Talk:Weapon Comparison/@comment-26293759-20150409053748/@comment-4448946-20150515205015

For everyone thats confused heres the Speed attack speed page that goes into detail.

Everyone please read it at some point.

Cliff notes for it...

1. Each weapon class (swords, hammers, daggers etc.) has a set of animations that it uses when attacking

2. These animation each play out over a different length of time

3. Attack speed listed on weapons modifies the speed at which the animations play

What this all means that Heavy Weapons (Hammer, Axes, etc.) have a slower animation than lighter weapons (Daggers, Swrods, etc.) and that even though some heavy weapons have higher listed attack speeds they still have fewer attacks per second than lighter weapon classes because their animations starts out slower.

*NO NUMBERS IN THIS EXAMPLE ARE REAL I MADE THEM UP*

For example the dual daggers animation may result in 3 attacks per second and the Hammer animation in 1 attack per second. So a dual dagger with a speed of 0.8 will only do 2.4 attacks a second but will still attack faster than a hammer with an attack speed of 1.2 that will end up only doing 1.2 attacks per second.