Diablo – Does Blood Star affect followers

All spells and abilities use both the attack speed and damage of weapons into consideration. Take for example the Wizard, spells cast faster with a faster weapon and hit harder with a sharper blade.

The monk works under the same principle.

Also, I don't think damage is based on "DPS", but rather on the minimum and maximum damage of the weapon. The "DPS" should give an approximate value of your abilities damage before modifiers.

So in summary, higher min/max damage = more damage per ability usage and faster attack speed = more ability uses per second.

See this summary and the attached blue post: http://www.diablowiki.net/Spells

You get 20% of the MF found on your follower. Gold Find and +EXP, too.