User:Praise/Double Strikes

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Double strikes influence your damage in two ways simultaneously:

  • The extra, second strike adds a damage packet
  • The strike preceding a double strike is faster than a regular strike


Double strike probability[edit]

Daggers have an inherent 3% probability to double strike (not 2%, as this wiki incorrectly states).
Each rank of Dagger Mastery gives an additional 2% probability to double strike. This stacks additively, not multiplicatively.
Locust's Fury gives an additional 50% probability to double strike. This stacks additively, not multiplicatively.
This means that the maximum attainable double strike probability is 3 + 2x20 + 50 = 93%.

Double strike influence on DPS[edit]

A single dagger strike lasts 1.330 seconds on average.
A single strike preceding a double strike is faster than that even without IAS: 1.163 seconds on average.
A double strike preceding a single strike is as fast as a regular strike: 1.330 seconds on average.
A double strike preceding a double strike is faster than that even without IAS: 1.163 seconds on average.

Note that the frame of reference for strikes influences your terminology, but not the implications. I use a frame of reference that starts a strike's time directly on the hit, and ends exactly before the next hit. This is not a true representation of the attack animation, but makes it a lot easier to analyse the data.

All in all, this means that the average attack speed of daggers is not 1.330 seconds, but faster, depending on your double strike probability. It is not enough to simply add one strike per 1.330 seconds per double strike, for your DPS calculations. The table below gives the average attack speed per rank of Dagger Mastery.

Dagger Mastery Double strike probability Milliseconds per attack (no doubles) Attack speed multiplier (no doubles) Milliseconds per attack (with doubles) Attack speed multiplier (with doubles)
0 0 1330 1.000 1330 1.000
0 0.03 1324.99 1.004 1286 1.034
1 0.05 1321.65 1.006 1259 1.057
2 0.07 1318.31 1.009 1232 1.079
3 0.09 1314.97 1.011 1206 1.102
4 0.11 1311.63 1.014 1182 1.126
5 0.13 1308.29 1.017 1158 1.149
6 0.15 1304.95 1.019 1135 1.172
7 0.17 1301.61 1.022 1112 1.196
8 0.19 1298.27 1.024 1091 1.219
9 0.21 1294.93 1.027 1070 1.243
10 0.23 1291.59 1.030 1050 1.267
11 0.25 1288.25 1.032 1031 1.291
12 0.27 1284.91 1.035 1012 1.315
13 0.29 1281.57 1.038 993 1.339
14 0.31 1278.23 1.041 976 1.363
15 0.33 1274.89 1.043 959 1.387
16 0.35 1271.55 1.046 942 1.412
17 0.37 1268.21 1.049 926 1.437
18 0.39 1264.87 1.051 910 1.462
19 0.41 1261.53 1.054 895 1.487
20 0.43 1258.19 1.057 880 1.512