Weapon Speed/Attack Time Details

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justj99
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Weapon Speed/Attack Time Details

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The question, “How does weapon speed work?”, seems to come up quite often, and answers seem to confuse people often enough too. So, I put the below together to help out with that and simplify things (hopefully).

From the manual:
The time that a non-magical attack takes is (1000 - [WEAPON_SPEED - 4] * 100) milliseconds.
Example: With WEAPON_SPEED=7, you hit every 700ms = 0.7 seconds: 1000 - [7 - 4] * 100 = 1000 - 3 * 100 = 700.

Using that formula, I came up with the table below to help eliminate the math for people. For monsters, frequency is the same as Attacks/Second below.

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Wpn Speed:    Attack Time:    Attacks/Second:    Attacks/Minute:    Time for 10 attacks:
----------    ------------    ---------------    ---------------    ---------------------
1             1300ms          0.7692307692       46.15384615        10 attacks / 13 seconds
2             1200ms          0.8333333333       50                 10 attacks / 12 seconds
3             1100ms          0.9090909091       54.54545455        10 attacks / 11 seconds
4             1000ms          1                  60                 10 attacks / 10 seconds
5              900ms          1.111111111        66.66666667        10 attacks /  9 seconds
6              800ms          1.25               75                 10 attacks /  8 seconds
7              700ms          1.428571429        85.71428571        10 attacks /  7 seconds
8              600ms          1.666666667        100                10 attacks /  6 seconds
9              500ms          2                  120                10 attacks /  5 seconds
10             400ms          2.5                150                10 attacks /  4 seconds
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Excellent! I learned about this switching to a 1500+0 axe instead of using my 1250 axe. Turns out a 1250 with speed of 8 did more damage than the 1500 at speed 7! This seems to go against logic as the higher (1500) should be better than the lower (1250), ah but be careful and check the stats. True the 1500 has increased other stats over the 1250 but the slight difference at least for me was worth it having more damage. ;)
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Great post. I should think this could also have a big impact with the lower level weapons.
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The formatting was nice last time I checked... Wonder what happened there? :/

Hmm. Nice on the laptop, bad on the phone? That seems odd.
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Next step: which weapons are up there? I don't think I've seen a speedy weapon,for example.

The formatting looks great on my phone mate.
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I don't know.

I come to play a game and I'm always made to feel like I'm in a maths class.

Speed 7 is faster than a speed 6 that's what I know! :mrgreen:
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There are weapons from speed 4 to speed 8 in the game currently. Only the 1250 weapons have speed 8, and only some very low level weapons (level 8 and under) have a speed below 7.
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