Good day,
I have a technical question about a skill.
It’s about the Wehrwolf Skill of the Druid, on the internet there are various results on weapon speed (IAS), more precisely only the increased attack speed on the weapon has a direct effect on the attack speed in Wehrwolf changing form? Or can for example 20% increased attack speed on gloves also affect the Wehrwolf? Or the fanaticism aura?
If it partially affects how exactly, in numbers!
I couldn’t find out about it at the official classic battle net Arreat Summit, as nothing is noted there, and I don’t want to rely on forum posts that merely make assumptions or ias calculators they are inofficial.
In Werewolf/Werebear form, your attack speed is determined by the weapon. That’s how it was back in D2LOD, and allegedly how it works in D2R.
I say allegedly because I put on the Death’s Set and absolutely notice the 30% IAS working in Werewolf form. I don’t know if anyone else has done real testing to prove if that’s working now.
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Its def mostly weapon, its why you dont see the typicall melee stuff on druid. Laying of arms is used due to +350% damage to demons not the atk speed increase, and dracl grasp due to the life leech proc,lifesteal, and str…
its why you dont see werewolves use greif as though the base damage is so high, you’ll atk super slow compared to other melee like barb and pally due to gloves and ammy effecting their atk speed (unless barb is using ww in that case only their weapon counts for atk speed)
I mean grief on a phase blade is decently fast it’ll be at 60-70% atk speed depending on roll but a upped shaeled ribcracker is pretty much at 70% atk speed with more crushing blow and faster hit recovery and other things. The only reason you’d use a grief is to equip a stormshield to become super tanky but imo its not needed esp since block breakpoints for transformed druid isnt that great. putting a grief in anything else will make it way worse then a ribcracker like a bezerker axe it reallly need to be a phase blade to even compete with ribcracker and idk if grief even has crushing blow at all. But if you wanted a super tanky fury druid i suppose you can do this, any char with a stormshield is very hard to kill lol.
highlords isnt used for its atk speed but the deadly strike chance and +1 skills, i sometime use metalgrid as it helps alliviate attack rating problems or just a good + to skills with good rolls crafted ring.
If the man really wants to spend some money, best thing you can get is a Griz Caddy with 4x 40/15s. You’ll reach the max Fury breakpoint and despite having your raw damage beat out by like an EBOTDZ or an upped ERibcracker, it’s a lot more fun.
Also Druids without a shield are trash IMO. You can’t PvP with them, and you’re going to die if you get swarmed by mobs.
I mean, if you are going pvp you pretty much have to do max block with a stormshield, or you get destroyed lol…the typical ubers or pvm druid with 2h doesnt stand a chance in pvp most def. And the typical enough str/dex for gear and rest into vit always loses vs a max block of the same build in pvp but again pvp has different rules esp since a ton of pvp is phys chars you pretty much have to do max block to compete.
delay = [256*(WeaponBase + 1) / [(weapon ias+wsm+100)*256/100]]
prev frames = 10 or 9 (Bear or Wolf)
Anim speed = [prev frames * 256 / delay]
Speed increase = [120 * item_ias / (120 + item ias)] + skill ias + wsm
if (Speed increase > 75): Speed increase = 75
WereBase = 11 or 12 (Bear or Wolf)
Frames = {256*(WereBase + 1)/[(100 + Speed increase)/100*Anim speed]} - 1
Fanaticisim doesn’t add directly to the ‘speed increase’ value as most ias boosting skills - rather it modifies the wsm… and, the ‘delay’ formula: it will use the Druid’s human form values here.
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