Diablo – Does Paragon Run Speed bonus overcome Heavenly Strength

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

I can confirm that the life threshold is 10%. I have received this bonus a great many times, and have gotten it at 9.9%, but never more than 10%. You get the bonus when combat ends while you're below the life threshold. Combat is considered to end when you get a certain distance away from monsters, or when you're already at a distance from all monsters and kill something. This means that it's possible to get the bonus many times from a pack of monsters, by withdrawing at low health and then picking them off one at a time: You'll get the bonus for each monster you kill. I earned the Survivor achievement in less than an hour, in this way.