Weapon Speed Formula

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The "Dual Claw Attack Speeds" page linked to from there is outdated.  JRichard's more recent, more accurate, and far more in-depth work  can  be found here: http://e.domaindlx.com/JRichard/D2/aas22/

It looks like the "General Mechanics" page of that document will answer your questions.
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Thanks for the link bigeyedbug.

JRichard notes:

Sequence carry an attack speed penalty of 30, remember. The bigger thing to notice about this version of the equation is the lack of a “-1” at the end of it.

Does this apply to ALL attacks? I understand Dragon Tail has a sequence penalty of 40. Next, the fast cast seems to follow the same rules as the attack formula for casting spells, like when there is a sequence like lightning, the -1 is omitted.

In Skills.txt:

Code:

skill    anim    monanim    
Fire Trauma    sk2    sk2
Claw Mastery    cast    cast
Psychic Hammer    cast    cast
Tiger Strike    attack    a2
Dragon Talon    kick    a1
Shock Field    sk2    sk2
Blade Sentinel    sk2    sk2
Quickness    cast    cast
Fists of Fire    seq    seq
Dragon Claw    seq    seq
Charged Bolt Sentry    sk2    sk2
Wake of Fire Sentry    sk2    sk2
Weapon Block    cast    cast
Cloak of Shadows    cast    cast
Cobra Strike    attack    a2
Blade Fury    seq    cast
Fade    cast    cast
Shadow Warrior    cast    cast
Claws of Thunder    seq    seq
Dragon Tail    kick    a1
Lightning Sentry    sk2    sk2
Inferno Sentry    sk2    sk2
Mind Blast    cast    cast
Blades of Ice    seq    seq
Dragon Flight    seq    seq
Death Sentry    sk2    sk2
Blade Shield    cast    cast
Venom    cast    cast
Shadow Master    cast    cast
Royal Strike    attack    a2

This sort of explains the assassin stuff, since the 3 elemental attacks are sequences, I assume sk2 is trap laying, but then there comes the 3 strikes. Each one is an attack, then also has an a2, and the two kicks rely on a kick animation and an a1?

Can anyone clarify?

Also, JRichard also says that

the value for (base + EIAS - penalty) has an upper cap at 175 and a lower cap at 15.

Does this mean that in the other formulas like FBR and FHR, which have bases of 50 instead of 100, there is still and upper cap of 175? I don't think that is the case, because the limit as x->infinity of EFxR is 120. So there is effectively no "cap" on FBR and FHR since it can never go higher than 169 (with 14280 FBR or FHR). Maybe it's not that base+EIAS-penalty is capped, but rather EIAS-penalty is capped at 75.