Fleshripper + IAS% inquiry

[Shin00bi]

My CYA: I have been looking for the information regarding IAS% Breakpoints with Fleshripper and I can't seem to find it. I'm sure this information is available somewhere in the forums, but for whatever reason (maybe I don't know enough to know what to search on), I can't find it.

I'm trying to reach the highest reasonable IAS% on my Melee Dagger necro, using Fleshripper.

Currently, I can hit 120% IAS total. However, I have 1 OS in my Homunculus, (want to use Um/Pdiamond, but not sure), and I'm somewhat undecided on armor (should I go with unique+15% IAS jewel(s), or a Runeword like Duress w/out the IAS%?)

I will have a mercenary with Faith sometime in the future, but I don't want to rely on her a lot, and/or when she dies (act 1, auto-hired merc), I don't to be completely useless (want to still hit a reasonable BP without uselessly overdoing it).

Here's my Gear:

Giantskull w/2 15% IAS Jewels
Highlords (20% IAS)
Nosferatu's Coil (10% IAS)
Laying of Hands (20% IAS + Tons of Demon Dmg YAY!)
Goblin Toe (Yay CB)
Fleshripper (Shaeled for 20% ias)
Ravenfrost + W/E Ring depending situation (Wisp, Carrion, or resist ring are available to me. No BK :((( )
Homunc (Empty Socket)

Undecided on armor (Almost counting on using Duress, but considering Bone ((synergized bonespear and armor!) R/W or a unique with jewels)

This is like a Test-char for me. I'm eventually gonna test him out in Uber Tristram (not expecting the best results, but it's a great testing ground).

So because Meph is immune to poison, and it's too risky to break that in favor of lifetap just for a little tincy psn dmg, my skills are like so: (lots of leftovers. I will test first to see where the rest go)

20 Psn Dagger, 1 in each synergy + they can be back up skills
1 in all right-side curses
1 golem, master, sum resist
20 Bone Prison
20 Bone Wall

Please assist with the IAS info, and any other feed back is welcome. As you can possibly guess, I'm going for a high AR, non-summoning, uber-prototype. If it fails, oh well!

The Faith will help immeasurably, but at the same time, she (the merc) may very well drop like a swatted fly once we hit Tristram.

[Mad Mantis]

Attack speed calculator (http://diablo2.ingame.de/tips/calcs/weaponspeed.php?lang=english)

Plugging in the numbers and you'll see that you'll only need 99% IAS to get to 10 FPA, which is the fastest attack speed a Necro can attain.

[JubalBane]

Mad Mantis: I checked the IAS% calculator and it said 35% was for 12 FPA and 99 was for 10 FPA. The difference is 2 attacks per second at 35% and 2.5 attacks per second at 99%. My question is can you get .5 attacks? Do you get 5 attacks over 2 seconds?

I hope this isn't crazy off topic.

[Shin00bi]

Wow thanks for the info.

So the fanaticism aura, if or when I get it, will only help with the non-IAS bonuses if I already have 99% IAS? I guess I already know the answer...

It sounds like I can forego a few items in favor non-charm stacked resistance.

I was thinking of using either a different belt, or putting a res-all jewel in my weapon.

Precisely the answer I needed, thank you. As for the half-frame thingy, I'd like to know too, but I think if MM says 99%, I will go 99%. :)

[Pfft]

Try not to see such mechanics in terms of seconds but rather frames, as that is how the game calculates everything. As there are 25 frames in a second, your five attacks would take place at 0.4, 0.8, 1.2, 1.6, and 2.0 seconds.

[Shin00bi]

Thank you. And yeah, I actually added a mysterious extra %20 IAS to my original calculation.

So it turns out, my original equipment will yield exactly 100%, allowing me to put in the practical Perfect Diamond/eventually um in my Homunculus, oh and of course hit that top necro IAS :).