Question about attack speed
I see that most people choose staves over wands, but wands have higher attack speed than staves.
Someone told me that the attack speed has no affect on any mage besides BaM or something, but I'm pretty sure that stuff like green MPE potion and +1 attack speed IA affects the attack speed.
Can anyone make it clear for me?
August 27, 2014
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A Staff with the same scroll/pot is always better than the equivalent wand. More classes use staff, the look of the staff is generally preferred and they have slightly more magic attack. The speed only matters for bam and they cannot use wands. Also bam get like 7+ attack speed from their buffs so even the speed of their staff does not matter much.
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This is an over generalization but just think of it like this the attack speed would be how fast you swing your weapon, like a BaM for example. Any other forms of "+attack speed" affect how fast spells are casted. Basically, attack speed =/= magic casting speed.
A while back weapon speed (The attack speed shown on the weapon), only affected Explosion for F/P Mages, not sure if that's the case now. Definitely why things such as the Pyogo Mushroom and Evil Wings were sought after, but it had no impact on anything else. After all, you're casting a spell not swinging the staff.
As for the things that you listed such as the green potion and inner ability, those count as universal attack speed boosters that directly impact your casting speed.
Yes, only weapon speed affects BaM.(Actually not sure about kanna/lumi/evan/BT but explorer mages are definitely not affected.) Every mage's attack speed can be affected by green MPE pots, inner ability and other speed buffs. Hope that clears it up.
The guy below me is weird. Anyways, to be clearer. Since you posted it in the f/p forum, don't worry about weapon speed. Doesn't affect us.