Swiftclaw Sash  

 

Get EQWatcher running, log a few battles and you can clearly see the difference. There are several factors that play into this tho, such as dual wield skill, not to mention where you currently are in you skill curve...5 points behind makes A WORLD of difference....

Different people use different methods for calculating haste. Your calculation is a delay reduction. The Verant (and consequently generally more accepted, if slightly more convoluted, definition) is how many extra swings you get in a given period of time (sometimes expressed as "damage increase").
For the quick and dirty haste percentage you would divide 2 by 13, which is 15.3%. The haste formula

 
wep delay 
--------- = hasted delay 
1 + haste 

can be changed to

 
wep delay - hasted delay 
------------------------ = haste 
      hasted delay 

An additional monkey wrench is that Verant's definition of haste appears to include 1% as a base haste, i.e. for the FBSS the above calculation would yield .21 but would show up in an item database as Haste 20.

Knowing the numbers for an FBSS is useful, because it is almost always included in any table of haste items, and therefore you can tell which definition the table maker is using (since most don't specify). BTW, that would be 17% delay reduction, 21% swing increase, Haste 20.

I got my Swiftclaw Sash on the 3rd hand in attempt. My general strategy was to camp in Stonebrunt and pop in for before work and then when I got home. Being on for an hour at a time wasn't as deathly boring as trying to camp it straight through, and I would generally get a head or two in each session. The exact mob you are looking for is "a heretic invader". As a 41 ranger, I tracked a couple heretics that were slightly further from the kitty village than any of the dots on the excellent heretic map. I haven't run my own haste tests on it. Using a very high delay weapon for the test is an excellent idea. To do it properly, you need to calculate the delay based on how long it takes you to make several swings, but in this case I believe the 130 delay per swing you saw is very close to being accurate; the haste item chart I trust pegs this item at Haste 15, and in my limited combat with the belt on that feels about right.

Absolutely correct. i got the sash on my first try, with all male heads.

I have seen them spawn at all different times during the game. I have also seen them spawn at many different locations all south of the kej village (check out the link to the map that Arbus posted below, it does not lie). I have killed over forty heretics now and have not found any two in exactly the same spot. I have seen them spawn five minutes apart and I have seen them spawn two hours apart. I haven't noticed that killing anything makes them spawn. In my experience the best way to hunt them is to sit invised south of the village and keep hitting track hour after hour after hour...

Edited, Mon Dec 24 15:31:37 2001