Since I saw LE posting on improving their animations, I would just like to give my 2cents on limiting attack/cast speeds.
This suggestion goes into 2 areas
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Balance, more speed is almost always a guaranteed “good thing”. it multiplies damage. the faster you can repeat a skill, the more dps you get. simple as that. if you make it too easy to repeat skills, you gain even more dps. the problem would further split into 2, in one hand you now have to balance the game to make it harder for players so that they dont trivialize content but making content harder may raise the bar too high that it kill diversity/funnels casuals (cough poe cough cough). another problem is how would you balance slower skills or for players using high base damage low attack/cast speed weapons. it would be hard to push one up without pushing another higher up. one way to limit this is to reduce overall attack speed. D3 did this very early in the games lifecycle to the point most players do not know or no longer care. they reduced attack/cast speed by 50% globally and gutted all attackspeed rolls on items so that you can’t go bonkers with crazy fast attack speeds. a different implementation is such as GD where youre hard capped limited to 3 attacks persecond? can’t recall.
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performance. poe crashes a lot. one reason is theres too many animations going on. simple example. if you can cast a skill 10 times a second, the game has to cast 10 animations a second. if the skill creates 5 projectiles and the projectiles explode on impacts, thats 10 animations per cast. if the projectiles chain, then it will have even more instances. then if it has secondary procs such as cast on crit, then theres even more effects. then maybe one of the effects is a projectile that zaps enemies a few times each seconds. there can be a ton of things going on at once. this is without considering the damage calculations where multiple ailment stacks are on multiple enemies with different start times and perhaps different durations.
i’ll put my hands down to GGG, the game looks gorgeous. the mtx … i spent way more than i should have buying their stuff. but even recently, they released a new skill mtx, a streamer just tested it. no mtx, cast his skill, no problem. with mtx, cast the same skill. GAME CRASHES.