All the following information are my personal opinions and based on my tests of all past PTR-Versions and could still be changed until the official patch 2.4 release!Facts• Trap laying speed is determined by a combination of weapon type and IAS (increased attack speed) breakpoints. 9 FPA (frames per animation) is the fastest trap laying speed possible, while 4 FPA is the max for whirlwind
• Offhand IAS does not impact FPA anymore (listed in patch-notes under dual-wielding weapons)
• This means that the offhand-claw type is no longer relevant for the IAS-calculations (like a shield) and all offhand-claws can reach from now on the 9 FPA max. trap laying speed breakpoint
• The new required IAS for 9 FPA changes for every clawtype
• The 4 FPA max. whirlwind IAS breakpoint remains unchanged
• All versions of AWSM (average weapon speed modifier) have been removed from the game
New 9 FPA / IAS requirements• Greater Talons / Runic Talons - 42 IAS
• Feral Claws - 63 IAS
• Suwayyah / Scissors Suwayyah - 125 IAS
• War Fist - 174 IAS
Check it out• Open the D2R Assassin IAS-calculator: http://d2r-sin-ias.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com
• Choose mainhand (for example Feral Claws)
• Choose no offhand
• Check the below listed table for 9 FPA
• You realize that you will need 63 IAS 9 FPA with Feral Claws mainhand now (before patch 2.4 you could use Feral Claws mainhand and Runic Talons or Greater Talons offhand and only needed 52 IAS)
New Claw-Meta• Trapsin: Mainhand [Trap Claws] Greater Talons or Runic Talons + Offhand [Trap Claws] any clawtype
• Hybsin/Spidersin: Mainhand [Fury/Cruel/Fools Claws] Runic Talons + Offhand [Chaos Claws] Suwayyah or Scissors Suwayyah
• Ghostsin: Mainhand [Cruel/Fools Claws] War Fist + Offhand [Chaos Claws] Suwayyah or Scissors Suwayyah
Nice to know• Suwayyah and Scissors Suwayyah bases (especially perfect ones) will probably dramatically increase in price, because of a higher request
• Runic Talons and Greater Talons bases will probably decrease a bit in value, since they will be only solid fury bases (mainhand) and not anymore also good chaos bases (offhand) compared to the high damage bases like Suwayyah
• Battle Cestus / Wrist Sword / Feral Claws will probably decrease in value as well as they are not optimal claws anymore and near impossible to reach 9 FPA trap laying speed
• All types of slow offhand claws (for example 5ls 5mb suwayyah) will be useable again from now on and as a result their price should increase aswell
• Cruel and especially Fools Claws will be more important, because the updated Martial Arts and Blade Abilities can miss now and are dependent on mainhand weapon damage and attack rating
Importance of Attack Rating• 3 following examples (1850def, 7000def, 10000def)
• AR = Own Attack Rating
• D = Opponent Defense
• LVL = Own Character Level
• DLVL = Opponent Character Level
• Chance = Chance to hit the opponent
