Melee Weapon Attack Speed Scaling Incorrectly, Significantly Lower Dps For Higher Attack Speed Melees

[Aeonera]

I've been doing some testing on melee weapon attack speed rates (mostly because i was sick of the arbitrary attack speed numbers on melee weapons and wanted to calculate DPS) and noticed that melee attack increases (mods, higher base attack speed weapons) among the same weapon class do not give the same increase in actual hits/second.

 

for example, here is some of my testing values for the crossing snakes base combo using Nami Skyla and dual Ichor

 

aspd= 0.72, hits/60 sec= 139, hits/sec=2.32, hits/sec/aspd= 3.21

aspd=0.9, hits/60 sec= 172, hits/sec=2.87, hits/sec/aspd=3.19

aspd=1.1, hits/60 sec= 193, hits/sec=3.21, hits/sec/aspd=2.96

aspd=1.42, hits/60 sec= 220, hits/sec=3.67, hits/sec/aspd=2.56

 

as attack speed increases, the hits per second per point of attack speed decrease more and more. if extrapolated to max attack speed (2.64) on the dual ichors, this gives a hits/second value of roughly 4.4, this is 48% lower then the expected value of 8.47 hits/sec, almost halving the expected dps of the weapon, making it vastly weaker.

 

considering that melee weapons are already weak compared to primary and secondary weapons, i think this needs to be corrected, they are simply ineffectual now, even with the multipliers they recieve.

Edited September 3, 2014 by Aeonera

[(PSN)Alphapsykongaroo]

sounds like a bug that should be sent to support. i dont think most of us are aware of it so it's up to u man!

[Gahrzerkire]

Actually something interesting is if you spam attack without actually equiping your melee that doesnt change, particularly with the dual ichors, and dual zoren.

[UseAndGo]

Actually something interesting is if you spam attack without actually equiping your melee that doesnt change, particularly with the dual ichors, and dual zoren.

This is something I have been noticing too.