close to competing with those effects, and the spammable nature that Cindercoat brings on top of the typically higher damage of Fire runes means that the crowd-control based runes that every other element brings will probably never be more effective at clearing. Like in my above example, I could run Fury of the Vanished Peak for 40~50% cost reduction on Seismic Slam. I could also run Cindercoat for even more reduction and switch to the Fire rune so I wouldn't need to take a primary at all. Seismic Slam is one of the very few skills that has a Cold rune with more damage than a Fire Rune (755% vs 735%). That's a 1.03x increase. Comparatively, Magefist and Cindercoat add +25% more Fire Skill damage, and Magefist rolls an extra primary. Meanwhile, at its highest occurrence, Frostburns would provide a 15% chance for Permafrost to freeze for 1 second, with a weapon that has a base speed of 1.00 APS and perhaps still requiring Sidearm.