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could there be a point when warrior could be swinging his giant axe as fast as hundred fists?

There are various examples out there of what you can achieve with a load of haste gear. Couldn't see a WAR with Great Axe but I only looked for a couple of minutes.

There are a few with DRK and Great Axe though. Bear in mind that some of these videos were taken before they capped haste at 80%.

Great Axe

Great Axe

Great Axe (Suggest turn horrible music down)

Other weapons

Polearm

Great Katana

Katana

Dagger

Scythe

Just for the sake of amusement, we'll use Kunlun +1 OA2-3
514 delay, +20% JA haste (Haste Samba + Hasso), +25% Gear Haste, +15% magical haste (spell), +20% magical haste (march x2) = 80% haste
assume brutal, 5/5 DA merits, 15% DA rate
assume OA2-3 is 50/30/20
for sh*ts and giggles, add 11 Blitzers role and a Sword Strap (Delay -15.1%)

Assuming -delay% applies before haste; (514*(1-.151))*(.2) = ~87 delay, 1.333 seconds per attack round

so every 1 1/3 seconds you would swing 1-3 times;

to further play with it, going for sheer volume of attacks, in addition to the above haste, apply retaliation, and assume the following gearset:

Assume the following gearset:
Kunlun +1/Sword Strap/ranged/ammo
Ravager's Mask +2/Ravager's Gorget/Brutal Earring/Earring
Askar Korazin/Timarli Dastanas/Soldier's Ring/Blitz Ring (To guarantee capped haste)
Aesir Mantle/Bullwhip Belt/Ravager's Cuisses +2/Ravager's Calligae +2

And let's say it's darksday, and the soldier's ring is active

thus: Haste+25%, Delay-3%, Double Attack: 32% (Gear + Merits + Native)

Throw an 11 Fighters roll on top of that 11 Blitzer's, and Add in Ifrit's Favor

Total Delay: 87 Double Attack: 68%

so: 87 delay gaxe with 50/30/20 split, the 68% DA only applies to the initial 50, netting a total of 34 extra attacks every 100 attacks,
so in every 100 attacks in this set up, 16 will be single hit, 64 will be 2 hit, and 20 will be 3 hit. Since you're /sam for Hasso, Zanshin will reduce the amount of double attacks the get through, so lets say that instead of /sam, you're something else and using a +haste temp item for the last 10%, and if you really wanted, we can include a berserker's tonic to cap out double attack, making the total attack round split 0/80/20 at 87 delay.

Ok... I don't care how impractical this set up is... I wanna see it in action...

i would like to see that too. would be sick and almost unreal.

*finger snap*

Edited, Oct 4th 2010 3:35pm by killor318

Double SV March (+40%), Haste (+15%), Max Haste Gear (+25%) = 40 + 40 = 80 = capped haste. You might need hasso or haste samba to snub out any rounding errors, or if your brd isn't able to cap march, but overall, gaxey's right.

To be fair, SV double march + max gear haste is ~65%, and hundred fists is ~75% haste, so if they had haste cast on them, they'd actually have more haste than a monk with just HF

It's not an actual Haste roll, but a Weapon Delay reduction roll (as in reduced TP return).

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