While playing around with some item builds, I managed to reach a little over 2 attacks per second. This was a huge increase from the 1.10 APS staff I had been using, and a TON of fun. But realizing that I am only level 19 and only half of my slots had attack speed bonuses, I am sure it is possible to reach much higher levels of attack speed.
Is there a maximum attack speed? Or will we see level 60 characters machine-gunning everything in sight (without Rapid Fire)?
Best Answer
There is no hard cap, but obviously a practical cap based on the base speed of weapons and max values of available IAS bonus.
Fastest base weapon speed: 1.50 (daggers) or 1.60 (1H crossbow)
IAS from 2 rings + amulet: 9 x 3 = 27%
IAS from the weapon: 11% (rare/magic), or 20% (superior quality white items)
6% from legendary items in various slots:
Beckon Sail
orTal Rasha's Guardianship
Inna's Glory
Andariel's Visage
orMempo of Twilight
Lacuni Prowlers
Boj Anglers
Off-hand: 20% from
Dead Man's Legacy
for Demon Hunter off-handThere is also the
Shrine of Frenzy
which adds a 25% IAS for 2 minutes.So if you just want the theoretical max weapon speed:
Max bonus from items for DH: 57% + 20% = 77%
Max IAS incl shrine = 102% Final weapon speed: (1.60 * 1.20) * 2.02 = 3.8784 aps
I did not include Focus Mind as I don't know how it will apply. This also excludes the effect of skills that add IAS like Barb's Frenzy. (A Barbarian would have to use daggers instead of 1H xbow).