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The cast speed of SB decreases as your weapon speed decreases, huh? Some nice information there! So, too however, will the damage. It will take a lot of experimenting to find out what really works best.

It's possible that a 10 dps weapon (shiv for example) at 1.0 speed could be better than a 20 dps weapon (1h sword for example) at 1.8 speed if the shiv had +% casting speed (which I feel many will) and casting speed actually impacted the cast time of SB.

All of this is very juicy! ;D

Will passives like "Weapon Master" for Barbarian, "Archery" for Demon Hunter, and "The Guardian's Path" grant bonuses for each weapon held, or just the main hand?

Hmmm...

I doubt it~

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What I want to know is will the runed effects for magic weapon effect spectral blade.

It Magic Weapon effects Spectral Blade at all, then it is almost certain.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

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Good for you Nastai don't bother mentioning something specific, we dare not talk about it.....

It has to do with you always striving to make your point, and failing to see that of others. It's as if you think you are a know-all when it comes to the game, which I find annoying. From what I've read...

Hopefully (assuming I find 3 other people that I can rely on to play with consistently), I will get the game, and roll my Wizard softcore. Together with 3 other people, I will rush through to end-game as fast as possible on my Wizard. There, I will stay for a while and do loot runs until I either find them to be unnecessary or unsuccessful. At which point I will reroll a new toon and repeat.

After reading 2 of ElectricEel's posts in another thread, and one of his here, I've decided to ignore anything that he takes the time to compose (which is most likely a rather long time, as most of his posts are unnecessarily lengthy).

That said, I understand your take on the weapon damage mechanic of Spectral Blade. It's clear to me that the damage of the spell, Spectral Blade, will be based off of weapon damage (as it clearly states). However, Magic Weapon clearly states that it grants 20% increased physical damage. Spectral Blade, as far as I'm concerned, is still a spell and says nothing about being physical damage, it only states that the damage that it does when cast, is based off of weapon damage.
You could take a spell like Magic Missile (which we know is Arcane damage) and change the description to deal x% weapon damage. Regardless, it still remains Arcane damage. Just because the damage modifier is based on your weapon doesn't mean that the attack does physical damage.

All of this and I still have the feeling that Magic Weapon will compliment Spectral Blade as if it were a melee attack, simply because I think that is Blizzard's intentions. Yet it is still a little unclear, by the descriptions of the spells.

Love the gold DH one, and the WD snake one (sick!).

I see people liking the barbarian ones but to me they all just look like a big dude covered in scrap metal.

Now that you mention it, some of them do look a little WoW-like...which I'm not sure I like. But, a glowy is a glowy!

Fist weapons with the blood effect is gonna loot pretty awesome, I think. It'll appear like your hands are dripping blood!

It will be interesting to see how many mines you can put down at once, and how long they last without being triggered. Has some potential to be really fun!

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Moved to correct section.

Thanks!

Yea, I've never seen things stack up like I described in other games. I just thought it was interesting as I came across it while working on Barb/Monk duo builds.

I seriously doubt it would be possible to debuff things 100%, but that's the way it looks atm. We won't know for sure until we actually try it =P

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I doubt they stack, or it has diminishing returns after 50% or whatever...Blizzard isn't stupid, I don't think they would overlook something like that.

Not to mention, I think that is only physical damage (I assume), so elemental damage is a whole different story.

There's no mention of physical damage, so I'm pretty sure that you can debuff spell damage as well.