This was unquestionably the intended forum, not sure what happened (or where it was).
How fast an attack is invoked in battle is determined as Actors Agility + Attack speed of the skill. So the main use of attack speed is to make some skills always go first or last in battle.
Hmmmm... for my clarification... an actor with the fastest "skill" in the world wont get to perform said skill before an actor with the fastest "AGI"... correct?
Or am I wrong on that and we are saying that a high AGI simply gives that actor first choice of skill, and if that choice has no "attack speed" set, then potentially the last actor in the party to chose a skill could choose a skill (with an Attack Speed of any value > 0 ) that will actually fire off before the aforementioned teams speedster?
For example, Guard. Guard you usually want to go as soon as possible, and if you make it only based on agility, your slow characters will find that skill useless.
Man I appreciate these sort of tangible examples, thanks.
Ironically, I would fully expect the character I designated as slow, via low AGI value, to not be able to get his guard up before a faster opponent gets a shot off. In fact it would be pretty integral to my balance, personally.
Likewise, maybe you want a powerful skill to always go last in battle, so you would set the attack speed of that skill to -2000. That will make it always go last in that combat round (barring any other skills with that attack speed being used, of course).
OK so this one I can sort of see better... super fast guy uses his finishing move, which i would kind of think should still be fast in nature, but sure maybe its an epic power complete with sucking-in lines. But honestly, I think in this case I would still want to keep my characters AGI attributes "character defining" and then just have that sorta power take two turns to charge or whatever. This way my high AGI guy is still the fastest, he got to choose his skill AND pull the trigger on his skill faster than someone with low AGI, and then sure the skill he pulled off fast due to his speed can take longer to detonate. Something like this just keeps roles and archetype abilities more in their lanes in my universe.
This is to say I would want my speedster to be able to push the button on his Rube Goldberg machine before my tank can squeeze off a round from his 1851 Navy.
But I think I get it now, which helps me trim the fat from an informed place.
Thanks.
When it comes to any stats with "duplicity/crossover," I tend to squash them like the vermin they are and instead, combine similar functionality into one single, straightforward stat.
You and me both.
