(05-10-2012, 09:17 PM)Treesh Wrote: I forgot to mention this in the podcast, but the skill speed, even for magic attacks, is based off of your weapon speed so you can get a quicker cast time on the spiders with a quicker weapon.
That is actually something I was wondering about with Spiders. I know with Dogs instead of making things happen faster they scale the damage based off of speed as well (so basically using dps instead of straight damage). So they hit harder instead of more often. Meanwhile with things like Poison Dart they just make it cast faster. Spiders seems like an odd middle group where they could have gone either way. They could have sped up the animation time so you can cast it quicker or they could have kept that constant and make the spiders themselves hit harder based off of it. It's like half spell half pet in some ways. I suspect it is treated like a generic spell and the cast time sped up like you say, but it is one of the many things I'm not sure about.
edit: Sped is a much better word than speeded...