The dogs melee damage is supposed to be fire now too, with the fire rune. The general rule is supposed to be that a rune that has an element associated with it is supposed to make everything about that ability use that elements damage (though you'll notice that hasn't always been the case for some things).
The passives that add an additional dog do buff the gargantuan dog.
IMO in most cases, good legendary effects totally outweigh most damage increases. I've never used Rhen'ho but I've heard good things - I would stick with it.
Agree with you on the Wrathful garg - he's fun to use and see the massive damage he puts out, but his AI needs some work. It's much too frustrating to drop him on an elite pack, and completely ignore it because he sees an imp run in and catch his attention then dart away while he lumbers away and burns 50%+ of his duration on chasing something he can kill 30 times over in one swing. And that's not even the only issue as you mentioned. I might still use him from time to time to switch things up but don't care for it for general use.
I'm initially a long-term Monk player and I can confirm that Rune doesn't always turn skill into stated damage type entirely - at least in vast range of Monk skills. This has been changed in 2.0.5. mostly (but not completely), yet there are still skills which descriptions clearly suggest that they are part Physical and part Elemental. And so are WD skill descriptions with Zombie Dogs not being an exception. We can only guess (if somebody hasn't prooftested this yet) if the skill does become fully Elemental after all and the tooltip is just bugged or not altered properly. If it is not, it's certainly a room for improvement for all the classes.
I'm currently running in full Poison build (Rhen'ho + Addling Toads; Poison Gargantuan Dog; Poison Gargantuan; Piranhas Mutilating Wave + BBV & Jaunt) with Poison damage only on bracers and enjoying it a lot. I was playing in Fire (although I personally cannot call Rain of Toads / Piranhas + Fire Dog & Fire Gargantuan a Fire build because it's mixed) before with a higher DPS simple knife and it was boring because I only had to spam low-damaging ROT and wait until fetishes and gargs finish off elites and whiteys (whiteys were the most boring ones to wait for). Now I massacre everything with those crazy confusing toads. They even confuse bosses, which is pretty awesome! I even went up to T5, although I've only started WD about a week ago days ago and was doing T4 for the last days.
And I've come to a strong conviction that Toads is probably the only worthy attack of WD at the moment, Spiders being completely useless (enjoyed Spider Queen when levelling), Bomb and Dart being too weak.
Could anyone please clarify how exactly Fire Damage is connected to Gargantuan Dog? The rune description suggests that the dog(s) hit(s) with Physical Damage but is engulfed with flames dealing Fire Damage. With TMF you get one dog that is stronger than all of the dogs combined (one more question - does it become stronger with the passives that produce additional dogs in the pack?), but I thought it was supposed to still hit with Physical while having Fire immolation effect. So why does everyone say that it HITS hard when specced Fire if the hits are physical? Or does TMF/rune change the dog's attack to Fire as well (although the rune doesn't say so)?
I also don't really like Wrathful because he's pretty slow and only manages to land a couple of attack before disappearing.And freaking fetishes block him almost every time. So I'm mostly running with Bruiser. Although my gear is far from perfect and I've started WD only recently (yet managed to get a lot of decent pieces of equipment).
And the last question - is losing around 100k sheet damage worth switching to Rhen'ho and explosive toads? I like the ET, I have Fire bonus on bracers and it spawns fetishes quickly. But my Rhen'ho is only 2100 DPS (although with INT and socket) compared to some first-try-crafted 2500 DPS ceremonial knife. When running Ghom on time I killed him faster with 2500 DPS knife and rain of toads, but the difference was only 4 seconds. The packs of creeps are blown away like motherfuckers with the rhen'ho-ET setup though.
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I'm currently running in full Poison build (Rhen'ho + Addling Toads; Poison Gargantuan Dog; Poison Gargantuan; Piranhas Mutilating Wave + BBV & Jaunt) with Poison damage only on bracers and enjoying it a lot. I was playing in Fire (although I personally cannot call Rain of Toads / Piranhas + Fire Dog & Fire Gargantuan a Fire build because it's mixed) before with a higher DPS simple knife and it was boring because I only had to spam low-damaging ROT and wait until fetishes and gargs finish off elites and whiteys (whiteys were the most boring ones to wait for). Now I massacre everything with those crazy confusing toads. They even confuse bosses, which is pretty awesome! I even went up to T5, although I've only started WD about a week ago days ago and was doing T4 for the last days.
And I've come to a strong conviction that Toads is probably the only worthy attack of WD at the moment, Spiders being completely useless (enjoyed Spider Queen when levelling), Bomb and Dart being too weak.
My build and gear just in case:http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Havoc-2232/hero/43896127
I also don't really like Wrathful because he's pretty slow and only manages to land a couple of attack before disappearing.And freaking fetishes block him almost every time. So I'm mostly running with Bruiser. Although my gear is far from perfect and I've started WD only recently (yet managed to get a lot of decent pieces of equipment).
And the last question - is losing around 100k sheet damage worth switching to Rhen'ho and explosive toads? I like the ET, I have Fire bonus on bracers and it spawns fetishes quickly. But my Rhen'ho is only 2100 DPS (although with INT and socket) compared to some first-try-crafted 2500 DPS ceremonial knife. When running Ghom on time I killed him faster with 2500 DPS knife and rain of toads, but the difference was only 4 seconds. The packs of creeps are blown away like motherfuckers with the rhen'ho-ET setup though.