Multistrike possibly not giving full attack speed bonus

Possible bug with Multistrike:

212 HP regen. With a skill linked to Blood Magic and multistrike, 250 HP/s expended (per char screen info) does NOT outpace my regen. However setting up the skill so that it uses 250 hp/s without multistrike, and suddenly it does outpace my regen like it should.

What's going on here? Is multistrike giving such a high attack speed that the game can't process it, and I'm actually getting fewer attacks per second than I should be? (9.26 aps in this case). That would explain the lower than expected hp/s expenditure when using multistrike. Or is the mana multiplier on the gem bugged?

Are you taking into account that multistrike attacks three times for the listed mana cost of the skill? Calculating attack speed * mana cost is not the mana cost per second for multistrike supported skills.

I've never payed that much attention, but multistrike SHOULD be one attack, that then repeats 2 more times at the cost of only one attack and not 3.
If you attack speed is 9aps just to make it easy, then you are using MS 3 times per second. You you are using 750 mana per second.
Does that make sense?

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Ezhiel wrote:

Are you taking into account that multistrike attacks three times for the listed mana cost of the skill? Calculating attack speed * mana cost is not the mana cost per second for multistrike supported skills.

Right. I divided my APS by 3. So for the 250 hp/s with Multistrike, it is a 9.3 APS attack that performs 3.1 multistrikes per second that cost 80 hp each (3.1 x 80 = 248)

Removing multistrike and fiddling with BM levels etc took me to a 4.5 APS attack costing 55 each (4.5 x 55 = ~248)

So both cost ~250 hit points per second. But one outpaces my 212 life regen and one does not.

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Anyone else want to reproduce this?

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aimlessgun wrote:

Anyone else want to reproduce this?