All Sorcerer Skills Attack Speed Breakpoints from 0% to 200% Attack Speed!

Sorceress Attack Speed Breakpoints

In this guide, we will explain how Attack Speed Breakpoints work in Diablo IV and why those are important.

If you don't want to read the explanation, feel free to jump straight to the Attack Speed Breakpoints Table.

What are Attack Speed Breakpoints

Diablo IV calculates the speed of your Spells in Frames. The Animation of any Spell takes a certain amount of Frames to finish before you can cast the next spell.

The Game internally calculates your Characters Animation with 60 Frames per Second (FPS). This has nothing to do with your actual frame rate. You won't attack faster if you have a 200 fps Monitor ;)

By increasing the amount of Attack Speed, you will decrease the Amount of Frames it takes to cast a Spell. And now comes the important part: It takes a certain amount of attack speed, to make your attack 1 frame faster.

It's not possible to increase your Cast animation by partial frames. And thats where Breakpoints come into play!

What does this mean for my Cast Speed?

Here is a simple example: Let's assume you are playing a Ball Lightning build and you have 100% Increased Attack Speed.

Looking at the Attack Speed Breakpoints Table below, casting one Ball Lightning will take 14 Frames which equals 4.28 Casts per Second.

If you add another 10% Attack Speed now, you will actually not gain any benefit, because you do not have enough Attack Speed to reach the next frame.

So you're 10% Attack Speed are completely wasted, and you would be much better of putting those 10% into Crit Chance or something else.

Looking at the Attack Speed Breakpoints Table, you would need 113.6% Increased Attack Speed to reach the next Breakpoint of 13 Frames or 4.61 Casts per Second.

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