I have been playing Frenzy since the beta, only Frenzy. I have the cadence of my attacks synced in my sleep. I just got a 50% attack speed Accelerating Aspect and there is NO difference in attack speed like it says there should be. The buff icon appears on my buff bar, when its up, no difference, when it drops, no difference.
Please tell me i’m not crazy Blizzard. YU no wurk?
Edited - I was commenting on the wrong aspect: Rapid Aspect, which doesn’t seem to do much with Frenzy either. Certainly not a 60% attack speed increase like it suggests it should.
There’s another forum (bug) post about neither of these aspects working with frenzy here: Attack speed cap
1h sword technique doesn’t work either? Man…
The level 10 one handed sword expertise DOES work but cannot go past the attack speed cap:
I’ve been playing with the “lunging strike” basic skill since the frenzy doesn’t contibute to anything other than damage reduction (with the “combat frenzy” upgrade) if you already have attack speed capped and so I try not to reach that attack speed. Only then did I notice that the sword expertise is working (but not showing a buff on toolbar).
Frenzy attack speed contributes to attack speed for fast weapon swaps to keep berserking up as long as you want
and more crits. You stack the crit damage and vulnerable damage as you normally would and berserking damage and close damage.
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That might just be a stat screen bug then and/or the attack speed stat on the character screen isn’t showing the separate attack speed boost for basic skills.
Don’t forget that stats also have diminishing returns, so the 49.8% you’re seeing is likely the additive sum of all the generic attack speed (with diminishing returns) for all attacks, and is not showing your individual attack speed for just Frenzy.
The point where I’m at is that wether I attack with frenzy 5 stacks or with lunging strike, I have the same attack speed. That’s why in my case, frenzy doesn’t contribute to much for me compared to lunging strike which allows me to dash, heal max health against healthy ennemies and basically get perma berserking with crits.