oh boy here we go
SORROW LOOT:
Boots have higher STR/DEX than 4.3 boots AND taeshlin boots(these have no str or dex, as reference by post above).
Sorrow Back has higher STR/dex than NZ cloak, Thaz air cloak, shadowstaff, thaz water mini cloak, as well as being the 2nd highest haste item in the game available to monks.
Golem battle bands (sanctum trash drop) provide more str than spires bracer AND rujik bracer combined. Eyes bracer seems pretty in line, but Rujik and Ree wrist are pretty undertuned. Ree bracer is arguable because it provides the highest haste, but rujik bracer doesnt have anything very redeeming about it.
Taesh ring has bad str/dex from a hard mob.
Another cool thing would be making essence of Tarhansar STR/DEX and EoTW AGI/STA, making one stat give offensive stats and the other one defensive stats. For barefist monks to get 160!! dex/str total from buffs is kind of absurd, plus blademaster makes buffs way strong and makes melee even more reliant on them which is kind of lame.
Horok also has 50 STR/DEX total, i havent parsed yet but it could still be the best main hand option for monks.
Curator hat has -50 dex and is generally a not great item.
blademaster gives STR and dex making bards even stronger if a monk is around.
BW gloves still have the same amount of elemental damage as UC gloves. Their procs are also VERY close in DPS. BW gloves will do 18560 base proc dmg over 1000 combat rounds, per hand, while UC gloves clock in at 18.000 per hand, per 1k combat rounds. BW glove proc has the advantage of a -resist adjust, but the difference is still very small considering most mobs also have low disease resist. My suggestion would be to buff BW glove proc rate. the difference between UC glove proc and silence is 10,500 base dmg of proc, and those mobs are relatively close to each other in difficulty, while the gap between UC and BW is very large. To keep this difference between proc matching based on previous progression, this would put BW gloves at 4.5% proc rate to be close to a 10k base proc difference.