Class preferred weapon speed bonus

[VaMagi]

Hi, I know that each class has certain weapons that it is faster with then others. However I have just spent an hour using google, reading here, and on Arreat Summit and I can't find which weapon types go with which classes.

The Arreat Summit has one place that it mentions this but all it says is that "each class has" etc, it doesn't seem to say WHICH weapon for WHICH class.

Needless to say I'm a bit frustrated as I would consider this sort of basic, perhaps so basic no one bothers to list it, or did I just miss it on the Summit?

Any help would be appreciated and Thanx.

[ProfessionalBerg]

On Arreat Summit, when you look at base weapons (Normal Items, Exceptional Items, Elite Items), to the right, there is a column with "base weapon speed", with a number, and then it describes how fast each of the classes is with that weapon.

[VaMagi]

Thank you for answering stupid user question of the day, #1.

Like I said, way to obvious so of course I couldn't see what was right in front of my nose!

Thanks again,

Larry

P.S. Would you believe I actually bought this game day 1 of retail? Spend a couple of years playing WoW and look what happens, brain death. :azn:

[ProfessionalBerg]

Friendly advice: stay away from WoW. I've heard it destroys lives. I personally never got into that game (I tried a trial, and some private servers, too), and I am glad for that.

/offtopic

[Voorhees]

Everyone I know that plays WoW pretty much does nothing but play WoW. Kind of sad, but at least in my experience it seems to be the way of things. I don't play it myself, so my knowledge is limited.

Will Shatner plays WoW my butt!

[jiansonz]

The AS does not answer the whole question. I have made a table (using the famous german weapon speed calculator to get the numbers) that lists how many frames an attack with a base weapon speed of 0 and no IAS takes for the different character classes and mercs:


Act 1 Rogue Act 2 Guard Act 5 Barbarian Amazon Assassin
Dagger 12 14
1h-Sword, 1h-Axe 16 13 14
2h-Sword 16 17 22
2h-Axe, Staff, Polearm 17 18
1h-Mace, Scepter, Wand 13 14
2h-Mace (Maul, wsm 10) 20 21
Orb
Claw 13.5
Javelin, Spear 8 15 22
Bow 15 13 15
Crossbow 19 20


Barbarian Druid (in wereform) Necromancer Paladin Sorceress
Dagger 13 20 22 18 16 16
1h-Sword, 1h-Axe 13 20 22 18 14 17
2h-Sword 17 21 25 22 17.5 21
2h-Axe, Staff, Polearm 18 17 20 19 17 15
1h-Mace, Scepter, Wand 13 20 22 18 14 17
2h-Mace (Maul, wsm 10) 21 20 23 22 20 17
Orb 17
Claw
Javelin, Spear 18 23 27 23 19 20
Bow 14 15 19 17 15 16
Crossbow 19 19 24 19 19 19


A few things jump out to me, like how fast amazons are with daggers, sorceresses with 2h-weapons other than swords, and that barbarians are pretty decent bow-slingers. And considering skill options and the affixes available on them, I find it surprising that the necro is second worst with dagger attack speed. Even the sorc pwns him.
(then again, he is usually only interested in hitting once)

[jiansonz]

Addendum: forgot to list the fpa for Act II mercs with a polearm. It´s also 8.