@GGG: Enough of this about dual wielding and reave

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Mark_GGG escribió:

and reave that's built to work on the strengths of dual wielding

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Mark_GGG escribió:

Reave is a dual wield skill, that's part of the point of it. It's specifically designed to synergise with dual wielding.

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Mark_GGG escribió:

It doesn't. Having a shield literally give no bonus to the use of Reave, while dual wielding gives a multiplicative attack speed bonus, where attack speed is one of the most important factors to using the skill.

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UnderOmerta escribió:

GGG's logic must mean any melee skill is a dual wield skill because you can use them while dual wielding...

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Legatus1982 escribió:

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UnderOmerta escribió:

GGG's logic must mean any melee skill is a dual wield skill because you can use them while dual wielding...

Yeah, attack speed helps you apply frenzy charges or viper strike stacks faster too. It doesn't make them dual wield skills.

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Legatus1982 escribió:

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UnderOmerta escribió:

GGG's logic must mean any melee skill is a dual wield skill because you can use them while dual wielding...

Yeah, attack speed helps you apply frenzy charges or viper strike stacks faster too. It doesn't make them dual wield skills.

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tinko92 escribió:

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Legatus1982 escribió:

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UnderOmerta escribió:

GGG's logic must mean any melee skill is a dual wield skill because you can use them while dual wielding...

Yeah, attack speed helps you apply frenzy charges or viper strike stacks faster too. It doesn't make them dual wield skills.

Or better knockback effect with Heavy Strike.

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torturo escribió:

I'm curious is there a single player with DW reave build on server.

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pneuma escribió:

As an example, take two people using Reave:
- "Slow": 1 attack per second, 10 physical damage each hit.
- "Fast": 2 attacks per second, 5 physical damage each hit.

In pure dps terms, the two are equivalent.
"Slow" does better against armor, since armor guards less of his bigger hit.
"Fast" gets the benefit of being able to move in between the swings, to be able to get in and out of combat more easily.
With Reave, "Fast" gets a secondary benefit -- he gets an AoE buff.

In this way, Reave is attack-speed aligned. Since dual-wielding grants an attack-speed multiplier, Reave should be dual-wielding aligned.

There is definitely a problem [with dual-wielding] if a skill that specifically has strong synergy with attack-speed is still not used with mechanics that maximize attack-speed.