For the Oathkeeper skill, “Summon Guardian of Empyrion”, how many times per second does each summoned entity attack?
I’m trying to find out because it makes a significant difference to how frequently they will proc devotions. I want to get a sense of whether or not they can maintain good uptime for debuffs such as Eldritch Fire or Will of Rattosh. I know they aren’t affected by the player’s attack speed, but I haven’t found anything that says what their attack speed actually is.
Go to training dummies and test. Use pet attack command.
I get how that will let me see pragmatically how they’re performing, but I don’t get how it will tell me their exact attack speed. What can I use to measure against to be sure it’s (for example) 1/sec and not 1.1/sec or something like that?
Usually monsters and pets have 1.0 - 1.25 attack speed. I think summoned pets have 1.25, not sure about that, though. Best would be to check in the .dbr scripts.
Record gameplay and count how long time it takes for them to do 100 hits (should give you a good resolution)
This was how I figured out Diablo 2 attack and casting speed breakpoints 
(way back in the days)
Thanks for the info. Are those files human-readable if I open them in a text editor?
Yes, they are, but it’s way nicer to read via Asset Manager and you have to remember that you have to unpack the files first.
Attack speed breakpoints, that takes me back. Jaruulfs guide, man, I’m getting old
I think with the aura they have, they can proc devotions very efficiently, at any attackspeed.
I run a .5cd devotion on the minion and my EOR and they proc the absolute hell out of it nice and reliably. Either devotion i run on either skill procs the same i can just aim with whatever is on EOR. (Sands and Bull) Do keep in mind with their attacks theres 2 of them… they EACH attack about every 1 second. So technically they have 2 APS. Roughly.
Well, I got the mod tools open and dug into the dbr files…
The file for the pet (“celestialguardian”) has an entry for “characterAttackSpeed” set to 0.9. That’s the only thing I could find that seems like it would define the speed of their attacks, unless the attack is technically considered a spell being cast or something like that. Does 0.9 mean it’s .9 attacks per second? Or something else?
From what ive seen running the minion that sounds about right. Around 1 APS per minion with 2 minions. So 2 APS. But most of the time they also hit very close to one another as well so its not like its a consistent 2APS .5 attack time… more less like hitting twice in one hit rather with the way they work. But yeah .9APS sounds about right. At any rate they have served me quite well on any proc i put on them even the .5cd ones.