Quote (phocas69 @ 12 Jun 2013 19:05)
With Thunderclap/Cyclone being 90% of your damage output, and most of it (or all?) is lightning damage, a WKL's 25% to lightning becomes extreme amounts. The +6% elemental is also ~7k dps.
Serenity with Ascension is a wasted skill slot since you can make it obsolete with a lil' bit extra EHP. Aim for 650k+ and skip ascension for mad deeps. Don't be afraid to sac some damage for extra vita, armor and especially resistance with this in mind, you're likely to make up for and surpass your previous numbers with +Blazing Fists.
You have arcane on many pieces, but when they're 40-50% of max ress, that adds up to alot and you can't reach the ideal number even with arcane on every piece. Try looking for replacements with closer to 70 arcane res and you can do with 5-6 pieces of resist. Ideally you want to be able avoid resistance on amulet + gloves since those 2 slots alone are almost 15-20% your total dps. Resistance on gloves is the bonus, but forget the amu. Aim for 55k+ HP, 500-550 resistances and 4700-5000 armor pre-barb buff and you're golden.
About CHD/LS on your WKL - Try a run through act1 mp10 with Exploding Palm instead of Cyclone Strike. That skill is a LS monster only rivaled by Wave of Light, and running single leech with either of those skills is barely any different from dual. Try removing Ascension and putting in Blazing Fists and fight some elites with Reflect Damage (single steal), you'll won't like it one bit, but it's 100% managable while standing in poison having 5.40%+ LS (and closer to 1 mill EHP) With this i wanted to highlight that you're currently "locked in spec", and that's never any good. Works for one game, can be suboptimal or impossible the next. Not to mention it's boring.
In a future with Blazing Fists instead of Ascension, you're running a spec with Cyclone Strike + Overawe but neither Quickening on FoT or Infused With Light rune on BoH. CS/Overawe on the same monk practically requires either one of these, or shortness of spirit will throttle skill usage too much to justify running them together (compared with what could be). WoL 40 spirit is borderline, but it works. However there are still better specs for Bells. With that said, you might want to change Cyclone Strike to something else (i recommend Palm/Strong Spirit or Flesh Is Weak), and gg - there you are.
Single leech works, by all means, it does. It does require, or should i say it heavily favor certain specs/skill combo's over others while not support some specs at all. Dual LS supports everything, plus it's pivotal vs the Reflect Damage affix. Worth to mention, for comprehensiveness sake - Reflects only reflect while glowing so Exploding Palm and dps etc is harmless in between, you prolly knew that. Problem is when bashing on 3-4 elites and they all start glowing simultaneously. Running single LS that can lead to instant death even with strong EHP.
All in all, if you're certain to play Cyclone Strike forever, i'm still gonna recommend LS on the WKL as long as the reflect affix remains. If you are CS 4 life and have a LS swap already, by all means get a WKL with CD. 2 things tho - 1) quick swap of weapons becomes slow swap as it'd require the CD weapon (WKL) in your main hand and since many skills (like CS/WoL) go by MH damage only, thats just annoying.
2) CD WKL's can be hard to resell with low overall demand, contra a good LS'er with socket which are in constant demand and there's a more widespread knowledge among the monk population of their value whereas knowledge is equally low the CD versions popularity.