Advice please for a fire paladin

I am talking about the passive on his unique, it makes %phys increase the axes per second

him using that unique implies spin to win axe spam, because if he is not spin to win axe spamming he should do something else with his relic slot

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Oh, that’s a new unique to me…

Something else just came up whilst watching an LE youtube video,.

Taking warpath as an example, you can change its damage type to fire using the earthscorcher node in the skill tree, but you can also add +void damage from the void spiral node.

Does that mean you are now doing fire AND void, or does earthscorcher override this so its ALL fire damage ? I assume there are many other skills where this also happens.

Yes. Earthscorcher converts base (not any added damage) damage to fire & swaps the phys tag to fire (so that any un-typed melee damage, such as the implicit on melee weapons, is then added as fire instead of phys), it does not convert typed (ie, the void from void spiral) damage.

So would you say that its unrealistic to spec into it as (say) a fire paladin because you’re not going to want to scale void on your gear just for that ?

I assume its really there for void knights ?

Yeah, pretty much.

I believe you are wrong… but feel free to disagree with the Mighty Llama…

the lost epoch build planner seems to think so

Where does the game use the term “attack rate” though? That’s still not been answered. I can’t think of where the game says “attack rate” instead of “attack speed”, but I could be wrong.

On the weapon base they have a base “attack rate”

I am honestly surprised that you didn’t know that the term attack rate is used on weapons.

While we are on the topic I think it’s worth mentioning as well, that Attack Rate on the weapons is a multiplier to your attack speed. If you dual wield you have a attack rate of the average of both of your weapons combined.

I honestly haven’t noticed it, or maybe I just read it as attack speed (since that’s how it functions). I don’t know what it’s like for German, but as a native English speaker I can speed read a word with the right letters in the wrong order (as long as the first & last are correct) & read it as the correct word, probably the same thing here, I see “attack rate”, my brain processes it as “attack speed” 'cause that’s what it is/does.

So the pally has made it to level 87 and tearing into empowered monoliths. One thing I have found though, is that gear upgrades now seems to be very difficult to come by, and I’ve not had a meaningful gear upgrade since maybe level 75. I’ve set my loot filter to find items with 3 of 4 desirable affixes on gear, and that almost never happens.

Yeah, that’s inevitable TBH. As soon as you get your t20 gear on the right base you’re then looking for a useful t6/7 affix with 2(?) other useful affixes & the ability to craft the 4th useful affix (or 5th if you can seal one) on the right base. Or a useful unique with some LP & an exalted item with useful affixes to create the legendary.