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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.
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Asha 334

Sorceress Europe PC
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.
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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/

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That’s strange. My attack speed seems to have gotten faster. I’m using an upped, ethereal
Ribcracker
with a
Zod
in it.
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Asha 334

Sorceress Europe PC
Queegon wrote: 1 year 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 🥂
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Asha 334

Sorceress Europe PC
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.
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