Note: This is a very lengthy post. If you feel like skipping the math you can just go to the bottom and look at the last 3 lines to see the gist of it.
By the way, here's the math a friend of mine did to illustrate a dnc's attack speed nowdays. I've reworded it and stuff to make it a bit more understandable to people who aren't as adapt at more complex equations though.
Dnc can obtain 45% Dual Wield.
--Dual Wield 4 = 30% DW
--Suppanomimi = 5% DW
--Charis Necklace = 5% DW
--Auric Dagger = 5% DW
Dnc can obtain about 70% Haste.
--25% Gear cap
--15% Haste Spell
--20% from 2x march
--10% Haste Samba
The combined delay of both daggers is 412 with Auric mainhand and OAT Parazonium +1 in offhand.
412 x 0.55 = 226.6 Delay
(this is figuring the 45% DW. 1 - .45 = .55)
226.6 x 0.3 = 67.98
(this is figuring the 70% haste)
67.98 / 60 = 1.133 seconds per round of attacks.
60 seconds / 1.133 = 52.95 rounds per minute.
Now, DNC/WAR can reach a potential 65% double attack, and the OAT off hand has around a 50% chance to occasionally attack twice I believe.
52.95 x 2 = 105.9 attacks per minute before OAT and DA
(An attack round is equal to 2 hits since you are dual wielding.)
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Now it's going to get a little tricky. I am going to calculate the OAT chance of offhand first.
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(Offhand will hit 52.95 times a minute before OAT is figured, so will main hand)
52.95 x 1.5 = 79.425 swings total only counting the OAT
(1.5 = 50% chance to OAT)
Now, the 65% DA cannot proc on the times that OAT does, so we need to figure that separately. Since 50% of attacks OAT, we can find the ones that do NOT OAT by dividing 52.95 by 2 (it's 26.45).
26.45 x .65 = 17.2 extra hits from double attack
79.425 hits + 17.2 = 96.625 hits with the offhand alone.
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Now for the mainhand
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52.95 swings per second x 1.65 = 87.3675 hits with the mainhand
87.3675 main hand + 96.625 off hand =
183.9925[/u]
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The result
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Dancer can swing 183.9925 times in 1 minute if they have capped haste and 45% dual wield with /war and saber dance up for the first minute.
This is about 3.07 swings per second, and is unbelievably fast.
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For fun, here is the math on a kraken club assuming someone had 70% haste also.
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Here's the swing chances of the k klub:
05% Chance of 1 hit
15% Chance of 2 Hits
25% Chance of 3 hits
25% Chance of 4 Hits
15% Chance of 5 Hits
10% Chance of 6 Hits
03% Chance of 7 Hits
02% Chance of 8 Hits
Average 3.82 Hits per round.
K klub delay = 264
264 delay x 0.3 (70% haste) = 79.2 adjusted delay
79.2 delay / 60 = 1.32 seconds per attack round
60 secs / 1.32 = 45.45 rounds per minute
45.45 x 3.82 = 173.619
(amount of attack rounds, times the average number of hits k klub gets per round)
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Comparison
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K klub swings 173.619 times in 1 minute and has 11 DMG
DNC/WAR can swing 183.9925 times in 1 minute and has 39 DMG with Auric Dagger in mainhand.
We should really call it 180 Knives, not 100 Knives.