Diablo II: Resurrected | Druid WW and WB Attack Speed Changes

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Blizzard Community manager PezRadar recently released a statement on the forums about some clarifications they wanted to make to the implementation of attack speed changes on werebear and werewolf druids. So far player reaction to the changes has been poor, and he implies that they will be looking at ways to tweak this mechanic. 2.4 Patch Notes on Wowhead

The dev team wanted to get a note out regarding the motivations behind this change and some clarification. You can read that below. Since the Druid was introduced in 2001, the attack speed calculation for Werewolf and Werebear forms has been… quirky.

The attack speed contributions of the equipped weapon were used multiple times in the calculation, giving them more than twice the impact compared with other attack speed calculations. This quirky calculation involving the weapon attack speed would also ignore the usual IAS cap.In the PTR, we have changed the attack speed calculation for Werewolf and Werebear forms to match other attack speed calculations. Weapon attack speed will be given the same importance in the calculation as for any other player character’s attack speed.

In fact, the Werebear’s attack speed should exactly match the attack speed for an untransformed Druid. The base Werewolf attack speed also matches the untransformed Druid, but is enhanced by the IAS bonuses from the Werewolf skill. Motivations: There are a few motivations for this change: Because of the extraordinary weight weapon attack speed had on transformed attack speeds, high weapon attack speed was.