This means, there is no difference between havingĨ% IAS or having 20% IAS, because you didn't cross any breakpoint. Where an amount of a certain speed increase will improve your FPA, however, different values inside two breakpoints will have no difference.Įxample: an Amazon with a bow needs 8% IAS to have 11 FPA, and 22% IAS to have 10 FPA. This is the reason why the concept of breakpoints exists: there are certain points You cannot have an animation take 10,5 FPA to perform. Thus, a frame can also be used as a time unit (1/25th of a second, in Diablo II).Įach animation takes a certain amount of frames until it finishes. Your right hand is the one on the left of your inventory.Ī frame is an image. Note that when dual weilding, a new concept arises, called "Right/Left" hand. Slash: this is used for barbarian's dual-weild.Staff & Other 2H Weapon: the other 2H weapons are two-handed maces, spears, scythes, axes.
Javelins, throwing knifes/axes/spears, potions, etc.
What, exactly, is WSM? WSM is inverted Effective IAS. Most weapons in the game have an innate speed modifier, called WSM. ► WSM: Weapon Speed Modifier - the reason why most people fail to calculate breakpoints. Most (not all, see below) skills grant you effective speeds, meaning that it doesn't suffer from penalties, and thus, have more value than regular item speed. Skill IAS stands for Effective IAS (it is actually wrong to call it Skill IAS). This isn't something you should worry about, because this tool allows you to input your Item IAS and Skill IAS separatedly. Some speed stats granted by items, like IAS, suffer from a penalty, meaning they actually give a lesser amount of 'Effective IAS' than shown. ► "Effective" speeds: the difference between 'Skill #' and 'Item #' Tool created by terryys and adapted to Ultimative by MarcoNecroXĭetailed Guide / Usage (I recommend to read it all!) So I've updated the java tool for ultimative, after a few years of this tool being outdated - since many people have been asking for help regarding this issue - and I also decided to make a guide because I see a lot of people that don't use this tool properly, either because they forget to fill some important information such as WSM, or because some parts of the tool aren't too obvious if you don't understand the mechanisms in depth.ĭownload: (Requires Java Runtime Environment)
Median XL: Ultimative - Speed Calculator in java