05-28-2003, 05:24 AM
Thank you for clarifying that, Hammerman. I think everyone can therefore agree that Barbarians who dual wield fast weapons would benefit from not reseting their WW attack sequence with short WWs. Allow me to elaborate on that point slightly:
If you WW with a single weapon...
* If real delay = 4, the duration of your WWs will have no significant impact on your damage output
* If real delay = 6, you gain roughly +6% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 8, you gain roughly +15% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 10, you gain roughly +17% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 12, you gain roughly +25% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 14, you gain roughly +28% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
If you WW with two weapons that have identical real delays...
* If real delay = 4, you gain roughly +16% damage by increasing your WW duration from 1 to 2 seconds
* If real delay = 6, you gain roughly +7% damage by increasing your WW duration from 1 to 2 seconds
* If real delay = 8, the duration of your WWs will have no impact on your damage output
* If real delay = 10, you gain roughly +1% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 12, you gain roughly +6% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 14, you gain roughly +11% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
The results above were obtained from a spreadsheet that calculated the average attack delay of WW every 4 frames up to 48 frames in duration, and comparing the 0 to 24 frame results with the 0 to 48 frame results. The derived damage bonuses will about double in value if we lengthen the test to compare 1 second WWs with 4 second WWs. As you can see, variations in player control can result in very divergent damage outputs for WW. For those of you that dual wield weapons with different WW real delays, you can estimate your WW performance by taking the average real delay of your weapons and comparing that to the second table above.
If you WW with a single weapon...
* If real delay = 4, the duration of your WWs will have no significant impact on your damage output
* If real delay = 6, you gain roughly +6% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 8, you gain roughly +15% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 10, you gain roughly +17% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 12, you gain roughly +25% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 14, you gain roughly +28% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
If you WW with two weapons that have identical real delays...
* If real delay = 4, you gain roughly +16% damage by increasing your WW duration from 1 to 2 seconds
* If real delay = 6, you gain roughly +7% damage by increasing your WW duration from 1 to 2 seconds
* If real delay = 8, the duration of your WWs will have no impact on your damage output
* If real delay = 10, you gain roughly +1% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 12, you gain roughly +6% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
* If real delay = 14, you gain roughly +11% damage by reducing your WW duration from 2 to 1 seconds
The results above were obtained from a spreadsheet that calculated the average attack delay of WW every 4 frames up to 48 frames in duration, and comparing the 0 to 24 frame results with the 0 to 48 frame results. The derived damage bonuses will about double in value if we lengthen the test to compare 1 second WWs with 4 second WWs. As you can see, variations in player control can result in very divergent damage outputs for WW. For those of you that dual wield weapons with different WW real delays, you can estimate your WW performance by taking the average real delay of your weapons and comparing that to the second table above.