Thanks for offering help on this, Galefury
I do not agree with you on the -100% recharge builds though. Imho, they're ugly overpowered builds. With the bugfix patch there's even more possiblities to get -100%recharge, because it fixes broken -%recharge affixes. Anyway, I think it'd be good to keep it in, -100% recharge that is, but limit Archmage's Clasp to 15-20% recharge and that -%recharge artifact also to 15-20%. Perhaps more changes are needed here. Ofcourse, decreasing the -%recharge on equipment would have to be substituted by another good bonus.
Everything considered, it would simply mean that if you want to go for a grossly overpowered -100% recharge build, the rest of the build is really going to suffer (like it should).
Actually, -100% anything seems kinda wrong to me - it messes up the basics of the game. I'd go for max 80% avoid projectiles as well as 80% dodge. Also, I'd like the formulae for DA to be changed so that it gets diminishing returns (just like MF did in D2). I'd also like armor to be less effective (I think it's actually sorta bugged right now), so it'll play a bigger role again.
Anyway, just how I feel about it and that's just 1 opinion.
Well, it's good to get this discussion going again and see more opinions. I can report that there's been some good progress and a 'real' discussion on the balance patch will likely be launched once the bugfix patch is released.