Guild Wars 2

Does the 10% increase to attack speed from the read the wind trait only apply to the auto-attack? I did some rudimentary testing and didn’t find any change to rapid fire with the trait.

This is a good topic! I hope one of the forum math guys sees this (I’m not one unfortunately). However, I will echo you in saying that the 10% is most noticeable on the autoattack.

However, that brings up the question, how is the 10% being applied? Given the way it works with the autoattack, if you are testing for the actually cast time of rapid fire to be reduced, that might just simply not be how the 10% is being applied.

More than likely, the 10% is being applied to the hidden aftercast value of the skill, meaning that the 10% increase in attack speed isn’t being applied to the initial speed at which the skill can be used or the speed at which the skill casts, but the speed at which you can follow up with another skill.

That would be a good explanation for why the 10% is most evident in the autoattack speed.

Yeah, I was wondering about this too, would be nice to have an actual response from Dev team, how they implemented this attack speed boost to LB skills :-)