Multistrike attacks per second?

If you have a 2 APS base speed weapon, multistrike giving 2x more attack speed, and a total of like 100% increased attack speed, won't you be doing 2*2*2*3 = 24 attacks per second?

Are attacks per second capped or something in game? Because going by the animations of the attacks, what should be 24 attacks per second looks like it's actually only doing 7 or 8 attacks per second. Flame totem does 12 attacks per second and when you look at mobs health dropping it goes very very quickly and smoothly. I mean when you get up to 24 APS it should be so smooth you can't even see each individual hit. Think of it like 24 frames per second, you can't SEE each individual frame happening. But when you are heavy striking mobs with what SHOULD be 20+ attacks per second, you can clearly see only like 7 or 8 chunks of their life disappearing every second.

What's going on? Am I doing 24 attacks per second or not?

A weapon with 2 base attacks per second with 100% increased attack speed + 100% more attack speed is 2*2*2 = 8 attacks per second, where does that 3 come from in your calculations?

Also Heavy Strike has a knock-back effect so that may be part of the problem.

"Causes you to attack quickly three times with a melee attack."
"Supported Melee Attacks repeats 2 additional times"

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weldorr wrote:

"Causes you to attack quickly three times with a melee attack."
"Supported Melee Attacks repeats 2 additional times"

That just means that it activates the skill 3 times for the cost of 1 activation. It has no effect on the amount of times you attack in a second, unfortunately. You're still only hitting 8 times a second.

Someone needs to test this with 2,2 APS weapon + Faster Attacks + Duellist/Shadow IAS nodes + Bloodrage low life IAS bonus + Multistrike + Frenzy with 8 charges and should make a video plz.

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Broliciously wrote:

Someone needs to test this with 2,2 APS weapon + Faster Attacks + Duellist/Shadow IAS nodes + Bloodrage low life IAS bonus + Multistrike + Frenzy with 8 charges and should make a video plz.

EDIT crap Quill Rain couldn't use Multistrike, I'm dumb

I STILL MUST SEE IT

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Duskbane wrote:

EDIT crap Quill Rain couldn't use Multistrike, I'm dumb

I STILL MUST SEE IT

Yeah, me2 lol. Hence my edit :D

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That just means that it activates the skill 3 times for the cost of 1 activation. It has no effect on the amount of times you attack in a second, unfortunately. You're still only hitting 8 times a second.

For clarity, since you're kind of making it sound like people are using Multistrike to save mana while lowering their DPS by 40%...

It does have an effect on your attacks per second, namely in the form of the attack speed% boost that it gives. It's more like two-for-one in terms of speed though, not three-for-one. Still a significant boost to APS though (and from that, DPS).

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PewPewDie wrote:

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That just means that it activates the skill 3 times for the cost of 1 activation. It has no effect on the amount of times you attack in a second, unfortunately. You're still only hitting 8 times a second.

For clarity, since you're kind of making it sound like people are using Multistrike to save mana while lowering their DPS by 40%...

It does have an effect on your attacks per second, namely in the form of the attack speed% boost that it gives. It's more like two-for-one in terms of speed though, not three-for-one. Still a significant boost to APS though (and from that, DPS).

What I said was strictly in reference to what he had posted about the melee attacks repeat 2 additional times text on multistrike, it was written with the intention that someone would have read both mine and his/her previous posts. I'm well aware of the fact that it increases your attack speed by about 2x and had no intention of making it sound like people were using multistrike to save mana in return for lowered DPS.