1.0.3 Coming Changes

[FoxBat]

I'm not disputing that there isn't an issue with the current scaling, but this might be going to far in the other direction. Most elites are tough enough that you can't just DPS them down before they swing at you, so you need to be mitigating/kiting enough that you aren't in a health attrition situation. In that case more health doesn't make these battles any harder really, just longer. (Unless you are running up against enrage.) Meanwhile you've got all the inherent synergies of co-op making things much easier.

I guess the idea of just increasing the base attack speed so more IAS isn't considered "required" didn't occur to them?

For many builds, there's not a point at which more IAS isn't awesome. Can't ever have enough life on hit and spirit gen for a monk for example.