Most people are highlighting a few characteristics or abilities that a particular class has, and then based on certain assumptions (i.e. that "this class has a lot of cc" or "this class has a lot of healing") they judge that it will be the best. I think it's difficult to say with certainty just which class will be best, but I think if you look at certain factors that other games have (and I know people don't like to talk about League of Legends, but many of the archetypes/abilities are present in D3), with the right skill on the part of the player, any of the classes could be dominate. Who knew a straight bone necro would be good in D2? Or the "BVC" barb with leap?
From what I've heard as well as what I've seen (including Choogar's pvp arena videos from Blizzcon 2011), I'm actually pretty happy with how things look for the Witch Doctor. Poison dart was more than viable as a single-target dd spell, and Hex with that increased damage rune was just bonkers. Spirit walk is notable as well, both in terms of escape as well as offensive set-up. It's a mistake to try to pigeonhole the WD as a summoner.
Obviously everyone will have their favorites for various reasons, but it looks like things will be fairly balanced. It's anybody's guess which class will come out in the end as being demonstrably better than all other builds.
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Obviously everyone will have their favorites for various reasons, but it looks like things will be fairly balanced. It's anybody's guess which class will come out in the end as being demonstrably better than all other builds.