2.4 Shifter Changes

Hello everyone.

Just recently, after testing my

Fire Claws +

Armageddon dru shifter I raised this winter, I discovered significant changes - some are pleasant, some are quite disturbing.

Good news are about revised synergies:
1)

Fire Claws, despite gettin 22% synergy percent bonus only from 2 skills instead of previous 4, now increased in damage seriously: my bear had about 7k claw damage, now it's more than 10k.
2)

Armageddon also grew up - now it roasts considerably stronger, providin higher killrate, which is especially awesome with Phoenix shield
3) No more 5 hard skill points wasted at useless (for fire dru) prerequisites to

Armageddon FINALLY

But:

Before the patch, my bear had 9-framed melee attack (

Aldur's Rhythm with 2x

Shael runes, 70% weapon IAS total) - just enough to scratch the mobs fast enough for comfortable gameplay. Now it seems like IAS is completely useless for a shifter - yes, his strike is powerful, but so damn slow... I wonder if a shifter is now just condemned to very slow and clumsy attack artificially - regardless of how fast his weapon is, and how much off-weapon IAS he got. Or it's just some bug, and can be "cured" by re-socketing the weapon? Doubtful, but still...

If that's the case - no need to use cheap, fast and effective Aldur equipment anymore - which is rather sad but then, second Phoenix, now in

Phase Blade, is logical - combined with

Ravenlore and some CoH for example. Still slow - but even more fire, I guess?

If somebody knows for sure about 2.4 shifter attack speed - pls reply below. In the meantime, I'll seek for a patch details on the subject.

IAS is no longer useless, off-weapon IAS that is. You can check this and experiment all you like:

https://chthonvii.github.io/d2r_24ptr2_ ... alculator/

That’s strange. My attack speed seems to have gotten faster. I’m using an upped, ethereal

Ribcracker with a

Zod in it.

Queegon wrote: 2 years ago

IAS is no longer useless, off-weapon IAS that is. You can check this and experiment all you like:

https://chthonvii.github.io/d2r_24ptr2_ ... alculator/

Thank you, this calculator is exactly what I'm after

Extracted some numbers from the table:

1) Compared to 2.3 and before -

Werebear NO LONGER needs aldur set. Earlier, he had 9 fpa with 2-shaeled aldur weapon and no ias, and 7 fpa - with 3-shaeled weapon and 30% off-weapon ias.
Now, he has 14 fpa - and can barely scrap to 11 fpa with 3-shaeled weapon and 75% off-weapon ias (

Lava Gout + nosferatu + 3x jewels of ferwor in armor and pelt). Sad but true

So I'll just switch to

Werewolf usin my current gear - gives same 9 fpa as i had before (as a

Werebear) without changin and resocketin any gear. A bit less thick - but at least no speed loss for clawin them.

Was afraid it could be worse.