Attack Speed is a prefix that turns up on Main Hand and Head. It gives Attack Speed: +2% to +3% at its lowest step, +25% to +32% at its best — and you need item level 116 before the best one can appear at all.
It comes up at weight 6 when the game rolls affixes, never doubles up with another affix that does the same job (attackSpeed), and it is what puts Quick, Nimble, Swift, Rapid and Blurring in an item's name — so you might pick up a Quick Wand.
37 Uniques lock it to a fixed number: Gatebreaker, Riversong, Mercy, The Squall Knife, The Duelist's Needle and The Unbroken Sentence and 31 more.
Every step
10 steps · lowest to best
| Tier | Needs item level | Gives | Prefix word | Reads as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | 1 | +2% to +3% | Quick | Quick Wand |
| T2 | 6 | +4% to +4% | Quick | Quick Wand |
| T3 | 14 | +5% to +6% | Nimble | Nimble Wand |
| T4 | 24 | +7% to +8% | Nimble | Nimble Wand |
| T5 | 36 | +9% to +10% | Swift | Swift Wand |
| T6 | 55 | +11% to +14% | Swift | Swift Wand |
| T7 | 75 | +15% to +19% | Rapid | Rapid Wand |
| T8 | 92 | +20% to +26% | Rapid | Rapid Wand |
| T9 | 105 | +22% to +29% | Blurring | Blurring Wand |
| T10 | 116 | +25% to +32% | Blurring | Blurring Wand |
Where you will see it
218 bases it can land on
Uniques that lock it in
all 37 →
Gatebreaker
T4 · +8%
Riversong
T4 · +8%
Mercy
T5 · +10%
The Squall Knife
T5 · +10%
The Duelist's Needle
T7 · +17%
The Unbroken Sentence
T10 · +29%
The Red Calendar
T10 · +29%
The Deferred Crown
T10 · +29%
The Slow Fang
T6 · +13%
The Quiet Winter
T9 · +26%
The Hundred-Handed Court
T10 · +32%
Rifthunger
T10 · +32%
Doormaker
T10 · +32%
The Pyre King's Edge
T10 · +32%
Frostwyrm's Tooth
T9 · +29%
Rosethorn Cadence
T9 · +29%
Crimson Communion
T10 · +32%
The Belfry
T10 · +32%
The Widow's Stiletto
T10 · +32%
The Spider King's Cradle
T10 · +32%
The Spider King's Brood
T10 · +32%
Fulgurite
T10 · +32%
Talonhook
T10 · +32%
The Mountain Sire's Spine
T10 · +32%
Doxology
T10 · +32%
Matins
T10 · +32%
The Second Oath
T10 · +29%
A Thousand Cuts
T10 · +29%
The Wasp's Argument
T10 · +29%
Quick Manners
T10 · +29%
Three Tolls
T10 · +29%
The Carousel
T10 · +29%
Sunward Volley
T9 · +26%
Kestrel Ricochet
T10 · +29%
Dreadmask of the Silent
T9 · +26%
The Quick Lie
T9 · +26%
Nine Tails
T10 · +29%