So it’s basically just about picking what speed you want. Higher speed weapons have lower base damage. Within each speed category, the average damage is usually pretty much identical.

10: Thresher, Giant Thresher, Hyperion Spear (max 3os) Hyperion Spear is roughly the same as Tresher/Giant Thresher except Hyperion Spear is max 3os so can’t be an Infinity base.Ġ: Ogre Axe (max 3os), Great Poleaxe, Stygian Pike, Ghost Spear There’s really nothing new here compared to Great Poleaxe.

The dex requirement on Ghost Spear is pretty high, but it’s still usable, it’s not quite as bad as Colossus Voulge - an eth Ghost Spear should be wearable on a level 85 merc (91 for non-eth). Same speed, same average damage, but wider damage range. Stygian Pike and Ghost Spear are roughly the same as Great Poleaxe (and Ogre Axe, but that only has max 3os so can’t be an Infinity base). The other spears have roughly equivalent polearms for speed/average damage, so nothing really changes there other than you having a couple more options depending on what you find. Note that DPS does not tell the whole story, as it is simply the product of AtksPerSecond and Dmg, and does not account for being interrupted, which is more likely on slower attacks.The only spears that really change the equation are War Pike (slower than any of the elite polearms but with the highest base damage) and Mancatcher (faster than any of the elite polearms but with lower base damage). The Thresher and Giant Thresher have very similar average DPS (the Giant Thresher is slightly higher at every common IAS value I chose), however the min DPS is significantly higher for the Giant Thresher. The most surprising result was that the GPA seems to have the highest average DPS at almost all common IAS values. I don't think I made any mistakes I pulled the polearm stats from this website, and the IAS breakpoints for each from this website. (Updated output, with 75 IAS, and attacks per second) Note that for simplicity I chose to use the non-ethereal damage values, as I really only care about the relative values between the polearms:

I finally got the runes to roll Infinity, but was having a hard time making up my mind on what base to choose, so I decided to write a console app to calculate the average, min, and max DPS at various IAS values for each.

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