What exactly is 'Skill Speed'?

I've been looking for good unique amulets to give to my minions with the "necromantic Talisman" Keystone (All bonuses from amulet apply to minions instead of you."

There is a Unique Ammy called Rondel of Fragility Lunar Amulet that gives +damage and +skill speed.

I'm just not sure what exactly skill speed is? Does it improve animation times?

And if it does improve animation times, does it increase attack speed in the sense that the attack animation finishes more quickly?

Thanks

I think if you press ALT while hovering over the item you should be able to move over Skill Speed and see a description.

I cannot remember what I read when I checked.

It says "affects the speed at which skills are used. Increases and reductions to skipp speed stack additively with increases and reductions to attack speed, cast speed, warcry speed and similar stats."

I'm just not sure how to interpret that... Does that mean it only affects 'skills' and not basic attacks?

what it means is it raises the speed of any skill

cast speed raises the speed of casting spells, attack speed raises the speed of attacks, warcry speed raises the speed of casting warcries

skill speed raises the speed of all skills

Movement skills as well ;)

I'm actually wondering if anybody knows if it affects .... projectile speed?

what players are used to seeing is

attack speed vs cast speed.

then when the game grew we got more nodes that specifically target certain skills such as cast speed for curses.

skill speed simply is a combination of all of them

instead of ggg putting 2 lines, +10% cast speed and +10% attack speed, they list it as +10% skill speed.

its easy for older players to forget that everything we do are based around SKILL gems. everything the exile uses are skills.

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Herorewind#0887 wrote:

It says "affects the speed at which skills are used. Increases and reductions to skipp speed stack additively with increases and reductions to attack speed, cast speed, warcry speed and similar stats."

I'm just not sure how to interpret that... Does that mean it only affects 'skills' and not basic attacks?

Basic attack is a skill now so skill speed is just a catch all for any attacks/spells, or as it says, skills.

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what players are used to seeing is

attack speed vs cast speed.

then when the game grew we got more nodes that specifically target certain skills such as cast speed for curses.

skill speed simply is a combination of all of them

instead of ggg putting 2 lines, +10% cast speed and +10% attack speed, they list it as +10% skill speed.

Based on the node "Flow like Water" which says "8% increased attack and cast speed" I don't think this is correct unless they forgot they had something called skill speed.

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Velrys#0058 wrote:

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what players are used to seeing is

attack speed vs cast speed.

then when the game grew we got more nodes that specifically target certain skills such as cast speed for curses.

skill speed simply is a combination of all of them

instead of ggg putting 2 lines, +10% cast speed and +10% attack speed, they list it as +10% skill speed.

Based on the node "Flow like Water" which says "8% increased attack and cast speed" I don't think this is correct unless they forgot they had something called skill speed.

i think because it also includes warcry speed, possibly a couple of other niche skill specific speeds im unaware of. maybe trap throwing speed is included? mine placement speed?

do we even have traps and mines yet?

presume if we dont have them we will eventually tho.



my guess would be projectile speed is not included, or arrow speed etc. it will specifically be the use of a skill would be my guess but thats just a guess.