Agility vs. Mana Crystal

I maxed out the damage talents available on the wisdom tree, and been at a bit of a loss for what to do with the remaining points I'm accumulating. Mostly I've been contemplating between increasing attack speed or increasing my mana/passive regen.

2h SW, so all attack speed increases are multiplied by the 0.83 on my staff vs. The mana talent would boost me up about ~40 mana at the moment.

 

I feel like mana/passive regen is the way to go, so that you can spam more big attacks back to back.

 

yes, what novadude said, unless your speed is too low, then you would need to use the points to improve the speed.
For me, at least 1.31 with longbow, I'm working on getting 1.6

 

If you are close to a speedbreak and can reach it with just a few points it is worth getting there. But sinking 10 points into it to get there doesn't seem as advantages as dropping more bombs on the squishees before reloading.

If I remember right, you were around 1.25 spd which means you are floating close to the 1.29 and 1.31 Breaks. Might be worth testing it.

 

I had to go check my SW's attack speed since I couldn't remember it. xD

1.22 without speed pet, 1.26 with speed pet.


I stole a few points out of my other wisdom talents to mess around with having 250 mana and er... it's addicting. Very addicting. Who needs attack speed anyways. -coughs-

Speaking of which, I still have no idea how attack speed breakpoints would factor into the skills I use--the things like Meteor, Destructor Beam and Lightning strike--so I don't have any kind of goal to aim for speed-wise. :x

 

There's a chart in this thread that shows speed breaks for ceartain skill. It's the one Mega posted with a white background about half way down, Originaly Wigger's work. If you want to test it. Thing is sometimes it is not hard to get to the next one with some very minor "adjustments." I get what you are saying with the larger mana pool. I personaly run in PVE with the extra concentration also. All the DPS calculations go out the window when you can spam your big attacks.

 

Yes, I've seen that thread about breakpoints before. It's just that I rarely use magic missile much (why bother when teleport replenishes to full xD), and I don't use the other SW skills mentioned in the picture. So I don't know how relevant these breakpoint thingies are to the skills that I do use.

 

I don't use Meteor or DB, but I do use LS. Higher attack speed seems to launch it faster. Same with vortex.

It's hard to tell sometimes: attack speed does not seem equally quick in all fighting areas.