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Oct 11 2025 09:43am
Having trouble finding info on maximizing leap attack. I see plus skills will scale the aoe and you want ED for the single hit. But curious do things like crushing blow and elemental damage apply to aoe or just single hit?

Is there a scalar for IAS or not because of leap animation. If I have a weapon like IK maul would socketing more ED give a larger damage boost then the normal 2x shael?
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Oct 11 2025 10:21am
No the aoe is a flat dmg value, like warcry.

Attack speed has no effect.
You can leap attack faster if you have
2 weapons > 1 handed + shield > 2 handed

Use unbending will main hand for +3 skills while having some “ok” single target dmg.
Any +3 skill weapon off-hand, like hoto.
Or you can shop a +3 bcomb magic weapon (can get 2os for 2x ist)

Arreat for +4

Enigma
Or even 3 piece IK if on budget (boots give +2 and armor too, so it’s more +skills than enigma/arach)

Bcombs

Dual BK for some leech on attack

+2 amy

Don’t expect this build to be playable above /p1.
But if you min/max it, it can be good for farming the pits at a decent pace, and since the build only needs +skills you get a high lvl find item and room for high mf%.

Pair it with a good merc and start horking while he finishes the job you started.

This post was edited by SinsOfTheSun on Oct 11 2025 10:34am
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Weapon Minimum sequence length Attacks per second Frames Seconds
Two weapons or bare handed 22 0.88 ~1.14
All one-handed weapons 25 1.00 1.00
Two-handed sword 27 1.08 ~0.93
All other two-handed weapons 28 1.12 ~0.89
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Weapon Minimum sequence length Attacks per second Frames Seconds
Two weapons or bare handed 22 0.88 ~1.14
All one-handed weapons 25 1.00 1.00
Two-handed sword 27 1.08 ~0.93
All other two-handed weapons 28 1.12 ~0.89


Thank you. Yeh just looking to do a different horker, looking at leap attack since you only need 2 skills maxxed and then like you said plus skillets. I'll have to see how slow it is in Ik set when I get to 76.
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Oct 11 2025 11:37am
Thank you. Yeh just looking to do a different horker, looking at leap attack since you only need 2 skills maxxed and then like you said plus skillets. I'll have to see how slow it is in Ik set when I get to 76.


Replace maul by 2x +3 bcomb weapons that you can shop

You’ll go from slowest to fastest attack, with more dmg.

Arreat and unbending will are also basically free upgrades that you can SSF in a day
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