Will Whirlwind speed be affected by weapon choice?

[imthedan]

If I use a 2h will it make me spin slower (attack slower?)

I was going to go DWMW and use weapon master to keep my fury regen, but I think I might be able to keep my fury up with a 2HMW as long as it doesn't slow my rotation down too much.

Thanks for the help.

[ElementEight]

1/aps, probably. Figure it out.

[The Rockman]

Its iffy depends on what they mean by per hit for Weapon master. A literal per hit, per attack move, per mob hit or a combination of these.

[ElementEight]

Its iffy depends on what they mean by per hit for Weapon master. A literal per hit, per attack move, per mob hit or a combination of these.

Yeah, this is why I made a huge post regarding the normalization of terms.

Per hit would consider every unit hit. Hitting 3 units would be 1*3 for a total of 3.
Per attack/cast/use would consider just that. Hitting 3 units would be 1*nothing because it's per attack, for a total of 1.

You don't really need anything else to describe such effects. But hey, to Blizzard, I'm just a nobody, why even bother replying to my post to make a coherent game?

[RazeBarb]

Yeah, it's funny how they want to keep the tooltips simple and easy to understand, yet everyone is confused and asks for more/clearer information.

[galzohar]

Not everyone. Some casual players really only care about how cool the skill looks and feels, and couldn't care less about whether it deals a bit more or less damage with certain gear setups.

[Doppel]

One calculator says Whirlwind has 3 APS, if the speed is a constant then i hope increased attack speed translate into more damage, else everyone is going to use a Two-Handed weapon

[HardRock]

My guess is that Whirlwind has a hidden APS multiplier. I doubt we'll something so broken as the D2 Classic Whirlwind.

[galzohar]

Since it only has a listed cost, I bet it'll work like most channeling skills, where both cost and damage are applied on a "per-tick" basis, and ticks tick faster with faster attack speed. The real question is, though, what determines when we start/stop whirlwinding, as I can think of more than 1 way in which it can work.

[HardRock]

Like channeled skills, it will most likely end as soon as you release it's hotkey. Damage is always displayed in 0.5 second increments though, so the final damage may appear a fraction of a second after the skill finished.