Why does my barb slow down with frenzy?

[Conanbarbarian]

Sarted a frenzy barb and using war axes as my weapons from a fast rate of attack at double swing I get to lvl 24 and select frenzy looking forward to an even faster rate of attack but instead my speed of attack has been dramatically reduced! :cry:

Is this a bug?

[Billton]

I believe that with frenzy, it starts out slow but then speeds up if you keep attacking...not sure though.

[Conanbarbarian]

I believe that with frenzy, it starts out slow but then speeds up if you keep attacking...not sure though.

Even with a few skill points in it and after hitting mulitple targets to get the increased speed bonus my bard is still not hitting as fast as he did with double swing.

Is it because double swing is "two hits per attack/swing" and frenzy gives a "speed bonus to two seperate attacks/swing" ? i.e. each attack/swing with left and right arms.

[Terenas]

Well, the question is interesting. I myself never paid too much attention to the topic but it may be worth some.
I get the impression that Double Swing is faster than Frenzy myself, and that is correct because Frenzy increase speed with every hit up to max speed.
Double swing speed has got fixed speed, unlike Frenzy.
At maximum speed, though, they both top at 5 fpa. Strange that it may sound, in the end the two skills deliver the same number of attacks.

Double swing lacks Frenzy +AR and +Dmg though, even with Bash sin.

[dymi]

It is 100% true
Double swing has fixed speed and frenzy gets faster after each hit.
Maxxed frenzy is fast :) You must be of course sure that you are hitting foes to speed it up

[fredsta54]

Double swing barbs are still great and many people in pvm prefer them O.o But were not assuming godly high end runewords here









Fred

[Terenas]

Double swing barbs are still great and many people in pvm prefer them O.o But were not assuming godly high end runewords here
Fred
Double Swing is nice, I use it a lot in general pvm. What I was trying to say is that as far as plain damage output is concerned, Frenzy, once maxed and fully "charged" offers more than double swing. This is most true if one uses some affordable weapons that do not offer a very high base dmg, like eBotD or Grief, even more, keeping in mind that Double Swing does not increase damage unless sinergized by Bash.

If, though, the weapons were to be ITD and CB-based, I guess that Frenzy would be less...attractive. But that is mere speculation. Even cb setups need damage sooner or later (when cb is no longer effective), and Frenzy just gives you that.

Bye